AI receptionist for contractors

The first contractor back wins the job. Be the first one back.

A storm-season form, a missed call — FirstFiveMin catches the lead on the spot and gives you first claim. Can't get to it? The assistant calls, qualifies the job, and books the estimate.

🔒 The AI always identifies itself. Consent-first. Instant STOP.

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Your number on the caller ID. Stop it any time inside the window.

You start right away on a shared FirstFiveMin number. Your own number, in your business's name, takes over once its registration is approved.

Hear it for yourself: call (951) 720-3853. When we can't pick up, our AI assistant answers — and tells you it's an AI.

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Your name

Your mobile

Pretend you're a lead for

Between 8am and 8pm your time, the phone rings in under a minute. Outside those hours we don't call — we book it for the next morning and tell you exactly when. Either way, the assistant opens by telling you it's an automated assistant.

Home services

On a job? We call your new lead.

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0:00On a job?
0:05On a job? We call your new lead.
0:12It says what it is, and that the call is recorded.
0:18The estimate lands on your calendar.
0:26And the confirmation arrives in the same thread.
0:33The day before and the day of, we text a reminder to you and your customer.
0:39Need a new time? Your customer calls back, and the assistant moves or cancels it.
0:46Can't take the call? The assistant takes a message and sends it to you.
0:52The full circle: book, remind, reschedule, messages. From the first call to the appointment.
0:59No website needed. You get your own FirstFiveMin page and phone line. Run it all from your phone. Your customers reach you where they already are — a call, a text, your page or a QR code.
1:05Start free trial. 7-day free trial · no card · cancel yourself. Video produced with AI.

88%

of HVAC firms using Hatch replied in over 5 minutes (Hatch platform data, Dec 2024)

40%

of high-intent web inquiries arrive nights & weekends (Blazeo vendor benchmark, Feb 2026)

5 min

the default claim window — your team gets first shot before the AI steps in

Sources: Hatch platform data, Dec 2024; Blazeo vendor benchmark, Feb 2026.

How it works

A job lead comes in

Website form, storm-season landing page, or a missed call — FirstFiveMin catches it on the spot.

Your crew goes first

You get an alert with a live countdown. Claim it and call yourself, or tap "I called." The AI only steps in if your window expires.

The AI books the estimate

Repair vs replacement, insurance claim, address, timeline — asked naturally, and the inspection lands on your calendar.

Asks for a person? It hands the call to you.

Your phone gets a text with the caller's first name, then it rings — then the next number on your list, in the order you choose. Nobody free? It offers a callback, or books the appointment.

Your cell rings once you have verified it in Settings.

Fits what you already run

Nothing is locked behind a connector.

Connect your calendar and bookings land in it. Connect your CRM and leads flow through. Connect neither and every feature still works — we keep our own record and you carry on. Connectors add; they never gate.

Today any CRM or lead source connects through Zapier, Make, or signed webhooks.

WordPress: one key, one script tag. Included on every plan.

● Available now

Google & Outlook Calendar

Zapier / Make

Signed webhooks — any CRM

Website & landing forms

Missed-call auto-text

Housecall Provia Zapier recipe

Jobbervia Zapier recipe

Connections run through other companies' services. Their plans, settings and changes are outside our control, and if they change something on their side, a connection can stop until it is reconnected.

Google may show a warning screen while it reviews our app. Microsoft work or school accounts may need approval from your organization's IT administrator.

Our Zapier recipes use Webhooks by Zapier, which Zapier offers only on its paid plans.

Housecall Pro offers its Zapier connection only on some of its plans. Check your Housecall Pro plan. A paid Zapier plan is also needed.

Jobber offers Zapier on select plans. Check your Jobber plan. A paid Zapier plan is also needed.

Built for compliance peace of mind

An AI calling your leads is the industry's biggest legal risk. We built it backwards from that: compliance first.

✓Always identifies itself as AI on every call.

✓Consent-first — we never dial without a recorded decision.

✓Instant STOP / ALTO, honored across every channel.

✓Quiet hours enforced in the time zone of the number we dial, plus mini-TCPA rules for 17 states — anything outside that table falls back to the strictest window, never the loosest.

✓You stay in control: AI on/off, claim window, attempt caps.

✓Immutable evidence log of every consent and every call.

Your data

Your customers' details stay yours.

✓Names, phone numbers and emails are encrypted in our database.

✓Each business sees only its own leads, calls and recordings.

✓Our voice provider works under a signed data-processing agreement.

✓We don't sell or share your customers' information.

Read the privacy policy

✓FirstFiveMin handles the first five minutes. Your CRM, practice or scheduling system stays your record.

