Every missed lead is your competitor’s payday.

An answering service takes a message. The Plinth Assistant closes the loop. It answers intelligently in your name, collects the job details — what's wrong, where, how urgent — books the inspection on your calendar, collects the payment when the work's done, asks for the Google review that wins the next job — one system doing the whole job, not a person reading from a script.

No — it answers in your business's name, in plain language, with the intelligence to read what the customer actually needs — none of the scripts or phone-tree menus people hate. Every conversation lives in your dashboard, and you can read or take over any thread at any time.

You teach it in a few minutes — and it never makes anything up. In setup you give it your services, hours, service area, and any details you want it to share — you can even import them straight from your existing website. It answers from your facts and books the inspection for anything it shouldn't answer. As real questions come in, it drafts new answers for you to approve, so it gets sharper over time — always with you in control.

No — it never throws out a number you didn't authorize. Its job is to book the inspection and leave the pricing to you. If you choose to share rough ranges, it relays only the ranges you wrote — never a firm quote, never a figure you didn't set.

It hands off instead of guessing. The thread gets flagged, you get a text on your cell with a link straight to the conversation, and you reply from your business number with the full history in front of you. Hand it back to the Plinth Assistant whenever you're done.

Then it gets you — no fighting a bot. If a customer asks for a human (or the Assistant senses it's out of its depth), it flags the thread and texts your cell so you can jump in. It's honest that it's an assistant when asked, and it never pretends to be you.

Yes — it answers the phone the same way it answers texts and web inquiries: instantly, day or night. Every way a customer reaches you — call, text, and web — covered around the clock, always in your business's name.

It books around what's actually on your calendar. Connect your Google or Outlook calendar and it reads your real busy times, so it only offers slots you're truly free for — it never double-books you. Set your working hours and how far out it can schedule, flip on “on a job” to pause new bookings, and every appointment lands on your calendar with a confirmation text to the customer.

Straight to your own account — Plinth never holds your money. Payments run through your own connected account, so the funds land with you, not us. You share a small piece only on the jobs Plinth actually caused, and only after the customer pays — everything else is 100% yours.

It follows up so they don't fall through the cracks. Cold leads and quotes that went quiet get a polite, automatic nudge, and past customers get a check-in when it's time — reviving work from people you've already earned, without you lifting a finger.

Yes — that's the other half of what it does. If you need one, we'll build you a website on your own domain that books jobs, for a one-time setup fee plus a monthly hosting fee. We manage your Google Business Profile: set it up or take over the one you have, keep it current, and reply to your reviews. And every paid job ends with a request for a Google review. Reviews and a strong profile build over months, not weeks.

Keep using them — Plinth doesn't replace them, and doesn't need to plug into them. Tools like those run your jobs and scheduling once work is sold, and most of them now answer the phone too — perfectly well. The difference is scope and cost: they run the work once it’s sold, and their AI usually costs the same in a month it books you nothing. Plinth does four things around that work — answers the lead, books it, collects the payment, and turns the finished job into the Google review that wins the next one — and its share applies only to jobs it wins you. Different jobs, so they run side by side.

No. Your crew changes nothing about how they work. You get one dashboard for leads, conversations, appointments, and payments — and every message goes out from your business number, not ours.

Yes — it's your data, kept secure, and you can delete it anytime. Conversations and customer details are stored securely and used only to run your account — never sold or shared. You own it, and a customer's data can be permanently deleted whenever you need.

Minutes. Tell us your business name, service area, and the cell number to reach you on, and Plinth starts answering the same day — nothing to install.

$50/month as a minimum, or a small share of the jobs Plinth causes if that’s more — never both. The share is charged only once the job is paid. The share applies only to new customers Plinth rescued or found for you — never to your existing customers (anyone already on your customer list, or who’s paid you through Plinth before), even when we answer a call you missed — so a month where we win you work costs you the share and nothing else. Month-to-month, no long-term contract. See how our pricing works at joinplinth.com/pricing.