Aussie AI Agency
Paid
Australian service businesses
Answer with Iris
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Six in ten calls to small service shops never reach a person — and the caller has already dialed the next shop on Google before your voicemail finishes its greeting. Answer with Iris exists for that exact moment: the 11pm pipe burst that becomes someone else's job because your line went to voicemail.
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Summary
Iris picks up after-hours calls for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors, collects job details, states your trip fee, and texts the right on-call technician — the plumber for a burst pipe, not the AC tech. The tech replies YES or NO; no response in eight minutes triggers the next tech, then the owner. Non-emergency jobs queue for morning instead of waking anyone at 2am. Booked Desk adds calendar scheduling via Jobber, Housecall Pro, Google, Outlook, or Apple. The ceiling is the scope: Iris handles the intake call and the text hand-off — it does not replace a dispatcher for jobs requiring back-and-forth negotiation or complex multi-stop routing.
Bottom line: Pick this for a two- to ten-tech trade shop that is losing after-hours jobs to voicemail; plan a different layer when your dispatch needs involve real-time job costing, multi-leg scheduling, or anything beyond a single-trade intake call.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Price
- $297/mo for Night Desk
- Free Tier
- Free account creation and setup; no forwarding or live calls until paid
Night Desk
$297per month
$2,851.20/yr Save 20%
After-hours pickup, emergency texting, morning list, 250 minutes
- After-hours answers
- Trade-specific routing
- Morning email
Booked Desk
$497per month
$4,771.20/yr Save 20%
Night Desk plus morning appointments on boards or calendar, 400 minutes
- All Night features
- Calendar/Jobber booking
Shop Desk
$797per month
$7,651.20/yr Save 20%
Booked Desk plus weekday overflow, 800 minutes
- All Booked features
- Weekday overflow
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Pros
- Answers in two rings after hours with trade-specific routing, so the caller who would have dialed the next shop on Google instead stays with you.
- On-call tech gets a YES/NO text with eight-minute escalation built in, which means you are not manually chasing a sleeping tech at midnight while the homeowner waits.
- Trip fee is stated only after the caller confirms they want service tonight, so you are not quoting fees to callers who hang up before committing — reducing tire-kicker friction.
- Multi-trade support on a single account with per-tech trade tags, so a shop covering HVAC and plumbing does not route a pipe burst to the AC tech.
- Morning jobs batch into a single pre-open list rather than generating overnight pings, which means your techs are not woken up for jobs that can wait until 8am.
Cons
- Iris handles intake and text dispatch — it does not negotiate scope, quote parts, or manage back-and-forth with a caller who has questions beyond basic job details. Shops where after-hours calls routinely require a real conversation before the tech is committed still need a human on call.
- There is no API surface and no self-hosted option, so shops building a custom dispatch platform or wanting to pipe call data into their own CRM are blocked. Teams with that requirement move to a programmable voice platform like Twilio and build their own intake logic.
- Booked Desk's calendar integration covers Jobber, Housecall Pro, Google, Outlook, and Apple — shops running other field service management software get no calendar write, only the morning list. A shop on ServiceTitan, for example, gets Iris as a notification layer only, not a scheduling layer.
About
- Platforms
- Web dashboard, phone forwarding
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- September 23, 2026
Best For
Who it's for
- HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing contractors
- Small shops without 24/7 staff
- Businesses using Jobber or Housecall Pro
- Shops seeking trip-fee collection via AI
What it does well
- After-hours call answering for service trades
- Emergency job routing to on-call technicians
- Morning appointment scheduling on existing boards
- Reducing missed calls and voicemail losses
Integrations
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Answer with Iris free?
- Answer with Iris offers a free option alongside paid upgrades. Pricing: $297/mo for Night Desk. Check the current allowances and terms before choosing a plan.
- What platforms does Answer with Iris support?
- Answer with Iris is available on: Web dashboard, phone forwarding.
The missed after-hours call
Six in ten calls to small service shops never reach a person, and the caller has already dialed the next shop on Google before your voicemail finishes its greeting. Answer with Iris picks up after-hours calls for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors, collects job details, states your trip fee, and texts the right on-call technician.
How it works
The tech replies YES or NO. No response in eight minutes triggers the next tech, then the owner. Non-emergency jobs queue for morning instead of waking anyone at 2am. Booked Desk adds calendar scheduling via Jobber, Housecall Pro, Google, Outlook, or Apple. The vendor states Iris handles the intake call and the text hand-off and does not replace a dispatcher for jobs that need ongoing negotiation.
Pricing and limits
Night Desk costs $297/mo after a 14-day free trial. A free account lets you create and set up everything, but forwarding and live calls require payment.
Who it is for / who should skip it
It fits HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors in small shops without 24/7 staff, especially those already using Jobber or Housecall Pro. Shops that want trade-specific routing and trip-fee collection via AI will see the main gains. Skip it if after-hours calls routinely need a real conversation before the tech is committed or if you need an API to pipe data into a custom CRM.
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