✓Booked appointments land in your Google or Outlook Calendar when one is connected. With no calendar connected, they live in the FirstFiveMin calendar, which is always the record.

✓The assistant speaks English and Spanish and answers in the lead's language.

✓We check the address against your service area before offering a time.

✓If you forward your business line to FirstFiveMin, your carrier does the forwarding and only your carrier's own code switches it off — FirstFiveMin cannot switch it off for you.

Night Window · new

The hours you can't call are the hours nobody else is working.

Someone finds you at 2am. Every other service in this category answers with a form and a wait. Night Window answers with a conversation — one question at a time — that qualifies them, says out loud that it is an AI, takes consent on the record, and books the appointment. Quiet hours end the phone call, not the interest: you wake up to a calendar entry that did not exist when you went to bed.

Alder Roofing & Air 2:14am

You're talking with Alder Roofing & Air's AI assistant

Address 2210 Linden Ave, Riverside

Service AC not cooling

When works for the estimate visit?

Type or pick

Today Tomorrow This week Next week

This conversation is saved. First Five Min

No website? Your phone line is enough.

Most of your customers call. FirstFiveMin works from your phone number alone.

✓Forward your business line to your FirstFiveMin number.

✓When a call rings out, the caller gets a text from your business the moment your phone stops ringing, and shows up as a lead on your dashboard.

✓A call you can't take can be answered by the assistant — you choose that in your settings — and it can book the estimate.

✓Your short link is also a page where customers can call you or ask for a callback: put it on your Google profile, your Facebook page and your cards.

How to get leads without a website

Reviews

Will it ask my customers for reviews?

One review request, ninety days apart. Once you add your review link, the assistant sends a single text after an appointment that actually happened — and it will not ask that person again for ninety days.

Nothing offered in return, and nothing screened first. The request offers no discount, gift or credit, and the assistant never looks at how the appointment went before sending it — only that it happened.

You pay for AI conversations. Nothing else is metered.

From $99 a month

Spark · $99/mo30 AI conversations/mo · 1 number
Start · $199/mo100 AI conversations/mo · 1 number
Grow · $499/mo300 AI conversations/mo · 3 numbers
Scale · $999/mo750 AI conversations/mo · 10 numbers

How the plans are counted

Every plan includes every feature. Plans differ only in capacity: how many AI conversations the assistant has a month, and how many phone numbers you get.

No per-minute charges. Minutes are free, and so are unanswered calls and voicemails.

What an answered call costs.

Every conversation the assistant has with a person counts as one AI conversation — whether it books, answers a question, or is just a chat — even if the same person calls again. Unanswered calls, voicemails, short hang-ups and spam are free. Never per minute.

A call ends politely at ten minutes.

Not a phone system. The number you get from FirstFiveMin — or the shared FirstFiveMin number you start on — is a lead line, not a phone. Leads call and text it; the assistant answers, and it rings your own phone first when you want it to. You cannot dial out or type a text from it, and there is no inbox. Your phone, your carrier and your existing numbers stay exactly as they are — forward them here if you like, and take your FirstFiveMin number with you if you ever leave.

FirstFiveMin Text is a separate add-on at one price on every plan. See FirstFiveMin Text →

Pay for 10 months, get 12. Cancel within 30 days for a full refund; after that, the months you used are charged at the monthly price and the rest is refunded.

Pay for the year and get 2 months free. Never required.

Spark

$99/mo

30 AI conversations/mo · 1 number

$3.30 per AI conversation · minutes free · unanswered calls free

One AI conversation = one conversation the AI has with a person. Unanswered calls, voicemails and spam are free, and so are minutes. Leads your team claims are free.

30 AI conversations/mo
No per-minute charges. Minutes are free; unanswered calls and voicemails are free.
Every feature included
Compliance built in — consent, quiet hours, 10DLC

Start

$199/mo

100 AI conversations/mo · 1 number

$1.99 per AI conversation · minutes free · unanswered calls free

One AI conversation = one conversation the AI has with a person. Unanswered calls, voicemails and spam are free, and so are minutes. Leads your team claims are free.

100 AI conversations/mo
No per-minute charges. Minutes are free; unanswered calls and voicemails are free.
Every feature included
Compliance built in — consent, quiet hours, 10DLC

Grow

$499/mo

300 AI conversations/mo · 3 numbers

$1.66 per AI conversation · minutes free · unanswered calls free

One AI conversation = one conversation the AI has with a person. Unanswered calls, voicemails and spam are free, and so are minutes. Leads your team claims are free.

