AI receptionist for locksmith businessesThe locksmith answering service that gets the truck rolling

A driver locked out at midnight isn’t leaving a voicemail — they’re calling the next listing. Penny answers every call in one ring, pins down where they are and how urgent it is, then warm-transfers your on-call tech or books the visit.

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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 and say you’re locked out — listen to Penny pin down your location and urgency.
  • Ask her to book a visit and watch her offer real appointment slots and confirm by text.
  • Ask her flat out if she’s a real person — she’ll tell you the truth.
Phones in locksmith

The calls locksmith businesses actually miss.

The midnight car lockout

Someone stranded in a dark parking lot doesn’t wait — they dial down the search results until a human answers. Penny answers in one ring, gets their location, and makes sure that human is yours.

Calls while your hands are on the cylinder

You can’t pick up the phone with a pick gun in one hand and a pinned lock in the other. Every ring you miss on a job is a lockout that books with the shop across town. Penny catches the overflow while you work.

“Where are you, exactly?”

A panicked caller who can’t name the cross street wastes the whole trip. Penny calmly gets the address, the type of lock, and whether anyone’s unsafe — so the right tech rolls to the right spot the first time.

After-hours is the whole business

Lockouts don’t happen at 2pm on a Tuesday. Nights, weekends, holidays — that’s when the phone rings, and that’s exactly when the office is dark. Penny works the hours your customers actually get locked out.

Listen in

A real locksmith call, booked end to end.

A late-night car lockout, triaged and warm-transferred to the on-call tech — no human touched the phone first.

pennyassistant.com/calls/live · 00:48
Inbound call · Keystone Lock & Key
Penny is speaking · transcribing live
Penny
Thanks for calling Keystone Lock & Key — this is Penny. What’s going on?
Lena (caller)
I’m locked out of my car and it’s freezing out here.
Penny
I’m sorry — let’s get someone to you quickly. Can I get your name and exactly where you’re parked?
Lena (caller)
Lena Castellano. I’m in the Riverside Mall lot, north side by the pharmacy entrance.
Penny
Got it, Lena. Are you safe where you’re standing, and is anyone — a child or a pet — locked inside the car?
Lena (caller)
I’m okay, just cold. Nobody’s inside, the keys are just on the seat.
Penny
Good — I’ll flag it as a standard car lockout, not an emergency entry. Our on-call tech is closest to you right now. Want me to connect you so he can give you an ETA?
Lena (caller)
Yes, please.
Penny
Connecting you now — and I’m texting you his number and your job details in case the call drops. Hang tight, Lena.
Lena (caller)
Thank you so much.
Penny
Of course — stay warm, help’s on the way.
Captured automatically
Name
Lena Castellano
Location
Riverside Mall lot · north side
Reason for call
Car lockout · keys on seat
Disposition
Warm-transferred to on-call tech
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: $163 HomeAdvisor — average cost to hire a locksmith (as of 2025-12-09). Adjust to your numbers.

What voicemail costs you

If you miss 6 calls a week and close 50% of them at $163 a job, voicemail is costing you about

$2,117/month
Penny starts at $29/month — about 3 booked jobs pays for a whole year of her answering.
The playbook

How Penny handles Locksmith 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 exact location — address or nearest cross street and landmark
  • What they’re locked out of — car, house, business, safe, or mailbox
  • Urgency and safety: is a child or pet inside, or is anyone in danger?
  • Lock type the caller can see — keyed knob, deadbolt, smart lock, or a broken key in the cylinder
What she books on the spot
  • Same-day lockout and dispatch slots when your calendar shows them open
  • Scheduled rekeys, lock changes, and new-key cuts for moves and tenant turnover
  • Estimate visits for safes, commercial master-key work, and access-control jobs
What she hands to a human
  • A child or pet locked in a hot car — warm-transferred immediately as a priority entry
  • Commercial accounts and anything you’ve marked owner-only
  • Callers who ask for a person — she hands the call straight off, no runaround
After hours

Penny answers 24/7 — the hours lockouts actually happen. After-hours calls get warm-transferred to your on-call tech under your rules, or booked for the next open slot; routine work is scheduled for business hours.

Works with
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Google Calendar is live today; the rest are on the roadmap. Every lead and booking is emailed to you now.

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 emailed to you the moment 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 Google Calendar today — and the CRM and field-service connectors below are on the way, so leads will flow straight into the tools your team already lives in.

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More CRM, field-service, and messaging connectors — plus 5,000+ apps through Zapier — are on the roadmap.
Locksmith questions

What locksmith businesses ask us.

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

Yes — that’s the core of the job. She gets the caller’s exact location, what they’re locked out of, and whether anyone’s unsafe, then warm-transfers your on-call tech or books the dispatch slot. A child or pet trapped in a hot car she flags as a priority and hands to a human immediately.

She’s set up on your services, so she speaks the way your customers do — lockouts, rekeys, deadbolts, broken keys, smart locks, safe work. She won’t quote a price you haven’t set or promise an entry method over the phone, but she captures the lock type and situation so your tech rolls up with the right tools.

How Penny introduces herself is your call. What she never does is fake it: if a caller asks whether she’s a real person, she says she’s an automated assistant — and keeps right on getting them help. A stranded caller cares that someone picked up fast, not who.

Yes — Penny is fully bilingual. She auto-detects whether a caller is speaking English or Spanish and switches mid-call to match them, so a Spanish-speaking customer locked out at night gets the same calm, fast triage.

She warm-transfers urgent lockouts to you or your on-call tech, and for anything else she takes a detailed, urgency-flagged message — then texts and emails you the summary right away, so a job never dies in a voicemail box nobody checks until morning.

Penny starts at $29/month with 60 minutes of call time included, scaling to 625 minutes. Traditional human answering services bill per minute per agent — see our answering service cost guide for the side-by-side math.

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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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