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AI Receptionist for Trades

Q: What exactly is a Futuro AI receptionist for trades?

A Futuro AI receptionist for plumbers, HVAC and electricians handles calls 24/7, captures urgent requests, recalls repeat callers and uses your approved scheduling and dispatch workflow. Configured integrations can support job booking and payment links. $200/month flat with unlimited inbound calls. Additional tools and workflows may carry additional pricing. Standard configurations typically launch in 24–48 hours after discovery.

Q: Does it replace me, or just voicemail?

Voicemail. Conditional forwarding means your phone still rings first. You operate as normal. With forwarding configured, missed calls — on a job, after hours, or while the line is busy — go to the agent. Where booking is connected, it can write the appointment and send a summary; otherwise it captures the request for your team. Your existing line remains in use.

Q: Can it handle a burst pipe, a dead furnace, or a sparking panel?

It can capture the caller’s situation and follow an approved escalation workflow, including contacting an on-call technician where configured. Set clear rules for when callers should contact emergency services instead of waiting for a contractor. The agent is not a diagnostic service and should not improvise repair or electrical-safety instructions. Test these scenarios before launch.

Q: Will it invent prices?

No. Dispatch fees, after-hours multipliers, and service-call rates come only from the sheet you loaded. If a caller wants a water-heater number you have not approved, the agent captures the request and books an estimate instead of guessing.

Q: Will my customers know it is AI?

Futuro Corporation’s company-run English-language study found that 94% of 1,000 paid student participants did not suspect AI under an ISP customer-service scenario. That does not establish how every customer will respond. Try calls that reflect your business and decide whether the voice and service experience fit your customers.

Q: Does it remember repeat callers and “where is my tech”?

The Memory System uses the caller’s phone number and available history to recognize returning callers. Where the connected scheduling system supplies a current appointment window or ETA, the agent can share that approved information. If the record is missing or stale, it captures a callback request rather than inventing an arrival time.

Q: Does it work with ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, or FieldEdge?

Futuro AI configures workflows for field-service systems such as ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber and FieldEdge. Support and depth vary by system and permissions: a workflow may create a job directly or pass a request to your team. Ask for a demonstration of scheduling, service areas and on-call assignment in your specific setup.

Q: What does it cost?

$200/month flat with unlimited inbound calls and standard onboarding included. Additional tools and workflows may carry additional pricing. Plans include a 7-day free trial with no credit card and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Q: How long until it is answering our phone?

24 to 48 hours for a standard configuration, about five days for a deep board-and-dispatch integration. It runs alongside your existing line via conditional forwarding, so nothing is switched off during setup.

Customized for plumbers, HVAC and electricians. You keep working while Futuro AI handles missed calls, uses your configured booking workflow and recalls returning callers. Click the orb below to hear the voice and try a trades conversation yourself.

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The math nobody runs

A missed call can become another contractor’s job

A ringing phone while you are under a sink is not a nuisance. It is a burst pipe, a dead furnace, or a sparking panel — and they will not leave a voicemail.

78%

of callers who hit voicemail try a different contractor. They almost never call back.

3 min

is the window on an emergency call before they dial the next name on the map.

60%

higher conversion on weekend and after-hours calls — exactly when you cannot pick up.

$200

per month, flat, with unlimited inbound calls. Additional tools and workflows may carry additional pricing.

Why it happens

You cannot answer a phone from under a house

Nobody is failing at their job. The phone is competing with a crawl space, a live panel, and a highway between jobs. The caller with the emergency will not wait.

A missed emergency is a dead lead

Burst pipe, no heat, sparking panel. They have about three minutes. If they hit voicemail they call the next contractor on the list — 78% never come back.

You are already on a job

Under a sink, in an attic, driving, elbows-deep in an air handler. Conditional forwarding means your phone still rings first. The agent only takes what you miss — it replaces voicemail, it does not replace you.

After hours is when the expensive calls come in

Nights, weekends, freeze events, heat domes. Those calls convert about 60% higher than a Tuesday at 10am. Voicemail is not a safety net. It is handing the job to whoever picks up.

