For local service businesses
An answering service that picks up when you can’t, takes a proper message, and gets it to you before the caller has dialled anyone else. Don’t take our word for it — ring the number and hear exactly what your customers would get.
(386) 555–0147
Incoming · after hours
My water heater’s dumping all over the garage floor.
Okay, I’ve got you. What’s the best number to reach you on?
Three eight six, five five five, oh one four seven.
386–555–0147, got it. Dave’s phone is ringing now.
What happens when you call
The demo isn’t a video or a slide deck. You call the number and the thing itself answers.
Plumbing, HVAC, roofing, electrical, pools, landscaping, cleaning, pest control — whatever you do, tell it in your own words.
Not a script about “businesses” — the actual after-hours call your customers make, and what it would do with it.
Reads your number back, takes your email, puts the time straight on the calendar. No form to fill in.
A real exchange
Caller
I do roofing. Mostly re-roofs and storm damage.
The line
So it’s eleven at night after a storm, somebody has a tarp half on and water coming through the ceiling. Right now that goes to voicemail and they call the next roofer on Google. Instead I pick up, get the address and how bad it is, and text you straight away — and if it’s an emergency your phone actually rings.
The line
What do you do today when a call comes in after hours?
Caller
Honestly? Goes to voicemail. My wife checks it in the morning.
The line
Right — so you’re losing that one overnight. Could be somebody else’s job by breakfast.
Taken from an actual call. It works the trade out from whatever you tell it.
The arithmetic
Somebody with water coming through the ceiling does not leave a voicemail and wait. They call the next name on the list.
You don’t need more leads. You need the ones already dialling your number to reach somebody.
Straight answers
Yes, and it says so in the first breath. Pretending otherwise is the fastest way to lose a customer’s trust. Most people are surprised how ordinary it feels.
No. You keep your number and forward only the calls you’re already missing — after hours, or when the line is busy. A couple of minutes in your carrier settings.
A text and an email the moment the call ends — who rang, the callback number, what they need, and the full transcript if you want to read it back.
It depends on your call volume and what you want it connected to, so it’s a conversation rather than a number on a page. Fifteen minutes, no obligation, and nobody chases you afterwards.
That is the entire demo. It takes about two minutes, and you will know within the first thirty seconds whether it is any good.
Answers day or night