Penny

AI receptionist for HVAC companiesThe HVAC answering service that books the job

Summer no-cool calls don’t wait for business hours. Penny answers every call in one ring — nights, weekends, and mid-install — triages the emergency, and books it straight into your calendar.

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This is a live line answered by Penny herself — not a recording. Hear how fast she picks up and how she handles a real conversation.

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  • Call after hours and say your AC quit — listen to Penny triage it like a dispatcher.
  • Ask for a maintenance tune-up and watch her offer real appointment slots.
  • Ask her if she’s a robot — she’ll tell you the truth.
Phones in HVAC

The calls HVAC companies actually miss.

The 11pm no-cool call

Heat waves don’t keep office hours. The family with a dead AC at 11pm calls down the search results until somebody answers — Penny makes sure that’s you.

Hands inside an air handler

Your techs can’t answer the phone mid-service call, and every ring they ignore is a job that books with the next shop. Penny picks up the overflow while they work.

The seasonal surge

First hot week of June, first cold snap of November — call volume triples and voicemail starts eating revenue. Penny answers every one of them, in parallel.

Triage, not just messages

A message slip that says “call back John” doesn’t tell you if it’s a routine tune-up or a dead compressor in a nursing home. Penny captures the symptom, urgency, and address — then books it.

Listen in

A real HVAC call, booked end to end.

An after-hours no-cool call, answered and booked end to end — no human picked up the phone.

pennyassistant.com/calls/live · 00:48
Inbound call · Summit Heating & Air
Penny is speaking · transcribing live
Penny
Thanks for calling Summit Heating & Air — this is Penny. How can I help today?
Dana (caller)
My AC just quit and it’s 95 degrees in here.
Penny
Oh no — let’s get a tech out fast. Can I grab your name and the service address?
Dana (caller)
Dana Whitfield, 14 Oakridge Drive.
Penny
Got it, Dana. Is the unit not turning on at all, or running but blowing warm air?
Dana (caller)
It runs, but it’s blowing warm.
Penny
That helps — I’ll note it as a no-cool call so the tech comes prepared. I can do today at 4 PM or tomorrow at 9 AM. Which works better?
Dana (caller)
Today at 4 would be amazing.
Penny
Booked! You’ll get a text confirmation in a minute. Anything else I can help with?
Dana (caller)
No, that’s it — thank you!
Penny
You’re welcome, Dana. Stay cool — we’ll see you at 4.
Captured automatically
Name
Dana Whitfield
Service address
14 Oakridge Dr
Reason for call
AC running · not cooling
Appointment
Today · 4:00 PM
Synced to Jobber & calendar
Do the math

What does voicemail cost you?

Plug in your own numbers — the defaults are sourced, not invented.

Default job value: $416 HomeAdvisor — average central AC repair cost (as of 2022-05-26). Adjust to your numbers.

What voicemail costs you

If you miss 5 calls a week and close 50% of them at $416 a job, voicemail is costing you about

$4,503/month
Penny starts at $29/month — about one booked job pays for a whole year of her answering.
The playbook

How Penny handles HVAC calls.

This is documentation of what she actually does — configured to your services, your calendar, your rules.

What she asks every caller
  • Name, callback number, and service address
  • Symptom triage — no-cool, no-heat, airflow, noise, or maintenance
  • Urgency: is anyone in the home at risk in the heat or cold?
  • Equipment details the caller knows (brand, roughly how old)
What she books on the spot
  • Emergency same-day slots when your calendar shows them open
  • Tune-ups and seasonal maintenance visits
  • Estimate appointments for repairs and replacements
What she hands to a human
  • Gas smells and safety risks — warm-transferred immediately
  • Commercial accounts and anything you’ve marked owner-only
  • Callers who ask for a human — she hands the call off, no argument
After hours

Penny answers 24/7. After-hours emergencies go into your on-call slots or get warm-transferred under your rules; routine calls get booked for business hours.

Works with
Google CalendarJobberHouseCall ProServiceTitan
Beyond answering

One receptionist, every call handled.

Answers every call, 24/7

Penny picks up on the first ring — nights, weekends, lunch breaks, and when you’re already on the other line.

Books jobs to your calendar

She checks real availability, offers slots, and writes the appointment straight into the calendar you already use.

Captures every lead

Name, number, address, and the reason they called — logged and pushed to your CRM before they hang up.

Answers the everyday questions

Hours, pricing, service areas, “are you open today?” — Penny answers FAQs and escalates the calls that need you.

Plays nice with your stack

Books into the tools you already run on.

Appointments land in your calendar, leads flow into your CRM, and your team gets pinged — automatically, the moment a call ends.

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…and 5,000+ more apps through Zapier.
HVAC questions

What HVAC companies ask us.

Still curious? Penny can answer your questions too — give her a call.

Yes — that’s the job. She triages the symptom (no-cool, no-heat, airflow, noise), captures the address and callback number, and books the call into your emergency slots. Anything you flag as a safety risk, like a gas smell, she warm-transfers to you immediately.

She’s set up on your services, so she speaks your customers’ language — no-cool calls, tune-ups, refrigerant leaks, ductwork. She won’t diagnose a bad capacitor over the phone (neither should anyone), but she captures the symptoms so your tech shows up prepared.

How Penny introduces herself is your choice. What we don’t do is pretend: if a caller asks whether she’s a real person, Penny says she’s an automated assistant — and then keeps right on booking the job. Most callers care that the call got answered, not who answered it.

Yes — Penny is bilingual. She answers in English or Spanish, matching the language the caller uses, so Spanish-speaking customers get the same instant booking experience.

She warm-transfers urgent calls to you or your on-call tech and takes a detailed message for everything else — then texts you the summary instantly, so nothing rides on a voicemail nobody checks.

Penny starts at $29/month with 60 minutes of call time included, and plans scale to 500 minutes. Traditional human answering services bill per minute per agent — see our answering service cost guide for the side-by-side math.

More trades

Penny works where the phone rings.

Stop sending customers to voicemail.

Give Penny your number and let her answer the next call. You’ll have her booking jobs before your coffee’s cold.

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