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Your phone is answered.

That includes the one at 11:48 last night.

It answers at 2 AM, on Saturday, and while you are already on another call.

MinutesOut2:14 AM 2 calls, 1 booked Overnight. A quote added for 5:30 today.
MinutesOut11:02 AM 1 call answered on Saturday A callback set for Monday at 8:00.
MinutesOut3:47 PM 1 call while you were on another Address written down and read back.

Notifications from the app. Example data.

In depth

Everything it does happens on six screens.

One call in the middle of the night, and what it has turned into by 7:12 the next morning. Four of the screens are yours and the last two are your customer’s. Take the phone whenever you want it.

Dana Whitfield, the addresses and the times are made up for this page. The screens are the ones that ship.

11:48 PM

It answers, and writes down what the client said.

  • It wrote 22 Merrill Rd.

11:49 PM

It only offers hours you actually work.

  • So it offered 7:30.

7:02 AM

You wake up to a day already built.

  • One is already on your day.

7:12 AM

One tap tells the client you are coming.

  • The client got 7:26 and a map.

The client’s phone · 11:49 PM

The client gets a page instead of a call back.

The client’s phone · 7:12 AM

The client watches the van arrive.

11:48

Monday 10 Aug, 11:48 PM · 2 min 14 s · you were asleep

What it heard

Dana

“My water heater is leaking all over the basement floor.”

Etta

“I can get someone there at 7:30 in the morning. What is the address?”

Dana

“Twenty-two Merrill, Brookfield.”

Wrote it down as 22 Merrill Rd, Brookfield.

Etta

“22 Merrill Road, Brookfield. You will get a text before he leaves.”

Confirmation sent 11:49 PM
to Dana Whitfield · (845) 555-0101
11:49

11 Aug · 6 jobs · ends 6:00

You do not work before 7:00 AM, so it did not offer it

7 AM89101112 PM 123456
Dana Whitfield 7:30 · Water heater New
Carl Jensen 9:00 · Kitchen drain
Marie Bouchard 10:45 · AC not cooling
Tom Delgado 12:30 · Boiler pilot
Angela Reyes 3:30 · Shower valve
Nadia Osman 5:30 · Re-pipe quote
Added at 11:49 PM
while the phone was face down on the nightstand
7:02

Tuesday 11 Aug · 7 jobs · ends 6:00 · 81° clear

First

Your day

Leave by 7:12
14 min to Dana Whitfield · Brookfield
7:21

Texts sent for this job · 3 · nothing else

Last night

Alvarez Plumbing — 22 Merrill Rd, Brookfield. Tuesday 11 Aug, 7:30–8:30 AM. Check it or change it: mnt.st/d4k2

11:49 PM

Great, thank you.

This morning

7:26 AM — Ray is on his way to 22 Merrill Rd. Watch him come: mnt.st/d4k2

7:12 AM · you tapped On my way

Running about 15 minutes behind. Now 7:41 AM. Same link.

7:21 AM · sent on its own

Reply STOP and she never gets another
No offers, no reviews, no list
Dana’s phone · 11:49 PM
60 seconds after the client hung up
Dana’s phone · 7:12 AM
the same link, still current

Take it whenever you like — tap the blue button, a tab, or pick a screen.

One call, end to end.

The call it answered, in the order it happened.

Thursday, 11:48 PM

  1. Etta Picks up on the second ring. Northside HVAC, said in your business's name, at 11:48 at night.
  2. Caller Says what is wrong. Water heater, leaking, basement floor.
  3. Etta Asks the one question that books the job. The address, and then it reads the address back.
  4. Caller Corrects it. One number was wrong. Both versions stay on the record.
  5. Etta Offers the first slot that is really free. 7:30 the next morning — nothing else on the day moved.
  6. Caller Gets a text before hanging up. One message, one link, and the link is what updates itself when you are running late.

One call, written out. The name, the times and the address are made up for this page; the screens are the app's own.

One call, end to end

You were under a sink for all of this.

A call that came in at 8:41 on a Monday night, and everything that happened because of it.

  1. 0:00

    The phone ringsRinging

    Monday night, 8:41, and your hands are full.

    Most of these ring out. This one did not.

  2. 0:04

    It picks upAnswered

    Two rings, then a voice that knows your trade.

