Nightshift
Answering for plumbing & HVAC

After-hours call answering

Your phone rangat 11:04 last night.

Nightshift picks up the calls that come in after you've parked the truck — address, problem, callback number, booked — and texts you before the caller has hung up.

No card. No contract. Un-forward the line yourself at any hour.

Call log · Tue 18 Aug 4 answered · 0 to voicemail
18:52
Marisol Tejeda
Water heater not lighting. 1140 Fairlawn Ave. Booked Wed 8:00am.
Booked
20:17
Ray Dunphy
Asked about a quote for repiping. Took details, said you'd call Wednesday.
Callback
23:04
Angela Whitcomb
Burst line under kitchen sink, water spreading. 22 Crestview Ct. Shutoff located.
Texted you
06:41
Unknown caller
Hung up after 3 seconds. No details captured.
Logged
Three of these came in after 5pm. Last month, all three went to voicemail.

Sample log. Yours has your customers' names in it, and lands in your inbox at 6am.

How it works

Three steps, one afternoon.

Nothing about your daytime phone changes. You're handing over the hours nobody is covering.

01

You forward your rollover line

Same as forwarding to an answering service. Ten minutes with your carrier, and you can switch it off from your phone whenever you want.

02

We answer on the first ring

Greets callers with your company name. Sorts a burst pipe from a Tuesday tune-up. Gets name, address, problem, callback number — every time, no bad nights.

03

You get a text, then a log

Emergencies reach your phone within the minute. Everything else lands in one summary at 6am, so you can plan the day over coffee.

The boundaries

What it does. What it will never do.

The second list is the one worth reading. It's why this is safe to put in front of your customers.

Does
  • Answers after hours, weekends, and calls that roll over while you're already on the line
  • Says clearly that it's an automated assistant, on every call
  • Captures name, address, problem, callback number
  • Books into the slots you've told it are open
  • Flags real emergencies to your phone immediately
Never
  • Touches your main line during business hours — your people answer your phone
  • Pretends to be a person, or uses a fake name
  • Quotes a price or promises a time you haven't approved
  • Guesses. If a call goes sideways it takes a message and gets out of the way
  • Locks you into a contract

Worth reading

Before you decide anything.

Two of these help you whether or not you ever buy from us.

01

How many calls is your shop missing after 5pm?

A ten-minute test you can run tonight. No software, no signup, and you don't need us to do it.

02

Answering service, voicemail, or AI?

Three ways to handle the phone after hours, and an honest account of where each one fails — including ours.

03

Where we work

Toledo · Fort Wayne · South Bend

Price

$249 / month
  • Unlimited after-hours and rollover calls
  • Setup and configuration included — normally $299
  • Cancel with an email, any month, no fee
  • Ten days free before you pay anything

We're new, and we'd rather say so than fake a wall of five-star reviews. That's why the first ten days are free and there's no contract. At the end we hand you the log of every call it caught. If that log is empty you owe nothing and we'll go away. One missed water heater usually covers the year.

Start the ten days

Questions we actually get

Before you ask.

Does it sound like a robot?

It sounds like a clear, calm phone voice, and it tells every caller up front that it's an automated assistant for your company. We don't hide it — partly because it's the law in a growing number of states, and mostly because people are far more patient with a machine that admits it than one that gets caught.

What happens when it can't handle a call?

It stops trying. It takes a message, says someone from the shop will call back, and puts the recording and a transcript in your log. It is built to fail politely rather than improvise — an assistant that guesses at plumbing advice is worse than voicemail.

What counts as an emergency?

You tell us during setup. Most shops start with active water, no heat below a certain outdoor temperature, gas smell, and sewage. Anything on your list gets a text to your phone within a minute, with the address and the callback number. Everything else waits for the morning summary.

Who owns my phone number?

You do, completely, and always. You're forwarding your own line to us, not moving it. You can un-forward it from your carrier account at any hour without asking us, and we'll confirm the arrangement in writing before a single call comes through.

Can I listen to what it said to my customers?

Yes. Every call has a recording and a written transcript in your log. We'd encourage you to listen to the first week's worth — it's the fastest way to find out whether this is worth $249 to you, and it's the same thing we do on our end.

Why only plumbing and HVAC?

Because a script that knows the difference between a failed igniter and a slab leak has to be written by someone paying attention to one trade. We'd rather be genuinely good for two than mediocre for twenty.