Done for you. We set it up, you keep working. No new software to learn, and you keep your phone number.
They hang up and call the next shop on the list. Voicemail is where jobs go to die, and it happens every time your crew is on a ladder, under a house, or already on another call. Here is what the published numbers say.
of callers who reach voicemail hang up without leaving a message, then move on to the next company.
Source: ContractorInCharge, missed-call statistics for home service companies.
of callers leave a voicemail at all. The other four out of five are gone before you ever hear the phone ring.
Source: HiCira, missed-call solutions research.
of weekend calls to home-service businesses go unanswered, the highest-value calls of the week.
Source: Invoca data cited by ServiceTitan, via Artifact AI Solutions.
If you are asking why am I missing so many calls, it is not effort. It is arithmetic: a two or three person crew cannot answer a phone and turn a wrench at the same time. The fix is not another hire. It is making sure a missed call never sits silent.
Four steps, all automatic, all set up for you. This is how to stop missing calls without hiring a receptionist.
You are on a job, it is after hours, or the line is busy. The caller hears rings, not help.
Missed call text back fires automatically: a friendly text from your shop's number, in under 60 seconds.
The AI receptionist holds a real text conversation, collects the details, and books the job straight into your calendar.
Quotes get followed up on day 1, 3, and 7. Finished jobs get a Google review request. You get a monthly recovered-revenue report.
This is the exact flow your customers get. Pick your trade, hit the button, and watch the conversation run in real time, from missed call to a job on the calendar.
Under 60 seconds. The text back lands while the caller is still deciding who to call next.
It books, it does not just take a message. The conversation ends with a confirmed appointment in your calendar and a summary in your inbox.
Emergencies jump the line. No heat, burst pipe, no power: the system flags it and alerts you right away.
Placeholder number. Our live demo line launches as soon as our phone carrier approval clears. Until then, the simulation on this page runs the real conversation flow, word for word.
Answering the call is step one. The money is in everything that happens after the call: the booking, the quote chase, the review, the report.
Customers who will not leave a voicemail will answer a text. The conversation sounds like your shop, asks your intake questions, and knows when to hand off to a human: you.
No sticky notes, no callback list. The appointment lands in the calendar you already use, with the customer's name, address, and problem attached.
Sent a quote and heard nothing? Most shops never chase it. Your follow-up goes out automatically by text until the customer answers, yes or no.
Every finished job gets a polite review request at the right moment. Every month, you get one clear report: calls recovered, jobs booked, revenue brought back. That report is how you judge us.
Emergencies do not check the clock. The no-heat call comes at 2 AM in January. The pipe bursts on a Sunday. Those are the highest-value calls your shop gets, and they are the ones most likely to reach a silent voicemail box.
Turnpike Tech covers the hours you cannot. You can start with after-hours and overflow coverage only, then widen it once you see the first recovered-revenue report.
A burst pipe is not a no-heat call, and neither one sounds like a sparking panel, a storm-damaged roof, or a landscaping crew mid-route. HVAC, plumbing, and electrical have their own pages below. Every other home service trade runs on the same system, with intake and emergency rules built around how your shop actually works.
No-heat and no-cool emergencies, weekend calls, seasonal surges, tune-up and replacement estimate intake.
HVAC answering service
Burst pipes, flooding, and 2 AM emergencies triaged and booked before the water does more damage.
Plumbing answering service
No-power and sparking calls routed as safety issues. Service calls kept separate from panel, EV charger, and generator estimates.
Electrical answering serviceIf your customers call when something breaks, leaks, dies, or needs doing, this works for your trade: roofers chasing storm calls, landscapers whose crews cannot hear a phone over a mower, and every shop in between. Ask us about your trade.
Most answering services make you book a sales call to hear a number. Ours are right here. If you are researching how much an answering service costs, the honest range across the industry runs from about $150 to $500 a month for basic 24/7 live plans, and a full-time in-house receptionist costs far more than every plan below combined. Every Turnpike Tech plan is flat monthly pricing with a clear minute cap, set up for you.
For shops that answer fine during the day and leak jobs at night
No setup fee · 300 minutes included
Full coverage for shops missing calls all day, not just at night
$795 one-time setup · 1,000 minutes included
For multi-crew shops that run on call volume
$1,495 one-time setup · 2,500 minutes included
Minute caps are per plan, per month. Is an AI receptionist worth it for a small shop? One recovered job a month typically covers the plan. Your monthly report shows the exact math for your shop.
The setup fee is not a sign-up toll. It pays for a two-week white-glove build, done entirely by our team, so the system goes live without your shop lifting a finger.
We provision your business number, help port your existing one, and register your A2P 10DLC brand and campaign end to end, so your texts are trusted and delivered.
We integrate your calendar and field-service software (Google Calendar, Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan), so booked jobs land where your team already works.
Your call and text scripts are written the way your shop talks, and you approve every word before anything goes live.
We walk your office staff through exactly how it works, what they will see, and what stays in their hands.
A full live test protocol runs before go-live: real test calls, texts, bookings, and alerts, checked end to end.
Two weeks from kickoff to a working system, with zero hours of tech work from your team. Your only job is approving the scripts.
We are onboarding our first five Founding Pilot clients now. Charter pricing is locked for 12 months, setup is waived, and your monthly recovery reports become the proof this service runs on. When the five spots are gone, standard pricing above is the price.
Every missed call gets a text back in under 60 seconds. The AI conversation books the job into your calendar. Open quotes get followed up on day 1, 3, and 7. Every finished job triggers a Google review request. And every month, a report shows the recovered jobs and revenue in dollars, so the system proves itself on your numbers.
Usually, you lose the job. Published research on home-service callers puts it at roughly 80 percent who hang up without leaving a message, and only about 20 percent leave one at all. The rest call the next shop. Missed call text back exists for exactly that moment: a text in under 60 seconds, while the customer is still looking.
More than most owners guess. Invoca call data cited by ServiceTitan puts missed calls at about 18 percent on weekdays and about 41 percent on weekends for home-service businesses. Nights and weekends are when emergency calls, the most valuable ones, come in.
Cover the gap automatically instead of staffing it. A missed call text back plus an AI receptionist handles the conversation and the booking for a flat monthly price, with no payroll, no training, and no sick days. That is the whole idea behind this service, and it is done for you.
Yes, and a lot of shops do. The After-Hours plan covers nights and weekends only, which is where the leak is biggest. Widening to full coverage later does not require rebuilding anything.
Yes. Your number, your Google listing, and your truck lettering stay exactly as they are. We configure forwarding so unanswered calls trigger the text back. Your customers never see a change, except that they always get an answer.
Yes, that is the point of the service. The text conversation collects the name, address, and problem, offers real openings from your calendar, and confirms the appointment with the customer. You get a summary of every booking.
The conversation happens by text, in plain, friendly language written to sound like your shop. If a customer asks a question the system cannot answer, or asks for a person, it takes the details and alerts you right away. Nothing gets faked and nothing gets dropped.
Days, not weeks. We build your intake questions, connect your calendar, set your coverage hours, and test the flow with you before it goes live. You approve the wording. It is done for you, start to finish.
Tell us your trade and how your phones work today. We will walk through how many calls you are likely missing, which plan fits, and whether the Founding Pilot still has a spot. If it is not a fit, we will say so.
No pressure, no contract talk on call one. The first call is a fit check.
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