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Every Electrical Emergency Answered in Seconds

AI agents and licensed-electrician-trained specialists handle urgent calls, schedule inspections, and capture new project leads in 65+ languages around the clock.

The short version: AI voice is $0.15 a minute and live agents start at $300 a month for 500 minutes. AI handles quotes, service-area and scheduled work; a person handles burning smells, sparking and hot outlets — because the first sentence on those calls is a safety instruction, not a booking. We integrate with ServiceTitan and Jobber.

A technician working inside an electrical control panel

how it plays out

A caller who can smell something burning.

Phone English

"Half my house lost power and the breaker won't reset"

Partial power loss requiring urgent diagnosis

  1. AI answers immediately, confirms address and safety status
  2. Walks caller through checking main panel and identifying tripped breakers
  3. Determines potential wiring fault, advises not to force breaker
  4. Dispatches emergency electrician with estimated arrival time
Emergency dispatched Safety First
Web Chat Spanish

"Necesito actualizar mi panel electrico de 100 a 200 amperios"

Panel upgrade inquiry for older home

  1. AI responds in Spanish, explains panel upgrade process and timeline
  2. Asks about current electrical needs and planned additions
  3. Offers free on-site assessment with licensed electrician
  4. Books consultation and sends prep checklist via email
Assessment booked Upgrade Project Lead
SMS Vietnamese

"outlet sparking when I plug things in"

Potentially dangerous outlet reported via text

  1. AI responds in Vietnamese, asks which outlet and if there is burning smell
  2. Advises to stop using outlet immediately and unplug all devices
  3. Flags as urgent safety issue for priority scheduling
  4. Confirms same-day emergency appointment with technician details
Safety visit booked Hazard Resolved
Email English

"We need EV charger installation for our new Tesla"

EV charger installation request from homeowner

  1. AI confirms EV charger installation services and supported brands
  2. Asks about electrical panel capacity and garage layout
  3. Provides estimate range and explains permit requirements
  4. Schedules site survey and adds lead to project pipeline
Survey scheduled New Project Lead

the team behind it

Who tells them to stay out of the panel.

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Electrical-Trained Specialists

  • Emergency triage for power outages, sparking outlets, and electrical hazards
  • Panel upgrade and EV charger installation consultations with permit guidance
  • Inspection scheduling for code compliance, home sales, and renovations

65+ Languages

  • Native-speaking agents in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and 60+ more
  • Real-time AI translation for rare language pairs
  • Cultural context training for every market we serve

Follow-the-Sun Coverage

  • Operation centres in Canada, Bolivia, Nicaragua, the Philippines and China
  • Smooth handoff between time zones with shared context
  • Holiday and weekend coverage without overtime costs

the part nobody prices in

Half your emergency calls can wait. The other half are a fire that has not started yet.

Electrical calls arrive sounding identical and are not. A tripped breaker is an inconvenience — annoying, schedulable, and usually fixed by the homeowner before you arrive. A burning smell from a panel is a fire in progress that has not found enough fuel yet.

The caller cannot tell you which one they have, because from the inside both are "my power is doing something weird". Sorting them is judgment, and it is judgment with an asymmetric cost: send a truck at midnight for a tripped GFCI and you lose a few hundred dollars; treat a hot panel as routine and the number is a house.

So the first thing that call needs is not a booking. It is somebody saying: stop using that outlet, do not open the panel, and if you can smell burning, turn off the main and call us back from outside. A person says that. Automation offers the next available appointment.

what it costs

Published rates, so you can do the arithmetic first.

Most vendors in this category quote by form. These are our published packages — not a quote, since language mix, hours and volume all move the number. The per-minute figures are simply the monthly price divided by the included minutes.

OptionPublished pricePer minuteWhat it's for
AI voice $0.15 per minute Quotes, service-area checks, callout fees, scheduled work booking
Web chat $0.05 per session Website enquiries while you are in a crawl space
Live shared team from $300 / month includes 500 min → ≈ $0.60/min After-hours cover so a burning smell reaches a person, not a machine
Live shared team from $650 / month includes 1,500 min → ≈ $0.43/min Storm weeks and the outage aftermath
Dedicated agent from $5.80 per hour, per agent Your safety script, your escalation rules, one team that knows your routes

Anything involving a person is a starting price. Two things move it: which languages you need, and how senior an agent the work actually requires — a bilingual agent handling refund authority is not the same hire as one taking bookings. AI voice and web chat are flat, because there is no hiring in them. And every model above is open to every business on this page: which one fits is a question about the shape of your volume, not about your industry.

Minimum engagement is half a seat — not a five-seat block. We also bill per resolved issue, from $1, where you pay nothing if it is not resolved; that model fits businesses where a customer problem actually gets solved on the call, not businesses where the call is intake.

who takes which call

Route by the cost of getting it wrong.

