Wakeman

AI answering service for plumbers, HVAC & electricians. Answers the calls you miss, gets the details and texts you the job. 14 days free.

[Wakeman @wakeman_ai]

Missed a call, called back an hour later? To your customer you're the unknown caller now, and newer iPhones can screen you before it even rings. Do you call back missed numbers? https://t.co/qHXODkXhyi

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Ice doesn't burst your pipes. The trapped water between the ice and the closed tap does, often where there's no ice at all. Ever had one burst? https://t.co/E6OEOJVSkO

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In 2010 you could watch the Olympic hockey final in Edmonton's water pipes: flat during play, a spike every intermission, the biggest after the overtime goal. Would your town's graph spike? https://t.co/nmKUasGepI

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1:05 a.m. A plumbing call: sewage is backing up into the downstairs shower.

Wakeman rings your on-call phone mid-call and takes the details down.

Same night, a water heater weeping a little goes on the morning list.

Water isn't the test. What's in it is. #Plumbing

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AI already phones businesses for people (Google tested it in 2025: oil changes, brakes, nails). It won't leave a voicemail; it calls the next shop. Would you let an AI make your calls? https://t.co/ZCTQIujfdC

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An undertaker invented the automatic phone exchange because (as the story goes) the operator kept sending his customers to her husband, his rival. Spite or genius? https://t.co/Giqrl1B151

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Bell wanted phones answered with "Ahoy!". Edison pushed "hello" and won. Nearly half of calls to home-service shops still never hear it. Ahoy or hello? https://t.co/Ws6rJFTeiT

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Ask your own answering service for a Thursday morning slot, the way a customer would. Write down every time it offers.

Booking in Wakeman stays switched off until you turn it on, so you read that list first.

Better you find the bad slot than a customer does.

[Wakeman @wakeman_ai]

An account can't go live without a reachable on-call contact.

Gas, sparks, water near electrics: Wakeman rings that phone while the caller is still talking. It gives the safety steps written in advance.

A call to a tech can fail. Still better than ringing nothing.

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8:50 p.m. A caller wants to ask about a maintenance plan.

That one is routine. No phone rings, nobody gets woken. Wakeman takes it down and it waits for the morning.

Your on-call tech keeps the night for the calls that earn it. #HVAC

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SearchLight's April 2026 roofing report puts one call or message from a Google ad at about $379 of paid work.

Ten contractors, so it's a small sample. Treat it as rough.

Rough still beats what voicemail brings back on a Saturday. #Roofing

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After Hours is $149 a month, with 300 minutes included, then $0.59 a minute.

That last rate is the overage. It's what a minute costs once the included 300 are used up, and you can read it before you ever sign up.

Nothing clever hiding behind the word.

[Wakeman @wakeman_ai]

Type your number. Hear your shop answer.

Put your business number into https://t.co/zHUACa3j8z and in about a minute you'll hear a sample call answered in your shop's name. Free, no card.

Shown: our test shop, fictional number.

https://t.co/62IMU31B4K

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6:40 p.m., Friday. Last job of the week, phone face down in the truck.

A caller wants a quote for a panel upgrade. With booking on, Wakeman takes it and offers a time from the list you set.

Monday's work, picked up on a Friday night. #Electrician

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Returning callers get recognized by their phone number alone. No voiceprint is ever created or stored.

So a caller on a different phone comes through as new. That's the trade, and we'll take it.

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Four calls at 2am. Only one should wake you.

Wakeman answers in your shop's name. The robocall is never billed, the quote request is texted for morning, and for the burst pipe it tries your on-call phone.

Demo: [phone]. 14 days free, no card: https://t.co/NpJ9Xr9LZl

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Hard freeze overnight. By 6 a.m. it's all restoration work: burst supply lines, water through two floors, basements to pump out.

Wakeman handles several calls at the same time, but not an unlimited number. Tell us before storm season and we'll raise that limit and test it.

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Google starts charging for some missed Local Services Ads calls during open hours on October 1.

Who catches those at your shop today?

Whoever's free in the office. The tech on call. An answering service. Or nobody, and you find out on the bill. #Contractors