Voicemail / Answering Machine
Takes a message after they have already decided you are busy. Fine for your mum. Expensive if you live on missed leaks.
AI receptionist for UK tradespeople
An AI Receptionist That Books the Job, Not a Voicemail.
Slotby answers the phone for tradespeople across the UK while you are on a job. It is a managed AI receptionist — UK voice, trained on your patch, diary and prices. Not a call centre. Not an answering machine. Not software you have to babysit.
What it is not
People Search ‘AI Answering Machine’. That Is the Wrong Product.
If you wanted a tape that says ‘leave a message’, you already have that on your mobile. Callers hang up. The next van gets the work.
Call Centre
A person on a script, often not in the UK, often not allowed to book your diary. You still chase the job up afterwards.
Slotby
Picks up, asks what broke, offers a time you actually have, writes the calendar, texts you. If the diary write fails, it does not pretend it booked.
Hear it in action
A Missed Call Becomes a Booked Job
Same customer. Two outcomes. Flip between a dead voicemail and Slotby — the transcript follows the clip.
Call Samples
Slotby
Booked in under a minute.
0:00 / 0:18
- SlotbyGood morning, Oakfield Plumbing. How can I help?
- CallerThe boiler’s leaking — can someone come today?
- SlotbyI can book that. What’s the address in Leeds?
- CallerWestern Road. Anytime this afternoon works.
- SlotbyYou’re booked for 2pm. I’ll text the engineer now.
It picks up instantly, books the leak, and texts you the address. You don’t lift a finger.
Who it is for
Trades Who Lose Work to a Missed Ring.
Same machine, different script. A locksmith at 2am does not sound like a Friday house move.
Based in the UK. You Talk to a Real Person.
Slotby is a small UK business. Fifteen-minute setup. We train the receptionist on your towns and postcodes, wherever you work in the UK, and we listen to the calls. If something sounds off, it gets fixed the same day.
From £79 a month. No setup fee. 14-day money back.
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