Construction & General Contractors

    The project call you missed on the job site just hired someone else.

    Greg is an AI receptionist built for contractors: it answers every call while you're running crews, qualifies the project before you drive to a walkthrough, and books the estimate on your real calendar. New builds, remodels, storm repairs — the caller talks to your front desk, not your voicemail.

    78%

    Hang up on voicemail and call the next contractor

    85%

    Never call back after one unanswered call

    24/7

    Storm damage doesn't check your business hours

    The Problem

    Construction calls are the most expensive calls to miss.

    Service businesses miss 35–45% of inbound calls during working hours simply because the work makes answering impossible — and a contractor's missed call isn't a drain-cleaning ticket, it's often an entire project. One unanswered inquiry can mean a remodel, an addition, or a build that goes to whichever competitor picked up.

    You're running a crew, not a front desk

    When the phone rings you're on a roof, mid-pour, or walking a framing inspection. A general contractor's biggest-ticket calls — new project inquiries — arrive precisely when answering is physically impossible.

    Every lead needs qualifying before it's worth a drive

    A kitchen remodel, a garage slab, and a full custom build are three different businesses. Without someone asking scope, property type, timeline, and who's deciding, you burn afternoons driving to walkthroughs that were never real projects.

    Homeowners call several contractors — and book the one who answers

    Construction has a longer sales cycle than a drain clog, but the shortlist forms in the first hour. The contractor who picks up, sounds organized, and gets a walkthrough on the calendar is usually the one who gets to bid at all.

    What Greg Does For Contractors

    One front desk from first ring to signed bid.

    Live

    Answers every call, on-site or off

    New project inquiries, subs confirming schedules, suppliers chasing POs — Greg picks up in seconds, 24/7, and sounds like the office you don't have to staff.

    Live

    Qualifies the project before you drive anywhere

    Scope, property type, rough timeline, whether plans or permits exist, and who's making the decision — Greg captures it all so you only spend windshield time on real projects.

    Live

    Flags emergency repair calls immediately

    Storm damage, a failed roof, water coming through a ceiling — urgent repair calls get pushed straight to you as an alert, day or night, instead of sitting in voicemail until Monday.

    Live

    Texts back every missed call instantly

    If a call slips through while you're pouring, the homeowner gets a text within seconds — before they've moved on to the next general contractor in the search results.

    Live

    Books estimate walkthroughs against your real calendar

    Greg schedules site visits around your actual availability — crew days, inspections, existing walkthroughs — so estimates never collide with the build schedule.

    Live

    Chases the bids that go quiet

    You walked the site, sent the proposal, and the homeowner vanished. Greg runs the follow-up so six-week decision cycles don't quietly die in someone's inbox.

    Not Just Another Answering Service

    Answering the phone is the easy half. Winning the bid is the gap.

    For a contractor, the phone is only step one — the expensive part comes after, when you decide which inquiries are worth windshield time. Plenty of AI answering tools will pick up for you, and judged by their public pricing pages they're inexpensive:

    NextPhone

    $199/mo flat, unlimited calls, answers in under 5 seconds

    Dialzara

    $29/mo unlimited calls, 50+ AI voices

    Upfirst

    $24.95/mo, live in under 30 minutes

    SalesCaptain

    $0.12/minute, qualifies and books

    But an answered call that ends in a vague message still costs you a drive: an afternoon walking a "project" with no budget, no timeline, and no decision-maker is an afternoon your crew ran without you. And construction bids don't die on the phone — they die in the quiet weeks between proposal and decision, where a message-taking tool does nothing. Greg qualifies scope, property type, timeline, and who's actually deciding before a walkthrough ever touches your calendar, logs it all to your CRM, and runs the follow-up while the homeowner deliberates. A cheap tool protects the phone call. Greg protects the windshield time and the bid.

    FAQ

    Construction-specific questions

    Yes. Greg asks the qualifying questions a good office manager would — project scope, property type, timeline, whether plans or permits exist, and who's making the decision — then logs it all so you can judge in thirty seconds whether the walkthrough is worth the drive.
    Greg answers, gathers the address and what's failing, flags the call as urgent, and pushes an alert to you or your on-call lead immediately — while routine remodel inquiries get logged and scheduled for normal business hours.
    Yes. Greg distinguishes a new project inquiry from a subcontractor confirming a start date or a supplier chasing a delivery, takes the message with the details that matter, and routes it so job-site coordination doesn't get buried under sales calls.
    It books. Greg checks your live calendar and confirms a walkthrough window directly with the homeowner — scheduled around crew days and inspections you already have — then logs the full project detail to your CRM.
    Yes. If a proposal goes quiet, Greg runs the follow-up sequence so the homeowner hears from you while they're still deciding — the stage where most contractors lose bids they already paid to estimate.
    No — and it shouldn't. Construction pricing depends on the site. Greg captures scope and detail thoroughly enough that you arrive at the walkthrough informed, and it never guesses a number on your behalf.
    Greg connects to HubSpot, GoHighLevel, and n8n out of the box, with Jobber, Housecall Pro, and other platforms available as on-request connectors — every call lands as a logged lead, not a sticky note.
    There's no flat public price — a two-truck remodeler and a GC running multiple crews need different pieces of this. We scope it on a short free audit call and quote based on your actual call volume and what you're losing to missed calls today.

    Comparing options? See how Greg stacks up against budget AI answering tools like Upfirst and per-minute phone agents like SalesCaptain, or read how missed-call text-back recovers contractor leads.

    Key Takeaways

    • Contractors miss their most expensive calls because the job site makes answering impossible — and 85% of callers never try again.
    • Greg answers 24/7, qualifies scope and timeline before you drive to a walkthrough, and books estimates on your real calendar.
    • Emergency repair calls get flagged and pushed to you immediately; stalled bids get followed up automatically.

    Find out how many projects you're losing to missed calls.

    A free intro call maps your actual call volume, missed-call rate, and where the biggest leak is — inquiries, follow-up, your website, or your CRM. No pitch deck, no flat rate quoted blind.