What we’re known for

Hear a real conversation with Futuro AI

Hear a conversation about a high water bill, a possible leak and getting a technician booked. Listen to a short sample, then try the live agent in the orb above.

Sample from a real plumbing intake — then talk to the agent yourself.

In practice

What it does between answering and booked

Four ways to keep jobs moving while your team works in the field.

01 — The truck

Your line rings first. The agent takes what you miss.

You are under a house. You cannot pick up. That is the entire product.

Conditional forwarding sends only the calls you miss to the agent — it replaces voicemail, it does not replace you. From there it triages the emergency, books the job into ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, or your calendar, and texts you a summary with the address, the problem, and who is on call.

Replaces voicemailYour line rings firstSummary by text

02 — Repeat & ETA

They already called. It already knows.

The Memory System keys off the caller’s number — property, last job, the window you already gave them.

Available caller history helps a property manager avoid repeating building details. When your connected system supplies a current appointment window, the agent can answer “where is my tech?” from that record; otherwise it captures a callback request.

Caller ID recallETA from the boardProperty history

03 — Payments

Paid without the chase

No card numbers read aloud. No one chasing a balance.

The agent can send a unique payment link through a configured payment integration, such as Stripe or Square, and connect payment records to QuickBooks where supported. Confirm the processor and accounting workflow during setup. Clients enter their card details on the payment page, not by reading them to the agent.

Stripe · SquareQuickBooksUnique per client

04 — After the call

You read the audit, not our word for it

Every call is categorised, transcribed, scored, and graded.

A summary and the five key points. Caller identity. How frustrated the caller was at the start and how satisfied at the end, one to ten. A history of the last ten interactions for returning callers. And the agent's own report card: did it stay under 500ms, did it hold the assigned tone, did it say anything outside your guidelines — pass or fail, with a written reason.

Daily and weekly rollups help surface recurring questions and friction. An illustrative finding might be: 22% of callers asked where to find the after-hours instructions. Export to PDF, CSV, or Excel. If that is more than you need, a lighter mode provides a summary, key points, one score and a transcript.

Full transcript & audioSentiment scoringGuideline audit

Integrations

Does it work with ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber?

This is where most contractor answering tools quietly fail. “Integration” covers everything from writing a job straight onto the board with the loss context to texting you a note you then type in yourself. Swipe through your system to see exactly what to test.

ServiceTitan

Does the job land on the board with the loss context?

Test whether a call creates a real job — customer, address, problem class, emergency flag — not a calendar block you re-key in the morning. Ask to watch a burst-pipe call written in during the demo.

Housecall Pro

Does it book against real tech availability?

Housecall Pro shops live and die on the dispatch board. Get it in writing: does the agent book the on-call tech, or only take a message and leave you dragging the job onto the right person?

Jobber

Does the request include the details a tech needs?

The failure mode is a request that says “AC broken.” Ask what lands: equipment notes, access, urgency, photos the caller texted, and whether a quote request stays a quote request.

FieldEdge

Who does the AI write under?

Focus on permissions: which tech record the AI writes under, whether emergency jobs are flagged, and whether its bookings are distinguishable from a human’s in the audit trail.

QuickBooks

Does the invoice close without a chase?

Dispatch fees and after-hours rates should generate a unique payment link and, if you want it, land in QuickBooks. Ask for a specific yes or no rather than “we support most systems.”

Google · Outlook · Paper

No field software? Still covered.

For a small team using Google Calendar or Outlook, confirm the supported booking workflow during setup. If you use a paper schedule, an included scheduling platform can provide a digital calendar; paper records do not synchronize automatically.

What to ask any vendor, in any system

Does it write the booking, or notify me? The first saves labour; the second relocates it.
Does it respect on-call rotation and service area? A no-cool call outside your territory is not a job you want invented.
What happens when the integration fails? The honest answer is a captured, summarised call you can act on — not a silently dropped booking.

What's running underneath

Four systems, and one hard rule about timing

Most people who land here have never seen our homepage. This is the part that decides whether a voice agent gets found out inside thirty seconds.

01 — The voice

VoiceAlive

Engineered around human imperfection, not against it.

