Book the inspection before the option period runs out.
A buyer under contract has a fixed number of days to inspect, and they work down the list until someone can hit the date. You are under a house with the phone in the truck. Your AI receptionist answers, takes the deadline first, and books the inspection with the radon and the sewer scope attached.
An AI receptionist for home inspectors answers 24/7 in English and Spanish, captures the option or inspection deadline before anything else, takes the address, square footage, and year built, books the inspection and add-on tests on your calendar, handles agents booking for their clients, and takes report-status messages while you are on a roof.
What a missed call costs you.
- 01Every buyer call carries a contract deadline, so a call that rings out is a booking that goes to whoever answers next.
- 02You are on a roof or under a house for hours at a stretch, which is exactly when the phone rings.
- 03Agents book for their clients between showings, and losing that call costs the referral stream, not just one job.
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 40% of the would-be customers who reached your voicemail would have booked, that works out to about $2,160.
And the fix scales with the math: even Standard, our $399-a-month plan, runs about 18% of that estimate, roughly $21,132 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.
The deadline, first
Asks for the option or inspection deadline before anything else, works your calendar backward from it, and pages you when nothing lands safely in front of that date.
Intake that sizes the job
Takes the address, square footage, year built, foundation type, and whether the house is occupied and the utilities are on, plus which add-on tests the caller wants from your service list.
Agent bookings, handled right
Takes an agent’s booking for their client and records who ordered it, who pays, and who receives the report, so the report goes to the client and nobody else.
Answers after hours, in two languages
Picks up evenings, weekends, and holidays in English or Spanish, books against your live calendar, and takes report-status messages without speaking to what a report says.
In your callers' own words.
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Our option period ends Friday. Can you get out there Wednesday?
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I’m the buyer’s agent. I need an inspection on 412 Oak before Thursday.
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Do you do radon and termite at the same visit, and what would that run on a 1,900 square foot house?
Add-ons, rated for home inspection.
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 home inspection 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.