Every missed call
is a job going to
your competitor.
An AI receptionist that answers every call — after hours, on weekends, in English and Spanish. It books appointments, answers your common questions, and passes the real ones straight to you. You paid to make the phone ring. Stop letting it ring out.
(417) 932-2502 — No form, no sales call. It answers as a sample HVAC shop; yours answers as you.Not a trade business? See the version for every other business →
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You're paying for leads
you never answer.
You spend real money to make the phone ring — Google, Angi, trucks, yard signs, referrals. Then the call comes in while you're on a roof, under a sink, or asleep. It goes to voicemail. Most people don't leave one. They just call the next name on the list.
Voicemail loses the job
A caller with an urgent problem often won't leave a message. They hang up and dial your competitor before you ever hear the phone.
After-hours is dead air
Evenings and weekends are when homeowners actually call about the leak or the broken AC — exactly when no one's at the desk.
Spanish-speaking callers hang up
A large share of local callers prefer Spanish. If no one can help them in their language, that lead is gone too.
The math is brutal. A single missed call in the trades can be a $300–$3,000 job. Miss a handful a week and you're losing more than most people's ad budget — quietly, every month, with nothing to show for it.
An AI receptionist
that works every hour.
Your AI answers on the first ring, sounds natural, and handles the calls that don't need you — so the ones that do get straight through.
Answers your common questions
Hours, service area, pricing ranges, “do you do X?” — answered instantly and consistently, the way you'd want them answered.
FAQBooks appointments
Captures the job details and drops a booking straight onto your calendar — no phone tag, no lost sticky notes.
SchedulingTransfers the calls that matter
Emergency? High-value job? A caller who wants a human? It routes them to you or your team, with the context already gathered.
Live transferFully bilingual
Greets and serves callers in English or Spanish automatically — so you never lose a lead over language again.
English + EspañolDone before they
hang up.
It checks your calendar and takes the slot mid-conversation. By the time the caller says goodbye, the job is on your schedule, they have a text, and you have an email — and nobody touched a phone but them.
Voicemail is where
leads go to die.
Voicemail was never built to win work. It takes a message — if the caller bothers, and most don't. Same phone, same number. Here's the difference between hoping they call back and actually booking the job.
Just voicemail
- Answers with a beep, then silence
- Most callers hang up and dial the next company
- Dead after hours and all weekend
- No help for Spanish-speaking callers
- A message if you're lucky, never a booking
Southern Sun Voice
- Answers live on the first ring, sounds human
- Helps the caller so they stay with you
- Books the job at 9pm on a Sunday
- Serves callers in English or Spanish
- Drops the appointment on your calendar, with who called and why
Same number. Same phone. A completely different outcome. See what the difference is worth →
Live in days,
not months.
I build it around how you already run — nothing to install, no new number, no change to your workflow. You keep your line; I handle the rest.
I learn your business
A short call to capture your services, service area, hours, pricing, and how you like calls handled. This becomes a knowledge base built around your business, not a generic script.
I build & tailor it
I set up the voice, answers, booking, and transfer rules as workflows tuned to your trade — so it responds the way you would, and routes the calls that need a human.
Keep your number
You forward your calls to the assistant — after-hours only, or all of them. Your existing number stays exactly as it is. Nothing changes for your customers.
You stop missing jobs
Every call answered, booked, or routed to you — with a summary of who called and why. I keep tuning it as your business changes.
I'm an engineer, not a marketing agency. Production AI at Uber, Carvana, and CellarTracker (10M+ users) — I build this around how your calls actually come in, not from a template, and when it needs changing you're talking to the person who changes it.
Your calendar, your CRM, your dispatch.
It books onto your calendar today, and connects to the tools below through the platform it runs on. Running ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro or Jobber? Tell me on the call. I'll say plainly how the handoff would work for your setup before you commit.
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Pick one leak.
I plug it.
You don't have to hand over the whole phone on day one. Pick the leak that's costing you the most, plug that one, and expand once you see the bookings roll in.
