The Best AI Answering Service for Contractors -- Meet SameDay AI

If you are a con­trac­tor or run a ser­vice-based busi­ness, I’m sure you are aware of the gold­en rule when it comes to inbound leads: The fastest response usu­al­ly wins the job. As a paint­ing con­trac­tor myself, I was excit­ed to sit down with Aaron Coop­er, founder of Same­Day AI, on The Com­mer­cial Paint­ing Pod­cast to learn more about how it can help us respond faster to clients. 

Before cre­at­ing Same­Day AI, Aaron built a suc­cess­ful mul­ti­state pest con­trol com­pa­ny, so he gets it: The strug­gle to main­tain a rea­son­able pay­roll with­out miss­ing calls and los­ing out on leads. Same­Day is his solu­tion. It’s not just an answer­ing ser­vice — it’s an AI-pow­ered recep­tion­ist built specif­i­cal­ly for contractors.

How Do I Keep Up with Call Volume? 
Whether in paint­ing, plumb­ing, HVAC, roof­ing, remod­el­ing, or pest con­trol, your busi­ness lives or dies by the speed of response. While it’s a tall order to be avail­able every minute of every day, we all hear the lit­tle voice in the back of our heads every time we miss a call because we were at lunch, in a meet­ing, or with our fam­i­ly on a Sat­ur­day morn­ing, ​“that lead prob­a­bly just booked with my competitor.”

Larg­er busi­ness­es have the lux­u­ry of after-hours call cen­ters or answer­ing ser­vices, but they’re not always per­son­al or afford­able — and they still miss details. Office man­agers get over­loaded and can miss calls, too. Most busi­ness own­ers wear too many hats to wor­ry about answer­ing the phone.

That’s where Same­Day AI comes in.

A Tool Built for the Trades
Same­Day isn’t just a robot voice read­ing a script. This is real AI — smart, con­ver­sa­tion­al, and eeri­ly nat­ur­al. One of my clients named their AI ​“Susie,” and the way their office man­ag­er talked about her, you’d think she was an actu­al team mem­ber. Susie takes calls, responds to texts, gath­ers details, and even books esti­mate win­dows — with­out skip­ping a beat.

It’s eas­i­ly one of the best AI answer­ing sys­tems avail­able for con­trac­tors and ser­vice pros.

What Makes Same­Day AI So Powerful?

Here are just a few of the fea­tures that set it apart:

• Nat­ur­al-Sound­ing Conversations
  Same­Day uses true con­ver­sa­tion­al AI (like Chat­G­PT) to talk with cus­tomers just like a human would. No menus, no confusion.
• Ful­ly Cus­tomiz­able Voices
  Choose gen­der, tone, accent (South­ern, Boston, Scot­tish — you name it), speak­ing speed, and mood. Joy­ful or pro­fes­sion­al? Total­ly your call.
• Smart Sched­ul­ing
  Based on your avail­abil­i­ty, the AI can ten­ta­tive­ly sched­ule appointments:
  ​“Jake can meet with you next Thurs­day between 8 and 12. Our team will con­firm the time after review­ing your info.”
  You con­trol lead time, black­out days, week­ends, and buffers.
• Text Mes­sage Handling
  It can reply to inbound texts, send auto­mat­ed fol­low-ups and reminders, and even han­dle rebook­ing. Out­bound sales calls are expect­ed in the sum­mer 2025.
• Flex­i­ble Use
  Use it only on week­ends, evenings, dur­ing vaca­tions, or high-vol­ume sea­sons — when­ev­er your team needs extra coverage.
• Afford­able Pricing
  Starts around $500/​month, plus a small one-time set­up fee (under $300). The ROI on just a few extra booked jobs makes it well worth the investment.

Build­ing An AI Recep­tion­ist Spe­cif­ic to YOUR Company
Here’s one of my favorite things: you can pump Same­Day with as much com­pa­ny-spe­cif­ic info as you want. It’s not lim­it­ed to answer­ing gener­ic questions.

You can pre­load it with:

• Your ser­vice area, includ­ing zip codes and cities
• Your full list of services
• Avail­abil­i­ty details or esti­mate time windows
• How to han­dle dif­fer­ent ser­vice types (esti­mates vs. booked work)
• Spe­cial pro­mos, dis­counts, or first-time offers

If you want to use it like a vir­tu­al sales­per­son, you can.

Exam­ple: You could set it up to book and con­firm an esti­mate on the spot. Same­Day can even apply an offer like, ​“You’ll get $100 off your job if you book same day as the esti­mate.” For con­trac­tors that rely on lead cap­ture and esti­mate set­ting, it gath­ers the details and gets you every­thing you need so your sales team can fol­low up quick­ly and close the deal.

It’s flex­i­ble, pow­er­ful, and sur­pris­ing­ly personal.

This Isn’t Replac­ing Peo­ple — It’s Help­ing Them Thrive

Some con­trac­tors wor­ry that AI means let­ting go of real peo­ple. But Same­Day isn’t about cut­ting — it’s about sup­port­ing your exist­ing team. Your staff can stay focused on high­er-lev­el tasks while Same­Day keeps the front lines mov­ing, ²⁴⁄₇.

This way, no calls are missed, and you don’t have to depend on a human to be in the office ²⁴⁄₇.

Final Thoughts (and a Refer­ral Link)

If you’re even remote­ly curi­ous, I high­ly rec­om­mend check­ing it out. Here’s my refer­ral link to get started:
👉 https://​signup​.gosame​day​.com/​u​s​q​3YM1G

This is the future of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the trades. Con­trac­tors who adopt tools like Same­Day now are the ones who will scale faster, respond bet­ter, and book more work — with­out burn­ing out their staff or los­ing leads dur­ing off hours.