AI receptionist for electricians
Hands in a panel is the wrong time to answer the phone.
Half your work you can’t — and shouldn’t — stop to pick up. You’re at a live panel, on a ladder, or mid-pull with gloves on. So the homeowner whose lights just went out gets your voicemail and calls the next electrician. An AI receptionist trained on your shop answers safely for you, so you keep the work without taking a call you shouldn’t.
The safest move is to not answer — so the call is lost
Electrical work doesn’t pause for a ringing phone. You don’t take a call with a hot conductor in your hand or halfway up a ladder, and you shouldn’t. But that means the exact moments you’re most focused are the moments new work goes unanswered — and a homeowner with half the house dark isn’t leaving a voicemail. They’re dialing down the list until someone real answers.
Emergency and after-hours calls are often the ones worth the most — a panel failure, a dead circuit, a burning smell. Those are also the ones a homeowner will pay to have handled tonight, by whoever picks up. Missing them isn’t a small leak; it’s your highest-value calls going to a competitor.
Answers safely, never plays electrician
It picks up in a natural voice and does exactly what a good office person would — no more. It finds out what’s going on, gets the name, number, and address, and flags a real hazard (sparking, burning smell, a panel issue) straight to you. What it will not do is diagnose or hand out electrical advice. If you want, it tells the caller to shut off the breaker and wait for a licensed pro. Nothing goes out under your name that you didn’t sign off on.
For the routine calls, it handles the questions that interrupt your day: do you service my area, do you do free estimates, do you pull permits, can someone come out. Your real answers, in your shop’s voice — then a text to you with the lead so you can call back when your hands are free.
Worth it or not — your numbers decide
I’m not going to make up a lost-revenue stat. You know your average service call and your bigger panel and rewire jobs. Take what you’d bill on the calls you miss in a typical week and put it through the calculator. If catching even a couple of them a month clears the cost several times over, the decision makes itself.
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 electricians 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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Electrician questions, answered.
I can’t answer the phone when I’m working on a live circuit. Where do the leads go? +
Straight to your phone as a text the second the call ends — name, number, address, and the problem. You finish the task safely and call back, and the job’s still yours because the caller got a real voice instead of voicemail.
Can it tell a "sparking outlet, burning smell" call from a quote for recessed lights? +
Yes. A potential-hazard call — burning smell, sparking, half the house dark, panel buzzing — gets flagged as urgent and pushed to you fast. A remodel bid or a fan install gets captured as a normal lead. You set what counts as an emergency.
Will it try to diagnose electrical problems? I don’t want bad advice going out under my name. +
No. It doesn’t troubleshoot or give electrical advice. It gathers what’s happening, gets the details, and — if you want — tells the caller to kill the breaker and wait for a licensed electrician. It never says anything you didn’t approve.
I do both residential service and commercial work. Can it handle both? +
It can ask the qualifying questions you’d ask and route a commercial or new-construction call differently from a homeowner’s panel trip. It’s trained on how your shop actually splits the work.
Can it field the permit and inspection questions I keep getting? +
The common ones, in your words — whether you pull permits, how inspections work on your jobs, your service area, whether you do free estimates. Real answers you gave it, not guesses.