AI receptionist for builders in Stoke-on-Trent
A Stoke-on-Trent building company lets roughly 24 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 01782 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.
- Keeps your 01782 number
- Answers on the first ring
- No per minute fees
- Live in 24 hours
Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.
What the phone looks like for a Stoke-on-Trent building company
Stoke-on-Trent and the wider Staffordshire has a population of around 370,000, built on ceramics, logistics and a large base of family run trades. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a building company working across Hanley, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Longton most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
An extension enquiry is worth tens of thousands and the homeowner is ringing three builders the same evening.
Callwise answers on your own 01782 number. Customers ring the number they already have, it is answered on the first ring by something that sounds like a person, and the job is booked into your diary before the caller has thought about trying anybody else.
When Stoke-on-Trent calls go unanswered
- every hour you are on site with machinery running
- evenings, when homeowners ring after work
- weekends, when couples decide to go ahead
What Stoke-on-Trent callers want
- extensions and loft conversions
- quotes for renovation work
- when you could start on a job
What a Stoke-on-Trent building company loses to the phone
£144,000
a month, at one site
Around 24 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £4,200 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for Stoke-on-Trent building companies
Answers over site noise
Takes the project type, size and timescale
Books site visits into your diary
Screens out the tyre kickers before you drive anywhere
Stoke-on-Trent building companies ask us
Do we keep our 01782 number?
Yes. Your existing 01782 number stays exactly as it is and keeps ringing your phones. Calls only reach the assistant when nobody picks up, or at the hours you choose, so nothing about how Stoke-on-Trent customers reach you changes.
Do you work with building companies outside Stoke-on-Trent?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Stoke-on-Trent and everywhere across Staffordshire is covered the same way, along with the rest of the UK. The local part is your number and your customers, and both stay yours.
Our jobs are big. Is a phone answering service really the issue?
The bigger the job the worse a missed call is. One extension is worth more than a year of this, and homeowners ring three builders in an evening.
Can it screen enquiries?
Yes. It asks your qualifying questions, budget, timescale and whether there are drawings, so you only drive out to jobs worth quoting.
Will it commit us to a start date?
Never. It books a site visit and says clearly that dates come after you have seen the job.
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a Stoke-on-Trent customer would ask. It is the same assistant your callers would get, so if it does not convince you on the phone it will not convince them either.
Talk to our AI assistantNo form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.