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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HVAC · NORTH BAY
AI phone receptionist for HVAC contractors in North Bay
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
Maintenance season hit hard this year and you're booked three weeks out. The calls keep coming. Most of them are first-time customers and most of them don't wait three weeks.
When the phone rings and you can't
You're on a rooftop unit with the micron gauge open and the phone is in the truck below.
What Avidra does
Avidra is a text-back system that runs the second you miss a call. The caller gets a real reply, not a voicemail loop. You get a structured lead with the basics filled in.
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 missed calls
Step 1 · Missed call detected
Avidra watches for missed calls on your business number. When one drops, it fires a text in under five seconds.
Step 2 · SMS qualifier
An SMS lands on the caller's phone within seconds. It identifies itself as your business and walks the caller through a short intake.
Step 3 · Job summary to your phone
You get a text with the caller's name, address, problem, and urgency. Tap to call back, or book it straight from the message.
Step 4 · You decide when to call back
Avidra holds the conversation while you finish the current job. The caller stays warm. You decide if and when to follow up.
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.
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 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.
Run the shop from the road
Text the Avidra number from a job site. 'Tell Mike I'll be there in 10' and the AI sends Mike an SMS as your shop. Same for 'how many leads today' or 'call Sarah Linton back at 4.' Avidra picks up the phone for your customers. It also picks up for you.
Calls HVAC contractors in North Bay actually take
The calls that land most often go something like this. AC blowing warm air after the contactor stuck. Furnace short-cycling every few minutes. Thermostat showing the right temp but no heat coming through. Annual maintenance booking for spring or fall. Each is the same opportunity. The phone is the bottleneck.
After hours, the calls shift. The patience is shorter and the stakes are higher. Elderly homeowner without working heat overnight. No heat at 2am in February with kids in the house. Fast pickup is the difference between the job and a callback that never gets returned.
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.
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.
Setup is short
Setup is a 10-digit phone number and a short script. You forward your missed calls to the Avidra number that gets assigned at signup. You edit the default intake script to match how you talk to a new lead. That's the whole setup.
Most owners run their first real test inside an hour of signing up. The honest test is to miss a call on purpose from a friend's phone and watch what happens. The text fires. The follow-up questions land. You see the lead summary on your phone.
The five-second window
Speed is the whole game. A caller who got voicemail and then got a confirmation email twenty minutes later has already booked the next number on the list. A text-back inside five seconds reads as a real reply. The caller responds while they're still mentally on the call. The human callback then lands into a warm conversation, not a cold one.
After-hours and on-the-ground in North Bay
TSSA G2 or G3 ticket is required for any gas appliance install or service in Ontario. Some municipalities also require a mechanical permit for ductwork changes.
Common questions
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.
Will it work for commercial accounts?
Commercial intake is a separate script path. The questions are different and the routing usually goes to a dispatcher, not the field tech.
Can it capture make and model of the equipment?
Yes. The script asks for the equipment make, model, and rough age. The answer is in the lead summary.
How does it know my business hours?
You set them once in setup. The script changes after-hours behavior automatically when you're closed.
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. Free for 14 days. AI answers your phone live, or texts back the missed callers. Configure however your shop works.
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