AI receptionist for skip hire companies

The average skip hire company lets about 33 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them, day or night, books the work into your diary and sends you the transcript.

  • Answers on the first ring
  • Books into your calendar
  • No per minute fees
  • Live in 24 hours
Talk to our AI assistant

Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.

The problem

Why skip hire companies miss so many calls

Skip hire is a commodity bought on availability, so the first company that says yes to tomorrow gets the order.

When the phone rings out

  • while drivers are on the road
  • early mornings, when builders order
  • weekends, when householders clear out

What they are ringing about

  • a skip needed tomorrow morning
  • what size is needed and what can go in it
  • permits for skips on the road

What that costs a single site

£12,300

a month, on conservative assumptions

About 33 missed calls a week. Assume only a third would have become customers, that is roughly 11 a week, and one customer is worth £260 to a skip hire company. Change any of those to your own figures and the answer stays uncomfortable.

What it does

Built around how a skip hire company actually works

Takes orders with the size, date and address

Answers the what can I put in it question

Explains permits and lead times

Books deliveries into your schedule

It tells callers what it is

It says it is an assistant when it picks up. It gives no advice it is not qualified to give, and anything on your escalation list stops the conversation and reaches you straight away. For a skip hire company that matters more than the clever bits, because the calls you cannot afford to get wrong are the ones you most need answered.

Questions

What skip hire companies ask us

Is it really a price decision?

Rarely. It is an availability decision, and availability is answered on the phone, which is why an unanswered call is a lost order rather than a delayed one.

Can it explain permits?

Yes, including your lead time for getting one, which prevents the awkward call on delivery day.

Will it take the prohibited items question?

It answers from your list, which saves your drivers refusing loads on the doorstep.

Hear it answer a skip hire company call

Ring the number and ask it the awkward question your customers always ask. If you like what you hear, it will book you in there and then.

Talk to our AI assistant

No form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.