Your phone rang
at 7:42am.
You were
under a sink.
Otto is an AI receptionist for local service businesses. It picks up on the first ring, answers the questions everyone asks, and puts the job on your calendar — while you keep both hands on the work.
Every unanswered call is a competitor’s next customer.
Move the sliders to your numbers. This is the value of the calls that already go to voicemail.
$8,189 a month · 18 jobs you never heard about
Your inputs, your arithmetic — nothing here is an industry statistic and no tool recovers every missed call. It’s a ceiling, not a promise. But if the number surprised you, that’s the point.
It’s not a voicemail box. It’s the employee you couldn’t justify hiring.
Answers every call, day or night
First ring, 3am, Sunday, while you’re on the other line. Otto speaks naturally, takes the details, and never puts anyone on hold. Callers hang up on voicemail. They talk to Otto.
Books straight into your calendar
Otto knows your service area, your hours, your job types and how long each one takes. It offers real slots and writes the appointment into the calendar you already use.
Texts back the ones that slip through
If a call goes unanswered anyway, Otto sends a text within seconds and keeps the conversation going. Most people book by text before they call the next name on the list.
Answers the same twelve questions, forever
Pricing ranges, service area, are you licensed, do you do emergencies, how soon can you come. You tell Otto once. It never gets tired of repeating you.
Hands you the ones that need a human
A big commercial bid, an angry customer, anything outside its brief — Otto stops, transfers or flags it, and sends you the full transcript. It knows what it doesn’t know.
Set up in an afternoon. No new app to learn.
Forward your number
Keep the number on your truck and your business cards. You forward it to Otto — or only forward what you don’t pick up. Takes about ten minutes.
Tell Otto about the business
A short call where you talk through your services, pricing, service area and hours. We build Otto’s script from that and send it to you to correct.
Go back to work
Jobs land on your calendar. Transcripts land in your inbox. You review the first week’s calls and tell us what to fix.
Trades where the phone is the whole funnel.
The first 50 shape what Otto becomes.
We’re onboarding founding customers by hand, one trade at a time, so Otto actually sounds like someone who works at your shop.
- Free through the beta, then founding pricing locked for good
- We build and tune your call script with you — not a form to fill out
- Direct line to the founders. You ask, we change it that week
The things everyone asks first.
Will my customers know it’s not a person?
Otto introduces itself as your virtual assistant — we don’t pretend otherwise, and in several states that disclosure is the law. In practice callers care about one thing: somebody picked up and their problem is getting handled.
What happens when Otto can’t handle it?
It stops guessing. Depending on how you set it up, Otto transfers to your cell, takes a detailed message, or flags it as urgent — and you get the transcript either way.
Do I have to change my phone number?
No. You keep the number that’s on your truck and forward it. You can forward everything, or only the calls you don’t pick up in four rings.
What will it cost?
Beta is free. We’re still setting pricing with our founding customers, and they get whatever we land on, locked, for as long as they stay. Waitlist members hear the number before anyone else.
Does it work with my scheduling software?
Google Calendar and Outlook at launch. Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan are what founding customers are asking for most — tell us which one you use and it moves up the list.
When does it actually launch?
We’re onboarding founding customers now, in small batches, by trade. Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you which batch you’re in rather than leaving you guessing.