The AI Front Office · For trade & construction operators

The AI Front Office. Your on-ramp.

For HVAC contractors, roofing crews, solar installers, kitchen & bath firms, plumbing & electrical service businesses, custom home builders, and other trade & construction operators. One standalone agent tier. Premium build. Replaces the dispatcher, the appointment coordinator, and the after-hours answering service — who never get hired together. 12-month partnership · upgrade into a Stack any time, prorated.

Personalized for your industry

Tier recommendation for your business.

What we actually replace

Not your front-desk hire. Your front-office function.

Most service businesses spend $150,000 to $300,000 a year building a fragmented front office — receptionist, appointment coordinator, after-hours answering service, intake coordinator, sometimes an inside sales rep on top of that. Three to six people doing pieces of one job that none of them does completely. None of them are there at 9pm on Sunday. None of them speak the customer’s first language. None of them remember the conversation from three weeks ago.

One agent. From $997 a month. Picks up every call. Books every appointment. In every language your customers speak. Across every channel they use. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Doesn’t replace your front-desk hire. Replaces your front-office function.

The capacity gap · Visualized

What your team can do. What one agent does.

Side-by-side. Honest math. A typical 3-to-6 person front-office team at a $2M service business compared to a single AI Front Office agent. Cost is the last column — not the headline. The headline is what your team physically cannot do at any price.

Capability
Front-office team
3–6 humans · $150K–$300K/yr
One AI agent
AI Front Office · $997/mo
Hours covered per month
168 hrs (9–5 only)
720 hrs (24/7/365)
After-hours coverage
Answering service only (message-taking, no booking)
Full sales conversations (qualify, book, follow-up)
Concurrent conversations
3–6 max (one per human at peak)
Unlimited (parallel sessions)
Languages
1–2 (usually English + maybe Spanish)
~95 chat · ~30 voice (production-quality)
Channels covered
Phone · sometimes email (rarely all)
Phone · Chat · SMS (unified context)
Response time
~12 min avg (hours when missed)
<10 sec (every time)
Conversion rate (inquiry → booked)
18–22% (industry average)
35–40% (trained on your business)
Consistency
Variable (per person, per shift, per mood)
Identical every time (tunable to your standard)
Cost
$12,500–$25,000/mo fully loaded
$997/mo all-in

Front-office team cost assumes a typical $2M service business: receptionist + appointment coordinator + after-hours answering service + intake coordinator + occasional ISA. Conversion rate ranges drawn from industry benchmarks (HubSpot, Salesforce, ServiceTitan, Drift). Account Manager conversion rate based on trained-deployment performance across deployed clients in adjacent verticals.

Cost per conversation

What this actually costs per customer interaction.

Front-office team
$18,000/mo combined cost · ~360 conversations/mo
$50/conv
Plus overflow that never gets answered
25×
cheaper per conversation
One AI agent
$997/mo · up to 500 conversations/mo
$2/conv
Every conversation. Every channel. 24/7.

Per-conversation math: $18K/mo human team handling 360 monthly inquiries (typical mid-size service business) → $50 per conversation. The AI Front Office at $997/mo handling ~500 monthly conversations → about $2 per conversation. The gap widens as inquiry volume scales — human cost grows linearly, agent cost stays flat.

Competitive timing

The window is closing. Fast.

Voice AI adoption in service businesses has tripled in 18 months. The early adopters in your market are already capturing the leads your team misses. By the end of 2026, AI front-office coverage will be the baseline. The first deployer in any local market typically captures and holds the dominant share.

Q4 2025
Q1 2026
Q2 2026
Q3 2026
Q4 2026
Q1 2027
Early adopters in your market
Already deployed · capturing leads competitors miss · 35–40% conversion · compounding
Laggards
Still on voicemail + human staff · 18–22% conversion · losing share quarterly · catching up by 2027
You are here

Sources: McKinsey “State of AI” 2025 + 2026 surveys; Forrester Conversational AI Adoption Index 2026; Salesforce State of Service Report 2025-2026. Voice AI adoption in service businesses grew from 6% (Q4 2024) to 19% (Q4 2025) to projected 38% by Q4 2026.

01 · Capability

One trained agent. 720 hours a month. Every language your customers speak.

