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HL Bowman was drowning in call volume and could not scale without adding expensive headcount. They were missing calls and losing jobs as a result.
They deployed an AI call-handling system that answered every inbound call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
"I can run a $100 million business with 9 CSRs because AI handles 70% of our entire call volume — all while booking at a higher rate than ever before."
After-hours calls were going completely unanswered. The team was stressed, jobs were being lost every night, and there was no way to staff phones around the clock without a huge expense.
They deployed an AI voice receptionist that handled all after-hours calls automatically, booked appointments, and captured every lead.
"When a hurricane knocked out our phones and internet, we could not reach our clients — AI stepped in and answered every call and booked them."
Slow call overflow was costing them leads. Customers were waiting 4 to 5 minutes to be answered, and many were hanging up and calling competitors instead.
They routed overflow calls to an AI system that answered instantly, captured leads, and booked appointments without any wait time.
"Before AI, our customers were waiting 4 to 5 minutes, and sometimes they were not getting answered at all. Now if we do not answer, it goes straight to AI."
Aire Serv was losing significant revenue every night when their office closed. After-hours calls went unanswered, and those customers called competitors. They had no cost-effective way to staff phones after hours.
They replaced their live after-hours answering service with an AI system that booked jobs, answered questions, and signed up customers for maintenance subscription plans automatically.
"The AI was cross-selling maintenance plans while booking service calls automatically."
Brook Riley's shop used to miss calls constantly. His staff spent hours every day on the phone — time that should have been spent on actual jobs. Dispatch was done manually, which was slow and error-prone.
He implemented full AI call handling and dispatch automation, allowing the system to manage all inbound calls and route jobs intelligently.
"Brook credits AI with fundamentally changing what his business is capable of."
Sources: avoca.ai/customers/hl-bowman, avoca.ai/customers/top-flight-electric, avoca.ai/customers/my-plumber-plus, avoca.ai/customers/aire-serv, servicetitan.com/blog/plumbing-ai-tools-for-business
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