24/7 call answering for tree services
A storm splits an oak over the driveway. A dead limb is resting on the garage roof. Nobody with a tree on their house leaves a voicemail — they work down the search results until a human picks up.
TreeCalls answers every one of those calls, around the clock, asks what your estimator would ask, and puts the assessment on your calendar while your crew is still eighty feet up.
The problem
Tree work is different from most trades. Nobody plans it. A storm goes through on a Friday night and by Saturday morning every company in the county is getting the same calls from the same three streets.
Meanwhile you are eighty feet up with a saw running, or driving a chipper, or asleep after a fourteen-hour day — all of which are the correct places to be. The call does not go unanswered because you stopped caring. It goes unanswered because you were doing the job.
By the time you clear the voicemail on Monday, somebody else has already quoted the removal, taken the deposit, and picked up the stump grinding and the two neighbours who watched them work.
A single removal runs into the thousands. The customer who liked how fast you answered is worth the stump, the pruning next spring, and every neighbour who saw the truck.
You are not being outsold. You are being out-answered.
How it works
Keep your number. Calls ring you first — after hours, or after a set number of rings, they come to TreeCalls instead of voicemail. Nothing on your phone changes.
Species and rough size, what it's leaning over, proximity to wires and structures, whether a truck and chipper can get in, storm damage or planned work. We write those questions with you, in your first week.
An available slot goes on your calendar and the details hit your phone as a text. No new dashboard, no app to remember to open.
What's included
What it isn't
A chat bubble is the most visible and least useful version of this. Nobody types out a description of the tree on their roof. They call.
It says it's automated. On every call, in the first sentence. Pretending a machine is you works exactly once, and the moment somebody notices, you have spent the trust this was supposed to earn.
It never quotes a price. Tree work is priced on site, by somebody who has looked at the lean and the drop zone. It gathers, it books, it hands over — anything that commits you to a number routes to a human first.
Terms
No per-call charge. No setup fee. No contract.
Questions
Yes, because it says so in the first sentence of every call. That is deliberate. Speed is what you are selling here, not the illusion of a person. In practice callers do not mind at all — being answered at 9pm beats a voicemail box read on Monday.
It hands off. Anything unusual, angry, or outside what we set up — an emergency with wires down, say — gets routed to a real person or flagged for a callback first thing, with the recording attached. It is built to know its edges.
No. You keep your number and your calendar. This sits behind what you already have as an overflow destination — the same slot voicemail occupies now.
About a week. Most of that is the two of us writing the questions it asks, which is the part that decides whether the bookings are any good.
They are yours. You get every call, every transcript, and the customer list, exported whenever you ask. Nothing about this is designed to make leaving difficult.
We agree the number before anything is built — after-hours calls answered, assessments booked without a human, callbacks avoided. If that number hasn't moved in the first month, we change it or you switch it off. I would rather lose the work than keep invoicing for something that isn't landing.
Next step
Walk me through it — where it rings, who hears it, when it gets returned. Fifteen minutes is usually enough to see whether this is worth doing, and I will tell you straight if it isn't.
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