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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ROOFING · GATINEAU
AI phone receptionist for roofers in Gatineau
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
Insurance leads are the lifeblood and they don't wait. An adjuster's quote window is usually 72 hours. If you miss the first call, you've usually missed the work too.
When the phone rings and you can't
Hands are on the nail gun. The phone is two stories down on the truck floor.
What Avidra does
Avidra answers your phone, however you've wired it. Live with AI voice, or text-back if the call goes missed, or both running together. The caller gets a real response. You get the captured lead.
The text doesn't replace the human conversation. It buys time for it. You still call back. You still close the job. Avidra just makes sure the lead is warm and the basics about the homeowners are in your inbox before you do.
How Avidra runs both channels
Step 1 · AI picks up live, or texts back if you miss it
Two channels, one number. AI picks up by voice when it can. Otherwise the SMS text-back runs as a backup.
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller on whichever channel they're on
The intake doesn't care if the caller is on voice or text. Same questions, same data captured.
Step 3 · Transfer to you on call, or summary to your phone
If the call goes voice and the caller wants a human, the transfer fires. If it stays on text, the summary lands when intake completes.
Step 4 · The SMS thread stays open after, so they can text follow-ups
Voice call ends. SMS thread stays warm. The caller can text 'one more thing' and the AI picks up the conversation.
Pick a pickup mode
You decide who picks up first. Run the human-first mode: your phone rings, and Avidra only steps in if the call goes unanswered. Or run the AI-first mode: Avidra picks up live and transfers when the caller wants a human. Most shops start human-first because the customer relationship still flows through you. AI-first makes sense once the volume is past what one person can handle.
The Free tier includes both AI voice answering and SMS text-back, so the pickup-mode choice doesn't cost extra.
What Avidra does and doesn't
Avidra answers calls live with AI voice, or texts missed callers back if you'd rather. It runs your intake script. It captures jobs and relays messages to your customers when you ask. What it doesn't do: write your invoices, schedule your techs, replace your dispatcher, or pull customer history from your CRM.
The text won't quote a tear-off. It won't estimate a roof age over the phone. It won't promise an insurance-approved scope. The intake captures enough to triage. The actual roof and the actual quote stay yours, after you've been on the ladder.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a roofing shop your size.
4 calls/week missed$1,200 avg job$4,800 / week$20,800 / month$249,600 / year
73% of homeowners don't leave a voicemail. They call the next roofer on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls roofers in Gatineau actually take
You probably recognize these patterns by now. Ice dam damage showing on a top-floor ceiling after a thaw. Insurance inspection booking after a hail event. Flashing repair around a chimney. Ceiling stain that appeared after last week's storm. Each one is a job you'd close if you could pick up the phone.
After-hours patterns are tighter. The urgency is higher and the timeline is shorter. Tarp call after storm damage, can't wait until morning. Active leak during a rainstorm, water coming through the ceiling. Whoever answers first books it. Everyone else gets the voicemail tone.
What the year looks like
Peak roughly April through October. Storm-driven spikes outside that window. Winter work is mostly emergency repair and tarp jobs.
Most roofers can predict the peaks. The trick is keeping pickup steady through them. Avidra doesn't surge-price during your busy weeks and doesn't go quiet during the slow ones.
How setup actually works
Setup is forwarding plus a script. Your existing business number forwards to Avidra so the AI picks up live calls and catches the ones that ring through to voicemail. You edit the default intake script in both directions. Voice and SMS share the same questions.
Most owners are live the same day. The test is a single call from another phone. The AI answers the call, walks the caller through the intake script, and captures the lead. After that, ring busy and watch the text-back fire.
Why speed matters more than channel
The lead is warm for about five minutes after the call. After that, the caller has scrolled to the next name and most likely already dialed. Email lands too slowly to matter for booking decisions made in that first five minutes. A text-back inside seconds keeps the caller engaged through a short intake while you finish the current job. By the time you call back, the lead is qualified and already expecting your voice.
Common questions
Will it work for storm-chase calls?
Yes. The intake can branch on hail or wind events and capture the storm date for insurance correlation.
Can it pause during off-season?
Yes. By month, by week, or any time you want.
Can it ask if it's single-family or multi-unit?
Yes. Property type and number of stories are standard intake questions.
What does it say about pricing?
Whatever you've approved. Most roofers default to a 'we'll quote on site' line because pricing depends on what's actually up there.
What if a caller wants to schedule a free inspection?
The intake captures the request and gathers address, roof age, and any visible damage. Booking is on you.
Try Avidra on your own number
Run the trial on your own line for two weeks. The first missed call you catch usually pays for the year. Avidra works the same in Gatineau as it does in the busiest market we cover. The intake script changes by trade, the rest stays the same.
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