Breathing. Micro-pauses. The filler word that surfaces while someone is still deciding. The stretched syllable that signals thinking. The industry chased flawless diction — and flawless is exactly what gives AI away.

53 languages100+ accents94% in our voice study

02 — The knowledge

MasterMind

It retrieves. It does not generate.

Every question is passed through your knowledge base first, which returns the legitimate directions the conversation can go and the source each answer draws from. The agent picks a path instead of guessing at one — which is why it cannot invent a dispatch fee, a diagnosis, or a policy you never wrote.

Source-cited answersNo hallucinated policyYou own the script

03 — The recall

The Memory System

It recognises returning callers in three rings — and remembers itself.

Context carries across months, so a homeowner never re-explains the property, the last job, or the ETA they already have. More importantly: after every call a separate model scores the agent's performance, and that scoring feeds forward into training. Performance reviews help refine the agent for your business.

Caller ID in 3–4 ringsCross-month contextSelf-scoring

04 — The tone

Tone matching, not a fourth product

Tone is assigned, then enforced — by VoiceAlive, not a separate brand.

A caller with a burst pipe does not get a maintenance-plan pitch. The agent matches the register the moment calls for — emergency, ETA, or quote — and every call is graded pass or fail on whether it held the tone you selected.

Per-call tone gradingEmergency vs. quoteYour brand voice

05 — The timing

Sub-500ms, audited every call

Perceived latency is what breaks the illusion — not raw speed.

Our pipeline overlaps its stages instead of running them in sequence, and every call is audited against a hard threshold: did the agent ever take longer than 500 milliseconds to begin responding? The one permitted exception is when it's genuinely doing something — pulling a record, sending an email — and in those moments you hear keyboard sounds, because that's what you'd hear from a person.

<500ms to first wordOverlapped pipelineAudited per call

Pricing

What it costs

$200 per month, flat

Unlimited inbound calls
Unlimited simultaneous calls
No per-minute charge for inbound calls
Standard onboarding included
Month to month
30-day money-back guarantee

Additional tools and workflows may carry additional pricing. Request a quote.

94% did not suspect AI in our study

What our voice study measured

In Futuro Corporation’s company-run study, 94% of 1,000 paid student participants answered that there was no possibility they had spoken with AI. The conversations were in English and framed as evaluating ISP customer service. The study was not peer-reviewed and had no human comparison group.

This measures voice perception in that study, not a guaranteed result for every caller or industry. Read the full methodology and results →

Deployment

Live in 24 to 48 hours

Nothing is billed until you are live, and it runs alongside your existing line via conditional forwarding — so nothing is switched off during setup.

Step 1 — 30 minutes

Discovery

We take your rate sheet, service area, on-call rotation, hours, and the exact language you want used for emergencies, shut-offs, and “where is my tech.”

Step 2 — same day

Build

Voice and personality selection, then integration with ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, FieldEdge, or your calendar.

Step 3 — 24–48 hours

Live

Standard configurations answer within two days. A deep board-and-dispatch integration takes about five.

From the field

Owners who stopped losing the emergency call

Mike's Plumbing Services

Riverside, CA. “Before Futuro AI, I was missing 15–20 calls a week, especially emergencies. Now a 47% increase in booked jobs and $3,200 more a month from after-hours. Zero missed calls during busy periods.”

Summit HVAC

Denver, CO. “We were losing weekend emergency calls to competitors. After Futuro, a 62% increase in weekend bookings and $4,800 more a month in emergency service.”

Elite Electrical Solutions

Phoenix, AZ. “Customers were hanging up on voicemail and calling competitors. We cut lost leads 78% and see about $2,900 more a month. The calendar stays full with qualified jobs.”

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A complete call, unedited — from ring to a booked emergency job. Colors and labels follow a timed speaker map.

Hear it before you believe any of this

Talk to the trades agent live in your browser — or book a short walkthrough. Argue with it. Try to make it quote a job it does not have a price for. That is the point.

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$200/month flat with unlimited inbound calls and standard onboarding included. Additional tools and workflows may carry additional pricing.

Questions trade owners actually ask

Plumbing, HVAC, electrical — one platform, $200/month flat. Additional tools and workflows may carry additional pricing.