AI IVR replacement for home services

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On your home service business line, Retell AI replaces the menu tree with a conversation, so callers say what they need instead of pressing through options. Callers ask whether it sounds like a real person, so listen first and decide for yourself.
Trusted by over 4,000 businesses powering 100+ million calls per month.
How It Works

Launch your conversational IVR replacement in four steps.

Map your current routing
Build it yourself on the API and SDK, or have our team build it for you. Both are real products. Configure the questions, routing and escalation rules that home service businesses actually need, against one knowledge base.
Test against real call intents
Run the agent against the calls you actually get before it touches a live line. Each run scores accuracy and flags where the agent guesses instead of checking your data.
Connect your lines and go live
Keep your existing phone number and port or forward it, or take a new one. Go live on one line or one location, confirm the experience, then expand.
Monitor containment and retrain
Every call is transcribed, scored, and dispositioned. Listen live while a call is in progress, review the transcript after, and retrain the agent from the calls it handled badly.
Use Cases

What the agent handles for home service businesses

The caller who presses zero to reach a person

The homeowner says what they need, the agent reads the intent and either resolves it or routes straight to the right place, with no menu and no repeated information. It keeps your existing routing rules rather than inventing new ones.

How is this different from a touch-tone menu tree?

Retell AI runs a voice agent that completes the task on the call rather than passing it along. It holds a conversation, answers from your own data, and finishes the job. A touch-tone menu tree leaves the work still to do.

What the conversational IVR replacement handles for home service businesses

It covers intent captured in the caller's own words, routing without a menu tree, routine requests resolved instead of transferred, after-hours coverage on the same line, and transfer with full context when a person is needed. It recognizes the vocabulary your homeowners actually use, including dispatch window, service call, maintenance plan, on-call.

What are you losing to unanswered calls today?

Techs are on jobs and the owner is driving, so after-hours emergency calls and daytime overflow both go to voicemail. Every call the agent handles is one that is not sitting in a voicemail box, and it works the same at 2am as it does at 2pm.

Does it connect to ServiceTitan?

It reads and writes to the systems you already run, including ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, FieldEdge, and QuickBooks. Outcomes land in the record rather than in a separate inbox.

What happens when it does not know the answer?

It transfers to a person and passes the full context, so the homeowner does not repeat themselves. You can listen to any call live while it is happening, and every call is transcribed and dispositioned automatically.

Built for Contact Centers, Not Demos

Retell is the AI Voice Platform Enterprise Contact Centers Run On

Retell lets you build, test and deploy AI phone agents that handle real call volume, so your team spends its time on the conversations that need a person.
SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant. Trusted by teams running 1.000+ calls a day.
Compliance

Home service businesses need one compliance bar for every call, not a separate one for the overflow line.

SOC 2 Type II

Call data runs on SOC 2 Type II certified infrastructure, which is what your security review will ask for.

PII Redaction

Personal identifiers are redacted from every transcript automatically, with retention controls you set.

GDPR

Caller data is processed under GDPR, covering consent and access rights.

Call recording controls

You control what is recorded, what is retained, and for how long, per line and per homeowner type.

Feature

Why home service businesses choose Retell AI over a touch-tone menu tree

Proven Impact, Real Conversations

Proven Impact, 

Real Conversations

Discover how businesses use Retell’s AI voice agents to streamline operations, enhance customer service, and scale effortlessly.

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Pricing

Cut Costs by 90% with AI phone Agents

Pay as you go

$0 to start.

$0.07–$0.31 per minute – Pay only for what you use.
60 mins of free access.
20 concurrent calls.
10 Free Knowledge Bases.
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Does it sound like a real person?

Most callers do not realise they are speaking to software, and the fastest way to judge it is to hear a call rather than read a claim. The agent responds in under a second, handles interruptions, and does not talk over the caller. You choose the voice, and you can disclose that it is an AI agent at the start of the call if you prefer.

Do I build it myself, or do you build it for me?

Both are real options and this is the question prospects ask most often after the voice itself. Engineering teams build directly on the Retell API and SDK and connect their own telephony. Teams without engineers work with our implementation team and go live without writing code.

How do integrations work with my CRM?

The agent reads and writes to the systems you already run, so bookings, notes, and call outcomes land in the record rather than in a separate inbox. Retell connects to CRMs, calendars, and scheduling systems, and custom systems connect through the API. The agent can look up a caller before it answers and update the record while the call is still open.

What happens when the agent does not know the answer?

It transfers to a person and passes the full context, so the caller does not have to repeat themselves. You set the escalation rules, including which questions always go to a human and which lines they route to. The agent escalates rather than guessing when a request falls outside what it has been given.

Can I use my existing phone number?

Yes. You can port your existing number to Retell or forward it, and callers keep dialling the number they already have. Buying a new number is also available, which is the option most people notice first in the interface. You can run the agent on one line or one location before extending it to the rest.

Can I monitor calls live?

Yes. You can listen to a call while it is in progress, and take it over if you want to. Every call is transcribed, scored, and dispositioned automatically after it ends. You can review the calls the agent handled badly and retrain it from those recordings.

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