Your best jobs call at 9pm. Nobody picks up.
Plumbing, HVAC and electrical businesses across Toronto lose an estimated $189,000 a year to calls that ring out. B4hours puts an AI receptionist on your line in a week — then automates the invoicing, review requests and follow-ups you're still doing by hand.
of calls to trades businesses go unanswered
of those callers never call back — they call the next listing
average plumbing or HVAC service ticket
estimated annual revenue lost to missed calls
The problem
The missed-call problem is a $189K problem.
Here's the math for a typical two-truck plumbing company in the GTA. You get roughly 15 inbound calls a day. You're under a sink for six of them. Of those six, five don't leave a voicemail — they hit the next Google result. If you'd normally close half of those at a $400 average ticket, that's $1,000 a day walking out the door. Over 250 working days: $250,000 in opportunity, and after conservative discounting, a loss around $189,000 a year.
Answering services help, but they cost $300–1,200 a month, read from a script, and can't book the job. Hiring a receptionist is $45,000 a year and still leaves your after-hours line dead. Most owners just accept the leak.
You don't have to. An AI receptionist picks up in under a second, every time, at midnight on a Sunday, and knows the difference between a dripping tap and a burst pipe.
Where we start
An AI receptionist that sounds like your shop
We set your AI up on a local 416/647/905 number, or forward your existing number to it after hours. It answers in your company name, asks the questions your dispatcher would ask — what's the issue, where are you, is water actively running — and books the job straight into your calendar.
If it's an emergency, it texts you immediately with the address, the caller's number and a one-line summary. If it's not, you see it in your dashboard in the morning with a full recording and transcript. Every call. No exceptions.
Setup takes a week. Most owners hear their first booked job within 48 hours of going live.
What you get
- 24/7 answering on a local GTA number
- Emergency triage and instant SMS to you or your on-call tech
- Appointment booking into Google Calendar, Jobber, Housecall Pro or ServiceTitan
- SMS confirmation to the customer with your ETA window
- Call recordings, transcripts and a live dashboard
- Script changes any time — just text us
$499 setup + $249/mo
30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel any time after month three.
After the phone is handled
What we build next
Once the phone is handled, we sit in your office for a morning and map how a job goes from call to cash. These are the three automations we build most often for trades.
Auto-invoicing
Before
You write invoices at the kitchen table at 10pm. Some go out three days late. Some never go out.
After
Tech marks the job complete on their phone → invoice generated from the job details and emailed in 60 seconds. Unpaid after 7 days? Automatic reminder.
Review sequences
Before
You have 40 happy customers a month and 12 Google reviews total.
After
Two hours after every completed job, the customer gets a text with a one-tap Google review link. Unhappy reply? It routes to you instead of Google.
Job-complete workflows
Before
Every finished job means re-typing customer details into the CRM, the invoicing tool and the calendar.
After
One job record. When it's marked complete, the invoice sends, the review request is scheduled, the maintenance reminder is set for next year, and the CRM updates itself.
Honest comparison
How we stack up
You've probably looked at Sameday AI, Jobber's AI receptionist, or Goodcall. Here's where we're honestly different — and where we're not.
| B4hours | Sameday AI | Jobber AI | Goodcall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $249 | $349–599+ | Add-on to Jobber plan | $59–199 |
| 24/7 answering + booking | ||||
| Emergency triage & SMS dispatch | ||||
| Works with any calendar / CRM | Limited | Jobber only | Limited | |
| In-person setup in the GTA | ||||
| Custom automations beyond the phone | ||||
| Someone you can text with changes |
If all you want is a cheap phone bot, Goodcall is fine. If you're already all-in on Jobber, their add-on is convenient. We're cheaper than Sameday, more flexible than all three, and the only one that will also build the invoicing and review automations they can't. Prices are published rates as of September 2026 and may change.
Pricing
Simple, fixed prices.
Setup fee plus a monthly retainer that covers hosting, monitoring and changes. No hourly billing.
Start · AI Receptionist
$499 setup + $249/mo
- 24/7 answering, booking, emergency dispatch
- Local GTA number or forwarding
- Dashboard, recordings, transcripts
- Live in one week
- 30-day money-back guarantee
This is how most trades clients start.
Grow · Custom Automations
From $1,500 per automation + $99–199/mo
- Operations audit included
- Auto-invoicing, review sequences, job-complete workflows
- Built one at a time, fixed price
- Maintained and monitored monthly
This is where the savings compound.
Questions
Things owners ask us
We've built this specifically for GTA trades — the way calls come in, the way jobs get dispatched, the software you already use. Book a demo and we'll call your line with the AI live so you can hear it handle a fake burst pipe.
Yes. We book directly into Jobber and Housecall Pro today, and ServiceTitan via their API. If you run on Google Calendar and a notebook, that works too — we've done it.
Stop losing after-hours jobs.
Book a free demo. We'll show you the AI receptionist live, then walk through what else we'd automate in your operations.
30-day money-back guarantee · Live in one week · Toronto & GTA