AI receptionist · For trade businesses

AI receptionist for trades.

AI receptionist for trades — answers, qualifies, books, escalates only when needed.

£2,500 – £8,000 build · £40–£200/mo runningSource-code-yoursFixed-price quote in 48hr
AI receptionist · For trade businessesEST. 2026
[01] Why trade businesses pick custom

AI receptionist. Built for trades.

Every trade business shares the same call problem: phone rings, hands are full, caller hangs up and tries the next number on the search results. The single highest-ROI software a small trade business can deploy in 2026 is a 24/7 AI receptionist trained on your real services, prices, and area.

We build AI receptionists for trades that pick up in 2 rings, qualify the job (emergency vs survey vs domestic vs commercial), book appointments live in your calendar, and only escalate to a human callback for genuinely complex enquiries. Same brain works across phone, web chat, WhatsApp, SMS.

Build runs £2,500–£8,000. Running cost averages £40–£200/month. Most trade businesses see payback in 60–120 days.

[02] What we'd build

AI receptionist that earns its keep.

24/7 voice + chat receptionist trained on your business. Answers calls, qualifies leads, books appointments, sends quote follow-ups, escalates to humans only when it matters. Vapi/Twilio for voice, custom knowledge base, source-code-yours.

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Voice + chat in one agent

Same brain across phone, website chat, WhatsApp, SMS. Customer experience stays consistent.

02

Books real appointments

Live calendar sync (Google/Outlook/Calendly). Confirms availability, sends invites, handles reschedules.

03

Captures + scores leads

Asks the qualifying questions you would, scores fit, routes to the right person with full transcript and summary.

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In your tone of voice

Trained on your real business — your services, your prices, your area, your style. Not a generic phone tree.

[03] Proof

Already shipped for a trade business.

Landscaping · Trades

AI quote suite for Taylor Landscaping

A bespoke instant-quote engine, an embedded AI chatbot trained on Taylor's services, and a Vapi-powered AI receptionist that answers the phone day or night, qualifies the lead, and books the call back.

£600 all-in, three systems24/7 AI cover on phone & chat< 1 wk brief to live
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[04] Typical trades budget

£2,500 – £8,000 build · £40–£200/mo running

Fixed-price quotes within 48 hours of the brief. The number you agree is the number you pay — no surprise invoices, no "out of scope" wars. Optional support retainer afterwards at a fraction of agency rates.

[05] Questions

AI receptionist for trades FAQ.

Modern voice models are functionally indistinguishable from human under 3 minutes. We tell every client to put a clear "you are speaking to our AI assistant" disclosure on the welcome line — transparency builds trust faster than pretending.

2–4 weeks from kickoff. We train it on your real services, prices, area, and tone of voice before launch.

Yes — Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly all standard. It only books slots that are genuinely free.

No — modern voice models (ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Deepgram) are functionally indistinguishable from human in most calls under 3 minutes. Customers usually realise mid-call only because of how patiently it answers.

Usage-based — roughly £0.20–£0.60 per minute of voice, or £0.001 per chat message. A business with 100 calls/month averaging 2 minutes pays £40–£120/month in usage. Build is one-off fixed-price.

Falls back to "let me get someone to call you back" — books a callback slot, sends you a transcript + summary by SMS or Slack. Customer never gets a dead end.

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