Answers in the shop’s name
The caller is trying to hire you, not leave a voicemail. The receptionist picks up after hours, on a roof, and in a shop - on the number you forward to it.
Phone answering
You were on a roof. They called the next shop.
On a roof, in a bay, or after hours, the phone still rings. Nobody answers. The next company does. A missed call is a missed job.
Crossroads Front Desk is an AI receptionist Joe runs for local trades. It answers, quotes from your price list, and books while you work. You stay on the job.
Setup
$1,500
Monthly
$997 / mo
Live in
7 days after access
On the call
It answers, quotes from your list, and books.
Joe operates it. You approve on your phone. Callers are trying to hire the shop, not wait until you can call them back.
Quotes from your price list
Not a national script. Not a number invented on the fly. Joe loads the list you actually charge. If the job is not on the list, it does not guess. You tap yes on your phone.
Books the ones that are ready
Ready jobs go on the calendar you already use. If the job needs a decision, it waits for you. You stay on the job.
Why Joe runs it
Those are tools. This is Joe running the play.
Self-serve AI receptionists sell you a login. You forward the number, write the script, and most of them will not quote on the call. If you want to configure that yourself, you should.
This page is for owners who will not. Joe loads your price list, sets after-hours rules, and runs it in English and Spanish, one shop at a time. $997 a month has to feel cheaper than a missed job and simpler than standing up a national tool at 9pm.
- After-hours and on-the-job answering for the number you forward to it.
- Quotes from your price list. It does not invent a price.
- Bookings go on the calendar you already use.
- You approve on your phone when a job needs a decision.
What it is not
- Not voicemail. The point is they do not hit it.
- Not a live answering service billed by the minute.
- Not a self-serve AI you have to set up at 9pm.
- Not Joe taking the phone account. You keep the number.
- Not a chat box on your website that you have to watch.
- Not Storm Window. The week of a named storm is a different offer.
- Not Clinic Recall. Empty clinic chairs are a different offer.
- It does not send a technician, and it does not promise when they will arrive.
Victoria, Port Lavaca, Cuero, Goliad, Edna, Point Comfort, Port O'Connor
Price, in the open
$997 a month. Cancel anytime.
Setup is on the call. No long-term contract. One play at a time. You keep the phone account. Joe never takes payment or runs your books.
The other options
A self-serve AI tool
- You buy the login and write the script
- You are the operator after hours
- Most of those setups will not quote on the call
The other options
A live answering service
- A person billed by the minute, reading a script
- Fine if you want that. This page is not that full comparison
- A longer AI-versus-live-answering page is separate, not this one
This play
Crossroads Front Desk
- $1,500 to start, $997 a month. Cancel anytime
- Joe runs the script, the price list, and the after-hours rules
- It quotes from your list, in English and Spanish. You stay on the job
How it starts
Twenty minutes against how the phone actually fails.
01
Book 20 minutes
Joe listens to how the phone actually fails - after hours, on a roof, in a shop. No slide deck. If calls are not being missed, he will say so.
02
You share the line and the list
The number you want answered, and the prices you actually charge. You keep the phone account.
03
Joe runs the receptionist
What it says, after-hours rules, English and Spanish. You approve anything that is not a simple booking. Setup takes days, not months.
Talk
Tell Joe you want Front Desk.
He will walk the missed calls, not a slide deck. If calls are not being missed, he will say so.
Who this is for
Trades who miss calls and have a price list.
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, garage, roofing, and other local trades in Victoria, Port Lavaca, Cuero, Goliad, Edna, Point Comfort, and Port O’Connor. You are on a roof, in a bay, or after hours when the phone rings. You do not have a front-desk person. You can hand over a price list.
Not for GCs shopping a self-serve tool they will configure themselves. Not for clinics - that is Clinic Recall. Not for the week a named named storm is heading this way - that is Storm Window. Not for shops already turning work away, shops with no price list, or anyone who wants Joe to own the number.
Joe Garcia · Victoria, TX · you can meet him
Questions
Straight answers.
Talk
Twenty minutes. Your missed calls, not a deck.
Tell Joe you want Crossroads Front Desk. He will walk how the phone fails when you are on a job.
Other plays
Front Desk is the phone. If the leak is the Google listing, a named storm, or empty clinic chairs, that is a different play. The full AI-versus-live-answering comparison is a separate page, not this one.