What do AI agents for roofers actually do during a storm surge?
They answer everything at once. 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, while the same agent answers the website chat, the texts and the Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp messages from the same material. It asks the questions you wrote about the damage, answers "do you work with insurance?" from your Q&A pairs, and offers inspection slots that are genuinely open in your calendar. When the homeowner picks one it writes the booking in and confirms it. Every conversation lands in the inbox with the channel it came in on, and the calls keep their recordings and transcripts.
Is this an AI receptionist for roofing companies?
That is a fair description of the inbound half. It answers the phone on your own number, the chat on your website and the DMs on your social accounts, quotes what you told it to quote, books the inspection and texts the confirmation from your number. Where it differs from a receptionist or an answering service is the outbound half: it chases every estimate for weeks on a schedule you wrote and runs win-back campaigns at last year's leads. If you would rather it only took details after hours and booked nothing, write that in its instructions and that is what it does.
How does it handle storm damage leads that come in on Facebook or Instagram?
Connect each platform with your own app credentials and the agent answers the messages inside each platform's own reply window, from the same knowledge base it uses on the phone. Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Viber, Slack, Discord, Bluesky, Reddit and X are supported. Every DM lands in the same inbox as your calls and emails, tagged with the platform, and the handle is attached to the contact, so when the same homeowner rings on Monday the agent knows what they said on Saturday. It asks for a phone number or email when the conversation is worth keeping, and offers inspection slots the same way it does everywhere else.
Can it answer financing and insurance questions?
It answers them the way you would, because the answers are yours. Load how you work with insurance claims, whether you meet the adjuster, what financing you offer and how the deductible is handled as Q&A pairs and data points, and the agent answers those questions on every channel, linking only to the pages of your own site you allowed. It does not give legal or financial advice, it does not connect to any insurer or lender, and a question that is not in your material is handed to you rather than guessed at.
Can it book inspections into my calendar?
Yes. Connect Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Calendly, Cal.com, Acuity Scheduling, Zoho Bookings, Square Appointments, HubSpot Meetings, or a field tool such as Jobber, Housecall Pro or ServiceTitan, and the agent is given the slots that are genuinely open for the week ahead. It offers a few, and when the homeowner picks one that choice is checked against the slots that were offered, written to the calendar with the address and the damage described, 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 is logged against the contact.
How does roofing estimate follow-up work when the decision takes weeks?
The sequence runs as long as you set it. You write the steps once, an email on day 2, a text on day 6, a call on day 10, an email on day 17, a text on day 24 and a last note on day 35, 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 estimate and your Q&A pairs, and stops the moment the homeowner replies, books or opts out on any channel. A request to match another quote, if you name it as a hand-over, comes to your inbox with the agent standing down on that thread.
Can it call back last year's leads that never signed?
Yes, as a win-back campaign at a list you already own. Upload the CSV of inspection leads that never signed, or pull the segment out of HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Jobber or another connected CRM, and run a campaign at it in your words, from your own address and number, inside your hours. With the CRM connected the agent reads the previous inspection and the open estimate before it writes. It answers the replies, books re-inspections into real open slots, and stops on a reply, a booking or an opt-out. A goal with a dollar value tells you what the run brought in.
What do AI agents for roofers 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, per-lead or per-seat charge, and no charge that rises during a storm surge. 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.