What do AI agents for plumbers actually do when the phone rings?
With answering switched on, the agent picks up your Twilio number in real time and speaks from the script and knowledge base you gave it. It asks the questions you wrote, such as where the leak is and whether the water is off, answers "how much is a call-out?" from your data points, and offers the first slots that are genuinely open in Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan or Google Calendar. When the customer picks one it writes the booking in and confirms it. The recording and transcript land in your inbox tagged as a call. Anything you named as a hand-over, a gas smell for instance, is passed to you the way you instructed.
Is this a plumbing answering service?
It does the job an answering service does, on your own number, without the per-call fee, and it goes further than taking a message. A plumbing answering service writes down the name and says someone will call back. This agent quotes the call-out fee, books the slot into your schedule and texts the confirmation from your number. The plan is $25 a month for the whole account, and the only other cost is your carrier's, which you would pay anyway. If you would rather it only took details after hours and booked nothing, write that in its instructions and that is what it does.
Do I still need missed call text back?
Only for the calls that are not answered, and with answering switched on those are the ones you chose not to answer. A missed call text back app sends "sorry we missed you" and hopes the customer waits. Here the call is picked up, the question is answered and the slot is booked while the customer is still on the line. Texts still run on your own number through one of nine carriers for confirmations, quote follow-ups and reminders, and every text step carries the sending window, the hourly pace and the Reply STOP line.
Can it book into Jobber, Housecall Pro or ServiceTitan?
Yes. Connect one of them, or Google Calendar, Microsoft 365 or one of the other calendars, and the agent is given the slots that are genuinely open for the week ahead. It offers a few, and when the customer picks one that choice is checked against the slots that were offered, written to the schedule with the address and the job, and confirmed in the reply. It cannot book a time that was not free, it cannot cancel an appointment it was not shown, and every booking, cancellation and note is logged against the customer.
How does it know my prices and whether I cover an area?
From the knowledge base you built. Your call-out fee, hourly rate, fixed prices and service area are entered as data points, your terms and price list are uploaded as documents, and the questions you get every day are written as Q&A pairs with your answers. The agent answers only from that material and links only to the pages of your own site you allowed. If a customer asks something that is not in there, it says so and hands over to you, rather than guessing at a price you then have to honour.
How does plumber lead follow-up work for quotes?
A quote follow-up is a campaign. You write the steps once, an email on day 2 asking if they had questions, a text on day 5, a call on day 9, a final note on day 14, with each step's delay and send condition, and the days, hours and time zone it may contact anyone. The agent answers replies from the quote and your Q&A pairs, and stops the moment the customer replies, books or opts out on any channel. A price negotiation, if you name it as a hand-over, comes to your inbox with the agent standing down on that thread.
Can it remind past customers about maintenance and ask for reviews?
Yes, as campaigns at a list you already own. Pull a segment out of Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan or HubSpot, or upload a CSV, and run the annual service reminder or the pre-winter check at it, in your words, from your own address and number. A review request is the same thing: a text or email you wrote, with the link you chose, sent on the day after the job you set. The agent answers the replies and books the customers who say yes. It does not post reviews and it does not connect to review sites.
What do AI agents for plumbers cost?
$25 a month or $200 a year for the whole account, with a 7-day free trial. That includes unlimited agents, contacts and lists, every channel, the inbox, the campaigns and the analytics, with no per-call, per-minute, per-message or per-seat charge. You bring your own AI key from one of sixteen providers and your own carrier account for texts and calls, and both bill you directly at cost, typically a few dollars a month for a busy agent. Nothing is metered, marked up or sold as credits.