Answers calls
After hours, at lunch, while you're on a roof. Books jobs and flags emergencies.
After 5 PM, most calls go to voicemail.
An AI receptionist and office helpers that answer after-hours calls, chase quotes and follow up for you.
Fig. 1 · Example calls. Names and numbers are made up.
Most missed jobs aren't lost to bad work. They're lost to voicemail. Computer Bell answers every call, books what can be booked, and has the rest in your inbox by 7 AM.
calls to home-service businesses can go unanswered. Every one is a job that might go to someone else.
ServiceTitan, citing Invoca: home-service businesses miss about 27% of their inbound calls. Read the source.
An example evening at a plumbing and heating shop, from closing time to the morning summary.
Calls you can't get to forward to Computer Bell. It says it's an AI assistant in its first sentence.
Gets the address and the details, then books your first opening.
Marked urgent. You get an email right away with the name, number and problem.
Safety first, no questions: leave the house, call 911 and the gas company. Then it tells you.
Every call from the night, most urgent first, before your coffee.
After hours, at lunch, while you're on a roof. Books jobs and flags emergencies.
Short, friendly emails on day 2, 5 and 10. Stops the moment they reply.
Every finished job gets the same polite ask with your Google link.
Illustration. Not a customer review.
A real reply within minutes of a website form, and a heads-up to you.
Polite reminders after the due date, in your name. Stops when it's paid.
Example invoice.
On the 1st, one email with the dollars the helpers touched.
Example report.
Your numbers, not ours. Uses 4.33 weeks a month. It's an estimate, not a promise.
Your hours, your services, what counts as an emergency, and where messages go.
Set up and test-called, including gas-leak and carbon-monoxide calls, before it answers anyone real.
It answers your phone for seven days. Keep it or don't. No contract either way.
For missed calls.
Calls plus the follow-up work.
For bringing customers back.
First week free. No contract, cancel with one email. Setup included for early customers.
No. It tells every caller it's an AI assistant for your business in the first sentence. If someone wants a human, it takes a message and gets it to you fast.
Safety comes before booking. For a gas smell or a carbon-monoxide alarm it tells the caller to get out and call 911 and the gas company, then alerts you. Those calls are tested before it goes live.
No. Calls forward when you can't pick up, and the office helpers work from your email and a simple sheet. If you already use something like Jobber or QuickBooks, we only set up what it doesn't do.
Any business that loses money to voicemail: trades, auto shops, salons, property managers, law offices and local services. Not medical offices yet.
The first week is free and there's no contract. Send one email and it's off.
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Who we are. Legal business name, street address, Milwaukee, WI ZIP. Questions: nathaniel@computerbell.com, phone number.
What this page collects: nothing. There is no analytics, no advertising pixel, no session recording and no account. The box at the bottom does not send anything anywhere — it opens a draft in your own email program, and nothing reaches us until you press send in that program.
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If you email us. We keep your message and contact details so we can reply, and if you become a customer, to run your service and keep our books. We do not sell it, rent it, or hand it to advertisers.
If you become a customer. Running the service means handling your callers' names, phone numbers, what they called about, and the job details you already hold — plus call recordings and transcripts where you have them switched on. We use that only to run your service. We keep it for how long, e.g. 24 months and delete it sooner if you ask. The companies we use to do it: list every one, e.g. Google Workspace, Retell AI, your phone provider.
Your choices. Email us to see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted, and we will do it within 30 days. We will not treat you differently for asking.
Children. This service is for businesses. It is not for anyone under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes. If this policy changes we will change the date here and, for customers, email you first. Last updated date.
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Who you are dealing with. Legal business name ("we"), address. By buying the service you agree to what is below.
What the service is. An AI assistant that answers calls you cannot take, and the office follow-ups described on this page. It tells every caller it is an AI assistant in its first sentence. It is software, not an employee, and not a person.
It is not an emergency service. It cannot dispatch help. For gas, fire, medical or any other emergency it tells the caller to hang up and call 911. You stay responsible for your own licensing, your response times and the work itself.
Price and billing. Prices are in US dollars, per month, plus any sales tax. The first week is free. After that we bill monthly on the same date, and it renews automatically until you cancel. We will email you before any price change and you can cancel instead.
Cancelling. One email to nathaniel@computerbell.com cancels it — no phone call, no form, no notice period. See Refunds.
Your side. You confirm you may share your customers' details with us. You agree not to use the service for outbound AI calls, robocalls, or cold texts, and to follow the TCPA, CAN-SPAM and your state's rules on call recording and consent — some states need every caller told the call is recorded. You keep ownership of your data.
Our side. We will run it with reasonable care. We do not promise it will never miss a call: it depends on your phone carrier, your internet and services we buy from other companies. We are not liable for lost profit or lost business, and whatever happens, our total liability is capped at what you paid us in the 3 months before the problem.
No promise of results. Nothing on this page is a guarantee of bookings, revenue or ranking. The calculator is arithmetic on numbers you type in, not a forecast.
Law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, and any dispute goes to the courts of county County, Wisconsin.
Changes. We will give customers 30 days' notice by email before changing these terms.
The first week is free. If you cancel during it, you pay nothing and there is nothing to refund.
Cancel any time. Email us and we stop the service and the billing. There is no contract and no cancellation fee.
What you get back. Cancel and we do not bill you again. The month you are already in is not refunded, because the service ran. If we billed you in error, or the service was down for more than 48 hours in a month and we could not fix it, email us and we refund that month in full.
Setup work. Where a setup fee applies it is refundable in full until we start building, and not after that, because it pays for work already done.
How refunds arrive. Back to the card or account you paid from, within 10 business days.
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