    It answers at any hour. It books inside yours.

  3. 0:31

    The client says what is wrongCorrected

    No hot water. The tank is in the basement.

    It read the address back, so it is right.

  4. 1:06

    It goes on the calendarBooked

    Tomorrow at 7:30 AM — your first slot.

    7:30 was open. Nothing else on your day moved.

  5. 1:12

    The client gets a textConfirmed

    One message, one link, nothing to install.

    The client’s phone, not yours. They can reply to it.

  6. Tue 7:02 AM

    You look at your phoneLogged

    Two calls last night. One is on your day.

    The gate code came off the call, not a note.

  7. Tue 7:12 AM

    The client hears before they askOn the way

    You tap once. The client is told 14 minutes.

    The client stops wondering. You did not call them.

A phone showing the app screens from this call: the incoming call, the transcript with the corrected address, the booked job, the confirmation text, the next morning's day list, and the on-my-way text.

The screen beside the rail is the one from that step.

The first five times are inside one call; the last two are the next morning.

Not to scale. Example call — the names, times and numbers are made up.

Everything it does

Six things it handles, and it says no to the rest.

Every one of them has its own page, and every one of them happens on a screen you can look at right here.

What it does while you are working.

  • Answering

    Your line forwards when you do not pick up. It says who you are, then asks what has gone wrong and where.

  • Booking

    It offers a real slot out of your own calendar and writes the job in while you are still under a sink.

  • On-my-way texts

    Your customer gets the time you will be there and a link that keeps showing it while you drive.

  • Emergencies

    A burst pipe at 2am rings your phone. A price question at 2am does not.

  • Call log

    Every call it took, what it heard, and the word it got wrong before it corrected itself.

  • Working hours

    It knows which days you work, and books around the days you never do.

11:48

Monday, 11:48 PM · 2 min 14 s

(845) 555-0164Booked
22 Merrill Rd, Brookfield

Kitchen sink backing up into the tub. 10:45 AM tomorrow.

What it heard

Caller “My kitchen sink is backing up. It’s coming up in the tub as well.”
MinutesOut “I can get someone out to you tomorrow morning. What is the address?”
MinutesOut “That is 22 Merrill Road in Brookfield, tomorrow at 10:45.”

What it did next

Wrote the job into Tuesday10:45 AM
Texted the client the time back11:51 PM
Left your phone aloneNot urgent
Today Calendar Calls Settings
7:02

Tuesday 12 Aug · 8 jobs · ends 6:00

First

Booked while you were out

10:45AM Marie BouchardSink backing up · Ridgeway New
12:30PM Tom DelgadoBoiler pilot won’t hold · Brookfield
3:30PM Angela ReyesLeaking shower valve · Ridgeway
5:30PM Nadia OsmanRe-pipe quote · Ridgeway
45 minutes left between Brookfield and Ridgeway

It books the drive as well as the job, so the 10:45 is a real 10:45. 3 slots are still open on Thursday.

Today Calendar Calls Settings
2:04
On my way — about 14 minutes. Ray, Alvarez Plumbing.
Follow along: mnts.at/9F2K
Delivered 2:04 PM
Thanks. Gate code is 4482, come round the side.
Held up on the job before. New time 2:28.
Delivered 2:12 PM

What she sees on the link

Ray is 8 minutes away

Updated at 2:12 PM. The page stops the minute you arrive, and there is nothing for her to install.

Today Calendar Calls Settings
6:58

Monday night · 2 calls · 1 woke you

Rang your phone

2:14AM Pete SullivanBurst pipe · water through the ceiling Urgent

Handled without you

2:41AM (845) 555-0198Price for a new boiler Quote
4:20AM Unknown callerRecorded message · dropped Spam

What wakes you

Water where it should not beRings you
GasRings you
No heat, under 40°Rings you
Everything elseWaits

You wrote that list yourself, and you can change it at 3 in the morning.

Today Calendar Calls Settings
6:02

Tuesday 12 Aug · 9 calls · 3 booked

10:12AM Marie BouchardSink backing up · Ridgeway Booked
11:36AM (845) 555-0143Asked the hourly rate, said he’d call back Quote
1:04PM Unknown callerRecorded message · dropped Spam
3:22PM Carl JensenRunning late, moved to Thursday Moved
4:58PM Angela ReyesShower valve · Ridgeway Booked
6:40PM (845) 555-0177Asked whether you do gas lines Quote

What it corrected

“Four Shay Road, Brookfield.”

