After-hours and weekend coverage
Confirm it answers when the office is closed, including weekends, and that those calls are not dropped into a next-day queue.
Payoff Tracker / HVAC
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HVAC
AI Receptionist for HVAC Companies: Costs and Payoff
Compare tools that answer urgent service calls at night and on weekends and book them for you. This page is a short draft, not a finished guide.
An after-hours HVAC call is often a no-heat or no-cool emergency. If nobody picks up, the caller books the next company. An AI receptionist is only useful here if it can tell an emergency from a routine request and hand the job to the person on call.
What to check before you buy
Emergency handoff
It should follow your rules for urgent calls and reach the on-call technician, not only take a message.
Booking the job
Check whether it can place the call on your dispatch board or only offer a callback.
Measured results: HVAC companies
No measured HVAC results have been published yet. Each new result will use the format below.
Example data - replace with measured results
Week of [date] · [Practice type, city] · [Vendor, plan]
| Monthly cost | Calls answered | Missed calls recovered | Bookings | Value per booking | Payback |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $149 | 312 | 41 | 9 | $250 | ~2 days |
This row is a layout example only, not a real result. Payback = monthly cost ÷ (bookings × value per booking ÷ 30 days). The weekly post also records the setup fee, which is blank on this sample until a real invoice is attached.
Published prices
These are general-purpose plans copied from each vendor's public page. HVAC-specific pricing is not listed until a vendor publishes it.
| Vendor | Entry plan (published) | What's included | Higher tiers | Source (checked Oct 16, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosie | $49/mo | 250 min/mo, message taking, appointment links by text | $149/mo (1,000 min, calendar booking) · $299/mo (2,000 min) | heyrosie.com/pricing |
| Goodcall | $79/mo | 100 unique customers/mo, then 79¢ each. No per-minute charges | $129/mo (500 customers) · $299/mo (2,000 customers) | goodcall.com/pricing |
| Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk) | $99/mo ($79/mo billed annually) | 200 voice min/mo plus chat, SMS and CRM | Partner/Enterprise: custom | myaifrontdesk.com/pricing |
| Smith.ai AI Receptionist | Free (25 calls/mo, then $3.00/call) | Pro $150/mo at $2.00/call, with live-agent backup | Enterprise from $500/mo ($1.67/call) | smith.ai/pricing/ai-receptionist |
FAQ
How much does an AI receptionist cost?
Published plans in the price table start at $49 a month (Rosie) and go up to $500 a month and more for enterprise tiers (Smith.ai), depending on the vendor and call volume. Smith.ai also offers a free tier of 25 calls a month. Frontdesk lists $99 a month, or $79 a month billed annually. Watch for per-minute or per-call overages, and confirm the current terms on the vendor page linked in the table.
Methodology: we copy pricing and features from each vendor's published materials and check them when we update this page. Measured results come from shared call logs. Full methodology.