Your phone,
answered.
Every time.

We run a 24/7 front desk for mountain trades. It picks up in about a second, asks the questions you'd ask, and puts the caller's name, number, and job in your hand — before they can dial the next name on the list. A computer answers, and it never pretends otherwise.

$500 setup · $149 a month — 300 minutes of calls included. The whole price is printed on this page.

Built and run by Owen Kremer in Murphy, North Carolina. That phone number is real: (828) 576‑3029 is the working line it answers today for SK Paving, our family's paving company in Murphy. Call it and you'll hear exactly what your callers would. No stock reviews, no invented stats — every number on this page is true, and that one you can check with a phone call.
CALL RECORD № 0019 · JUL 18 · 11:12 PM
DESKThanks for calling SK Paving! This is Sadie — how can I help?
CALLERI was wondering how much you do paving for.
DESKIt depends on the job, so we don't quote over the phone — but the on-site estimate is free. Can I get your name?
CALLERIt's O•••.
DESKThanks O••• — best number to reach you?
CALLER828-541-••••. I'm in Andrews.
DESKPerfect — you're all set. Scott will call you back shortly.
NAME
O••• masked here
CALLBACK
828-541-•••• masked here
TOWN
Andrews, NC — in service area
OWNER
notified 11:13 PM

Real call record. We mask the caller's name and digits on this page — you see both in full in your own portal.

Lead captured

Answers in about a second, around the clock. Every call recorded, logged and reviewed. And if it doesn't earn its keep:The first month is free if it catches nothing.

No long contractsMonth to month. Cancel whenever it stops being worth it — we'd rather lose the month than argue about it.

Hours of the week a Monday-to-Friday shop covers A grid of the week's 168 hours, seven days across by twenty-four hours down. The 45 hours of typical shop hours — nine to six, Monday to Friday — are marked as covered. The remaining 123 hours — evenings, nights and both weekend days — are not. MTWTFSS 00061218
45 hours a 9-to-6 shop week covers 123 hours it doesn't

What happens when your phone rings

You're on a roof, under a truck, or elbow-deep in a crawlspace when it rings. That's the call you can't take — and the one somebody else answers.

STEP 1

Your phone rings first

Nothing changes about your number. You're the first to pick up — the desk only steps in when you can't.

STEP 2

The desk picks up

On a job, after hours, hands full — it answers in about a second. And it talks like a person who knows your trade.

STEP 3

It asks your questions

Name, number, town, what's wrong, how urgent. It never quotes a price and never pretends to be human.

STEP 4

You get the ticket

The lead is in your hand seconds after the call. Emergencies ring straight through to you.

How a call is routed A caller rings your own number first. If you pick up, the call is yours and nothing else happens. If it goes unanswered, the front desk answers, captures the job, and the lead lands both in your hand and in your portal. Caller Your number rings first, always Front desk only if you can't In your hand name · number · the job Your portal every call, kept unanswered
If you answer, it stays your call — the desk never gets it.

Sample alert — the format is exactly what lands in your hand.

It lands in your pocket
before they hang up

No app to check, no dashboard to remember. The desk answers, asks your questions, and the lead is in your hand seconds after the call — name, number, town, and the job. Everything it captures also stacks up in a portal you can open any time.

The client portal: leads captured, chats handled, calls and messages, bookings, upcoming estimates with customer names and phone numbers, and follow-ups ready to send.

A real portal — this one's a preview install running on sample data, so no customer's details are on display.

The price, printed

Most national outfits selling this make you book a sales call to hear a number. Here's ours, on the page, in writing — the same card we'd hand you across a kitchen table.

Minutes only count when the desk is actually talking to a caller. Most one-crew businesses never touch the 300 — and if nobody calls you at all, the first month costs nothing. That's the guarantee up top.

RATE CARD GOOD IN WRITING · 2026
Setup — wiring, greeting, go-live$500 one-time
Front Desk — 24/7, 300 min included$149 / mo
Your dedicated number$5 / mo
Talk past 300 minutes30¢ / min
First month, if it catches nothingFree

Month to month, cancel any time. Growth and Get Found add-ons are quoted per business — after the demo, in writing, on a card like this one.

Everything on the ticket

Seventeen pieces, one system — installed and managed for you.
No nickel-and-diming per feature, no setup you have to do yourself.

Show what's in
Answer & capture5 things
24/7 voice receptionistEvery call answered in about a second — nights, weekends, while you're up a ladder.FRONT DESK ✓
Website chat receptionistThe same desk as a chat bubble on your site — two lines of code.ALL PLANS ✓
Missed-call rescueCaller hangs up? The desk reaches back out in seconds and the conversation continues.ALL PLANS ✓
Two-way message inboxMessage with customers from one place — nothing lives only in your pocket.ALL PLANS ✓
Instant lead alertsName, number, what they need — in your pocket before the caller hangs up.ALL PLANS ✓
Book & follow up4 things
Estimate bookingQualified callers land on your calendar with everything you need to show up ready.ALL PLANS ✓
Automatic follow-upNo lead goes cold — polite nudges until they book or say no.ALL PLANS ✓
Old-customer win-backYour past customer list, re-engaged the right way — steady, never spammy.GROWTH ✓
Quotes & depositsEstimate to quote to paid deposit — through your own Stripe or Square. We never hold your money.GROWTH ✓
Get found & prove it8 things
Custom websiteMulti-page, your brand, your services — and you own the files outright.GET FOUND ✓
Local town pagesA page for every town you serve, built to rank where your customers search.GET FOUND ✓
Google review funnelEvery finished job asks for the review — unhappy customers reach you first, honestly and by the rules.ALL PLANS ✓
CRM & pipelineEvery lead tracked from first call to won job — nothing falls through.ALL PLANS ✓
Works with your toolsLeads pushed straight into your Jobber, Housecall Pro, or whatever you already run.GROWTH ✓
Your portalLeads, bookings, reviews, and reports — one link, always current.ALL PLANS ✓
Recovered Revenue ReportWeekly proof: calls caught, jobs booked, dollars recovered vs. what you pay.ALL PLANS ✓
Line monitoringAutomatic health checks on the line, every call quality-reviewed. We know before you do.ALL PLANS ✓
Set up & run for youWe install it, wire it to your number and your site, and keep it running. You press send.$500 + $149/mo

What it won't do

Every vendor sends you a list of what their thing does. Here's the other list — the one you'd find out about in month two.

