An AI receptionist for tradies that you pay by the minute
Most AI receptionists want a monthly subscription whether the phone rings or not. Tansivo charges for the minutes it spends on your calls, and nothing in a quiet week. It answers while you’re on the tools and books the measure-and-quote for you.
What a busy week costs
Say you get 25 calls a week and each takes about a minute and a half. That’s around 160 minutes a month. A call costs 10 credits for every started 30 seconds, so the month uses about 3,250 credits: roughly $21 at the rate of the $50 pack, which holds 7,600. Whatever you don’t use stays on your balance for next month.
Prices are in US dollars. The phone number comes from your own Twilio account and is billed by Twilio. New workspaces get 100 free credits, no card needed. See how that compares.
What it handles
- New enquiries: what the job is, the suburb, and a time for you to come and look.
- Bookings straight into your Google Calendar, checked against what’s already there.
- The questions you’d otherwise answer ten times a week: the suburbs you cover, your hours, whether you charge a call-out fee. It answers only from what you’ve given it and never invents a price.
- WhatsApp messages and website chat, with the same instructions, if you connect them.
How a call goes
Agent: G’day, Ridge Fencing, this is the assistant. What can I do for you?
Caller: We need a new timber fence down the back, about 20 metres.
Agent: No worries. Which suburb are you in?
Caller: Mitcham.
Agent: We cover Mitcham. Dan can come and measure up on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. Which is better?
Caller: Tuesday arvo.
Agent: Done, Tuesday at 2. He’ll quote you on the day.
The business and the call are made up. You write the greeting and what it says.
Where it stops
- It does not transfer a caller to you during the call. For anything urgent, have it give out your mobile.
- It doesn’t send text messages.
- It speaks English. Other languages are in testing.
- It doesn’t write into job-management apps. It can add each enquiry to a Google Sheet or post it to Slack.
Getting started
- Sign up and describe your business; it drafts the agent’s instructions for you to edit.
- Connect your Google Calendar.
- Connect a number from your Twilio account. Here’s how.
- Call it yourself before you put it on the ute.