Argus answers for HVAC, plumbing, and home-service pros: 24/7, nights, weekends, and holidays. Every call answered, every lead captured, every emergency routed to your on-call tech.
Call now and hear Argus answerEvery call picked up fast, around the clock, including the 2 a.m. burst pipe and the Sunday no-cool call your office would have missed.
Emergency or routine? Real job or price shopper? In your service area? Argus qualifies the call and captures name, number, address, and the issue.
Urgent jobs trigger a phone call to your on-call tech, who confirms with one keypress. No answer? Argus retries, calls your backup, then you. It escalates until a real human confirms they're on it.
Call summaries and daily reports: calls answered, leads captured, emergencies dispatched. You know exactly what your phone line earned.
Argus is trained on HVAC, plumbing, and roofing intake: no-heat and no-cool calls, leaks and burst pipes, storm damage, water heaters, and emergency triage. Genuine hazards are told to call 911 first, then your team is alerted. No generic call-center scripts.
And we'll say it plainly: Argus is an AI receptionist, built only for the trades and backed by a founder who reviews every escalation. Don't take our word for how it sounds. The recordings below are real calls on our line, and the phone number at the top is the live product. Judge it with your own ears.
Under two minutes: urgency recognized, callback and address captured, on-call dispatcher alerted before the caller hung up.
Argus: Thank you for calling Summit Air Heating and Cooling… This is Argus. How can I help you today?
Caller: Our AC just went down in the middle of a heat wave, and my mom, she's eighty-two years old. She can't handle the heat. We need someone out here, like, ASAP.
Argus: I'm sorry to hear that. With your mom at eighty-two and this heat, let's get this moving fast. Can I get your name and the best callback number?
Caller: My name is Tony. Callback number is five five five, zero one four two.
Argus: Let me confirm that number. 5 5 5, 0 1 4 2. Is that correct?
Caller: Yes, correct.
Argus: Got it, Tony. What's the service address?
Caller: Forty-two Maple Court, Riverdale. ZIP code one zero four seven one.
Argus: Got it. I'm alerting our on-call dispatcher right now, and they'll call you back at the number ending 0 1 4 2 right away to get someone out to you as soon as possible.
Caller: Thank you so much. You're a godsend.
Argus: You're very welcome, Tony. Stay safe, and keep your mom cool if you can. Help is on the way. Take care.
Safety first, every time: caller sent out of the house and told to call 911 and the gas company, then the on-call dispatcher was alerted.
Argus: Thank you for calling Five Borough Heating and Air. This call may be recorded for quality and training. This is Argus. How can I help you today?
Caller: Hi, my name is Mike. I'm having a real problem here. I just came into my house and my kitchen, it smells like gas. It's definitely by the stove. I need some help real quick.
Argus: Mike, your safety comes first. Please leave the house right now and get outside. Once you're safe, call your gas utility or 911. I'm alerting our on-call dispatcher right now. What's the best callback number for you?
Caller: It's five five five, zero one seven three.
Argus: Got it. 5 5 5, 0 1 7 3. Is that correct?
Caller: Yes, that's correct.
Argus: Thanks, Mike. Our dispatcher will call you right away. Stay safe.
No drama, no missed details: safety screened, name and callback confirmed, address captured, appointment window booked, text updates opted in — all before the office even opens.
Argus: Thank you for calling Five Borough Heating and Air. This call may be recorded for quality and training. This is Argus. How can I help you today?
Caller: Yeah, uh, my heat has been out. I need to get it fixed.
Argus: I'm sorry you're dealing with that. Can you tell me if there are elderly residents, an infant, a gas smell, sparks, water leaking, or if the temperature is below forty-five degrees?
Caller: Uh, no.
Argus: Okay, no safety concerns noted. Let me get a few details so we can help. Can I start with your name and the best callback number?
Caller: Yeah, uh, my name is Jasmine Lee. My number is five five five, zero one nine eight.
Argus: Just to confirm, your name is Jasmine Lee, and the callback number is 5 5 5, 0 1 9 8. Is that correct?
Caller: Yeah.
Argus: Thanks, Jasmine. And what's the service address, including the ZIP code or city?
Caller: It's seventeen Birch Street, apartment 2B, Flushing, one one three five five.
Argus: 17 Birch Street, apartment 2B, Flushing, 11355. Since the heat is out, is this for no heat throughout the home or only part of the home?
Caller: Uh, it's for my apartment. I don't— I don't know about everyone else, but I need to get my heat back on.
Argus: No heat in your apartment, noted. Do you have a preferred day or time window for a visit?
Caller: Yeah, Thursday, around three or four o'clock.
Argus: Thursday, around 3 or 4 o'clock. Is it okay if we send you text updates about your service request? Message and data rates may apply.
Caller: Yeah.
Argus: Perfect. Thanks, I've got everything. Our office will follow up to confirm availability and next steps. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Caller: Uh, no, that's all.
Argus: Thank you for calling Five Borough Heating and Air. Take care.
Real recordings from our demo line: the callers are actors working from a scenario card, the receptionist is the live product, unscripted. Want the current experience? Call (347) 697-4474 and pretend your AC just died.
One saved after-hours no-heat call is a $300–$1,500 job. Argus pays for itself the first night it catches one.
Month-to-month. No contract. Cancel anytime.
$299 one-time setup, waived when your Pilot converts to a plan. Minutes past your plan bill at $0.40/min, no surprises. We never bill per-call fees.
In Greek mythology, Argus was the watchman with a hundred eyes. While some of his eyes rested, the others stayed open, which made him the one guard who could never be caught sleeping. When something mattered enough to be watched day and night, the job went to Argus.
That's the job we took. Nights, weekends, holidays, the 2 a.m. burst pipe: some of our eyes are always on your phone line, so yours don't have to be. Every call answered. Every lead written down. Every emergency routed to the right person, and escalated until a real human confirms they're on it.
The watchman never slept. Neither do we.
Nothing. You keep your number and your carrier. You set conditional call forwarding to your dedicated Argus line: after-hours only, overflow only, or 24/7, your choice. You can turn it off from your own phone in about 30 seconds, anytime. We never take ownership of your number, and there is nothing to port.
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Argus is an AI receptionist trained only on trades intake, and it says so if a caller asks. What matters at 2 a.m. is the comparison: the alternative isn't a human, it's your voicemail, and most callers who hit voicemail hang up and dial the next company on Google. Call the line yourself and judge how it sounds.
Layered fail-safes. Genuine hazards (gas, sparks, flooding) are told to call 911 first, before anything else. Emergencies trigger a phone call to your on-call tech, who confirms with one keypress; if they don't confirm, Argus retries, then calls your backup, then you, until a human has acknowledged. Every call is recorded and logged, so nothing silently disappears, and during your pilot we review recordings with you weekly.
No. Everything is month-to-month and you can cancel anytime, effective at the end of your billing cycle. The $199 Pilot never auto-converts: at day 30 you choose a plan or walk away with your results report, and that's the end of it.
Usually within two business days. Setup is a 20-minute call where we configure your line together, you tell us your service area and on-call rotation, and we show you the forwarding on/off codes first, so you always control the switch. Most owners start with after-hours-only forwarding and expand from there.
A $299 one-time setup fee, which we waive when a Pilot converts to any plan. If you use more minutes than your plan includes, extra minutes are $0.40 each, itemized on your invoice. No per-call fees, no per-transfer fees, no charges for spam or wrong numbers.