AI receptionist for contractors
You can’t bid the next job and answer the phone at the same time.
You’re on a ladder, mid-walkthrough, or elbow-deep in a framing job when the phone rings. It’s a homeowner ready to spend real money on a remodel — and by the time you call back, they’ve hired the contractor who picked up. An AI receptionist that knows your crew answers those calls, so the good projects reach you instead of the guy with a slower truck and a faster phone.
Your best leads call while your hands are full
A kitchen remodel, an addition, a deck, a whole-house repaint — these are the jobs that make a season, and they almost always start with a phone call. But that call comes in while you’re on a roof, running a saw, or standing in someone’s living room measuring for the last bid. You physically cannot reach your phone, and the caller has a project and a shortlist.
Voicemail is where those projects die. Not because your voicemail is bad — because a homeowner planning a big spend reads an unanswered call as "he’s too busy for me" and moves down their list. The moment they hear a beep, they’re already dialing the next contractor.
A receptionist that screens like you would
It answers in a natural voice and sorts the call the way you would. A serious remodel in your service area? It captures the scope, the address, and the timeline, and texts you the lead so you can call back prepared. A job you don’t take or a town you don’t drive to? It says so politely instead of booking you a wasted trip. It knows the difference because it’s trained on the work you actually do, in your words.
It also handles the everyday questions that eat your evenings: do you do free estimates, are you licensed and insured, how far out are you booked, do you cover my area. Real answers, from what you told it — never a made up price, never a promise you didn’t authorize.
What one caught project is worth
I won’t throw a fake number at you. But you know what a single remodel or addition is worth against a $200/month receptionist. If catching one serious project a season that would’ve gone to voicemail covers the whole thing many times over, that’s the math worth doing. Run your own average job through the calculator and see where you land.
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 contractors 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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The offer, the setup, and what an AI receptionist does when you can’t get to the phone.
Overview →Straight answers
Contractor questions, answered.
I’m on a job site all day — what happens to the calls I can’t take? +
It picks up in a real voice, finds out what they need — a remodel, an addition, a repair, an estimate — gets their name, number, address, and the scope in their words, and texts it straight to you. You call back that evening instead of losing the lead to whoever answered first.
Can it quote a price for a job? +
No — and that’s deliberate. General work is too custom to price on the phone. It tells callers you’ll come look and give a real number, captures enough detail that you can walk in prepared, and never commits you to a figure you didn’t authorize.
I already send calls to voicemail. Why is this better? +
A homeowner planning a $30k remodel is calling three contractors and hiring one who feels responsive. Voicemail reads as "too busy for me." This has an actual conversation, captures the project, and gets it to you fast — so you’re the one who called back first, not third.
Does it know what work I actually do and where I do it? +
Yes. It’s trained on your trades — kitchens, additions, decks, whatever you take — and your service area, so it can screen out the jobs you don’t do and the towns you don’t drive to, instead of booking you a walk-through across the county.
What about calls that come in while I’m talking to a client? +
Point it at overflow too. When you don’t pick up within a few rings — because you’re mid-walkthrough or up a ladder — it catches the call instead of dumping to voicemail. After-hours only, overflow, or 24/7 is your call.