The promise
If Avidra doesn't recover 3 booked jobs in your first 30 days, I refund everything and disconnect you myself.
No forms. No retention call.
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HVAC · SURREY
After-hours call answering for Surrey HVAC contractors
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You're on top of a rooftop unit when the call comes through. It's the third time this morning. The first two left voicemails that didn't say enough to plan a route around.
A Tuesday in Surrey
Tuesday at 9am you're loading the truck in Surrey. The first call of the day is a new homeowner asking for a tune-up before winter. You're already booked solid by the time it's transcribed and sent back to your inbox. The phone's ringing in the truck cab and you're 14 feet up on a ladder.
The 4pm call is a homeowner whose AC stopped on the hottest day of the year. You can't take it. By 6:30pm there's an after-hours job too, a no heat at 2am in February with kids in the house. Two missed calls, one half-day of revenue, no way to triage from a ladder.
What changes
Avidra answers your phone with AI voice the moment a call lands. The caller hears a real voice. You get a structured lead summary on your phone, the same way a text would arrive.
The Tuesday morning call still happens. You still can't answer mid-job. Now the homeowner gets a text in under five seconds asking the basics. By the time you're back in the truck the lead is qualified and sitting in your inbox.
How you wire it up
Avidra runs two ways. Keep your existing business number and forward to Avidra only when you can't pick up. The caller reaches you first. The AI handles the miss. Or use the Avidra number directly and let AI pick up every call, transferring to you when the caller asks. Most shops start with the first setup. The second works better once you've grown past one person on the phone.
Both pickup modes run on the Free tier. AI voice answering and SMS text-back are included at $0, with 30 voice minutes a month.
What it costs
Free for 14 days. No card to start. Plans after the trial run from a flat monthly rate, not per-call. Most HVAC contractors pay less per month than the value of one recovered job. See the pricing page for current numbers.
Where Avidra stops
Avidra handles the intake call, the back-and-forth qualifying, and the relay messages you ask it to send to your customers. The phone is the part it owns. The work past it stays with you and your existing tools.
The script will disclose your service-call fee if you tell it to, but it won't volunteer a price you haven't approved. It won't diagnose a no-cool by symptom. It won't tell a homeowner whether their compressor is shot. Equipment make and model gets captured. What you do with that information is your call.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a hvac shop your size.
8 calls/week missed$600 avg job$4,800 / week$20,800 / month$249,600 / year
73% of homeowners don't leave a voicemail. They call the next HVAC contractor on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls HVAC contractors in Surrey actually take
You probably recognize these patterns by now. New homeowner asking for a tune-up before winter. Thermostat showing the right temp but no heat coming through. Low refrigerant suspected after a long cooling run. Furnace short-cycling every few minutes. Pick up first and you book the job. Pick up second and you don't.
Off-hours calls run differently. Tighter, more urgent, less willing to wait until morning. No heat at 2am in February with kids in the house. No AC during a heat advisory. The shop that picks up fast keeps the work.
What the year looks like
Two peaks. Heat advisories drive AC emergency calls May through August. Cold snaps and first-frost weeks drive no-heat calls late October through February.
For most HVAC contractors, the call volume isn't flat. You probably already plan staffing and on-call coverage around the peaks. Avidra runs the same in busy season as in slow. No per-call charges, no surge pricing when the inbox gets loud.
Getting Avidra answering your phone
Setup is two minutes. You connect your business number to Avidra, either by porting it or by setting your existing line to ring the Avidra number. The AI picks up from then on. You edit the default intake script to sound like your office, and the first real call uses your voice and your business name.
Most owners are live before lunch on the day they sign up. The honest test is to call your own line and have the AI answer. The questions land. The summary fires. You see the intake on your phone.
Why live pickup beats voicemail
Voicemail is where service leads go to die. A homeowner who hits voicemail at 7pm and gets a callback at 9am has already booked the next name on the list. Avidra picks up live, so the conversation starts in the first ring. By the time the caller would have hung up on voicemail, the AI has already captured the caller's name and address along with the basics of the call. The follow-up callback then lands into a warm conversation, not a cold one.
After-hours and on-the-ground in Surrey
Heat advisories in Surrey bring the AC-emergency wave you already know. Calls come from Cloverdale and from across Surrey. The phone doesn't care about postal codes. Technical Safety BC permits are required for gas appliance install and service. Most contractors carry their gas ticket and pull permits as part of the quote.
Common questions
Can it capture make and model of the equipment?
Yes. The script asks for the equipment make, model, and rough age. The answer is in the lead summary.
Can it book a tune-up appointment automatically?
Booking is on you. The script captures preferred days and times so dispatch is faster.
Will it work for commercial accounts?
Commercial intake is a separate script path. The questions are different and the routing usually goes to a dispatcher, not the field tech.
How does it know my business hours?
You set them once in setup. The script changes after-hours behavior automatically when you're closed.
Can I quote a service call fee in the script?
Yes. The flat trip charge or after-hours rate can be disclosed in the intake message.
Try Avidra on your own number
Start free for 14 days. No card required. Plug your business number in, miss a call on purpose, and see the text fire. Avidra works the same in Surrey as it does in the busiest market we cover. The intake script changes by trade, the rest stays the same.
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