The AI receptionist for Painters and Decorators. You roll the walls; it picks up
There are only so many hands a decorator has, and a ringing phone always seems to want the one holding the brush. So let it ring to Cyberstaff instead. It answers every call, day or night, works out what the job actually is, books the survey into your diary and texts you the details, all before the second coat's even tacky. A missed call stops meaning a lost job.
Where today's leads quietly disappear
Nobody ever booked a repaint by leaving a voicemail
Voicemail does the losing for you. 8 in 10 people won't talk to a beep. They hang up, ring the next decorator in the search results, and book the survey with them while your message light blinks at an empty van.
Decorator answering services miss the point. An operator reading a script can't tell interior from exterior, doesn't know your day rate and has never heard of your patch, so the real questions go unanswered and the survey goes unbooked.
Call centres charge more to know less. Premium rates for evenings and weekends, and they still can't tell a single feature wall from a whole-house refurb or a roll of woodchip. Pricey, and none the wiser.
Cyberstaff actually speaks decorating. It's trained on your services, your day rate and your area, and it's awake at 3am if that's when the phone rings. It knows a quick bedroom touch-up from a full-house repaint, gets the scope down, books the survey and texts you the details. A booked job, not a sticky note.
So what is an AI Receptionist for decorators, really?
Picture the keenest receptionist you've ever met, one who never fancies a tea break, never phones in sick, and somehow has your rates, your services and your free Tuesdays memorised. That's the idea. That's Cyberstaff.
Rather than bouncing callers to voicemail or a stranger in a call centre, it listens, gets the full details and replies like someone who genuinely knows the trade: interior and exterior, wallpapering, the lot, domestic and commercial.
And it does every bit of it while you carry on cutting in. No app to babble at, no buttons to mash up a ladder. Your business just stays open, even when both your hands very much aren't free.
Here's what it gets up to while you're on the brush:
Talks the trade fluently
Interior and exterior repaints, wallpapering, commercial fit-outs: it gives callers straight answers on what you do, what you charge and when you can come and look.
Scopes the job for you
It asks the questions you'd ask, how many rooms, ceilings or not, what state the walls are in, prep involved, inside or out, so you turn up to the survey already half a step ahead.
Lets nothing ring out
Up a ladder, mid-cut, or finally sitting down to your tea: every call gets answered and every enquiry gets a reply. Yours, not the next decorator's.
Clocks in round the clock, free
No after-hours surcharge, no extra wages. It works evenings, weekends and bank holidays, exactly when people sit down and start ringing round for quotes.
Your line stays answered whether you're three coats deep or long since clocked off.
The bit that quietly costs you
Every call you can't grab is a survey someone else just took
Halfway up a ladder rolling a ceiling, it's the phone or the work, never both. And most homeowners won't leave a voicemail to wait on. They ring three or four decorators in a row and the survey goes to whoever picks up first. Speed wins this one, every time.
8 in 10
Won't leave a voicemail; they just ring on
£2,400
What an average domestic repaint is worth
3 to 4
Decorators they call before someone books
0
Calls Cyberstaff lets ring into the void
The whole thing, start to finish
It answers, it books the survey, you keep painting
Picks up as you
Every call, any hour, answered in your business's name in a natural voice. No hold music, no voicemail beep, no phone trilling away while your hands are full of roller.
Works out the job, books the visit
Interior or exterior? One room or the whole house? Fresh repaint, a strip-and-paper, domestic or commercial? It scopes it all and drops a survey or quote visit straight into your calendar.
Hands you the tidy version
The moment the call ends, a clean text and email land: name, address, what the job is, rough timescale. Tap to approve the survey, or tap to ring them back. Easy.
Built for the trade
It already speaks decorating
Reads the priority
A vendor needing a quote before they move flags first, so you call them back fast.
Scopes the job
How many rooms, interior or exterior, wall condition, prep and papering, every time. It even asks where you should park.
Books the survey
Offers your real availability and drops the survey or quote visit into your diary.
Handles the overflow
Picks up when you're up a ladder, mid-cut, or long since clocked off.
Screens the time-wasters
Filters cold sales calls so only real customers reach you.
Texts the customer back
Sends a confirmation SMS with the survey time so nobody's left guessing.
Integrations
Works with your calendar, and 9,000+ apps
Cyberstaff books straight into Google Calendar and Outlook out of the box, and connects to 9,000+ apps through Zapier, so bookings and contacts land where you already work, with no double entry.
Pricing
One booked survey and it has already paid for itself
£30 / month
For small businesses who need AI to answer calls when they can't. Includes 100 minutes of talk time (about 50 inbound calls a month). Additional minutes £0.30/min.
What's included
- 24/7 AI phone answering
- Call recordings & transcripts
- Bookings & Calendar integration
- Email & SMS notifications
- Answer multiple calls at once
- Transfer calls
- Post call SMS follow up
- AI SMS conversations
- Website SMS widget
- Customer memory
- Custom integration
- Priority support
£75 / month
For growing businesses who want all AI receptionist features. Includes 300 minutes of talk time (about 150 inbound calls a month). Additional minutes £0.25/min.
What's included
- 24/7 AI phone answering
- Call recordings & transcripts
- Bookings & Calendar integration
- Email & SMS notifications
- Answer multiple calls at once
- Transfer calls
- Post call SMS follow up
- AI SMS conversations
- Website SMS widget
- Customer memory
- Custom integration
- Priority support
£120 / month
For established businesses that need priority support and training. Includes 600 minutes of talk time (about 300 inbound calls a month). Additional minutes £0.20/min.
What's included
- 24/7 AI phone answering
- Call recordings & transcripts
- Bookings & Calendar integration
- Email & SMS notifications
- Answer multiple calls at once
- Transfer calls
- Post call SMS follow up
- AI SMS conversations
- Website SMS widget
- Customer memory
- Custom integration
- Priority support
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