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AI receptionist for builders

Qualify building enquiries before they reach your estimator

Available captures project scope, location, timing and decision stage for extensions, renovations and repair work — so your team spends time on viable opportunities rather than incomplete messages.

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Set up for you · Keep your existing number · Test privately before launch
Available — virtual receptionLive example
CallerWe're thinking about a single-storey rear extension and want a rough idea of process.
AvailableHappy to help. Is the property a house or bungalow, and do you have drawings or is this pre-design stage?
Site-visit request created · sent to estimating
Where enquiries are lost

A vague “can you quote?” message creates work before the work

Building enquiries vary from a minor repair to a six-figure renovation. Without the right questions, estimators waste time chasing basic information and promising callbacks to prospects who are not ready.

Businesses find this page searching for builder call answering service and construction enquiry handling — different words for the same problem: enquiries arriving faster than a busy team can answer them.

What Available can handle
  • Answers calls and website chat 24/7 in your tone of voice
  • Answers approved questions about services, guide prices, hours and coverage
  • Captures contact details and qualifies each enquiry
  • Sends your booking link or creates structured booking requests
  • Transfers important calls and sends summaries with urgent flags
Common enquiries

The enquiries it handles for builders

Extensions and structural alterations
Full and partial renovations
Loft and garage conversions
Kitchen and bathroom projects
Commercial fit-outs
Repairs and insurance work
Example conversation

What a real enquiry looks like

Wording adapts to your business — this is a typical journey from first ring to structured summary. Nothing is booked or promised beyond the rules you approve.

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Available — virtual receptionExample journey
CallerWe're thinking about a single-storey rear extension and want a rough idea of process.
AvailableHappy to help. Is the property a house or bungalow, and do you have drawings or is this pre-design stage?
CallerA 1930s semi, no drawings yet. We’d like to start next spring.
AvailableThat's useful — I've captured a rear-extension enquiry at pre-design stage with a spring start, and booked you in for a call with the estimating team this week.
Site-visit request created · sent to estimating
Qualification

It asks the questions your team would ask

Example qualification questions for builders — the exact wording follows your services, policies and escalation rules.

QWhat work is being considered?
QWhere is the property?
QAre plans or drawings available?
QHas planning permission been explored?
QWhat is the preferred start period?
QIs the caller ready for a survey or early advice?
Safety & escalation

Boundaries your business controls

Every rule below is configured and approved by you before launch — and anything outside its knowledge becomes a captured callback, never a guess.

  • Emergencies are flagged and routed to your on-call contact straight away, day or night
  • Safety-critical situations follow the exact guidance you approve — nothing improvised
  • It gives guide pricing only where you allow it, and never commits you to a firm quote
  • Complaints are captured word for word and escalated to you — it never argues with a customer
Setup

Live within a week, without disruption

We learn the business

Your services, coverage, guide pricing, hours, FAQs, escalation contacts and preferred tone become one approved knowledge base.

You test it privately

A private demo line and chat built on your information. Your team asks the difficult questions and signs off the behaviour.

Calls and chats go live

A simple call divert and website snippet. Every conversation is summarised and sent to the people who need it.

Available works alongside your existing booking process and software: it can send booking links and create structured requests without a deep integration. Direct integrations may be available depending on your system — confirmed honestly during setup.

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Questions

What builders usually ask

No. It can sit behind your existing team and answer only when the line is busy, unanswered or closed. It can also handle all first-response enquiries if that suits your workflow.

Available can send booking links and structured requests without a deep integration. Direct availability and booking can be enabled where your calendar or business software provides suitable authorised access.

It says that your team will confirm, captures the caller or visitor details, and routes the enquiry. It does not invent answers.

Yes. It is trained on your approved services, pricing guidance, policies, coverage and tone. You test it privately and sign off before it handles live enquiries.

No. Your existing number can divert calls on busy, no answer or after hours. A separate campaign number can also be used when required.

A focused deployment can usually be prepared within about a week once your services, rules and escalation contacts have been supplied and approved.

See it handling your enquiries — before you pay anything

A tailored demo built from your website and approved information. Ring it, chat to it, try to break it.

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