You're on the tools. Your new AI receptionist is on the phone.
In short
What is an AI receptionist for tradies?
The problem it solves
Every missed call is a job that just went to the next tradie in the search results.
You cannot answer the phone up a ladder or under a sink. Your AI receptionist can, every single time.
- 24
- Calls and messages answered
- 0
- Calls lost to voicemail
- 1
- Typical setup time
- 100
- Jobs texted to you live
Every call answered, every detail captured, every job booked.
Your AI receptionist covers every way a customer can reach you and asks the questions your office manager would ask, before it ever books a thing.
Answers every channel
Phone calls, missed-call text-back, website chat, and Facebook and Instagram DMs, all answered instantly by the same trained assistant.
Asks the right questions
Suburb, job type, urgency and photos where relevant, so you get a real brief instead of a one-line voicemail to decode.
Quotes an indicative range
Gives callers an honest ballpark based on the pricing you set, so they know roughly what to expect before you even call back.
Books straight into your calendar
Confirmed jobs land in your calendar or job management tool automatically, with no double handling or back and forth texts.
Escalates real emergencies
Burst pipes, no power, gas smells, whatever you flag as urgent gets sent straight to your mobile by call or text immediately.
Texts you the summary
Every enquiry, quote given and booking made lands in your pocket as a clear text summary, so you are never out of the loop.
What it handles for plumbers, electricians and builders.
Plumbers
A burst pipe call at 11pm
It recognises the emergency, texts you immediately with the address and details, and tells the customer a plumber is on the way, instead of ringing out to voicemail.
Electricians
A quote request for a switchboard upgrade
It captures the job type, property age and urgency, gives an indicative price range and books a time for you to inspect and confirm, so you arrive already briefed.
Builders
A renovation enquiry that needs qualifying
It asks about scope, budget range, timeline and suburb, filters out tyre kickers, and books a proper call or site visit only with enquiries worth your time.
What an AI receptionist for tradies costs.
Indicative ranges below, so you know roughly what to budget before we scope your exact setup on a free demo call.
Starter
Sole traders with lower call volume, one channel covered.
- Phone answering trained on your services
- Indicative quote ranges
- Calendar booking
- Text summary of every call
Standard
Busy tradies wanting phone, website chat and text-back covered.
- Everything in Starter
- Website chat and missed-call text-back
- Emergency escalation rules
- Monthly tuning based on real calls
Pro
Multi-crew businesses wanting every channel and integration covered.
- Everything in Standard
- Facebook and Instagram DMs included
- Job software integration (ServiceM8, Tradify, Jobber)
- Priority tuning and reporting
All figures are indicative only. Your exact setup and monthly cost depend on call volume, channels and integrations, confirmed after a free demo call with no lock-in.
Fits straight into how you already run jobs.
No new system to learn. Your AI receptionist books into the calendar and job software you already use.
Why an AI receptionist beats a call answering service
| Vikilinks | Typical agency | In-house DIY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available 24/7, no busy signal | Yes | Partial | No |
| Remembers every job detail, every time | Yes | Partial | No |
| Books straight into your calendar | Yes | No | No |
| Gives an indicative quote range | Yes | No | No |
| Covers chat and social DMs, not just calls | Yes | No | No |
| Costs less than one missed job a month | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| No lock-in contracts | Yes | Partial | Yes |
One missed job a month usually costs more than the whole service.
Average job value
$450
Illustrative example
Missed calls per week
x 4
Typical for a busy solo tradie
Potential lost revenue
~$7,200 / month
If even half convert to jobs
Illustrative only, your numbers will differ. Even capturing a fraction of those missed calls typically covers the monthly cost many times over.
We build it, train it and keep tuning it. You just take the jobs.
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01
Setup
We map your services, pricing ranges, service area and booking rules, then build and connect your AI receptionist across the channels you need.
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02
Training
We train it on your actual business, your tone, your prices and your emergency rules, and test it against real call scenarios before it goes live.
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03
Ongoing tuning
We review real conversations, refine responses and adjust rules as your business changes, so it keeps getting sharper the longer it runs.
Results we have engineered.
Real growth, measured against a baseline. Here is what compounding search, AEO and automation looks like for Australian businesses.
The challenge: Invisible for high-intent local searches, with new work arriving only through referrals.
- +312%
- Organic traffic
- #1
- For 40+ keywords
- 3.1x
- Qualified leads
The challenge: A strong offer that buyers simply never saw inside their AI research.
- Cited
- By ChatGPT & Perplexity
- +186%
- Branded search
- 2.4x
- Demo requests
The challenge: A slow storefront and manual workflows capping both traffic and team capacity.
- +248%
- Organic revenue
- 0.9s
- Largest paint (LCP)
- 15 hrs
- Saved weekly via automation
Results from individual client engagements, measured against each client's own baseline in Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4. Client names are withheld by agreement. Outcomes vary with market, competition, budget and starting point.
AI receptionist for tradies, answered
Setup typically starts from around $1,500 to build and train your AI receptionist on your services, pricing and booking rules, then it runs from around $99 to $299 per month depending on call volume and how many channels you want covered. These figures are indicative. We confirm an exact quote after a free demo call once we know your call volume and how many services you offer.
No. We write and train the AI receptionist in a natural, on-brand voice using your actual business details, so callers get clear, human-sounding answers rather than a stiff script. Most customers cannot tell the difference between your AI receptionist and a well-briefed office manager, and we keep tuning the tone after launch based on real calls.
The AI receptionist is trained to recognise the edge of its knowledge. If a caller asks something outside what it knows, it takes their details, texts you the summary straight away and lets the caller know a real person will follow up. Nothing gets guessed and nothing gets dropped, it simply hands off cleanly.
You set the rules. Burst pipes, no power, gas smells or anything you flag as urgent gets escalated immediately with a call or text straight to your mobile, day or night, while routine enquiries are booked in for your normal hours. You decide exactly what counts as an emergency for your trade.
Most tradies are live within about a week. We map your services, pricing ranges, service area and booking preferences, train the AI receptionist and test it on real call scenarios before it ever answers a genuine customer, then keep tuning it in the weeks after launch.
Not necessarily. We can forward your existing business number to the AI receptionist, add it as a second line, or set it up as a missed-call text-back so any call you cannot answer gets a follow-up text within seconds. We recommend the simplest option for your setup on the demo call.
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