Answer the calls that come right after the rain.
Water pours over a corner, a homeowner reaches for the phone, and they call two or three gutter companies in a row. Your AI receptionist picks up, gets the address and how many stories, texts them a link for photos (Basic and up), and puts the estimate on your calendar while your crew is still on the ladder.
An AI receptionist for gutter companies answers 24/7 in English and Spanish, sorts installs from repairs, cleanings, and gutter guard inquiries, captures the property address and number of stories, texts a secure link for photos (Basic and up), books estimates and cleanings on your calendar, and pages you when water is getting inside the house.
What a missed call costs you.
- 01Estimate calls land while the crew is up a ladder or the machine is running, so they go to voicemail and the homeowner books the next company on the list.
- 02Fall and spring bring most of the year’s work, so the weeks the phone matters most are the weeks nobody can answer it.
- 03One heavy rain sets off a run of overflow and leak calls at once, and those callers want an answer the same day.
What a missed call could be worth
Run your own numbers. Drag the sliders to match your shop, and the figure at the bottom updates as you go.
This is an estimate built from your own inputs, not a quote. Nobody can say a given missed call was a real customer, so read the result as a possibility, not a bill.
Many calls to small businesses go unanswered, and most callers never leave a message.
Not every missed call is a sale: some are spam, wrong numbers, or people you already serve. Your honest guess.
Phone callers are high-intent and convert better than a web form. The starting number is an illustrative default, not a benchmark. Your own close rate on the leads you actually reach.
For most service businesses, a single job runs a few hundred dollars. Count repeat work and referrals and a customer's lifetime value reaches several thousand. Use the number that fits you.
You can't know any single missed call was a real customer; some are wrong numbers or sales calls. But across a month, if even 35% of the would-be customers who reached your voicemail would have booked, that works out to about $2,310.
And the fix scales with the math: even Standard, our $399-a-month plan, runs about 17% of that estimate, roughly $22,932 a year below it.
First AI Employee's Essential plan is $99 a month. The question isn't whether every missed call is a lost job; it's whether catching them clears $99.
Start a 7-day free trial →An estimate from your own inputs, not a quote. The default customer value above is just a starting estimate; set it to your own.
Sources: Invoca's home-services call benchmarks on how often calls go unanswered (a home-services benchmark; the defaults here are illustrative and fully adjustable); CRM Magazine on voicemail behavior; Invoca's call-conversion benchmarks on how well phone leads convert.
On the call, it handles all of it.
Sorts the job on the call
Separates a new install from a repair, a cleaning, or a guard inquiry, and captures the property address, number of stories, and what the caller is seeing.
Photos before you drive
Texts the caller a secure upload link (Basic and up) for the corner, the pulled-away section, or the stained fascia, so you can size the job before scheduling a measure.
Books estimates and cleanings
Offers your real availability and books straight onto your calendar, in English or Spanish, at 9pm or on a Sunday.
Urgent calls reach you
Water coming inside the house pages you and can transfer the caller to your phone; every call is recorded and transcribed with an up-front disclosure to the caller.
In your callers' own words.
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My gutters pour over the front corner every time it rains.
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What would it cost to replace the gutters on a two-story house?
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Can someone clean ours before the rest of the leaves come down?
Job Briefs & Client Intake: built in for gutter services.
A photo of the leak, the dead unit, or the jammed door before you drive out, so you quote sooner and roll up with the right parts.
How Job Briefs & Client Intake works →Add-ons, rated for gutter services.
We rate every add-on for how much it actually earns its keep in your trade: the must-haves and the ones you can skip. Honest stars, not a sales pitch.
Stop sending gutter services callers to voicemail.
Your AI receptionist answers 24/7, qualifies the caller, and books the work, so more of your calls turn into customers instead of a competitor's.
Not for: healthcare or anyone handling protected health information. We are not HIPAA-compliant and don't sign BAAs.