AI answering service for electricians
handlo answers every call — outages, sparking panels, and rewire quotes — qualifies the job by urgency and safety, and gets the dangerous ones to you fast.
An electrical emergency is urgent and high-value. A missed after-hours call is a job that goes straight to the next electrician who picks up.
Calls handlo handles for Electricians
Sparking panel after hours
A homeowner reports a burning smell and sparks from the panel. handlo answers instantly, flags it as a safety emergency, captures the address, and pushes it to you right away.
Partial outage mid-job
A caller loses power to half the house. handlo qualifies the issue, captures the panel and symptom details, and routes the job while you are on another site.
Panel-upgrade or rewire quote
A homeowner planning a renovation wants a quote on a panel upgrade. handlo captures the scope, property age, and timeline so you get a qualified, high-ticket lead.
Overflow during the workday
Calls arrive while you are up a ladder. handlo answers each one, books the routine work, and escalates anything urgent — nothing goes to voicemail.
What handlo captures on every call
- Service address and property type
- The electrical issue and any safety signs (sparks, burning smell, full/partial outage)
- Emergency vs. routine (safety/urgency flag)
- Preferred callback time and best contact number
No stopwatch running on the line
Nobody should be hurrying a caller who has just described smoke. handlo bills a flat $49/mo to start with an allowance and a ceiling you set, so the length of a call is never a cost decision.
Safety calls flagged and routed
handlo recognizes a sparking panel from a quote request and escalates the dangerous ones to you on WhatsApp or SMS in seconds.
Set up in minutes
Describe your services, service area, and hours. handlo answers in your business’s voice from day one — no scripts, no staff training.
A call that begins with the word “burning”
When somebody says they can smell burning or see sparks, the order of the conversation changes. handlo tells them to stop using that circuit and, if there is smoke or flame, to leave the building and call the emergency services — before it asks for anything else at all. Only then does it collect the address and the detail.
That sequence is written into the instructions you give it rather than improvised on the call. What reaches your phone is a job marked as a safety call, carrying the address, exactly what the caller saw, and whether power is still live to that part of the property.
The pushback, and the honest answer
- “Safety calls are the ones software should not take.” Something that answers at 11pm and tells the caller to kill the circuit beats a voicemail box that tells them nothing. It escalates; it does not handle.
- “Most of my work is commercial, not homeowners.” Then most of your calls are site managers and other trades chasing a slot. Those arrive as messages with the site name and the trade attached.
- “I need to know the panel before I quote.” So it asks — panel age, main breaker rating where the caller can read it, whether the property was ever rewired. Anything the caller cannot answer is recorded as unknown, not guessed.
- “I already miss calls and still have plenty of work.” Then use it as a filter. The inquiries you never wanted arrive as written notes you can ignore, and the panel upgrades stop slipping past.
What it will not attempt
- It will not walk anyone through isolating, resetting or working on a circuit beyond telling them to stop using it.
- It will not confirm that anything is safe. There is no version of this where an assistant clears a property over the phone.
- It will not price a rewire or an upgrade. It captures scope, property age and timeline and leaves the number to you.
Connecting it to how you actually run
A one-van electrician and a six-van shop want different things from the same call, so the routing is yours to set.
- Forward everything, or only what rings out unanswered — the number on your vehicles stays the number callers dial.
- Safety-flagged calls hit your phone in seconds by WhatsApp or SMS; quotes and routine work land in a written queue.
- Connect a calendar for scheduled work, or leave it off and place every job by hand.
Frequently asked questions
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Don’t let the next call reach voicemail.
If you don’t capture a missed call in the first 48 hours, just cancel — we’d be surprised.