Heat waves and storms in Corpus Christi bring more calls than any office can take. IA home answers all of them, in English or Spanish, and leaves your team only the jobs.
Dispatching in Corpus Christi is a puzzle of zones, skills and traffic. IA home books each call into the right slot and sends the customer the time window, so your office does not rebuild the board all day.
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Corpus Christi on the Gulf deals with salty air, hurricanes and many beach and rental properties. Most calls to a Corpus Christi company come from homeowners, beach rental owners, military families and small businesses.
After a storm the calls come all at once. IA home answers each one, asks for photos and builds the board before the office opens.
Emergencies get the on-call technician; routine jobs get a time window; quotes for new systems get an estimate visit. Everything lands on one dispatch board.
It is 9:40 PM in July in Corpus Christi. One of your homeowners calls: the AC stopped and there is a baby at home. IA home answers on the first ring, confirms the symptoms, marks it as an emergency under your rules and texts the on-call technician with the address and details.
Industry estimates for a small HVAC or plumbing company in peak season.
And they do not know your prices, zones or emergency rules.
Spanish-speaking customers wait for the one bilingual person, or call someone else.
A repair or replacement lead that reaches voicemail is booked by the next company.
Heat waves and storms bring more calls than the office can pick up.
Three steps, every call, all year.
Every call on the first ring, 24/7, in English or Spanish. It introduces itself as your company's AI assistant and says the call may be recorded.
It applies your emergency rules, books visits on the board, quotes from your list and requests photos of the unit or the leak.
Summary, transcript, customer, visit and job details land on the dispatch board. Your office only sees what needs a human.
Situations every contractor knows.
| Situation | Today | With IA home |
|---|---|---|
| Burst pipe on Sunday | Customer calls another plumber | Shut-off instructions and visit booked |
| "How much is a tune-up?" | Someone calls back later | Price from your list, visit booked |
| Deposit for a job | Card number read over the phone | Secure payment link by text |
| After a storm | Office buried in calls | Board built before 8 AM |
| Spanish-speaking customers | Depends on who is in the office | Served in Spanish |
| Call about coastal corrosion on outdoor units | Waits for a callback | Details and photos on the board, visit booked |
| Call about hurricane season repairs | Waits for a callback | Details and photos on the board, visit booked |
Defaults are typical for a company this size; change them to yours.
Four systems in production, delivered in two months.
Real-time load posting and carrier matching, bilingual, active in Florida, Texas and Georgia.
Automated quoting that replaced a manual phone process, order tracking and a CEO dashboard.
Full ERP with 7 modules: policies, commissions, billing, renewals and claims.
ERP with quoting, invoicing and commissions, plus real-time lead alerts.
A small fixed fee plus the minutes you actually use. Slow months cost less on their own.
15 days answering your real calls. No credit card, no commitment. Results report at the end.
Answers, triages emergencies, books visits on your board and collects job details, in English and Spanish.
Billed per minute of conversation. A 3-minute call costs about $0.48.
Example: 900 calls in a July heat wave at 3 minutes each = $99 + $432 = $531, less than one week of an after-hours answering crew.
Your accounts, your data. We set it up in accounts you own and maintain it without access to your confidential information.
It follows your rules: for example no cooling with elderly or babies at home, active leaks or no hot water in winter. Anything unclear is treated as urgent and passed to the on-call technician.
Yes. It answers in the caller's language, English or Spanish, and leaves the summary in English for your team.
It never takes card numbers by phone. It texts a secure payment link for deposits or invoices.
Yes. It texts a link to send photos, model numbers or videos, and attaches them to the job before the technician arrives.
Yes. You define the questions and the urgency for that type of call, and IA home asks them every time and books the right technician.
The same AI dispatcher, set up for companies in neighboring cities.
Call the demo agent yourself, test an emergency and a routine call, and watch the board. Corpus Christi companies get a free 15-day pilot.