Jolly Heating Air Plumbing and Electric
Heating, plumbing and electrical contractor, Cincinnati
- Size
- 58 staff
- Where
- US
The job
Probook answers after hours and overflow calls and website chats, books jobs straight into the CRM, helps with dispatching, sends maintenance reminder and promotion texts, and produces KPI reports.
Tool: Probook
What happened
After hours booking rate rose from 25% to 40% with an answering service to 60% to 70% with AI.
The company has grown by 50%, with revenue up 40%, while adding no dispatch staff and only one call handler. People answering the phone still book 85% to 90% of calls, so AI is kept for after hours and overflow.
Before you believe it
The figures are from the company in a trade magazine article. The growth figures cover the whole business, not only the AI, and the firm says human call takers still book at a higher rate.
Try this prompt
Test the job on your own material before buying anything. Replace the highlighted brackets.
Here is our after hours call script and our booking rules: [SCRIPT AND RULES]. Write the questions an after hours phone assistant should ask to book a repair, and the points at which it should hand the call to the on call technician.
Source
Contracting Business ↗, 1 September 2026 · press
This source is independent press coverage, not written by the tool supplier.
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