Most vendors sell you either an AI receptionist or a live answering service and leave the allocation to you. Since we run both, here is the split we would actually recommend — including the calls we think should never touch automation.

The callRoute toCost of getting it wrong
"What do you charge for a callout?" AI A lost quote
Booking a panel upgrade or an EV charger install AI An annoyed customer
"Do you service my area?" AI A lost lead
"Something smells like it is burning" Human A fire that has not started yet
A sparking outlet or a warm switch plate Human A safety call treated as scheduling
A caller about to open the panel themselves Human Somebody getting hurt while you were being efficient

setup

Five days to put the right person on it.

Five days is our normal window to staff a live account — that is five days to find and place an agent who fits your business, not five days of software setup. AI voice can go live sooner because there is no hiring step.

your existing software

It lands in the system you already run.

We integrate with Jobber, ServiceTitan and Skimmer, so a booking taken at 9pm on a Sunday is on the schedule before your first truck moves Monday morning, with the intake notes attached to the job. If you run something else, tell us what it is and we will tell you straight whether we connect to it today or whether it needs building.

your existing software

It lands in the software you already run.

  • Jobber
  • ServiceTitan

Running something else? Tell us what it is and we will say straight whether we connect to it today or whether it needs building.

what comes off the call

What your on-call electrician gets before they load the van.

Electrical dispatch fails when the van arrives without the right breaker, or arrives at all for something that was not urgent. These come off every call:

  • Name, callback number and service address
  • What is happening: no power, partial power, tripping, flickering, sparking, buzzing, burning smell
  • Whether it is the whole property, one circuit, or one outlet
  • Any smell of burning, visible scorching, or a warm outlet or switch plate — the stop-now list
  • Panel brand and approximate age if they can see it — and whether it is a known problem brand
  • What changed recently: new appliance, storm, water intrusion, renovation work
  • Whether they have already reset the breaker and whether it held
  • Whether anyone is on medical equipment that needs power

It lands in ServiceTitan or Jobber as a job with the notes attached. The burning-smell and warm-outlet fields are the two that change tonight into now.

where AI should not be

The calls we will not put a bot on.

Any smell of burning

This is the call the whole service exists for. A person gives your safety instruction — stop using it, do not open the panel, kill the main if you can do it safely — and reaches you immediately. There is no version of this that belongs in a queue.

Sparking, arcing or a hot outlet

A warm switch plate or an outlet that sparks when something is plugged in is not a scheduling problem. A person recognises what the caller is describing even when they use the wrong words for it.

A caller planning to open the panel

A meaningful share of callers describe the problem while explaining what they are about to try. Somebody has to say do not — clearly, before the conversation moves on.

Anything with water and electricity together

A flooded basement with live circuits, a leak into a fixture, water near a panel. A person handles the sequencing — power off first, then anything else — and gets you on the phone.

when we're the wrong choice

Three cases where you should hire someone else.

  • You want technical troubleshooting over the phone. Our agents give your safety instructions and collect symptoms. They do not diagnose, do not talk anybody through a repair, and do not estimate what is wrong. That is deliberate — a confident wrong answer about electricity is worse than no answer.
  • You want someone licensed answering. Agents follow your protocol; they are not electricians. If your work requires a licensed person assessing every emergency call, that is a member of your team on rotation.
  • You only do scheduled commercial and new construction. If you do not take emergency residential calls, most of this page does not apply. Take the AI tier at $0.15 a minute for quotes and scheduling and skip the rest.

questions

What buyers ask before they sign.

How much does it cost?

AI voice is $0.15 per minute and web chat is $0.05 per session. Live agents start at $300 per month including 500 minutes — about $0.60 per minute — or from $5.80 per hour for a dedicated agent working only your account. The minimum engagement is half a seat, not a five-seat block.

How fast can you start answering our phones?

Five days is our normal window to staff a live account — that is five days to find and place an agent who fits your business, not five days of software setup. AI voice can go live sooner because there is no hiring step.

Do you answer in Spanish?

Yes, on the same number, with agents in our Bolivia and Nicaragua operation centres — native Spanish, not machine translation. English and Spanish share one queue, and we cover 60+ more languages if you need them.

Can I mix AI and live agents on one number?

That is the normal setup. You decide which call types go to AI and which reach a person, and you can change the split as your volume changes. Nothing about that decision is locked in at signup.

Will your agents give safety instructions?

Yes, from your script — stop using the outlet, do not open the panel, turn off the main and call back from outside if there is a burning smell. We do not improvise electrical advice and we do not diagnose. If you would rather we simply dispatch and say nothing beyond that, tell us and we will.

Can you tell an emergency from a tripped breaker?

We apply your rules, which is the point. You define what qualifies for a night callout — burning smells, sparking, warm outlets, water and power together, medical equipment on the circuit — and what waits until morning. We follow your list and log every call so you can check afterwards whether the threshold is right.

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