For HVAC companies
The Answering Service for HVAC Companies That Fills Your Board
When an AC dies in July, the homeowner calls until a human or an AI answers. If that is not you, that replacement job is not yours either.
Summer peaks bury your office staff.
After-hours no-heat and no-cool calls go to voicemail.
Techs cannot answer phones from an attic.
What a call sounds like
Illustrative call example — not a real recording
'My AC stopped blowing cold.' The AI checks the model questions you care about, offers your next open slot, and books the service call. Maintenance-plan members get flagged.
Calendar booking today, your tools next
Booking works with Google Calendar and Outlook today, with click-to-accept invites for you and the customer. On the roadmap for HVAC companies, in the order customers ask:
Tell us what you run and we prioritize it.
One call, start to finish
Illustrative call example — not a real recording or measured timing
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4:55 PM, 98 degrees. Three service calls running, and the office line rings for the sixth time this hour.
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Amelia answers all of them at once. No hold music, no 'your call is important to us.'
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This caller: 'My AC stopped blowing cold an hour ago.' She asks your triage questions: any airflow at all? Anyone in the home with health concerns? Inside temperature?
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Healthy household, 84 degrees inside: by your rules that's urgent-today, not emergency-now. She offers your first opening tomorrow at 8 AM or the 5:30 PM slot your dispatcher released.
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Caller picks 8 AM. Name, phone read back digit by digit, email spelled and confirmed, address, unit type. Calendar invite goes to both sides.
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The next caller says 'no heat' in January with a newborn in the house. That one rings your on-call tech before she finishes her sentence.
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Your board fills while your humans stay on the wrenches.
No-cool and no-heat triage, by your playbook
HVAC has real emergencies and everything else, and the difference is season, occupants, and temperature. During setup you tell Amelia your rules in plain English: no-heat below 40 with elderly residents rings the on-call tech now; no-cool at 78 books the first morning slot; a strange noise books a diagnostic. She asks the same triage questions your best dispatcher would ask, and she applies your line the same way at midnight as at noon. When she isn't sure, she escalates to a human rather than gambling.
Built for the summer surge that buries your office
The July problem isn't one call, it's six in the same hour while your CSRs are already on the phone. Amelia answers every one of them simultaneously, on the first ring, with nobody on hold. Peak season stops meaning missed revenue and starts meaning a full board. And because spam and robocalls are screened free, the surge that hits your phone bill is made of actual customers.
Maintenance plans, service areas, and your price book
She's loaded with your business: your zip codes, your diagnostic or trip fee, your membership program and what members get, the brands you service, whether you quote replacements by phone (most shops don't, and she'll say exactly what you tell her to say). Members get flagged on the booking so your dispatcher sees the priority. Callers outside your area hear it politely on the first call instead of after a wasted roll.
After the call: recordings, invites, and follow-up
Every booked job lands on your Google or Outlook calendar with a click-to-accept invite for you and the homeowner, so no-shows fall. Every call, booked or not, sits in your dashboard with a recording, a transcript, and a summary. If Amelia ever handles something differently than you would, there's a 'fix this answer' button on the call: tell us what she should have said and she's retrained within a business day.
The cost math against per-minute answering
Per-minute human answering punishes exactly the months you need help: published market rates commonly run $1.50 to $3.00 a minute, so a hot July can invoice like a truck payment. Amelia is $99 a month at the founding price with 250 minutes included, then $2 a minute, capped at $200 unless you raise it, and she keeps answering free in message mode past the cap so your line never goes dead. Try her on the 14-day free trial and point only your after-hours forwarding at her first if you want to ease in.
Common questions from HVAC companies
Can it handle both emergency and routine HVAC calls?
Yes. You decide what counts as an emergency. No-heat in January can ring your on-call tech. A tune-up request becomes a booked appointment.
Does it know my service area?
Yes. It only books jobs inside the zip codes you serve, and it can quote your trip fee up front.
What does it cost compared to an answering service?
Many traditional answering services use per-minute pricing and focus mainly on message-taking; booking depends on the provider and plan. The AI is designed to answer every call, uses published plan pricing, and books real appointments.
Can it survive a summer heat wave when every line rings at once?
Yes, and this is where AI wins. Six calls in the same hour all get answered simultaneously, on the first ring. AI handles multiple simultaneous calls without creating a traditional hold queue.
How much does an HVAC answering service cost?
Human services run $300 to $1,000+ a month and summer volume makes it worse. Ours is $99 a month at the founding price with 250 minutes included, then $2 a minute, capped at $200 unless you raise it. Spam calls are free.
Does it answer in Spanish?
Automatically. The AI hears the caller's language and holds the whole call in English or Spanish, no menus or transfers.
Can it flag maintenance-plan members?
Yes. Tell it how your plan works and it treats members the way you would: priority scheduling, the right pricing, and a note on the booking.
What if the caller insists on a person?
Instant transfer, no questions. The moment a caller asks for a human or sounds frustrated, the AI connects them to your on-call phone.
Give your business a 24/7 AI receptionist
Founding customers get hands-on setup and locked-in pricing. Want to hear her first? Call the live demo any time: (832) 979-5957
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