Trained on your services, your pricing, your competitors, your brand voice. Tunable from customer-service-warm to consultative-advisor to aggressive-closer — your choice. Calendar-native: sees your availability and books directly. Cross-channel: phone, chat, SMS — same context, same conversation, never starts over. Hands off to a live human during business hours when the lead is hot.

02 · Math

Costs less than the entry-level hire you’ve been trying to make for two years.

Replaces the $150K–$300K/yr fragmented front-office function — receptionist, appointment coordinator, after-hours service, intake coordinator. One AI Front Office agent at $997/mo does the work of all of them, 24/7, in every language, with 2x the conversion rate. The math isn’t “20% cheaper than a human.” The math is about 25x cheaper per conversation, while covering hours and channels the human team can’t reach at any price.

03 · Timing

The first business in your local market to deploy owns the next decade.

Three blocks from where you’re reading this, a competitor in your vertical has already deployed an AI front office or is about to. Right now they’re booking the consultations, the showings, the test drives, the discovery calls that your team didn’t get to in time. Catching up takes 6–12-months once you start. Starting tomorrow means you’re competing for second place. Starting today means you set the pace and everyone else reacts. This is the single highest-leverage decision a service-business operator will make in 2026.

How to pick

One agent. It replaces the whole front-office function.

The AI Front Office replaces the front desk coordinator who answers and books appointments, the after-hours answering service, and the intake coordinator — answering actual phone calls, chat and SMS 24/7. When you need it to actively sell and work the customer relationship at scale, that grade lives inside the Growth and Authority Stacks — and that grade lives inside the Growth and Authority Stacks — upgrading is prorated and instant.

Every tier integrates with your calendar (Google Calendar, Microsoft 365), sends SMS confirmations and reminders, and includes the conversation logging, anonymization pipeline, and Consent Pack required for legal compliance — same infrastructure we use on Studio Máté’s own agent, Sofia.

Built for · seven verticals

Trade & construction operators. Premium builders.

Each vertical has its own dominant operational software, its own buyer behavior, its own bottleneck. The agent is configured to your stack on day one of onboarding.

Vertical · 01

HVAC Contractors

A no-cool emergency at 9:47pm Sunday. The homeowner calls four contractors. Three go to voicemail. The AI Front Office picks up in 8 seconds, qualifies urgency, dispatches the on-call tech with unit make and model. The $4,200 condenser replacement starts Monday.

BottleneckAfter-hours emergencies, peak-hour overflow, maintenance contract renewal
RecommendedAI Front Office
IntegrationsServiceTitan · FieldEdge · Housecall Pro · Jobber · ServiceFusion
Vertical · 02

Roofing Contractors

200 calls in 48 hours after a Cat-3 hurricane crosses your service area. Your office handles 40. The AI Front Office handles all 200 — qualifies insurance vs. cash, captures claim-window dates, books inspections in priority order. The competition’s voicemail loses, you don’t.

BottleneckPost-storm demand spikes, insurance restoration qualification, inspection no-shows
RecommendedAI Front Office
IntegrationsJobNimbus · AccuLynx · Roofr · CompanyCam · Xactimate
Vertical · 03

Solar Installers

A homeowner researches at 10:47pm after opening a $387 electric bill. The AI Front Office answers ITC + NEM 3.0 + financing questions at homeowner-research hour, models the system at his sq footage, confirms 200A MSP, books the site assessment. The $48K system closes in 14 days instead of 14 weeks.

Bottleneck6-14 week nurture, ITC + financing literacy, MSP + roof qualification
RecommendedAI Front Office
IntegrationsAurora Solar · OpenSolar · Sungage · GoodLeap · Mosaic · Sunlight
Vertical · 04

Kitchen & Bath Design Firms

A homeowner finishes a Houzz scroll Saturday at 3pm. She inquires with three showrooms. The AI Front Office books her into your senior designer’s calendar in under 5 minutes — budget qualified, Pinterest matched, NKBA-grade conversation. The $92K kitchen renovation signs because two competitors didn’t respond until Monday.

