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
LOCKSMITH · ST. ALBERT
AI phone receptionist for locksmiths in St. Albert
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
A small office in St. Albert needs a master-key rekey before opening. The manager called at 4pm yesterday. You saw it at 7am today. The contract went to a competitor at 8.
When the phone rings and you can't
The phone rings during a transponder programming on a 2015 Honda. You can't break the sequence.
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 callers are in your inbox before you do.
How Avidra answers your calls
Step 1 · AI picks up
The AI receptionist takes the call live. It opens with your business name and asks the caller what they need.
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller live
Your intake script runs in real time. Name, address, what's going on, urgency. The conversation reads like a normal one.
Step 3 · Transfers to you when they ask, or summarizes when they don't
If the caller wants a human, they get one. If they don't, the AI handles the whole call and you get the summary after.
Step 4 · Lead summary lands on your phone
You get a text recap of the call within seconds of it ending. Same lead-summary format as the SMS-only setup.
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.
It never quotes a lockout price. It doesn't verify ID. It doesn't dispatch a tech. The text captures location and lock type. Everything else happens on your callback.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a locksmith your size.
7 calls/week missed$150 avg job$1,050 / week$4,550 / month$54,600 / year
73% of callers don't leave a voicemail. They call the next locksmith on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls locksmiths in St. Albert actually take
The calls that land most often go something like this. Residential lockout at the front door. Rekey after a tenant move-out. Master key system for a small office. Deadbolt install on a new exterior door. 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. Post-break-in rekey before the homeowner leaves the property. Commercial lockout before opening shift. Whoever answers first books it. Everyone else gets the voicemail tone.
What the year looks like
Lockouts spike in summer (slammed-door season) and after long weekends. Rekey work is steady year-round with a small bump in moving season May through August.
Most locksmiths 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.
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.
After-hours and on-the-ground in St. Albert
St. Albert winters keep the call volume up. Cold weather doesn't slow the inbox.
Common questions
Will it quote a lockout price?
No. Avidra is configured to never quote a price for lockouts. Pricing happens on your callback.
Will it work for after-hours auto lockouts?
Yes. After-hours scripts can stay active or pause depending on your preference.
What if a caller is locked out and panicking?
The intake acknowledges the urgency in the first reply and asks the location and lock type. You see the lead in real time.
Will it ask for ID before quoting a rekey?
No quoting happens in the intake. ID and authorization are handled on your callback.
Can it filter out scam calls?
Scam callers usually don't reply to the text. Avidra captures only callers who responded with real intake answers.
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. Same intake. Same lead summary. St. Albert or anywhere else we work.
Start free for 14 days