It won't quote a price.Not a range, not a ballpark, not "starting at." Pricing is yours. It books the estimate and gets out of the way.
It won't pretend to be a person.Asked straight out, it says it's the assistant. We'd rather lose a caller than start you off with a lie.
It won't send anything you didn't read.Every message sits as a draft until your thumb sends it. No campaigns running behind your back.
It won't replace you on a hard call.Angry, complicated, or urgent goes straight to your phone. It knows the edge of what it can handle.
It won't fix a bad number.If nobody is calling you, this catches nothing — and the first month is free, so you find that out on our dime, not yours.

Don't take our word for it — work the desk yourself

Pick a trade, then talk to it like a customer would — try "my AC is out" or "I need my driveway done." Watch the ticket fill itself in.

The same desk that answers the phone. No signup, no credit card — nothing you type is saved.

Call record № —— · awaiting call
Name
Callback
Town
Job

Start the conversation and this fills itself in — the same four lines that reach your phone before the caller hangs up.

We ran it on our own family's business first

Before this was for sale, we installed the whole system on a working paving company in Murphy — SK Paving, our dad's outfit — and left it answering the phone. Real callers, real jobs, real mistakes found and fixed. It earned the right to answer someone else's phone by answering ours.

Hear it live, right now (828) 576‑3029

That's the working line it answers for SK Paving today. It's a real business's phone, so it'll treat you like a customer — which is exactly the point.

A live line, answered daily

Not a lab demo — a working business number the desk covers right now. The number's printed on the left; dial it.

Every call reviewed

Recorded, transcribed, quality-checked. The misses get fixed the same week.

Hard rules it can't break

Never quotes a price. Never claims to be human. Emergencies go straight to the owner.

If it ever breaks, your phone still rings

A dead system can't cost you a job: if ours goes down, calls fall straight through to your own phone. We built that failover before we built the sales page.

What happens if the system goes down Normally a caller reaches the phone network, the front desk answers, and the lead is captured. If the desk is unreachable, the network falls the call straight through to your own phone, exactly as it rang before us. Caller Phone network Front desk Lead captured Your own phone rings if the desk is unreachable
The fallback lives at the phone network, not on our server — so it still works on the day our server is the thing that broke.
From the call review logSK PAVING LINE
CAUGHT · JUL 15

Asked for a callback number, a caller gave “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8” — and the desk still closed with “Scott will call you soon.” A promise with no real number behind it.

FIXED · JUL 19

Now a rule it can't break: no callback promise until it holds a full 10-digit number. A regression test keeps it fixed — and every new install inherits the rule.

“Every call reviewed” should cost us something to say. This is what it costs.

Reserved: our first client review

When a paying client has something to say about us, their words go here — with a real name and town on them. Until then this frame stays empty. No stock faces, no invented quotes.

Straight answers

The five things owners actually ask us — answered here the same way we answer them in person.

I don't want a robot talking to my customers

Neither do we — that's why it's allowed to do so little. It handles intake only: name, number, town, what's wrong, how urgent. It never quotes a price, never promises a date, and never claims to be human. Everything a customer should hear from you still comes from you.

And nothing changes about your number — you're still first to pick up; the desk only steps in when you can't. Work it yourself in the demo — if it says one thing you wouldn't, tell us.

What does it actually cost?

It's printed on this page: $500 one-time setup, then $149 a month with 300 minutes of calls included. Your dedicated number is $5 a month, and talk past 300 minutes is 30¢ a minute. That's the whole list — the rate card is up there in writing.

No long contract. Month to month, and the first month is free if it catches nothing — the same promise printed at the top of this page.

Voicemail already catches my missed calls

Voicemail asks the caller to do the work: wait for the beep, describe the job to a machine, and hope. A caller with a burst pipe doesn't hope — they hang up and dial the next name. The desk answers in about a second, asks your questions, and the lead is in your hand seconds after the call.

If what you have today is genuinely getting names and numbers back to you, keep it — we'd tell you the same thing to your face.

What if it breaks — or says something it shouldn't?

It runs on hard rules it can't break: never quote a price, never claim to be human, and anything urgent rings straight through to your cell. Every call is recorded, transcribed, and reviewed — when it fumbles one, that miss gets fixed the same week.

A dead system can't cost you a job. If ours ever goes down, calls fall straight through to your own phone, exactly as they did before us. That failover existed before this website did.

How do I know it's actually working?

This isn't ads or SEO, where you pay for six months and squint at a report. From the first week, every answered call sits in your portal with a name, a number, and what the job was.

Then the Recovered Revenue Report lands every week: calls caught, jobs booked, dollars recovered — next to what you pay us. You're not reading a marketing report; you're counting phone numbers. The day the math stops working, cancel.

We'll build yours before you pay a dime

Tell us your trade and your town. You'll get a working demo of your own front desk — answering as your business — before any decision, any contract, any dollar. The demo costs you nothing. The calls you're missing already do. We're local: Murphy, Hayesville, Blairsville, and the mountains around them.