BottleneckShowroom appointment lag, budget qualification, designer-tier matching
RecommendedAI Front Office
IntegrationsHubSpot · Pipedrive · Houzz Pro · 2020 Design · custom CRMs
Vertical · 05

Custom Home Builders

A couple sold their tech startup and wants to build on their 1.4-acre lot. Your senior PM’s Saturday is too valuable to waste on tire-kickers. The AI Front Office runs lot + zoning + financing pre-qualification, confirms spouse alignment, and books only $2M+ qualified prospects onto the PM’s calendar.

BottleneckTire-kicker filter, lot feasibility, spouse alignment, spec home tour qualification
RecommendedAI Front Office
IntegrationsBuilderTrend · CoConstruct · Procore · JobTread · HubSpot · Salesforce
Vertical · 06

Plumbing Contractors

A burst pipe at 2:14am. The homeowner panics, the ceiling is flooding the second floor. The AI Front Office answers in under 10 seconds, walks her through shutting off the main water valve while dispatching your on-call tech. The $389 emergency call becomes a $13,800 PEX repipe two weeks later when the inspection reveals systemic galvanized failure.

Bottleneck24/7 emergency dispatch, commercial contract renewal, repipe / sewer qualification
RecommendedAI Front Office
IntegrationsServiceTitan · Housecall Pro · Jobber · FieldEdge · ServiceFusion
Also serving — 14 more trade verticals
Electrical Contractors
EV charger qualification · panel upgrades · emergency vs. utility triage
Pest Control Companies
Recurring contract conversion · termite urgency · seasonal scheduling
Garage Door Specialists
Same-day emergency dispatch · install quote education · safety screen
Generator Dealers
Pre-hurricane demand spikes · install qualification · maintenance renewal
Pool & Spa Builders
Build inquiries · seasonal opens / closes · budget tier qualification
See all 21 trade verticals →
One entry agent · Credit toward any Stack

One agent. Trained to three depths.

Each grade is the same avatar agent, trained to do more. Upgrades are prorated and instant; downgrades within the term run at the tier signed.

Avatar face — Richard Avatar face — Liv Avatar face — Gabriel Avatar face — Mia Avatar face — Anne Avatar face — Carmen

Every tier comes with a custom photorealistic face and voice like these — tap any face to see the full gallery. You pick the look; the tier sets the job.

AI Front Office

A live avatar on your site that also answers your phone line, chat and text 24/7 — captures leads, qualifies, books appointments to your calendar, and confirms. The front desk that never closes. Reduces no-show rates 20–30%.

$997
per month · 12-month partnership · one-time setup $499
  • Live avatar on your website
  • 24/7 inbound phone, chat & text
  • Hands a call off to the on-site avatar on request
  • Books appointments directly to your calendar
  • Confirmations + day-of reminders + reschedules
  • Voice in ~30 languages; chat & text unlimited languages
  • Google Calendar + Microsoft 365 integrations
  • Up to 500 conversations / month
  • Monthly performance report
Start with the AI Front Office

Anchor: A receptionist runs $45,000–$60,000/year fully loaded — and only works business hours. The AI Front Office is $997/mo and never clocks out.

Account Manager grade

Everything the Sales Rep grade does — same live avatar, same 24/7 phone, chat and text — plus it works the relationship on its own: maintenance and seasonal reminders, win-backs, review requests after a job, and recurring rebookings. Revenue that compounds after the first sale. Available inside the Authority Stack.

Inside the Authority Stack
$12,497/mo · the full operating system
  • Everything in Sales Rep grade
  • Proactive outreach — it initiates, not just responds
  • Maintenance & seasonal reminder campaigns
  • Win-back of lapsed customers
  • Post-job review requests + reputation building
  • Recurring-service rebooking + light dispatch coordination
  • Call recording + transcription + analytics
  • Up to 5,000 conversations / month (chat + voice combined)
  • Weekly performance reviews
See the Authority Stack

Anchor: An account manager plus coordinator runs $90,000–$140,000/year — and still goes home at five. The Authority Stack is $12,497/mo and never does.

Integrations · Where the agent reads + writes

Available today.

Available today · Live in every tier

Calendars: Google Calendar · Microsoft 365 · Apple iCal · any CalDAV-compatible system.

CRM & Sales: HubSpot · Salesforce · Pipedrive · Follow Up Boss · KvCORE · custom REST API integrations.