300 AI conversations/mo
No per-minute charges. Minutes are free; unanswered calls and voicemails are free.
Every feature included
Compliance built in — consent, quiet hours, 10DLC

Scale

$999/mo

750 AI conversations/mo · 10 numbers

$1.33 per AI conversation · minutes free · unanswered calls free

One AI conversation = one conversation the AI has with a person. Unanswered calls, voicemails and spam are free, and so are minutes. Leads your team claims are free.

750 AI conversations/mo
No per-minute charges. Minutes are free; unanswered calls and voicemails are free.
Every feature included
Compliance built in — consent, quiet hours, 10DLC

Caps pause the AI — they never surprise-bill. At your cap you choose: buy extra AI conversations for this period, or change plan at your next renewal. Doing neither is fine.

Running more than one business? Each additional business account is 5% off.

Extra AI conversations

Extra AI conversations (blocks of 10) — $1.99 per AI conversation · a block of 10 AI conversations is $19.90

$1.99 per AI conversation — the same rate as Start, so moving up is never the worse deal.

Multi-Line — $29/mo — run more than one business line under one account

The no-surprises covenant

Every promise on this page maps to a built behavior in the product — not fine print.

✓Month-to-month. No contracts, no setup fee, no onboarding charge.

✓Self-serve cancel from your Billing page — no calls, no retention scripts. You keep access through the period you paid for.

✓Caps pause the AI — they never surprise-bill. At your cap you choose: buy extra AI conversations for this period, or change plan at your next renewal. Doing neither is fine.

✓We alert you at 80% of your monthly AI conversations.

✓If the AI pauses at your cap, your team alerts and claim windows keep working.

✓No per-minute charges. Minutes are free, and so are unanswered calls and voicemails.

✓Every feature on every plan — plans differ only by capacity.

✓Compliance included on every plan: consent evidence, quiet hours, the state rules in our 17-state table, 10DLC registration — never an upsell. Scrubbing against external do-not-call registries is an optional integration you contract for; it is not included.

✓A single opt-out stops texts, calls, emails and voicemail drops. "Please stop calling" works. Any words, any channel — no magic keywords required.

✓Port your number in, port it out — your number is yours. If you leave, we cooperate with your port the day you ask, and we hold your numbers for 90 days in case you come back. Never resold, never held hostage.

Do I have to give up my existing number? No. Register the numbers you forward in, with your carrier's forwarding codes. Calls that arrive by forwarding are labelled with the line they came through. Add a second number without re-running setup. If the carriers reject the registration, you fix and resubmit the same registration at no charge, with a card explaining what was flagged. See FirstFiveMin Text →

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Frequently asked

Is it legal for an AI to call my leads?

Yes, done right. The AI identifies itself, only dials with a recorded consent, honors STOP instantly, and respects quiet hours and state rules — all audited.

Does the AI replace my office staff?

No. Your team answers first inside the window; the AI only acts as a backstop when nobody can, and hands you the booked estimate.

Does it connect to my CRM?

Yes — Zapier, Make and signed webhooks.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Month-to-month, no contracts. Cancel yourself from the billing page — no calls, no retention scripts — and you keep access through the period you've already paid for.

Will it ask my customers for reviews?

Once you add your review link, yes — one text after an appointment that actually happened, and not again for ninety days. It offers nothing in return, and it never looks at how the appointment went before sending. It only checks that it happened.

Also on every plan

✓Share your contact card by link, QR code, an NFC tag or NameDrop; people can text or call you straight from it.

✓Name where each of your numbers is posted, and every lead shows which one it came from.

✓When nobody may be called, your lead page can chat with the visitor and book a time.

✓Import an old lead list; only the people whose consent you can prove are ever called.

✓Send offers by text only to leads who ask for them.

✓List the ZIP codes and towns you serve; the assistant checks a caller's area before it books.

✓Add a callback button or a form box to any website: copy and paste, no code.

✓A page of your own on your short link: buttons to call, text or ask for a callback, plus your services, hours and area.

✓If a phone's call screening picks up, the assistant says who it is and why it is calling, then waits for you.

✓When an AI assistant calls for a customer, your assistant answers what you offer, the starting prices you entered and your next openings.

Get leads in — with or without a website How each one works

Point it at one lead source and watch what happens.

Month-to-month, no contracts, no setup fee. If it doesn't book you anything, cancel from your Billing page and nothing else happens.

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State exclusion: the AI assistant does not call numbers in Indiana (Ind. Code §24-5-14-5). State law requires a live operator to obtain consent before an automated device may deliver an artificial-voice message, so FirstFiveMin does not AI-dial there. Your team alerts and claim windows still work normally.