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AI phone calls for tradies

Never miss a job enquiry while you’re on the tools, and follow up every quote.

Bjorn Kim, founder of NOVA · 29 October 2026 · 6 min read
The short answerYou can’t answer the phone under a sink or up a ladder. An AI caller can: it takes the job details, books a time to look, and sends you everything as a lead. It can also ring back on quotes you haven’t heard about. Keep pricing and safety calls with you.

On the tools, off the phone

A job enquiry that goes to voicemail often goes to the next tradie. An AI caller picks up every time, says it’s your AI assistant, and gets what you need to quote: the job, the address, how urgent it is and the best number.

Follow up every quote

Quotes that sit for a week go cold. With Ora you can upload the quotes you want followed up as a call list, approve them, and it rings in your hours to ask if they’d like to go ahead, then logs every answer as a lead with a task.

What to keep with you

  • Prices. The AI only says prices you’ve approved, and offers a proper quote for anything else.
  • Safety and anything that needs a licence or sign-off.
  • Emergencies. Urgent calls go straight through to you.

A first week

DayDo this
MondayApprove the facts Ora drafts from your website: services, area, hours and what you don’t do.
TuesdayTurn on answering for the hours you’re on the tools.
WednesdayUpload last month’s open quotes and approve them for follow-up.
ThursdayRead the call summaries and work through your follow-up tasks.
FridayCount the jobs that came from calls you’d have missed.

JENA, NOVA’s AI employees, can take it from there: drafting the quote and chasing the invoice. Read AI for tradies and service businesses.

Questions

Can an AI answer my phone while I’m on a job?

Yes. Ora answers, takes the job details and sends you the caller as a lead, and puts urgent calls through to you.

Can it follow up my quotes?

Yes. Upload the quotes as a call list, approve them, and it rings in your hours and logs every answer.

Will it quote prices?

Only prices you’ve approved. For anything else it offers a proper quote from you.

Try Ora on your own business.

Set it up free and practise calls in your browser. Or ring Veronica, our own Ora, on 09 873 4723.

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