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AI receptionist for paving businesses in Canada

The first thaw shows every crack in the driveway.

The thaw shows every crack in the driveway at once, and homeowners call in the same two weeks. Front&Center takes your calls in English or French while your crew is laying asphalt. It takes the size of the driveway or lot and what the surface is doing, books the estimate into your calendar, and writes down what needs fixing.

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IronBridge Paving(416) 555-0140 2:14Booking held

What the caller heard

  1. ReceptionistThanks for calling IronBridge Paving. How can I help?
  2. CallerThe driveway is cracking and heaving along the edges. Looking to have it redone this spring.
  3. ReceptionistI can book an estimate to measure and look at the base. Roughly how long is the driveway, and is it one car wide or two?
  4. CallerAbout 60 feet, two cars wide.
  5. ReceptionistWednesday at 6:00 or Friday morning are open for the estimate. Which works? I’ll text the address back to you to confirm.

What lands in your dashboard

Reason
The driveway is cracking and heaving along the edges. Looking to have it redone this spring.
Wants
About 60 feet, two cars wide.
Callback
(416) 555-0140
Next step
Visit held. Caller picks a time.

Text sent to the caller

Thanks for calling IronBridge Paving. Your visit request is held. We’ll text to confirm the time.

The problem

Why paving owners
miss jobs

More estimates booked, with the size, the surface and the timing in hand. The seasonal rush gets answered while the crew keeps laying.

  • The thaw opens paving season all at once

    Freeze-thaw damage shows up in April and every homeowner calls in the same two weeks. Miss those calls and the season starts short.

  • Nobody hears a phone over a paving crew

    The roller, the rake, the truck backing up. The phone stays in the pickup while the quotes go to voicemail.

  • Commercial lots come with deadlines

    Property managers price parking-lot work against their own schedules. The company that answers and walks the lot first gets the contract talk.

How it works

Three steps, and your customers
never dial a new number

  1. Step 1

    A call comes in

    Your phone still rings first. If you can’t answer, Front&Center picks up.

  2. Step 2

    The AI handles it

    It answers in your company’s name, asks what the job is and where, answers questions from what you’ve told it, and books a time or takes a message.

  3. Step 3

    You get the lead

    You get an alert with a summary. The recording and transcript are in your dashboard, and a text follow-up keeps the job from going cold.

The math

One recovered job
can pay for the month

We started the calculator with an example paving job. Change it to what your jobs are worth.

Jobs saved from missed calls, per month
1
Plan

$4,000 back for a $300 month on Growth.

Recovered work$4,000
Growth plan$300

That’s 13× what the plan costs. Prices in CAD, per month.

Pricing

Pricing, once
you’ve heard it

Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, and you have 30 days after your first payment to ask for a full refund.

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Solo

$79CAD / month

or $790 CAD a year (2 months free)

For one-truck operators who can't pick up on the job: the phone gets answered and every call is on record, so you can see exactly what you missed.

  • 150 caller minutes / month
  • Answers missed & after-hours calls in English or French
  • Books jobs into your calendar
  • Emergency triage with safety advice
  • Missed-call text-back & callback queue
  • Every call on record: summary, transcript, recording, lead details and call problems
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Starter

$150CAD / month

or $1,500 CAD a year (2 months free)

For a small crew that wants the AI getting better every week: it learns from every miss, texts callers for photos, and holds each booking until you approve it.

  • 500 caller minutes / month
  • Everything in Solo, for up to 5 teammates
  • Train from misses: answer a question once, it uses it on the next call
  • Asks callers for photos by text, on the call
  • Approve each booking before it's confirmed
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Growth

Recommended

$300CAD / month

or $3,000 CAD a year (2 months free)

For multi-crew shops that want to see what the answering is worth: the weekly money recovered report, deposits taken on the call, and your CRM in step.

  • 1,500 caller minutes / month
  • Everything in Starter, for up to 10 teammates
  • Weekly money recovered report
  • Deposit links paid to your Stripe
  • Briefed transfers and on-call rotation
  • Two-way Jobber and HubSpot sync, plus custom lookups
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Scale

$750CAD / month

or $7,500 CAD a year (2 months free)

For multi-location shops that want the AI working new leads and past customers on top of the answering.

  • 5,000 caller minutes / month
  • Everything in Growth, for up to 25 teammates
  • Calls new web & Google leads back in under a minute
  • Website chat and Google review requests
  • Estimate follow-up, tune-up reminder & win-back campaigns
  • Priority support
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Enterprise

Custom

Custom minutes, onboarding and pricing for larger teams. Talk to us.

  • Custom caller minutes & pricing
  • Everything in Scale
  • Dedicated onboarding help
  • Volume / multi-location options
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Prices in Canadian dollars, plus applicable tax. Compare every feature. Change plans anytime in Settings. Enterprise is custom: email us.

Questions

Paving owners ask
before switching it on

  • Can an AI receptionist answer calls for my paving business?

    Yes. The thaw shows every crack in the driveway at once, and homeowners call in the same two weeks. Front&Center takes your calls in English or French while your crew is laying asphalt. It takes the size of the driveway or lot and what the surface is doing, books the estimate into your calendar, and writes down what needs fixing. More estimates booked, with the size, the surface and the timing in hand. The seasonal rush gets answered while the crew keeps laying.

  • What does the AI say when a paving customer calls?

    It answers in your business’s name, for example “Thanks for calling IronBridge Paving. How can I help?”, then asks what the job is, how urgent it is and where it is, answers questions about your services, and offers open appointment times or takes a message for a callback.

  • How much is one missed paving call worth?

    Say a typical job in Paving is worth $4,000+. That’s an example; yours may be more or less. If a missed call goes to a competitor, that’s the job you lose. Recovering a single job like that in a month would cover the Growth plan at $300 CAD.

  • How much does an AI receptionist cost for a paving company?

    Front&Center starts at $79 CAD/month on the Solo plan. Growth, at $300 CAD/month, adds the money recovered report, deposit links, briefed transfers and on-call, Jobber, HubSpot and custom lookups. Google review requests are on Scale at $750 CAD/month. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial.

  • Do I keep my paving business phone number?

    Yes. Your phone still rings first. Only the calls you don’t answer are forwarded to Front&Center through your carrier’s no-answer forwarding, so customers keep dialing the number they already know.

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Put Front&Center on your paving line.

Hear it take a paving call first. Setup is three steps from a computer, and you keep your number.

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