For contractors in North Jersey

Your crew is on a roof. Your phone still answers.

An AI phone agent written for a contracting business: general contractors, remodelers, roofers, decks, additions. It answers under your company name and takes the estimate request the way your office would: job type, address, rough timeline, how they heard of you. It quotes a number only if you tell it to. It books the walkthrough onto the calendar you already keep and texts the confirmation. $297 a month, 400 minutes included, then 30 cents a minute, setup quoted per shop. Some contractors call it an AI receptionist or an AI answering service; this one is written for your shop. Call it and hear it.

Hear the agent at (862) 420-0297 How the phone agent works

One estimate request, ring to walkthrough.

Not a demo call. The call a remodeler gets at 11:40 on a Tuesday, while the crew is framing in Randolph and nobody is near a phone.

01 · one call, link by link

The office would ask five things and book the visit. So does the agent.

Same questions, same order, and it stops where your office would stop: it does not tell the caller what a kitchen costs. It takes what your estimator needs, offers a walkthrough off your real calendar, and puts the whole thing in one text thread.

If they send the photos, they come to your shop’s own line, so you can walk in on Thursday having already seen the room. Every link on the right is something the agent does, in the order it does it.

Tuesday · 11:40 AM · crew in Randolph

11:40 AM, the phone rings The crew is framing in Randolph. Nobody is near a phone. Second ring, it picks up.
Answered under your company name Your name, your hours, your service area. Not ours.
Job type Kitchen remodel. Cabinets, counters, and a wall they would like to open up.
The town Rockaway. Inside the area you told it you work.
Rough timeline “Before the holidays.” Written down the way the caller said it.
How they found you A neighbor’s job last spring. Noted, so you know what is working.
Photos Asks whether they can text a couple of photos of the kitchen. They say yes.
Walkthrough booked Thursday 5:30 PM, read off your real calendar, not a slot it invented.
Confirmation texted Time, address, and the request for the photos, in one text.
On the board at lunch You see it at noon. Your move.

Illustrative sequence, not a live feed.

The calls a contractor actually gets.

Not every call is a lead, and the agent is written to know the difference. Here is what it handles on its own, and the four things it hands straight to you.

What it handles

Estimate requests for kitchens, baths, decks, roofs, and additions, taken the way your office takes them
“Are you licensed and insured?” Answered from your own facts, with the license number read out if you want it read
The sub or the supplier who needs the office, routed to the person you name
The customer checking on a start date, taken down and flagged for you
The after-hours “can someone come look tomorrow,” booked to the first real opening

What it will not do

It does not quote a price or a square-foot number unless you turn that on. Out of the box, nobody prices your work but you.
It does not promise a start date. It takes the question and hands it to you.
Asked whether it is a person, it says no. Every time.
It does not replace anyone in the office. It takes the calls the office was not there for.

Run an HVAC or plumbing shop instead? The HVAC page and the plumbing page are written for those calls. Every trade we work with is on the industries page, and the agent across the whole state is on the New Jersey page.

02 · qualification, quoting optional

Everything the estimator needs. Not one number, unless you say so.

A caller who wants a price on the phone gets a straight answer: that is what the walkthrough is for, and here are the openings. What the agent does instead is gather what you would want before you drove out. The job and its scope, the house, the timeline, whether they own it, whether there are drawings, how they found you. Then it stops.

That is the default, not a gap. A square-foot number read out by a machine is the fastest way to lose a job you would have won standing in the kitchen, and the agent is written to know that. If you want it quoting from your own price list, that is a switch you turn on, not a rule we impose.

Job type and scope, in the caller’s own words
Address and town, checked against where you work
Rough timeline, and whether there is a deadline behind it
Whether they own the property, and whether plans or drawings exist
How they found you
Photos by text, when they are willing to send them

03 · the part most of them skip

It fits the way your outfit already works.

Contractors run on estimates, walkthroughs, and a calendar that changes when the weather does. The agent is wired into whatever holds that for you: a project or field service platform, a scheduling app, a CRM, a shared Google Calendar, or a whiteboard in the trailer and a phone. The estimate request that came in while the crew was on a roof lands where you will actually see it.

Setup is quoted per business for that reason. Tying the agent to a shared calendar is one job; tying it into a platform with lead sources, bid stages, and a crew schedule is another, and a single printed price would be wrong for one of them.

There is an optional dashboard for calls, messages, and the calendar. Plenty of contractors never open it and just work off the confirmation text.

04 · the number

What a contractor pays: $297 a month, meter printed.

400 minutes are included, roughly 130 calls at three minutes a call, and estimate calls tend to run longer than emergency ones, so a busy spring can push past it. Past 400 it is 30 cents a minute, printed here so you can price a heavy month before you ever call us. No tiers, no bundles.

Setup is a one-time fee quoted once we know what the agent has to plug into. Cancel with 30 days notice, no penalty, and the number your trucks are lettered with stays yours.

Monthly: $297
Included: 400 min
After that: $0.30 / min
Setup: Quoted

Where it stops.

The agent takes the calls nobody was there for: the estimate request during a pour, the after-hours voicemail that used to sit until morning, the third call from the same customer asking the same question. It books the walkthrough and texts the confirmation. It does not price a deck, does not promise a start date, and does not decide which crew goes where. Your estimator and your office keep every decision that was ever theirs.

Who builds it.

One guy in North Jersey. I write every agent myself, and I am the one who picks up when it needs changing.

Don Martin, founder, MarginMax Solutions LLC

No account manager, no ticket queue, no offshore build team. Sparta based, working with shops across Sussex County, Morris County, Warren County, Passaic County, Bergen County, Essex County, Hunterdon County, Somerset County and Hudson County. Read the longer version.

Tell it you want a deck. Then decide.

Call the demo line and ask for an estimate. Ask it what it costs per square foot and hear what it does with a price question. Then decide whether it belongs on your line.

862-420-0297

It is an AI. It will tell you so if you ask. When it sounds like your shop, book the free consultation or ask for a demo built around your own business.

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