Skip Voicemail
24/7 receptionist for the trades · Long Island

What if your calls never went to voicemail?

Donna answers your business line the instant a call would hit voicemail — she qualifies the job, captures the time the caller wants, and texts you the details. Nights, weekends, mid-job, Christmas morning. The whole setup is the phone already in your pocket — nothing to install, nothing to learn.

Call her right now — (516) 530-8840She answers this company's own phones. Judge her before you pay a dime.

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THE 37-SECOND SAVETUE · 11:20 AM
00 SEC
Incoming call — you're mid-job
Leaking water heater · Massapequa, NY
03 SEC
Donna answers instead of voicemail
“I can help with that — is water still coming out?”
29 SEC
Requested 1:30 tomorrow
Details sent to you before they dial a competitor
37 SEC
Your phone buzzes with the whole story
Text + email + full transcript in your log
REQUEST CAPTURED
New appointment request
Water heater replacement
Tomorrow · 1:30 PM requested · Mike R. · est. $340+
11:20
Tuesday · mid-job
Missed Call
(516) 240-8871 · Massapequa, NY
forwarded to voicemail · no message left
That was a new customer with a leaking water heater. They reached your voicemail. They skipped your business.

58% of callers won't leave a message (CallRail, 2025). They dial the next name on Google — and that job is gone before you're off the ladder.

Never again. Meet your receptionist.

Meet Donna.

Tap the orb to talk to her right here

Your phone still rings first. But the instant a call would hit your voicemail, Donna answers instead — 24/7, nights, weekends, mid-job. She qualifies the caller, captures the appointment they want, and texts you the details instantly. Trained on your services, your towns, your prices.

HER FIRST WORDS · ON YOUR LINE

"Thanks for calling [your company] — this is Donna. What's going on at the house today?"

Call her right now — (516) 530-8840She answers this company's own phones. Judge her before you pay a dime.

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Live right now — no demo video, no sales rep. Just call the line.

What she does

She doesn't just take a message.
She captures the appointment request.

DONNA"Thanks for calling [your company] — this is Donna."
CALLER"Basement's flooding — pipe burst!"
DONNA"That's urgent. What's the address? … I'll put down 3:15 today as your requested time and send the details to the team now."
REQUEST — 3:15 PM
A real emergency? Donna rings your cell immediately, live. She never quotes a final price — that stays your call.
The part you see

Seconds later,
your phone buzzes.

Every job Donna takes lands on your phone as a text and in your inbox as an email — instantly, with everything you need to just show up.

Real screenshot of the live call log — an emergency call answered by Donna: water pouring through a kitchen ceiling, urgency flagged, immediate callback promised. Caller number redacted.
Seconds after the call Your call log Real screenshot · Aug 2026

Real screenshots from the live product — the founder's own account, captured August 11, 2026. The call shown is a staged emergency (so no real caller's details are exposed): water through a kitchen ceiling, answered, qualified, flagged urgent — and the owner's phone was ringing seconds after the caller hung up. Caller number redacted; everything else is exactly what the product produced.

Real screenshot of the private call log — the emergency call opened to its full word-for-word transcript. Caller number redacted.
Answered, qualified, flagged urgent Every word kept Your private call log Real screenshot · Aug 2026

The email has the whole story — and your private call log shows every call she's ever taken for you, full transcript, word for word. You'll always know exactly how she talks to your customers.

When it's urgent

A burst pipe doesn't wait for you to check texts. For real emergencies Donna rings your phone herself — immediately, live — and reads the job out loud.

What you get

Everything a front desk does —
for less than one service call.

Custom-trained on your trade — services, towns, price ranges, rules.
Answers the instant voicemail would — 24/7/365: mid-job, midnight, Christmas morning.
Captures the appointment request on the call — requested time and details recorded, then texted to you for confirmation. Every business plan.
Remembers repeat customers — by name, with their history. No app does this. Front Desk and up.
Emergencies ring YOUR phone — Donna calls you immediately, live, and reads you the job.
Calls your customers back — she confirms tomorrow's appointment or captures a requested change and notifies you. Front Desk and up.
Kills the junk before it reaches you — solicitors, robocalls, merchant-services pitches. She ends them politely; you never hear about it, and they cost you nothing.
Monthly missed-call report — calls answered, leads captured, and appointment requests, with lead details in one email.
Your phone is the whole setup

There is no hardware.
Your phone is the whole product.

Nothing gets installed at your shop, and nothing gets installed on your phone. The phone already in your pocket is the entire setup — no app store, no password, nothing new to learn. She'll walk you through putting herself on your home screen; it takes about twenty seconds on your setup call.

Tap her icon — every call she's taken, newest first.
Every transcript, word for word, however far back you want to look.
Your live bill — the same math your invoice will use, no surprises.
iPhone & Android No app store
The other option

Not another app to manage.

The AI receptionists built into phone apps make you move your business onto their platform and then build the thing yourself. Here's the same job, both ways.

SkipVoicemail
Phone-app AI
Keep your number & phone company
SkipVoicemail
Phone-app AIYou have to switch to their platform first.
She builds herself on one call
SkipVoicemail
Phone-app AIYou configure it yourself in a flow builder.
Captures the requested time & texts you the lead
SkipVoicemailEvery business plan.
Phone-app AIOnly takes a message.
Calls customers back — confirmations & urgent callbacks
SkipVoicemailFront Desk and up.
Phone-app AIInbound only — never calls anyone back.
A local contractor answers when something's wrong
SkipVoicemail
Phone-app AIA ticket queue.

Nothing to install, nothing to log into, nothing to configure. One forwarding code turns her on; one turns her off.

You already know the math

The cost of voicemail.