Written down as Merrill Rd — the street you work on every week.

Today Calendar Calls Settings
6:12

Your week

Monday to Thursday7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Friday7:00 AM – 2:00 PM
SaturdayClosed
Sunday8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Days it will not book

Holiday calendarOn
Days you added yourself3 this year

What a caller hears on a closed day

“He is not working today. I can put you down for Sunday at 8 in the morning, or first thing Monday.”

Calls still get answered on a closed day. Nothing gets booked into one, and you do not enter the same days again next year.

Today Calendar Calls Settings

The call log

What it heard, including the part it got wrong.

Every call is written down. When it mishears something it reads the line back on the call, and the correction wins — but the version it heard first stays underneath, where you can read it.

Nothing is deleted and nothing is quietly rewritten. It is the log you would keep yourself, if you had a hand free at 11:48 at night.

See a whole day of it

Thursday, 11:48 PM

  1. Caller said Fourteen Linden Street, Brookfield.”
  2. It wrote down 40 Linden StreetMisheard
  3. It read back “That is 40 Linden Street in Brookfield — have I got the number right?”
  4. Caller said Fourteen. One-four.”
  5. On the job 14 Linden Street, Brookfield

Tuesday, 7:04 AM

  1. Caller said “Can he come Thursday instead?”
  2. It wrote down TuesdayMisheard
  3. It read back Tuesday the twelfth, eight in the morning. Have I got the day right?”
  4. Caller said Thursday. Not Tuesday.”
  5. On the job Thursday, 8:00 AM

The names, the addresses and the times are made up for this page. The log is the one that ships.

What it costs

You pay when it books you a job.

The job was yours. The $5.99 is what it cost to have it booked while you were under someone else’s sink.

$19.99 a month

$5.99 a booked job

One plan, for one person with one van and one phone number. The month covers the line being answered; the rest is per job, and only when a job actually lands in your calendar.


  • Answering, every hour of every day. Included in the month, whatever the call volume.
  • On-my-way texts and the tracking page. Included. Message rates are ours, not yours.
  • A job it booked into your calendar. $5.99, once, when the job is booked.

Per business, in US dollars. No cap and no contract — you can stop the month whenever you want and the number goes back to ringing your phone.

Never charged.

  • A call that did not become a job. Price shoppers, wrong numbers and hang-ups are free.
  • A robocall. Not a booked job, so never a charge. It is dropped before it reaches you.
  • A charge you disagree with. Open the job, say it was not a real job, and it comes off. No email, no phone call.

Questions

The things people ask before they switch it on.

Eight of them, answered the way we would answer them on the phone — including the three where the honest answer is that it does not do that.

  • Will my customer know they are talking to a machine?

    Yes. It says so in its first sentence, along with the fact that the line is recorded. Nobody is tricked, which is also the law in New York.

  • Do I have to change my phone number?

    No. You keep your number. It forwards to us only when you do not pick up, so a call you answer yourself never touches this at all.

  • Can it give a price over the phone?

    It doesn't. It takes the job, the address and what has gone wrong, and tells the caller you will confirm the price. Your pricing stays yours.

  • What if it takes down the address wrong?

    It reads the address back on the call. Afterwards the log shows what it heard and what it corrected, so you can check it in 4 seconds.

  • Will it book me two jobs in the same hour?

    No. It books into the hours you set and around what is already in your calendar. It does not re-plan your day and it never moves a job you booked.

  • What happens when I am closed?

    It answers anyway and books for the next time you are open. Your hours, your days off, and the holidays you keep are all settings you control.

  • Is it going to text my customers things I did not send?

    Two messages, both about their own job: the booking, and the one that says you are on the way. No marketing, ever, and you can read both before they go.

  • What if it just gets a call wrong?

    You will see it. Every call is written down with what it heard and what it did, and a job it should not have booked comes off your bill from inside the app.

See it work first

Call it and hear it answer.

This is the same line that picks up for a working plumber at 11 at night. Ask it anything a customer would. It will try to book you.

The line (845) 694-4341

Want it on your own number? Setup takes your number, your trade, your hours and one forwarding code from your carrier — then it’s running.