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.
Asad
HVAC · DALLAS
AI phone receptionist for HVAC contractors in Dallas
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
You're on top of a rooftop unit when the call comes through. It's the third time this morning. The first two left voicemails that didn't say enough to plan a route around.
When the phone rings and you can't
Multimeter leads are across the contactor. You're not breaking that read to grab a call.
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.
How Avidra runs both channels
Step 1 · AI picks up live, or texts back if you miss it
Live or missed, the caller gets a real reply. Voice on the call, SMS on the miss.
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller on whichever channel they're on
The qualifying questions adapt to the channel: voice on the call, SMS in the text thread. Same content, same answers captured.
Step 3 · Transfer to you on call, or summary to your phone
Voice call: transfer to a human when the caller asks. SMS intake: lead summary the moment the conversation closes.
Step 4 · The SMS thread stays open after, so they can text follow-ups
After a voice call ends, the SMS thread stays open. The caller can text follow-up questions and the AI keeps the conversation going.
Pick a pickup mode
You decide who picks up first. Run the human-first mode: your phone rings, and Avidra only steps in if the call goes unanswered. Or run the AI-first mode: Avidra picks up live and transfers when the caller wants a human. Most shops start human-first because the customer relationship still flows through you. AI-first makes sense once the volume is past what one person can handle.
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.
The phone end of your shop
Avidra owns the phone end of your shop. It picks up calls, runs the qualifier, captures the job, and relays the messages you ask it to send. Everything past the phone stays with you. Pricing, scheduling, dispatch, billing all live in your existing tools.
The script will disclose your service-call fee if you tell it to, but it won't volunteer a price you haven't approved. It won't diagnose a no-cool by symptom. It won't tell a homeowner whether their compressor is shot. Equipment make and model gets captured. What you do with that information is your call.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a hvac shop your size.
8 calls/week missed$600 avg job$4,800 / week$20,800 / month$249,600 / year
73% of homeowners don't leave a voicemail. They call the next HVAC contractor on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls HVAC contractors in Dallas actually take
Most of these will look familiar. Annual maintenance booking for spring or fall. Mini-split error code on the indoor head. AC blowing warm air after the contactor stuck. Thermostat showing the right temp but no heat coming through. Each one is a job you'd close if you could pick up the phone.
After-hours patterns are tighter. The urgency is higher and the timeline is shorter. Gas smell near a furnace, needs immediate triage. No heat at 2am in February with kids in the house. Whoever answers first books it. Everyone else gets the voicemail tone.
What the year looks like
Two peaks. Heat advisories drive AC emergency calls May through August. Cold snaps and first-frost weeks drive no-heat calls late October through February.
Most HVAC contractors can predict the peaks. The trick is keeping pickup steady through them. Avidra doesn't surge-price during your busy weeks and doesn't go quiet during the slow ones.
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.
Common questions
What about gas-smell calls, will it triage those?
Gas-smell calls trigger an immediate 'leave the house and call 911 first' message before the booking conversation continues.
Will it handle warranty questions?
It captures the warranty claim details and routes them to the office. Warranty answers come from your team, not the bot.
What if the caller is on a maintenance contract?
Recognized numbers route straight to your phone. The text only fires for cold calls.
Does it handle no-heat panic differently than a quote request?
Yes. The script branches on urgency. Emergencies get a faster acknowledgement and a 'we're on the way' style intake.
Can I quote a service call fee in the script?
Yes. The flat trip charge or after-hours rate can be disclosed in the intake message.
Try Avidra on your own number
14-day free trial. No credit card, no contract. If it doesn't catch your first missed call, you don't pay. The product doesn't change by city. Dallas HVAC contractors get the same thing every other market gets.
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