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
ROOFING · SAANICH
AI phone receptionist for roofers in Saanich
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
First really cold week of the season and an ice dam just dripped through a ceiling in Saanich. The homeowner called four numbers in ten minutes. The one who picked up is the one with the work.
When the phone rings and you can't
You're on a ridge cap thirty feet up. The call rolls to voicemail before you reach the ladder.
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 homeowners are in your inbox before you do.
How Avidra answers your calls
Step 1 · AI picks up
Avidra answers the call on the first ring with the AI receptionist. The caller hears your business name and a short greeting.
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller live
The caller answers a short qualifier live on the line. The AI handles the back-and-forth in your own words.
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
The lead summary lands as a regular SMS. You can read it between jobs without opening an app.
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.
What Avidra does and doesn't
Avidra answers calls live with AI voice, or texts missed callers back if you'd rather. It runs your intake script. It captures jobs and relays messages to your customers when you ask. What it doesn't do: write your invoices, schedule your techs, replace your dispatcher, or pull customer history from your CRM.
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 Saanich actually take
Here's what your line catches on a normal week. Flashing repair around a chimney. Insurance inspection booking after a hail event. Tear-off quote on a 25-year-old asphalt roof. Missing shingles after a high-wind day. Pick up first and you book the job. Pick up second and you don't.
Off-hours calls run differently. Tighter, more urgent, less willing to wait until morning. Tree limb through the roof after a wind event. Active leak during a rainstorm, water coming through the ceiling. The shop that picks up fast keeps the work.
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.
For most roofers, the call volume isn't flat. You probably already plan staffing and on-call coverage around the peaks. Avidra runs the same in busy season as in slow. No per-call charges, no surge pricing when the inbox gets loud.
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 Saanich
WorkSafeBC requires a written fall-protection plan for any roofing work over three metres above grade.
Common questions
Will it ask for the roof age?
Yes. The intake captures approximate roof age and material so you can prep a quote ballpark.
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.
Can it ask if it's single-family or multi-unit?
Yes. Property type and number of stories are standard intake questions.
What if a caller wants to schedule a free inspection?
The intake captures the request and gathers address, roof age, and any visible damage. Booking is on you.
What about active-leak calls in the middle of a rain storm?
Active-leak calls trigger a 'we'll be in touch within the hour' script and route to your dispatch immediately.
Try Avidra on your own number
Try Avidra on your real business number for 14 days. No card. See pricing and start when you're ready. The same product runs in Saanich as it does in every other market we cover.
Start free for 14 days