HVAC / Plumbing / Electrical dispatch: ServiceTitan · FieldEdge · Housecall Pro · Jobber · ServiceFusion · Successware.

Roofing CRM & estimating: JobNimbus · AccuLynx · Roofr · CompanyCam · Xactimate (some require per-customer API key setup).

Solar design & financing: Aurora Solar · OpenSolar · Sungage · GoodLeap · Mosaic · Sunlight · EnerBank.

Builder & remodeler project management: BuilderTrend · CoConstruct · Procore · JobTread · Houzz Pro.

Pest control & field service: PestPac · FieldRoutes · GorillaDesk · ServSuite · Skimmer (for pool service).

Communications: SMS + voice telephony · real-time voice synthesis · live transcription · WhatsApp Business (on request).

Included in every tier · No matter which you pick

The premium build. Not the cheap chatbot.

Built on best-in-class reasoning — the most capable models available. Conversations sound like a person, not a script.

Custom-trained per business — we ingest your service catalog, pricing, brand voice, FAQ database, and operational rules. The agent doesn’t read from a generic script; it knows your business.

Legal compliance built in — GDPR · Quebec Law 25 · CCPA · PIPEDA. Conversation logging, anonymization pipeline, In-Conversation Consent Pack on every deployment. Audit-trail-ready from day one.

Onboarding covers — agent training, integration setup, SMS template setup, brand voice configuration, voice persona (Account Manager +), and a 30-day post-launch optimization sprint.

Language coverage · What “unlimited” means by channel

Honest about the limits.

Chat & SMS — truly unlimited. The agent’s reasoning handles ~95 languages fluently. If your customer types in Tagalog, Wolof, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Polish, Mandarin, or Hindi, the chat agent responds natively. No restriction. No tier upgrade required.

Voice (Account Manager) — ~30 languages with fluent voice synthesis. Voice requires text-to-speech and speech-to-text, which support roughly 30 languages with production-quality voice rendering. Sofia is trained natively in English, Spanish, and French. Other languages are technically supported but not part of our standard training stack — available on request for custom engagements.

If your business needs a specific language outside the voice list, tell us on the discovery call. In most cases we can confirm coverage and quality before the engagement starts; in edge cases we’ll quote a custom voice configuration scoped separately.

Engagement terms

Simple. Operator-friendly.

12-month partnership on everything. Standalone products and Stacks alike run on a 12-month partnership, and upgrading into a Stack any time is prorated — built for operators who want to see it work before committing to the system. Stacks are annual partnerships, because agent training, voice persona work, and content library setup compound over months.

30-day satisfaction guarantee on onboarding. If the agent isn’t deployed and performing within 30 days of onboarding kickoff, you get a full refund of the onboarding fee and we walk away clean — no monthly fees charged, no obligation continued.

No auto-renewal. At the end of Year 1 the engagement does not roll over silently. We sign a new agreement to continue. The renewal is your active choice, not our default behavior.

Early termination. If you need to exit mid-engagement, a 50% buyout of the remaining months releases you from the contract. No collections drama, no clawbacks — we’d rather you leave well than feel trapped.

One-time onboarding fee: AI Front Office $499 (Stack onboarding: Front Desk $1,899 · Growth $3,749 · Authority $6,249). Covers agent training, integration setup, brand voice configuration, voice persona, and 30-day optimization sprint.

Tier upgrades prorate instantly. Pay the difference for the current month, new tier locks in next cycle. Downgrades within the term run at the tier signed.

Account Manager fair-use: Unlimited inbound minutes for normal business use. Sustained usage exceeding 2,000 inbound minutes/month for three consecutive months may trigger an upgrade conversation — we’ll always reach out first.

What’s not included: phone number rental ($1–3/mo per number — your direct cost). Outbound calling (Account Manager is inbound only at launch).

Want the full system?

The agent works best with the rest of the stack.

The AI Avatar Agent answers and books. But where do the leads come from in the first place? An SEO content engine that ranks for your service keywords, and a website that converts the traffic the agent talks to. Studio Máté Stacks bundle all three — AI Avatar Agent + SEO + Website — working as one synchronized system.

Ready to plug it in?

A 30-minute walkthrough is how we figure out whether the AI Front Office or a full Stack fits, what your integrations look like, and how fast we can get the agent live. Two-week typical launch.