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 · PICKERING
What a missed call costs a Pickering garage door shop
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
The torsion spring snapped at 6:45am, the car is stuck inside, and the homeowner needs to leave for work in twenty minutes. They called four shops in Pickering. You were one of them.
What Avidra does
Avidra answers your phone, however you've wired it. Live with AI voice, or text-back if the call goes missed, or both running together. The caller gets a real response. You get the captured lead.
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.
Where the math breaks even
Break-even is one recovered job a month for almost every plan tier. If Avidra catches one garage door lead in the trial that would have gone to voicemail, you're already ahead on the year. The trial period is 14 days, so the math has the chance to prove itself before you're paying.
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.
Free tier includes both. AI voice and SMS text-back are both in the $0 floor, so neither pickup mode costs extra.
Where Avidra stops
Avidra handles the intake call, the back-and-forth qualifying, and the relay messages you ask it to send to your customers. The phone is the part it owns. The work past it stays with you and your existing tools.
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 Pickering actually take
The calls that land most often go something like this. Door off the track after a bumper tap. Snapped torsion spring with the car stuck inside. Smart opener install with phone app. Broken cable hanging loose on one side. Each is the same opportunity. The phone is the bottleneck.
After hours, the calls shift. The patience is shorter and the stakes are higher. Snapped spring trapping a car before an early shift. Door stuck open at 11pm with valuables inside. Fast pickup is the difference between the job and a callback that never gets returned.
What the year looks like
Spring breaks spike during cold snaps when steel contracts. Opener calls spike in summer. Otherwise steady year-round.
Volume changes by season. Pickup rate shouldn't. Avidra fires the text-back the same way in February as it does in July, on a slow Tuesday or during a heat-advisory week.
How setup actually works
Setup is forwarding plus a script. Your existing business number forwards to Avidra so the AI picks up live calls and catches the ones that ring through to voicemail. You edit the default intake script in both directions. Voice and SMS share the same questions.
Most owners are live the same day. The test is a single call from another phone. The AI answers the call, walks the caller through the intake script, and captures the lead. After that, ring busy and watch the text-back fire.
Why speed matters more than channel
The lead is warm for about five minutes after the call. After that, the caller has scrolled to the next name and most likely already dialed. Email lands too slowly to matter for booking decisions made in that first five minutes. A text-back inside seconds keeps the caller engaged through a short intake while you finish the current job. By the time you call back, the lead is qualified and already expecting your voice.
After-hours and on-the-ground in Pickering
Pickering winters keep the call volume up. Cold weather doesn't slow the inbox. Calls come from Bay Ridges and from across Pickering. The phone doesn't care about postal codes.
Common questions
What if a customer asks about spring size?
The script asks for door dimensions and approximate weight. Actual spring size is confirmed on site.
Does it handle commercial overhead doors?
Yes. Commercial intake is a separate script that captures door type, opening size, and access constraints.
What about opener motor calls?
Opener-motor calls are flagged and the intake captures the symptoms (humming, no movement, intermittent).
What about hailstorm panel replacements?
Storm-damage intake can branch to capture insurance status and storm date.
Can the script capture the door brand and approximate age?
Yes. Most garage-door scripts include brand, model if known, and rough install year.
Try Avidra on your own number
Point your missed calls at Avidra and see the first text-back land. Free for 14 days. No card to start. Same intake. Same lead summary. Pickering or anywhere else we work.
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