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An answering service takes a message. Callingly's AI Agent calls each new HVAC lead from your website, ads or lead services within seconds, asks whether it's a no-heat or no-cool emergency or a replacement quote, and warm-transfers the homeowner to your team with the answers in hand. If nobody's free, it offers a callback at a time the homeowner picks.
Nobody waits for a callback when the house is 50 degrees. They try the next result, and the job goes to whoever picks up. Your techs are in attics and on rooftops, and your office is already on the phone.
The AI Agent calls web and ad leads the moment they arrive, inside the call hours you set. It asks whether the system is down now and puts the homeowner through to your team live, so whoever picks up knows it's an emergency before they say hello.
A system replacement is often the largest job your company sells, and the homeowner knows to get more than one quote. The company that gets a comfort advisor on the phone first sets the terms of the comparison.
For those leads, the AI Agent asks your qualifying questions and warm-transfers the homeowner to your team. If nobody is free, it offers a callback at a time they pick, so the lead doesn't sit in a voicemail box until morning.
You write the qualifying questions, and the AI Agent asks the ones the lead’s form didn’t already answer. Here’s a starting set HVAC companies use:
The answers land in the call’s transcript, and the rep hears them before the homeowner is put through. Our post on what an AI should ask web leads has more on picking questions a form didn’t already answer.
AI Agent Hi, this is Jordan with Comfort Air. You just asked about AC service. Is now a good time?
Homeowner Yes. The AC stopped this afternoon and it's 88 in here.
AI Agent That's rough in this heat. Is anyone in the home who can't be without air conditioning for long?
Homeowner My mom lives with us. She's 82.
AI Agent Thanks for telling me. I'm going to connect you with our team now so they can get a technician out. One moment.
As soon as a lead reaches Callingly, the AI Agent calls the homeowner and can text in the same sequence. It only calls inside your call hours and between 8 AM and 9 PM in the lead’s time zone. It asks your qualifying questions, then warm-transfers the live homeowner to the available reps in your first priority group. If nobody there picks up, it tries the next group, then offers a callback at a time the homeowner picks. At that time, the AI Agent calls back and tries the transfer again.
If the homeowner doesn’t answer, the followup sequence keeps calling and texting on your schedule until it runs out. Every AI call keeps a recording and a transcript.
Website forms, Facebook Lead Ads and most CRMs connect directly or through Zapier, Make or a webhook. Buying shared leads? Here’s how to send Angi leads and Networx leads to the AI Agent. Everything else is on the integrations page.
Not in the usual sense. An answering service picks up calls and takes messages. Callingly's AI Agent calls back the leads that come in from your website, ads and lead services, asks your questions and puts the homeowner through to your team live. It can answer calls to your Callingly numbers too, so a homeowner who calls back reaches it.
No. Callingly doesn't connect to field-service software directly. The AI Agent warm-transfers the homeowner to your team or offers a callback, and your team books the job where they always do.
The AI Agent calls inside the call hours you set, and only between 8 AM and 9 PM in the lead's time zone. A lead that lands overnight is called when your hours open. If you run a 24-hour on-call line, keep sending true emergencies there. Our post on after-hours home services leads has more on covering nights.
Or see how the AI Agent works for home services companies in general.
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