AI answering service for remodeling companies
The remodel inquiry always comes in while you’re on a job.
A homeowner finally decides to redo the kitchen. They call three remodelers on a Tuesday night or a Saturday morning. The first one to pick up and sound organized gets the consultation. An AI receptionist trained on your company answers that call, learns what the project is, and texts it to you, so you’re the remodeler who called back first.
Remodel leads don’t call during business hours
People think about remodeling when they’re standing in the room they hate: after dinner, on the weekend, in the middle of a project they started themselves. That is exactly when your office line goes to voicemail and you’re at a client’s house or finishing a tile job.
A remodel is a big, considered spend, so homeowners shortlist a few companies and judge them on how they respond. Voicemail reads as busy or disorganized. A real conversation that captures the project and gets them a call back reads as a company that will show up.
It qualifies the project before you call back
It answers in a natural voice and asks the questions you’d ask: which room, what they want changed, the address, their timeline, whether they have a designer or plans. It knows your service area and the work you take, so a full kitchen remodel in your area goes straight to your phone as a text, and a leaky faucet across the county gets a polite no.
It handles the usual questions too: do you do free estimates, are you licensed and insured, how far out are you booking, do you handle permits. The answers come from what you told it. It never makes up a price or promises a start date.
The math is one project
I won’t quote you a made-up statistic. You know what an average remodel is worth to your company. If one extra signed project a year comes from a call that would have gone to voicemail, compare that against $200 a month. Put your own numbers in the missed-call calculator below 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 remodeling company would get, just on a sample business. Or pick a time and Riley, the AI, calls you, runs your numbers, and emails the checkout. No one else you have to wait on.
When it picks up, just talk like a customer would. Try “Are you open Saturday?”, “How much to come take a look?”, or “Can someone get out here this week?”
Rather look than call? Try it in the browser.
Rather skip the hold music? Pick a time and Riley calls you or email hello@thesoundmethod.me.
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Remodeler questions, answered.
Most of my remodel inquiries come in evenings and weekends. Does it cover those? +
Yes. Homeowners plan remodels after work and on Saturdays, which is exactly when your office is closed. Run it after-hours only, as overflow when nobody picks up in a few rings, or around the clock. You choose, and you can change it later.
What does it actually ask a remodel lead? +
What you tell it to. Usually: which room or project, the address, rough timeline, whether they have plans or a designer already, and the best time to call back. It texts you that summary, so you return the call knowing whether it’s a $9k bathroom refresh or a full kitchen gut.
Will it give a homeowner a price? +
No. Remodels are too custom to price on the phone, and a number said too early loses you the job or the margin. It explains that you come out, look at the space, and give a real estimate, and it never commits you to a figure you didn’t authorize.
Can it screen out work I don’t take? +
Yes. Tell it your minimum job size, the work you do and don’t do, and the towns you cover. It politely turns away the handyman-sized jobs and out-of-area calls instead of putting them on your calendar.
Can it book the in-home consultation? +
It can capture the times that work for the homeowner and text them to you, so you confirm the consult yourself and never get double-booked.