AI receptionist for handyman
An AI receptionist built for handyman businesses.
Leap answers estimate requests, small job scope questions, and emergency repair calls in a natural voice. It captures every lead and texts back missed callers so your calendar stays full without a phone operator.
Leap is an AI phone receptionist for handyman businesses. It answers estimate requests, small job scope questions, emergency repair calls, and availability inquiries in a natural voice, captures the job details you need to call back, and texts missed callers so no job request gets lost. Setup takes five minutes and keeps your existing number.
5 min. Leap goes live in about five minutes: paste your website, check what it learned, and forward your number.
24/7. Leap answers evenings and weekends when homeowners finish a project, notice a problem, and decide to call.
2+ calls. Leap answers two or more calls at once so an estimate request from a new client never gets dropped while you are mid-job.
Every call. Every call gets a recording, transcript, and summary in your inbox so job type, caller name, and address are always captured.
$149/mo. Leap costs a fraction of a live answering service and does not take a cut of the jobs it captures.
What kinds of calls do handyman businesses miss most?
A handyman doing tile work cannot stop to answer the phone. A handyman finishing a fence job at dusk cannot return three voicemails that evening. The calls that go unanswered are not low-value: they are new clients asking if you do drywall, existing clients reporting a leak from last month's repair, and referrals who were told to call you specifically.
The range of job types makes phone coverage harder. One caller wants a garbage disposal replaced, the next has a list of six small jobs, the next wants to know if you handle deck repairs. Without someone answering who knows your services, the caller bounces to the next handyman on Yelp.
Estimate requests
Leap captures job type, location, and scope details, and queues the lead for your callback with everything you need to give a price.
Small job scope questions
Leap answers from your knowledge base about the job types you handle and routes callers asking about services you do not offer rather than letting them hang up confused.
Emergency repair calls
Leap takes urgent calls about leaks, broken fixtures, and safety issues, follows your routing rules, and can transfer the caller to you directly when needed.
Availability and scheduling
Leap captures the caller's preferred timing, texts you the details, and sends the caller your booking link if you have one set up.
What does an AI receptionist do for a handyman business?
An AI receptionist answers your phone in a natural voice, asks about the job, and captures the information you need to schedule and price it. Leap builds its knowledge base from your website, so it knows your trade categories, your service area, your general pricing approach, and the jobs you prefer not to take.
Callers do not get a menu or a hold tone. They describe the job, Leap responds in your company's name, and you get a clean summary with caller name, number, address, and job type before you return the call.
How Leap learns the range of jobs you take
Handyman businesses cover a wide range of trades. Leap builds an initial knowledge base from your website and you refine it by adding the specific tasks you handle: drywall, tile, fixture replacement, deck repair, fence installation, painting. You can also flag what you do not take, so Leap routes plumbing or electrical callers to a licensed contractor instead of capturing a job you cannot do.
When a caller asks about a job type not in the knowledge base, Leap takes their contact information and files the question. You answer it once and Leap knows it for the next caller with that same request.
How it works
- 01
Paste your company website.
Leap reads your site and builds a knowledge base of your job categories, service area, pricing approach, and booking process.
- 02
Review and correct what it learned.
Add the specific tasks you handle, flag the jobs you refer out, and set your emergency call routing rules in one tap.
- 03
Forward your number and go live.
Keep your current number. The next estimate request gets answered, job details are captured, and a summary lands in your inbox.
Frequently asked questions
Can Leap handle the wide variety of jobs handymen take?
Yes. You build the knowledge base by adding your specific job categories: drywall, tile, fixture replacement, deck repair, and more. Leap answers job-type questions from that list and routes calls for work you do not handle.
Will Leap route emergency calls to me directly?
Yes. You set the rules. Calls about active leaks, broken fixtures causing safety issues, or other urgent situations can be transferred to your cell directly. You define what counts as urgent.
Does Leap know my service area?
Leap pulls your service area from your website and you can adjust it in one tap. It tells callers whether you serve their location before capturing a lead you cannot take.
Can I use Leap only after hours or on weekends?
Yes. Configure Leap to answer every call, evenings and weekends only, or only on overflow when your line is busy. You set the schedule per day and per hour.
Will I keep my existing business number?
Yes. You keep your number and forward calls to Leap on the rules you set. Calls are forwarded, never ported.
How long does setup take?
About five minutes. Paste your website, review the knowledge base, forward your number. Most handymen set it up on a phone between jobs.
What do I see after each call?
Every call leaves a recording, a full transcript, and a short summary with job type, caller name, address, and the follow-up needed. All searchable in your inbox.
How much does an AI receptionist for a handyman business cost?
Leap's founding rate is $149 a month and includes the first 100 calls answered, then $0.99 per additional call. No setup fee and no contract, versus the $150 to $400 a month a live answering service typically charges.
Does it sound like a robot?
No. Leap uses a natural voice, answers in one ring, and uses your business name. Callers speak normally and get a real response.
What happens when Leap does not know an answer?
It tells the caller honestly, takes their name and number, and files the question for you to answer once. Leap knows it for every future caller after that.
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Give handyman businesses a front desk that never misses.
Paste your website. Leap builds your receptionist from your hours, services, and policies while you watch. Live in five minutes for $149/month.