AgentBuddy answers your phone, writes your quotes and chases your invoices, so you can stay on the tools.
●Starting at NZ$29 a month plus usage. No card to start.
Drainlayers spend half their day chasing quotes and answering calls instead of digging trenches or jetting pipes. AgentBuddy takes the phone, writes quotes with trade pricing, and sends follow ups so you can focus on fixing blocked sewers and laying stormwater drains.
A homeowner calls about a blocked sewer. AgentBuddy asks the address, captures the issue, and emails a fixed-price quote for CCTV inspection and hydrojetting. You just accept and book the job.
A commercial property has a wastewater overflow. AgentBuddy answers after hours, confirms the emergency, and adds the job to your calendar with priority. No missed calls, no double booking.
A builder hasn't paid a 30 day invoice for a stormwater connection. AgentBuddy sends a polite reminder with a payment link, then calls the next week if still unpaid. You get paid faster.
AgentBuddy answers every call, asks the customer key details, and sends you a text summary. You can call back when you're free or let AgentBuddy book the job directly.
Yes. You set your pricing for CCTV inspections, drain relining, hydrojetting, and new stormwater lines. AgentBuddy uses those rates to build a quote on the spot.
AgentBuddy sends automated SMS and email follow ups to leads who haven't booked. If a customer says 'I'll call back', AgentBuddy will remind them after 3 days.
AgentBuddy introduces itself as your assistant and never pretends to be you. Most callers care that someone picked up and booked them in. If a caller asks for you directly it takes a message or puts them through, depending on the rule you set.
It says so rather than guessing, takes the details and passes the question to you. You give it a pricing range it is not allowed to quote outside, so it cannot commit you to a number you would not have given yourself.
No. You keep your number and forward it to AgentBuddy, either all the time or only when you do not pick up. You can turn forwarding off whenever you want, and calls come straight back to your phone.
AgentBuddy starts at NZ$29 a month plus 25 cents for each customer conversation it handles. You pay for conversations that actually happen, so a quiet week costs less than a flat-out one.
Most drainlayers working on their own land between NZ$45 and NZ$130 a month once usage is counted.
Several vans and a steady stream of callers usually sits between NZ$150 and NZ$400 a month.
You choose a monthly ceiling. AgentBuddy stops taking new conversations once it is reached, so the bill cannot run away on you.
No setup fee, and no card needed to start.
Every drainlayer deals with the phone somehow. This is how the usual options stack up.
| Letting it ring out | Free | Most callers do not leave a message. The ones who do have usually rung the next drainlayer on the list first. |
|---|---|---|
| A phone answering service | Per call | Takes a message and passes it on. It cannot quote your work, book into your calendar or chase an unpaid invoice. |
| A part-time receptionist | Wages, plus holidays | Covers office hours. The 9pm call still reaches nobody, and you carry the cost in a quiet month. |
| AgentBuddy | From NZ$29 a month | Answers day or night, books the job, sends the quote and follows up on the money, in your name and your rules. |
We book them late afternoon or after five, because you are on a job all day.
The jobs you take, the ones you turn down, roughly what you charge, and what should happen when someone rings after hours.
It answers as your business, in the name you chose, working to the rules you gave it. Live by the end of this call.
A fortnight later we go through calls it actually handled and tighten anything that reads wrong.
One more round on whatever the first month turned up. After that it just runs.
Leave your details and we will get you set up with founding pricing.
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