Inspire Technologies gives Dallas–Fort Worth roofing companies an AI receptionist that answers your existing number after hours and when you’re busy. When a hailstorm brings a wave of calls, it answers them, collects the address and the damage the homeowner sees, books inspections on your calendar and texts back anyone who hangs up. Follow-up keeps open estimates moving. It comes with Front Desk, with a 15-day free trial.
Roofing in North Texas runs on the weather. A spring hailstorm can send a whole neighborhood of homeowners outside to look at their roofs on the same evening, and many of them call the first roofer they find. Your crews are already booked, your office is buried, and calls roll to voicemail.
That’s also when out-of-town storm crews start knocking on doors in the same neighborhoods. A local roofer who answers the phone and offers a real inspection time has an advantage. A voicemail greeting doesn’t.
The goal of a storm call is a scheduled inspection. The AI receptionist answers on your number, asks the questions you approve and offers open inspection times from your calendar, during the call. The caller hangs up with an appointment instead of a promise that someone will call back.
A typical roofing intake covers:
Active leaks can be routed straight to you, using your urgent rules. Everything else becomes an inspection on the calendar, with the details saved in your CRM.
Between storms, the calls get smaller but they don’t stop: a few missing shingles, a leak around a vent pipe, gutter repairs, or an older roof that needs a replacement quote before the house goes on the market. The receptionist books those the same way, so the quieter months still fill your calendar instead of your voicemail.
Storm callers often ask whether insurance will cover their roof. That’s a conversation for your team and the homeowner’s insurer, not an automated system. The AI receptionist is set up to note the question and pass it to your team, not to make promises about claims or coverage. The website chatbot works the same way: it answers only from the information you approve and hands anything else to a person.
Roofing jobs rarely close on the first visit. There’s the inspection, the estimate, often an adjuster meeting, and then the homeowner deciding. Every step is a chance for the lead to go cold while your team is on the next roof. Follow-up keeps open estimates moving, so a homeowner who said “let me think about it” hears from you again.
After the job, automated review requests on Autopilot ask every customer for a Google review the same way. That matters in roofing, because after a storm homeowners compare local reviews to decide who to trust.
When homeowners in Southlake, Grapevine or The Colony search for a roofer after a storm, Google Maps does much of the sorting. Every package includes Google Business Profile optimization and citations, and Front Desk adds Google Maps optimization and local schema. We don’t sell rankings. We do the local work and report what we see.
The AI receptionist comes with Front Desk ($2,500/month) and Autopilot ($4,000/month). Booked ($1,500/month) covers the website, CRM and calendar booking, missed-call text-back, the after-hours website chatbot and starter local SEO. There’s no setup fee, every package has a 3-month minimum, and every package starts with a 15-day free trial.
Roofing companies that want booked inspections during storm surges need the AI receptionist, so they usually start with Front Desk.
We also answer calls for garage door companies and electricians. See all industries we serve.
It answers your existing number after hours and when you’re busy, collects each caller’s address and the damage they see, and books inspections on your calendar, so storm calls don’t pile up in voicemail.
No. It notes the question and passes it to your team. It doesn’t make promises about claims or coverage.
Yes. It offers open times from your calendar and books the inspection while the homeowner is on the phone.
Roofing jobs move from inspection to estimate to decision over days or weeks. Follow-up keeps open estimates moving, so leads don’t go cold while your crews are on other roofs.
Front Desk ($2,500/month), because it includes the AI receptionist. There’s no setup fee, a 3-month minimum and a 15-day free trial.
Start a 15-day free trial now, so inspections are getting booked before the next hail season. No setup fee.
What we do
Built for DFW home-service pros and small law firms. Pick the pieces you need, or let us run them together inside your monthly package.
Many of these are included in our monthly packages. Add-ons such as ad management are quoted separately. See packages
