The promise
If Avidra doesn't recover 3 booked jobs in your first 30 days, I refund everything and disconnect you myself.
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After-hours call answering for Regina roofers
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First really cold week of the season and an ice dam just dripped through a ceiling in Regina. The homeowner called four numbers in ten minutes. The one who picked up is the one with the work.
A Tuesday in Regina
Tuesday at 9am you're loading the truck in Regina. The first call of the day is a flashing repair around a chimney. You're already booked solid by the time it's transcribed and sent back to your inbox. The phone's ringing in the truck cab and you're 14 feet up on a ladder.
The 4pm call is a homeowner with a water stain on a bedroom ceiling. You can't take it. By 6:30pm there's an after-hours job too, a tree limb through the roof after a wind event. Two missed calls, one half-day of revenue, no way to triage from a ladder.
What changes
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 Tuesday morning call still happens. You still can't answer mid-job. Now the homeowner gets a text in under five seconds asking the basics. By the time you're back in the truck the lead is qualified and sitting in your inbox.
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.
The Free tier includes both AI voice answering and SMS text-back, so the pickup-mode choice doesn't cost extra.
What it costs
Free for 14 days. No card to start. Plans after the trial run from a flat monthly rate, not per-call. Most roofers pay less per month than the value of one recovered job. See the pricing page for current numbers.
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 tear-off. It won't estimate a roof age over the phone. It won't promise an insurance-approved scope. The intake captures enough to triage. The actual roof and the actual quote stay yours, after you've been on the ladder.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a roofing shop your size.
4 calls/week missed$1,200 avg job$4,800 / week$20,800 / month$249,600 / year
73% of homeowners don't leave a voicemail. They call the next roofer on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls roofers in Regina actually take
You probably recognize these patterns by now. Skylight that started dripping after a heavy rain. Insurance inspection booking after a hail event. Ice dam damage showing on a top-floor ceiling after a thaw. Tear-off quote on a 25-year-old asphalt roof. Each is the same opportunity. The phone is the bottleneck.
After hours, the calls shift. The patience is shorter and the stakes are higher. Tree limb through the roof after a wind event. Tarp call after storm damage, can't wait until morning. Fast pickup is the difference between the job and a callback that never gets returned.
What the year looks like
Peak roughly April through October. Storm-driven spikes outside that window. Winter work is mostly emergency repair and tarp jobs.
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 Regina
Ice dam season in Regina brings active-leak calls during the first warm-up after a deep cold snap.
Common questions
Will it work for storm-chase calls?
Yes. The intake can branch on hail or wind events and capture the storm date for insurance correlation.
Will it tell the homeowner to call insurance first?
If you set the script to mention insurance, yes. Most roofers add a 'have your insurance info ready' line for storm-damage calls.
Can it ask if it's single-family or multi-unit?
Yes. Property type and number of stories are standard intake questions.
Can it handle insurance-adjuster calls differently?
Yes. Adjuster-identified calls route to a separate intake that captures claim number and inspection window.
Will it ask for the roof age?
Yes. The intake captures approximate roof age and material so you can prep a quote ballpark.
Try Avidra on your own number
Forward your missed calls to Avidra and watch the first text fire. 14 days free, no card to start, cancel from your phone. Avidra works the same in Regina as it does in the busiest market we cover. The intake script changes by trade, the rest stays the same.
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