Isn't this just an answering service?
An answering service takes a message. This books the job into your calendar and writes it to your CRM, and there is no hold queue because it answers every call at once.
Caller is asking
My furnace is out and it is 20 degrees. Can anyone come today?
We build the automation that answers, follows up, and books, so your team can stay on the work.
Connects to the tools you already run
The problem
Most shops do not lose money on the work. They lose it in the gaps between the work.
Nobody is free at 2pm on a Tuesday. The caller does not leave a voicemail, they call the next company on the list.
It went out on Thursday. Nobody followed up on Monday. The customer is not angry, they just forgot about you.
Once into the calendar, once into the CRM, once into the books. Every entry is a chance to get it wrong.
Suppose an average job is worth $850 to you, and suppose eight calls rang out last month. That is $6,800 of work that went to whoever picked up instead. Put your own two figures in and the budget conversation settles itself.
Illustration only. We do not know your numbers yet, which is what the audit is for.
One build, from the first ring to the paid invoice. Keep scrolling and it plays in order.
Incoming call
After hours
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Tech at 4:30 today
ConfirmBookedIncoming call
After hours
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ConfirmBooked01 of 05
A voice agent picks up when your team cannot, captures the job details, and drops a qualified callback into your CRM with the transcript attached.
Includes:
Dana R.
Quote 1042, text threadThursday 8:30 held
Waiting on reply02 of 05
Web forms, calls, and inbox leads land in one pipeline. The sequence works across text and email, and it pauses the moment a human replies.
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Jobs pipeline
Your stages, your wordsPanel upgrade
Oak Ave
AC tune-up
Elm St
Sump pump
Pine Ct ยท Dana R.
Water heater
Birch Ave
Sump pump
Pine Ct ยท Dana R.
Sump pump
Pine Ct ยท Dana R.
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We rebuild the pipeline around how your business actually sells, merge duplicate records, and wire the automations that keep it clean without anyone remembering to.
Includes:
Quote 1042
Dana R. ยท Birch Ave| 50 gal gas water heater | $1,650 |
| Install labor, two techs | $780 |
| Permit and haul-away | $220 |
| Total | $2,650 |
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Estimate to signed document to paid invoice, connected end to end, with reminders that go out on schedule instead of when someone notices.
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Tuesday
Crew A ยท real capacity05 of 05
Intake forms feed the calendar, the calendar respects technician availability, and reminders cut the no-show rate without a front-desk chase.
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It is rarely the work. It is the four doubts that stop owners from fixing the phone, so here they are.
An answering service takes a message. This books the job into your calendar and writes it to your CRM, and there is no hold queue because it answers every call at once.
It sounds like software that is good at its job, which is what a caller wants at 7pm with no heat. We recommend it says plainly that it is an assistant. Trust comes from booking a real time, not from fooling anyone.
It hands off. Warm transfer, a booked callback, or a text with a booking link, whichever you choose. A call it cannot handle is escalated, never quietly dropped, and every one is logged.
No. Most owners run it as overflow first: it only picks up when your line is busy or after hours. You keep everything that works today and stop losing the calls it drops.
The process
Five weeks. Structured, transparent, and yours at the end.
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Audit
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Build
03
Test
04
Here is everything you own:
Hand over
A missed-call text-back on its own recovers a message. It does not book the job, chase the quote, or clean the record afterwards. We build the parts to work as one system, because that is where the money actually leaks.
Point solutions sell you pieces: a text-back, a message service, a seat. We deploy the whole phone and stand behind the handover.
| AutomateYankee | Answering service | |
|---|---|---|
| Answers every call at once | ||
| Books the job | ||
| Writes to your CRM | ||
| Escalates to a human | ||
| You own it | ||
| No per-call fee |
Answering service: People taking messages, priced per call or per minute. A message is not a booked job, and the queue fills the moment three people call at once.
Every path can work. Only one answers every call, books it, and is yours afterwards.
Your point of contact
One senior person, start to finishA senior builder leads your account as your point of contact, backed by a voice lead and a build lead. Nothing ships without a senior review, and you get a written update every week, whether or not there is news.
The person on your call is the person in your accounts. There is no hand-off to a junior after the deal.
Every login is yours from day one. If we disappear tomorrow, the phone still gets answered.
Quoted before we build, with thirty days of fixes after handover at no charge.
One operator-led build. Most owners start with the phone, add follow-up once the calls are landing, and clean up the back office last.
Every call answered, triaged, and booked, whether your team is on a roof or at dinner.
Quotes and inquiries that chase themselves until the customer books or says no.
One clean pipeline, records that write themselves, and logins that are yours.
Fifteen minutes. We walk your call flow and tell you where it leaks, whether or not you hire us.
Book a callHVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical
Front desk, recalls, intake
Intake, conflict checks, matter setup
Client onboarding, document chase
Lead routing, showing coordination
Client reporting, fulfillment handoff
Tuesday
Crew A ยท real capacityA roofer and a dentist miss calls differently. The agent asks what your trade needs to know, then books it.
Incoming call
HVAC0:02
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Tech booked
ConfirmTech bookedMost businesses start with a fixed-scope build and decide about the rest afterwards.
One clear problem, one quoted number, one date. You know the cost before we write a line of it.
For teams who want someone watching the pipes after the build is done.
Straight answers. If yours is not here, the call is fifteen minutes.
Five weeks from the audit to handover for a typical first build, including a week of it handling real calls as overflow before it takes every call. Support after that is optional and month to month.
A fixed number, quoted after the audit and before anyone starts building, plus running costs which are telephony and voice usage billed per minute. We show you both before you commit. There is no per-call markup.
Almost certainly. We build in whatever calendar and CRM you already run, from HubSpot and GoHighLevel to ServiceTitan, Jobber, Clio and the dental platforms. If yours is unusual, we confirm the integration before quoting rather than after.
You do. Every account is in your name, every login is handed over, and every automation comes with a written runbook and a screen recording. If you never speak to us again, it keeps running.
The build is a fixed-scope project with a start and an end. There is no retainer required to keep it running. Ongoing support exists for teams who want it, with no minimum term.
Anything it cannot handle is escalated to a person, never quietly dropped, and every call is logged and reviewable. Emergencies and anything clinical or legal always route to a human. We tighten what it gets wrong during the overflow week before it takes full coverage.
Get the audit
Tell us how the work moves through your business. We will send back the three places it stalls, and what it would take to fix each one.
Prefer to talk it through? Grab a 15 minute slot.