AI receptionist for field trades
The call you can’t answer is the job you don’t get.
You’re under a sink, on a roof, or elbow-deep in a panel. The phone rings, goes to voicemail, and the caller — who has a problem right now — dials the next name on the list. An AI receptionist trained on your business picks up instead, so you stop bleeding jobs to voicemail.
Missed calls don’t feel like lost money — that’s the trap
When a call goes to voicemail, nothing happens. No alert, no receipt, no sting. You finish the job, check your phone hours later, and maybe there’s a message, maybe there isn’t. The ones who didn’t leave a message already called someone else — and you’ll never know they called at all.
For a trade, the caller almost always has a live problem: water spreading across a floor, no heat in January, a breaker that won’t reset, a leak coming through the ceiling. That person is not going to wait for a callback. First real human voice wins the job. If that voice isn’t you, it needs to be something that sounds like you and knows your business.
What it actually does on a call
It answers on the first ring in a natural voice, not a menu. It figures out what the caller needs, gets their name and callback number, and asks the questions you’d ask — is this an emergency, what city, what’s going on. It answers the stuff people always ask (do you service my area, are you open, do you do free estimates) using your real answers, not made-up ones.
Then it texts you the lead while it’s hot — name, number, and what they need — so you can call back from the driveway instead of finding it three hours later. If you want it to book appointments or flag true emergencies for an immediate ring-through, it does that too. You decide the rules; it follows them.
Honest about the number
I’m not going to invent a stat about how much you’re losing — you know your average ticket better than any chart. Take that number, multiply it by the calls you miss in a normal week, and that’s the real cost sitting in your voicemail. The calculator does exactly that math with your inputs. If it comes out small, this isn’t for you, and I’ll tell you so.
What you actually get
One build, then it just runs.
No app to learn, no dashboard to babysit. I build a receptionist trained on your business — your hours, your service area, the questions you get asked, what counts as an emergency, how you want to hear about a lead — and point your after-hours (or missed) calls at it. It answers in a real voice, gets the caller's name, number, and what they need, and texts it straight to you.
Step 1
You answer 7 questions
Text or a voice memo, five minutes. Your hours, your top FAQs, your voice. That's the whole setup on your end.
Step 2
Live in 48 hours
I build it, you listen to it before it goes live and ask for any tweaks, then your calls start reaching it.
Step 3
You take the leads
Every caught call lands as a text with the details. I keep it tuned as your business changes — that's the monthly.
$600 to build it. $200/month to keep it running.
That's the whole price. First payment is $800 — the $600 build plus your first month — then $200/month after. No setup fee hiding somewhere, no per-minute charges, no annual contract. If it stops earning its keep, you cancel. I'd rather you stay because it's catching you jobs.
Hear it before you decide.
Call the demo receptionist right now — it's the same thing your trades would get, just on a sample business. Then run your own numbers, or grab ten minutes with me and we'll figure out if it's worth it.
Rather just talk it through? Book a 10-minute call or email hello@thesoundmethod.me.
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Overview →Straight answers
Questions owners actually ask.
Is this just a voicemail or a robot that says "press 1"? +
No. It answers in a natural voice, has an actual back-and-forth with the caller, gets their name, number, and what they need, and texts it to you. No menus, no "your call is important to us."
How is it different from a regular answering service? +
A call center reads a generic script and knows nothing about your business. This one is trained on your hours, your service area, your prices-or-not, and what counts as an emergency for you. And it costs a fraction of a per-call answering service.
Do I have to change my phone number? +
No. You keep your number and forward your after-hours or unanswered calls to the line I set up. The only real decision at setup is whether it answers after-hours only, on overflow when you don’t pick up, or 24/7.
What does the $200/month actually cover? +
I keep it running and tune it as your business changes — new prices, a new service area, a seasonal message, a question you keep getting. It’s managed, not a tool you have to maintain.
How fast can it be live? +
Live within 48 hours of you answering seven quick setup questions. You listen to it and approve it before any real calls reach it.