You're on a ladder, hands full, and the phone buzzes. You can't answer it. By the time you climb down and call back, the customer has already booked someone else.

Every owner of a small service business knows that call. Most don't know how many of them they get.

Why it hurts twice

If you pay for leads on Google, Angie's or Thumbtack, that missed call cost you twice. You paid for the lead, and then you lost the job. The customer didn't do anything wrong. They needed help, called the first name on the list, and moved on when nobody picked up.

When something breaks, most people don't sit and wait for a callback. They call the next name on the list, and the first business that answers has the best shot at the job.

Three moments you can't cover alone

Mid-job. You can't stop a repair to take a call, and you shouldn't have to.

After hours. Water heaters don't wait for business hours. A lot of homeowners call in the evening, after they get home and find the problem.

At the same time. Two calls come in within a minute. You can take one. The other goes to voicemail.

What an AI agent does with those calls

An AI agent on your line answers every one of them. It picks up mid-job, after hours and on weekends, and it can take several calls at once, so nobody gets a busy signal. It talks to the caller in your business name, answers questions about your services and service area, and collects what you need: name, number, address and the problem.

Then you get a text with all of it. If you use a calendar, the agent can book the job straight in. When you climb down the ladder, the next job is already waiting for you instead of a voicemail you have to decode.

You keep your number, too. Calls forward to the agent, so nothing changes on your listings.

One saved job

You don't need to save many calls for this to pay for itself. Depending on your trade, one or two saved jobs a month can cover the cost, so the calls that used to go to voicemail start paying for the agent.

Hear it answer

Call our demo line at 559-242-9439. Call it the way your customers would, from a noisy room, in a hurry, with a half-explained problem. Then picture that call coming in while you're on the ladder.

The phone rings mid-job. Somebody answers.