Storm week floods your phone. You're up a tree with a saw running.
Those callers want a crew today, and they keep dialing until somebody picks up. Community Connect Pro texts missed callers back before the next company answers, Phoenix AI books the estimate, and the job lands in your pipeline instead of a notebook.
What a Storm Week and a Slow Winter Both Cost
Industry and vendor figures, not ours. The busy-season math and the slow-season math point at the same fix.
What vendor estimates put on a single missed call. A storm surge stacks these up faster than a crew on site can answer.
The monthly fixed costs industry write-ups put on a $750K-a-year, two-crew operation, whether the trucks roll or sit.
The cash reserve the same write-ups say that operation needs just to break even through three slow months.
The summer that funds the winter is made of answered calls. Every one that hits voicemail in June is reserve you won't have in January.
Run the Math on a Storm Season
Set the sliders to your own crew and ticket size. The yearly figure follows your hand.
What voicemail could be costing you a year
$49,920An estimate from your inputs and industry figures. Your numbers will vary.
See how Phoenix catches themWhere the Busy Season Leaks Money
Four ways tree crews lose work, each one handled by the same system. No office hire, no clipboard, no notebook.
Storm Week Doesn't Need a Radio and a Clipboard
When three estimates land before nine, Field Connect Pro puts every one of them on a board your crews can see, sorted by who's already out and who's available.
- Every estimate and job lands on one board, sorted by crew, so nobody's radioing in to ask who's still on the truck.
- Drag a job onto a crew to send them there, and drag it to a different crew when a storm reshuffles the morning.
- Pull up a job by street, customer name, or crew the second a homeowner calls asking where the truck is.
- Every stop shows drive time and mileage from the yard, with a flag before a crew is sent somewhere outside the usual radius.
- Close the job out and start a draft invoice right there, pre-filled, instead of keying it into a second piece of software.
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Storm Week, Handled
Three calls hit voicemail in three minutes. Phoenix texts every caller back while the crew keeps cutting, books the estimates, and sends the one who asked for you straight to your cell.
A scripted example. Names and details are fictional.
What Catching Every Call Usually Takes
One home-services owner's own account, repeated across vendor pages: losing two to three jobs a week to missed calls, then booking four new jobs in the first month after adding automatic text-back.
Stacking a field-service app for dispatch on a separate CRM for follow-up runs past $300 a month, per industry comparisons, and neither one picks up the phone.
Phoenix answers every call, 24/7, for $147/mo, inside the same system that sends the estimate, collects the signature, and asks for the review.
Most Crews Start With the Office Handled
Our core plans cover the phones, the estimates, the pipeline, and the reviews. Pricing shows what each plan includes, in plain terms.
- Automatic text-back when a storm call gets missed
- Storm calls, texts, and Facebook messages in one inbox
- Estimates and invoices sent by text, signed and paid from a phone
- Nurture sequences that keep the off-season pipeline warm
- A review request after every job the crew closes out
Want the phone answered while the whole crew is in the canopy? Phoenix AI Receptionist adds on at $147/mo.
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See It Catch a Storm Call
One short demo. Your average job ticket, the missed-call text-back running live, and a straight answer on whether one saved job covers the whole system.
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