After-hours & overflow
Instead of voicemail, every evening, weekend, and missed-while-busy call gets answered, booked, or flagged. This is where the fastest ROI lives — you're recovering calls you were already losing, with zero risk to your daytime flow.
First-layer screening
The AI takes every call first, answers the routine questions, gathers the details, and only passes through the ones that need a human. Your team stops fielding “are you open?” and focuses on real jobs.
You already pay
to make the phone ring.
No contracts, no setup fee, no quote-on-a-call runaround. Here's the whole thing.
The cost of
answering every one.
- 100 calls a month included, then $1.50 a call. Spam, wrong numbers and hang-ups under 15 seconds don't count; a call over 10 minutes counts as two.
- No setup fee. I build and tune it around your business, and your first two weeks are free.
- Pause any month — you're not billed, and your number and setup wait for you. Pausing isn't cancelling.
The questions every
owner asks.
No. Callers hear a natural voice that talks like a person, not a phone tree — no “press 1 for service,” no menu to sit through. It gets straight to helping them, and it hands off to a human the moment a caller wants one. Don't take my word for it: call (417) 932-2502 and hear it yourself.
It answers as a made-up HVAC company, because it has to be set up as some kind of business to be worth hearing. Yours would run on your trade, your services, your service area and your hours — the trade is a setting, not the product. Try asking what it costs to come out, telling it your AC quit and you need someone tomorrow, or asking for a person. It'll book the visit like it would a real one. The demo is set up in English; a real one is configured for the languages your callers actually use. (417) 932-2502, any hour.
It does what a good receptionist does: takes the details, tells the caller you'll follow up, and sends you a summary immediately — or transfers the call to you on the spot if it's urgent. It never guesses at an answer it doesn't have.
It picks up with your business name and its own, and says up front that it's the AI receptionist and that calls are recorded — “Thanks for calling ACME Heating and Air, this is Anna, the AI receptionist. Calls are recorded so we can follow up. How can I help?” Several states require callers to be told both, so it says it on every call, wherever they're calling from. You pick the name, so it still sounds like part of your shop.
Anywhere in the US. I'm based in Phoenix, and I'll meet Arizona shops in person when an owner would rather sit down first. You don't need a visit, though — the assistant runs on the number you already have, so setup happens over a call and a forwarding setting. Your service area is whatever you tell it, and it turns away calls outside it.
No. You keep your existing number exactly as it is. You just forward calls to the assistant — all of them, or only the ones you'd otherwise miss. Nothing changes for your customers, and you can switch forwarding off anytime.
Yes — it detects the caller's language and switches automatically, then books the job or takes the details in that language. You get the summary in English either way.
It books straight onto a calendar today — Google Calendar, or whatever scheduler your office already opens every morning. If you're running ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, or Jobber, tell me on the call and I'll walk you through exactly how the handoff would work for your setup before you commit to anything.
$199 a month, with 100 calls included. Past that it's $1.50 a call, so the bill only grows when the phone is ringing. Spam, wrong numbers and hang-ups under 15 seconds don't count, and a call over 10 minutes counts as two. There's no setup fee: I build and tune it around your business, and your first two weeks are free. If you walk away in that window, you've paid nothing.
Pause it. Work is seasonal and your bill should be too — pause any month and you're not billed while you're paused. The pause starts at the end of the month you've already paid for, so you keep the service through it, and your number, your answers, and your setup all stay exactly as you left them. Turn it back on the week the phone starts ringing again.
Most of those are resold. Your marketing company takes a cut of the monthly, the platform builds it from a template, and the person who put it together has never heard your phone ring. Here there's nobody in the middle — I build it, and when it says something wrong on a call, you tell me directly and I'm the one who changes it.
Turn off call forwarding and you're back to exactly how things were, the same day. No long-term contract, no cancellation fee, and you keep your number — because it was always yours.
Hear it answer
a call live.
Call the demo line and talk to it yourself — no booking, no form. It's set up as an HVAC shop so you can hear a real call end to end; yours would run on your trade, your services, your hours. Then book a call and I'll put a number on what you're missing today.
Book your demoCall (417) 932-2502