ApexSmartAI
ApexSmartAI is a managed AI phone-answering service for U.S. home-service and property-management businesses. It answers inbound calls 24/7 in English and Spanish, follows approved business, service-area, and call-handling rules, and captures caller details and service needs. Call information is sent to designated contacts by SMS and email for follow-up. The vendor configures and maintains each receptionist around the business’s hours, services, and instructions; customers forward calls to the service rather than use a self-service dashboard. Supported use cases include HVAC, plumbing, roofing, painting, electrical, garage-door, and property-management inquiries, including after-hours and weekend calls. Urgent calls can be handled according to the business’s configured escalation process.
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Call Welcome
Call Welcome is a cloud-based AI phone receptionist for Canadian home-service trades. It answers calls forwarded from an existing business number. The receptionist tells callers it is AI and that the call is transcribed, answers business-defined questions about hours, service area and services, and collects the caller's name, callback number, address, job details, urgency and preferred callback time. Messages are texted to the business and saved in an online inbox with a transcript. Businesses can define emergency conditions for routing calls to the owner's phone, choose whether the service answers outside business hours, and have sales calls declined. Use cases include plumbing, electrical, heating and cooling, roofing, garage doors, painting, tile, paving, landscaping, pools and home cleaning. Plans include monthly call-minute allowances, with per-minute overage or voicemail options when the allowance is used.
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CaughtLeads
CaughtLeads is a cloud-based AI receptionist for home-service contractors and other businesses that depend on inbound calls. It answers callers using information about the business, qualifies leads, books appointments through a connected Cal.com calendar, or records a callback request and emails the details. The service tracks calls and bookings and records job outcomes, including whether scheduled work happened. It can send call and booking events to tools such as Slack and GoHighLevel, and forward events through signed webhooks to Zapier, n8n, Make, or a custom endpoint. CaughtLeads also supports follow-up and past-customer reactivation workflows. Businesses can build and test a receptionist in a browser before activating it on a phone line. Calls disclose that the assistant is AI and may be recorded. Its main audience includes HVAC, plumbing, roofing, and electrical contractors.
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KeptRing
KeptRing is an AI receptionist for home-service and construction contractors, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing shops. When a call to the business number goes unanswered, it answers, says it's an automated assistant, asks for the caller's name and callback number, and gathers the job details. It then emails the lead to the contractor right after the call. It doesn't book jobs or text callers. Pricing: Starter is $149 a month per line for 300 answered minutes, Pro is $249 for 600, and Crew is $449 for 1,200. That's about 100/200/400 calls a month if calls run about 2½ minutes. Extra minutes are $0.40 each. 14-day free trial on any plan with up to 250 answered minutes per line: $0 today, card at signup, cancel online. The first 10 paying customers get 20% off for as long as they stay.
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