ItemAmount
Average plumbing or electrical job (HomeAdvisor, 30k-customer survey)$340+
Share of home-service calls that go unanswered (Invoca, 2024)27%
Callers who won't leave a voicemail (CallRail, 2025)58%
One real contractor's log: 113 of 184 calls missed, one month, at this shop's $340 average job≈ $38,000

That last line is a real Long Island phone log. It's why this company exists.

Donna costs less than one of those jobs
Pricing

Pay for talk time,
not for phone calls.

A 20-second robocall and a 10-minute intake are not the same thing, so they shouldn't cost the same. Every plan comes with a pool of talking minutes — the same way your cell plan works — and we tell you roughly how many calls that is so nobody has to do math. Calls are never capped: she answers everything, always. The meter is billing, not service.

Personal

Your own cell phone. Not a business — just a person who's tired of voicemail.

$10/mo
just 33¢ a day
Free for 14 days. Cancel by text.
About 20 calls a month
30 talking minutes included, then 20¢/min
Answers your cell when you can't
Finds out who called and what they wanted
Texts you the whole story, word for word
Remembers your regular callers
Try Donna free

No business features — no lead capture, no appointment-request capture, no company greeting.

Essentials

One truck, one phone. You just need the calls answered and the message in your hand.

$49/mo
just $1.63 a day
Free for 14 days. Cancel by text.
About 65 calls a month
200 talking minutes included, then 15¢/min
Answers as your company, 24/7
Qualifies the job — problem, address, urgency, number
Texts and emails you every lead in seconds
Real emergencies ring your cell immediately
Kills solicitors and robocalls — never billed to you
Every call, word for word, in your private log
Monthly missed-call report
A free one-page website — built to make your phone ring, yours to keep$1,000 FREE
Captures the requested appointment time; you confirm availability
Try Donna free

She answers, captures the requested time, and texts you the lead. You confirm the appointment.

Most shops
Front Desk

A crew and a schedule. You want her capturing appointment requests, not just taking messages.

$129/mo
just $4.30 a day
Free for 14 days. Cancel by text.
About 180 calls a month
550 talking minutes included, then 12¢/min
Everything in Essentials, plus
She calls your customers the day before to confirm the appointment
Requested changes are captured and sent straight to you✓ fewer no-shows
Repeat customers greeted by name, with their history
Try Donna free

This is the tier that stops costing you money instead of just saving you time.

Full Service

Busy shop, real volume. You want the whole thing handled and a human on the hook.

$279/mo
just $9.30 a day
Free for 14 days. Cancel by text.
About 400 calls a month
1,200 talking minutes included, then 10¢/min
Everything in Front Desk, plus
Your rate locked for life
Billy picks up when you call — and knows your name
Your risk reversal

Free for 14 days. Card up front so she can go live immediately — cancel any time before day 14 and you're never charged. After that, cancel any time and you're not charged again.

Try Donna free

Cheapest per minute. Over 400 calls a month, this is already the right seat.

On every plan, including the ten-dollar one — these aren't upsells, they're the deal: 14 days free, nothing charged today · no setup fee, she builds herself on one call · keep your number and your phone company · cancel by text, no contract, no notice period · your phone rings first, she only takes what you'd have missed · change anything by telling her.

Who built this

I'm a contractor,
not a software company.

I'm Billy. I install windows for a living and run my own handyman company here on Long Island. I built Donna because I was losing real jobs on my own phone — elbow-deep in a stranger's sink, listening to it ring. She's answered my line ever since. Don't believe a website. Call her.

Billy HolevasFounder, SkipVoicemail · Owner, East Williston Handyman

Questions

Before you call.

Do I have to change phone companies or get a new number?

No — that's the whole point. Your number, your carrier, your phone, all untouched. Donna only takes the calls you'd have missed. One forwarding code turns her on; one turns her off.

Can I really trust an AI with my calls?

Call the demo line and judge for yourself — that's the whole point of it. The guardrails are real: urgent calls ring your cell live, she never quotes final prices, and the first 14 days are free — cancel any time before day 14 and you're never charged a cent.

I already pay for an answering service.

Human services run $250–$2,100 a month and mostly take messages — you still call the customer back hoping they haven't hired someone else. Donna captures the appointment request, texts you the lead instantly, and remembers them next time, for less.

There are cheaper apps out there.

There are — and they also make you switch your phone system or babysit a setup wizard. They're do-it-yourself. You set them up, you babysit them, you're the support department. Here, she sets herself up — one call and she's trained on your business — and I build, test, and stand behind every account, answering by name when something's off. And I'm local: if you ever want hands-on help, I'll come to you. You're not buying an app; you're buying a guy on the hook.

Doesn't Jobber do this now?

If you already pay for Jobber's platform, their receptionist is worth a look. If you don't, that path means buying an entire software suite to get your phone answered. Donna needs nothing installed — forward your line and you're done.

Can I change how she handles things?

Any time, two ways: call the same line — (516) 530-8840 — and tell Donna what you want different (greeting, hours, services, what counts as an emergency, anything), or just reply to any lead text she sends you. Changes go live within one business day. And you can audit her any time: your private call log shows every call she's taken, full transcript, word for word — so you'll always know exactly how she's representing you. Nothing to log into, nothing to manage.

I have an iPhone — anything I have to do?

One setting: Settings → Phone → Live Voicemail → OFF. If it's on, your iPhone answers the missed call and Donna never sees it. It ships turned on. Carrier forwarding codes and the VoIP path are on the forwarding page.

What happens if I cancel?

Text me, done. No notice period, no exit fee. Forwarding switches off, your number works exactly like before, same day — and the website stays yours forever.

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