You cannot answer the phone from under a sink.
Every call answered while you are on the tools, including bank holidays. Prime Assist triages the fault, books the job into your scheduler with postcode and access notes, and pages the on-call engineer.
- Emergency triage
- Job booked with postcode and access notes
- 24/7 including bank holidays
- Engineer paged automatically
There is water coming through the kitchen ceiling.
Let us stop the damage first. Can you reach the stopcock, usually under the kitchen sink, and turn it clockwise?
Done, it is slowing.
Good. I have logged this as an emergency callout and paged the on-call engineer. He is 25 minutes away and you will get his ETA by text.
Can an AI receptionist answer calls for a plumbing or electrical business?
Yes, and it is one of the strongest fits. Prime Assist answers every call while your engineers are on the tools, asks the triage questions you define to separate a genuine emergency from routine work, gives the caller the immediate make-safe instruction you have approved, books the job into your scheduling system with postcode and access details, and pages the on-call engineer. It works at 2am on a bank holiday, which is exactly when leaks and outages happen.
Every call a trades business gets, sorted by your own rules.
Your triage script, your rates, your coverage area, your on-call rota.
Emergency triage
Leak, no heat, no power, gas smell. Asks your questions, gives your approved make-safe instruction and escalates immediately.
Routine job booking
Services, installs and repairs booked into a real slot with the postcode, parking and access notes captured.
Quotes and callout rates
Quotes from your published price list only. Anything bespoke becomes a survey booking, not a guess.
Out of area calls
Checks the postcode against your coverage and declines politely rather than wasting a van.
Job updates and ETAs
Tells the customer where the engineer is up to and texts a revised window if the day slips.
Landlord and agent work
Handles repeat instructions from agents, references the property and logs the job against the right account.
Where it hands over. Gas smells, carbon monoxide, electrical burning, anything with an injury or a vulnerable occupant: immediate escalation to your on-call number, plus the caller is given the emergency instruction you have signed off. It never improvises safety advice.
The busiest tradespeople miss the most calls. That is the trap.
07:50
On the tools by eight
You are already under a floor. Six calls will come in before lunch and all six will go to voicemail.
12:30
The customer who does not leave a message
Most people calling about a leak do not leave a voicemail. They call the next result on the page.
21:45
After-hours emergencies
The highest-value work arrives when nobody is at a desk, and it goes to whoever answers.
A six-van plumbing and heating firm.*
BEFORE
- Calls answered when someone can get to the phone, often not at all
- Emergencies and routine work arrive in the same voicemail box
- Job details re-keyed into the scheduler in the evening
- Out-of-hours work lost to whoever answers first
AFTER PRIME ASSIST
- Every call answered live, triaged and categorised on the spot
- Emergencies paged straight to the on-call engineer with the make-safe done
- Jobs land in the scheduler with postcode, access and fault notes
- Owner stops doing dispatch from the driver seat
24/7
line coverage
Nights, weekends and bank holidays answered live
One call
to a booked job
Routine calls booked without a human touching them
Every
emergency triaged against your own thresholds
Your thresholds, applied the same way on every call
Model your own numbers on the calculator, or read every sector scenario side by side on the example scenarios page.
Illustrative scenario, not a customer result. Modelled on a firm taking 40 to 60 inbound calls a day across six engineers, with calls diverting to the owner mobile. Figures are worked examples, not measured results.
Into your scheduler, not onto a notepad.
The job, the address, the access notes and the fault description land in the system your engineers already look at.
Confirm your own tools before launch: anything with an API or a Zapier connector is in scope. All integrations
Built for healthcare first. Pointed at the phone in your van.
A leak at 2am and a patient at 8am need the same thing: a line that answers, triage that follows a script, and a fast, defined route to a human. We built the healthcare version first.
Defined escalation
It knows the edge of its remit and crosses to a human instead of guessing.
Audit trail as standard
Transcript, timestamps and actions on every call. Useful when a caller disputes what was said.
Writes into your system
Not an email you re-key. The outcome lands where your team already works.
UK-built, UK or EU hosted
A UK or EU processing region, committed by contract, and it understands UK accents, postcodes and dates.
Compare against answering services, IVR and in-house reception
Questions from trades businesses.
Ask us something elseCan it tell a real emergency from a routine job?
It asks the triage questions you define and applies your rules. Genuine emergencies are escalated and paged immediately, routine work is booked into a slot. You set the thresholds, not us.
Will it give safety advice like turning off the stopcock?
Only the specific instructions you have approved and signed off, word for word. It never improvises safety guidance, and anything involving gas, fire or injury is escalated instantly.
Can it quote?
It quotes from your published price list and callout rates. Anything bespoke is turned into a survey or a callback from your team rather than a made-up number.
Does it know our coverage area?
Yes. It checks the postcode against the area you serve and declines out-of-area work politely, or takes details for a partner firm if you prefer.
What about landlords and letting agents who call constantly?
Repeat instructing accounts are recognised, the property is referenced and the job is logged against the right account with the right charging rules.
We are two people in a van. Is this overkill?
No. A small team is the one most often on the tools when the phone rings, so every answered call counts. Every deployment is quoted individually, and you get the price on your demo call.
Three ways to test us. Only one of them involves talking to a human.
Buying voice AI on a slide deck is how people end up with something that fails on the first awkward caller. So we made the product itself the easiest thing to try, and put the commitment in your hands rather than ours.
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- DCB0129 safety case
- UK or EU processing region
- No minimum term
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