AI answering service
02 · After-Hours Dispatcher
An AI receptionist, after hours answering service and AI answering service for contractors and local service businesses in Houston, Texas. Your calls picked up when your hands are full.
The phone gets picked up when your hands are full.
[ What actually happens ]
You were under a house, on a roof, or in somebody else’s driveway with both hands full. The phone rang out. By the time you climbed down and listened to the voicemail, if they even left one, they had already called the next name on the list and booked somebody.
Voicemail does not hold a customer. It tells them you are not available and invites them to wait. Almost nobody waits, because the next number is right there on the same screen.
[ What we do about it ]
The caller talks to somebody instead of dialing the next company.
- Your calls answered on your own local number when you cannot pick up
- It talks to the caller, it does not take a message. There is a difference and they can hear it
- The caller’s name, what they need, how urgent it is and when they want you, all taken down
- In front of you while the job is still live, not waiting in a box until six o’clock
- Nothing for you to register. You forward your line and it answers from tomorrow
Included in
After-Hours Dispatcher
$497/mo · One time $497 to set it up on your number and your services.
[ In more detail ]
What a caller actually hears
The call is answered on your own local number, so the person on the other end never dials a different business or a number they do not recognise. It greets them, asks what they need, asks how urgent it is and asks when they want you. It talks to them. It does not read a menu and it does not take a message and hang up, and callers can tell the difference within a sentence or two.
You do not have to take our word for it. Call (832) 862-8610 and try to catch it out. If Chris is out on a job, the assistant picks up the same way it would for your customers, and it is the same system that goes on your line, set up for your trade.
How it goes live
Setup is built around your services and your hours, which is why it takes a few days longer than the listing work. You forward your line and it answers from the day it is switched on. There is nothing for you to register for the answering itself, because answering a call needs no carrier registration, which is why a business formed last week can be live on it tomorrow.
The one thing that does wait is texting. Anything that reaches a customer by text has to be registered with the carriers under your own EIN, and the missed call text back side of the package starts when that clears. The answering does not wait for it.
After hours and busy hours
An after hours answering service sounds like a night shift, and it is, but the calls that cost trades the most are not at midnight. They land at ten in the morning while you are up a ladder, and at two in the afternoon while you are under a sink. The same system covers both, because the cause is the same: your hands were full and the next number on the list was one tap away.
After-Hours Dispatcher is $497 a month plus a one time $497 to set it up on your number and your services, and it includes everything in Leak Stopper, starting with local SEO and the Google listing. If you want to know how many calls you are missing before you spend anything, the free seven day test counts them and you keep the answer either way.
This is one piece of the full set of what we do. See how it fits roofing companies, heating and air companies, plumbing companies, tree companies and electrical contractors, or look at the three tiers side by side.
[ Questions people ask ]
What does an after hours answering service do?
It answers on your own local number when you cannot pick up, talks to the caller rather than taking a message, and takes down their name, what they need, how urgent it is and when they want you. That is in front of you while the job is still live, not waiting in a voicemail box.
Is it an AI answering service?
Yes, the calls are answered by an AI voice set up for your business, your services and your hours. Call (832) 862-8610 and judge it yourself. If Chris is out on a job, the assistant picks up, the same way it would for your customers. Hear it for yourself
How much does an answering service for contractors cost?
$497 a month for After-Hours Dispatcher, plus a one time $497 to set it up on your number and your services. It includes everything in Leak Stopper. See all three packages
[ The other three ]
Leak Stopper
Show up when somebody near you goes looking.
→ More of the searches in your area end on your name.
03Get Booked
Turn the ones who did reach you into jobs on the calendar.
→ Fewer quotes that go quiet.
04Stop the Leak
Find the work that is already slipping out.
→ You can see where it is going instead of guessing.