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Field Notes from inside the shops we work with.

Owner-voice writing about what's actually happening in Canadian trades shops - the missed-call math, the scripts that work, the integrations that don't. No SEO bait. No AI thinkpieces. We publish when we've got something a busy owner can use.

01 · Latest

Featured: the 22% missed-call rule.

02 - AI receptionist
Writing a receptionist script that doesn't sound like a robot
6 min · scripts & samples

What we learned from 200 test calls and the line owners always ask us to rewrite.

The what's wrong question is doing more work than any other line in the script. Here's why, and the four variants we tried before we landed on the one that's currently running on every HVAC line we operate.

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03 - Integrations
Jobber + AI receptionist: wiring the booking handoff
9 min · technical

How we drop a job into a Jobber calendar without the customer holding for 90 seconds.

Three steps, one webhook, and a fallback for the times Jobber's API is slow. Includes the exact request shape and the two timeouts you should override.

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04 - Reviews
The 1pm review request that doesn't feel spammy
5 min · timing & wording

Why right after the job works for HVAC but kills response rates on roofing.

Same wording, same channel, dramatically different response rates by trade. We dug through six months of review-request logs to figure out why and how to tune the timing per shop.

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