The job takes both hands.
The phone still rings.
Electrician, garage door, appliance repair, pest control, roofing, cleaning, auto repair — TheKeyBot answers every call 24/7 in English and Spanish, takes the full details, and puts the message on your phone before you finish what you are doing.
Try it on your own phone
Type your business name, and 30 seconds later YOUR phone rings with your own AI receptionist.
No signup.
Where service businesses actually lose jobs
It is never the work — it is the calls that ring out while you are doing the work.
You are on the job, not by the phone
Hands full, on a ladder, under a sink, in a crawlspace. The call goes to voicemail, and roughly 80% of callers will not leave one — they dial the next company on the list.
After hours is when the emergencies call
Nights, weekends and holidays are when people discover the problem. An answering machine is not an answer, and a service reading a generic script does not know what you actually do.
Spanish-speaking customers hang up
If nobody takes the call in Spanish, that customer calls someone who will. Your AI handles the whole call in Spanish — and switches mid-call — at no extra cost.
Estimates and repeat customers slip away
A callback that comes too late is the same as no callback. Every message lands on your phone with the details you need to call back and close.
Wondering what those missed calls add up to? Run the missed-call cost calculator →
What happens on every call
- 1
Answers on the first ring
Any hour, in English or Spanish — nights, weekends and holidays included.
- 2
Knows your services
It only says yes to the services you configured, and takes a message for anything else instead of guessing.
- 3
Takes the real details
What the job is, the address or nearest landmark, and a confirmed callback number — read back by the last four digits.
- 4
Flags what matters
Safety emergencies and complaints are marked so they stand out the moment they hit your phone.
- 5
You get it in seconds
The message plus the call recording arrive right after the caller hangs up. You call back and close.
Start simple. Upgrade when you’re ready.
KeyBot Lite
24/7 message-taking — never miss a caller
100 calls included · 50¢/min after · first 5 answered calls free
No contract · cancel anytime
Full platform
Quoting, booking, dispatch, payments
14-day free trial
TheKeyBot vs. a human answering service vs. voicemail
| Feature | For your service business | Human answering service | Voicemail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Answer speed | First ring, 24/7 — nights, weekends, holidays | Depends on staffing — hold queues at peak times | Never answers — callers hear a beep |
| Simultaneous calls | Every caller answered at once | One agent, one caller — everyone else waits | No conversation at all |
| English + Spanish | Both, on every call — switches mid-call | Often English-only, or an upcharge | |
| Knows your service list | Answers only for the services you configured, in your words | Reads back a generic message script | |
| Emergency + complaint triage | Life-safety calls told to dial 911 first, then flagged urgent to you | Depends entirely on the agent | |
| States your confirmed prices | Yes — the exact prices you confirmed from your rate sheet | Takes a message and promises a callback | |
| Recording + transcript | Every call, searchable in your dashboard | Rarely included | Audio only — if the caller leaves one |
| Monthly cost | From $149 | $300–800+ | $0 — but ~80% of callers hang up on voicemail |
AI receptionist for service businesses — FAQ
My trade is not on your list — will it still work?▾
Can it tell callers my prices?▾
Do I have to change my phone number?▾
What does it do with an emergency call?▾
Will my customers know it is an AI?▾
How much does it cost and how fast can I start?▾
What happens when the AI does not know the answer?▾
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Stop losing the calls you cannot answer.
Hear it answer as your business first — then start for $149/mo with your first 5 calls on us.
