Bilingual AI receptionist for Canadian trades
Front&Center answers when you can’t, in English or French, books the job, and texts you the details, so the lead stays with your business.
8:59 PMAt the phone
Waiting for the first call…
(437) 555-0104What are your weekend hours?Answered and texted your hours
What your callers hear
Front&Center greets callers with your business name, asks the questions you would, and answers from what you’ve taught it. Each call lands in your dashboard with a summary and the next step.
What the caller heard
What lands in your dashboard
Text sent to the caller
Thanks for calling Summit Comfort Heating & Cooling. Your visit request is held — we’ll text to confirm the time.
Keep your number
Your phone still rings first. Only the calls you don’t pick up forward to Front&Center, through your carrier’s no-answer forwarding.
Step 1
Confirm the line is yours with a quick code. We give you a private routing number.
Step 2
Setup shows the exact steps for your carrier, so unanswered calls go to the routing number.
Step 3
We ring your line, you let it go, and the receptionist confirms everything works.
The math
Put in what a typical job is worth to you. The comparison updates as you type.
$800 back for a $300 month on Growth.
That’s 2.7× what the plan costs. Prices in CAD, per month.
Trades
We’re onboarding HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and other home-service teams now. See how missed calls show up in your trade.
What it handles
The things a good office manager does on a call, from the first ring to the deposit. Most of it is on every plan.
Greets returning customers and knows the furnace you installed last fall — after checking it’s really them.
Set a price or a range for each service. It quotes nothing else, and flags it for you if it ever does.
At 9pm it says you’re closed and books the morning, instead of promising a callback in 15 minutes.
Gas smell, flooding, no heat: safety advice first, then a text to you right away (or your on-call phone, Growth and up).
Books straight onto your calendar, or holds the time for you to confirm. The caller gets a text either way.
Someone hangs up without a word? They get a text asking how you can help, and their reply lands in Callbacks.
Wants a person? It transfers the live call and tells whoever picks up who’s calling and why (Growth and up).
Texts a private link for photos of the problem (Starter and up) and a Stripe link for your deposit (Growth and up). Never card numbers by voice.
Questions it couldn’t answer come to you. Answer once and it uses that answer on the next call (Starter and up).
Pricing
Hear the AI first. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
$79CAD / month
For one-truck operators who can't pick up on the job.
$150CAD / month
For small shops that miss a handful of calls a day.
$300CAD / month
For busy teams that want deposits up front and jobs booked straight into Jobber.
$750CAD / month
For multi-crew shops that want the AI chasing leads, not just answering.
Custom
Custom minutes, onboarding, and pricing for larger teams — talk to us.
Prices in Canadian dollars, plus applicable tax. Compare every feature. Change plans anytime in Settings. Enterprise is custom — email us.
Questions
Straight answers on numbers, pricing, and how it handles a call. See all questions.
Front&Center is an AI receptionist built for Canadian trades and home-service businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, cleaning, landscaping and pest control. When you can’t pick up, it answers the call in your business’s name, asks the questions you would, answers from what you’ve taught it, books the job into your calendar, and sends you a summary. You keep your existing phone number.
No. You keep the number your customers already know. Front&Center gives you a private routing number, and you turn on no-answer (conditional) forwarding with your carrier so only the calls you don’t pick up go to the AI.
Front&Center plans are priced in Canadian dollars: Solo $79 CAD/month (150 caller minutes), Starter $150 CAD/month (500 caller minutes), Growth $300 CAD/month (1,500 caller minutes), Scale $750 CAD/month (5,000 caller minutes). Enterprise pricing is custom. Every self-serve plan starts with a 14-day free trial and has a 30-day money-back guarantee, with no contracts.
Yes. Every plan answers calls and sends texts in English or French, which matters for businesses serving Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and other bilingual markets.
Yes. Forwarded calls are answered any time, day or night. It knows your business hours, so after hours it can still take the job details, offer the next open slot, and flag urgent calls like floods, no heat or gas smells so you can decide whether to call back right away.
A traditional answering service uses live agents who usually take a message from a script and bill per minute or per call. An AI receptionist answers instantly, any time, never puts callers on hold, knows your services and prices, books directly into your calendar, and costs a flat monthly fee. An answering service can be a better fit if you need a human for complex or sensitive conversations.
Hear Front&Center answer a call, then set it up on your number.
