The promise
If Avidra doesn't recover 3 booked jobs in your first 30 days, I refund everything and disconnect you myself.
No forms. No retention call.
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GARAGE DOOR · KAMLOOPS
AI phone receptionist for garage door techs in Kamloops
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
An opener motor's been humming for a week and the homeowner finally booked a call. They want the same-day fix or they'll book someone else. The line went to voicemail.
When the phone rings and you can't
Hands are at the opener motor. The phone is on the truck floor under the seat.
What Avidra does
Avidra answers your phone with AI voice the moment a call lands. The caller hears a real voice. You get a structured lead summary on your phone, the same way a text would arrive.
The text doesn't replace the human conversation. It buys time for it. You still call back. You still close the job. Avidra just makes sure the lead is warm and the basics about the homeowners are in your inbox before you do.
How Avidra answers your calls
Step 1 · AI picks up
Avidra picks up every call the moment it lands. The caller hears a real voice, not a hold-tone or a phone tree.
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller live
Qualifying happens on the call. The caller doesn't have to repeat anything to a human later.
Step 3 · Transfers to you when they ask, or summarizes when they don't
Transfer on request: 'can I talk to Mike?' routes to Mike's cell. No transfer, and the AI wraps the call with the lead captured.
Step 4 · Lead summary lands on your phone
When the call ends, Avidra packages the answers into a short text and sends it to your phone.
How you wire it up
Avidra runs two ways. Keep your existing business number and forward to Avidra only when you can't pick up. The caller reaches you first. The AI handles the miss. Or use the Avidra number directly and let AI pick up every call, transferring to you when the caller asks. Most shops start with the first setup. The second works better once you've grown past one person on the phone.
Both pickup modes run on the Free tier. AI voice answering and SMS text-back are included at $0, with 30 voice minutes a month.
What Avidra does and doesn't
Avidra answers calls live with AI voice, or texts missed callers back if you'd rather. It runs your intake script. It captures jobs and relays messages to your customers when you ask. What it doesn't do: write your invoices, schedule your techs, replace your dispatcher, or pull customer history from your CRM.
The text won't quote a spring. It won't promise a same-day slot. It won't tell a homeowner whether their opener motor is shot or just the capacitor. Door type and approximate age get captured. The diagnosis and the price stay with you.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a garage door shop your size.
7 calls/week missed$250 avg job$1,750 / week$7,583 / month$91,000 / year
73% of homeowners don't leave a voicemail. They call the next garage door tech on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls garage door techs in Kamloops actually take
You probably recognize these patterns by now. Snapped torsion spring with the car stuck inside. Weather seal replacement for a drafty garage. Door off the track after a bumper tap. Broken cable hanging loose on one side. Pick up first and you book the job. Pick up second and you don't.
Off-hours calls run differently. Tighter, more urgent, less willing to wait until morning. Snapped spring trapping a car before an early shift. Door stuck open at 11pm with valuables inside. The shop that picks up fast keeps the work.
What the year looks like
Spring breaks spike during cold snaps when steel contracts. Opener calls spike in summer. Otherwise steady year-round.
For most garage door techs, the call volume isn't flat. You probably already plan staffing and on-call coverage around the peaks. Avidra runs the same in busy season as in slow. No per-call charges, no surge pricing when the inbox gets loud.
Getting Avidra answering your phone
Setup is two minutes. You connect your business number to Avidra, either by porting it or by setting your existing line to ring the Avidra number. The AI picks up from then on. You edit the default intake script to sound like your office, and the first real call uses your voice and your business name.
Most owners are live before lunch on the day they sign up. The honest test is to call your own line and have the AI answer. The questions land. The summary fires. You see the intake on your phone.
Why live pickup beats voicemail
Voicemail is where service leads go to die. A homeowner who hits voicemail at 7pm and gets a callback at 9am has already booked the next name on the list. Avidra picks up live, so the conversation starts in the first ring. By the time the caller would have hung up on voicemail, the AI has already captured the caller's name and address along with the basics of the call. The follow-up callback then lands into a warm conversation, not a cold one.
Common questions
Will it know if my service area excludes a caller?
Yes. Out-of-area requests get a polite 'we don't service that postal code' response with no callback promise.
What about opener motor calls?
Opener-motor calls are flagged and the intake captures the symptoms (humming, no movement, intermittent).
Does it handle commercial overhead doors?
Yes. Commercial intake is a separate script that captures door type, opening size, and access constraints.
Can it handle a stuck-open door at night?
Yes. The after-hours script for emergencies acknowledges the situation and offers a callback or a next-morning slot.
Will it triage a same-day request?
Yes. The intake flags same-day urgency and pushes the lead summary to the top of your inbox.
Try Avidra on your own number
Two minutes of setup. Fourteen days free. Cancel if you don't see leads land that you would have lost. No card up front. Avidra works the same in Kamloops as it does in the busiest market we cover. The intake script changes by trade, the rest stays the same.
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