Answer while they are still holding the electric bill.
A homeowner opens a high bill, looks up local installers, and calls two or three in the same sitting. Your crews are on roofs and your consultant is at a kitchen table. Your AI receptionist answers, captures the bill, the roof, and whether this is a new system or service on one somebody else installed, and books the site assessment before they work down the list.
An AI receptionist for solar installers answers around the clock in English and Spanish, captures the service address, monthly electric bill, utility, roof age and type, and whether the call is a new install or service on an existing system, texts a secure link for the bill and roof photos (Basic and up), and books the site assessment to your calendar.
What a missed call costs you.
- 01Homeowners shopping solar call two or three local installers in one sitting, and the one who answers gets the assessment on the calendar.
- 02Your consultants are in appointments and your crews are on roofs during the exact hours people call about their bill.
- 03Service calls from homeowners whose original installer closed arrive mixed in with new-system calls, and a voicemail does not tell you which is which.
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 20% of the would-be customers who reached your voicemail would have booked, that works out to about $10,800.
And the fix scales with the math: even Standard, our $399-a-month plan, runs about 4% of that estimate, roughly $124,812 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.
Consultation intake
Captures the callback number, service address, roughly what the electric bill runs in a normal month, which utility they are on, the roof age and material, and whether they own the home, so your consultant walks in with the picture already drawn.
Site assessment booking
Offers your real availability and books the roof and panel assessment straight onto your calendar with the address attached.
Bill and roof photos by secure link
Texts a secure upload link (Basic and up) to callers who have opted in to texts, for a recent electric bill, a photo of the roof, or the label on the inverter, so your designer has the numbers before the visit.
Service calls sorted from new systems
Takes a stopped-producing call as its own intake, including who installed the system, the inverter brand, and what the monitoring app shows. Pages you on a burning smell or any safety report, and can transfer a live caller to you. Answers evenings and weekends in English or Spanish, recorded and transcribed with a notice to the caller up front.
In your callers' own words.
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My power bill was three hundred dollars last month. What would panels run me?
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The company that put my system in went out of business and the app says offline.
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We already have panels and we want to add a battery before storm season.
Job Briefs & Client Intake: built in for solar installers.
A photo of the job site turns a vague “what’ll it run me” into a real estimate before you ever leave the shop.
How Job Briefs & Client Intake works →Add-ons, rated for solar installers.
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 solar installers 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.