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Wardrobe enquiries, door hangs, bespoke one-offs: Sayora answers while the workshop's loud, finds out what they want made, and texts you the lead with the sawdust still in the air.
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Yesterday
📞 New call · 4.48pm
Eilidh Strang · 07700 900204
Wants fitted wardrobes across one alcove wall of the main bedroom at 12 Comiston Gardens. Sliding doors preferred. Has photos to send. Free for a measure-up any weekday after 4.
Listen: sayora.ai/c/pqr567
Today
📞 New call · just now
Douglas Petrie · 07700 900486
Six internal doors to hang in a renovation at 41 Silverknowes Road, plus skirting through the hall. Plaster finished next week. Wants it done before carpets go down.
Listen: sayora.ai/c/stu890
You're feeding oak through the table saw. No chance of hearing the phone, and you wouldn't stop the cut anyway. The caller wants a wall of fitted wardrobes.
A three-door fitted wardrobe averages around £3,250. By the time the cut ends, the caller is describing their alcoves to another joiner.
On your knees scribing skirting in an empty renovation. The phone buzzes against your leg: a site manager with six doors to hang before the carpets go down next week.
Trade work runs on whoever answers. He needs it sorted today, so he keeps dialling joiners until someone picks up.
A couple has spent the evening on Pinterest and rings about a bespoke media wall. It's exactly the work you set up on your own to do. Your phone's in your jacket in the hall.
Bespoke work is won in the first conversation, when their excitement is highest. Voicemail kills the mood stone dead.
Hi, you've reached Ashworth Joinery. I'm Sayora, the AI receptionist. Michael's in the workshop with the machines going, but I can take it all down. What are you after?
We're after fitted wardrobes in the main bedroom. There's an alcove either side of the chimney breast and we want the whole wall done.
Alcove to alcove, lovely. Are you picturing hinged doors or sliding? And painted, or a wood finish?
Sliding, I think. Painted, probably white or off-white to match the woodwork.
That gives Michael a good picture. He builds everything to the room, so the next step is a measure-up. He does those late afternoons; would Thursday after four suit?
Thursday's fine. Eilidh Strang, 12 Comiston Gardens.
Booked for Thursday at 4.30, Eilidh. If you can text over a photo of the wall beforehand, he'll come armed with ideas. You'll get a confirmation now.
Great. Roughly what do these cost, so I know what we're in for?
Honestly, it depends on the wall and the finish, which is why he measures first. He'll give you a firm written price after Thursday, and there's no charge for the visit.
The cut finishes clean. One text: fitted wardrobes, alcove wall, sliding doors, painted, measure-up booked Thursday 4.30.
Table saw, thicknesser, sander: your workshop is loud and your hands are near blades. She answers every call somewhere quiet, first ring.
Fitted wardrobes or freestanding, how many doors, softwood or oak, painted or clear finish. She asks enough that you can picture the job before ringing back.
Bespoke joinery starts with a tape measure. She books the measuring visit into your real diary mid-call and confirms it to the customer by text.
Site managers, main contractors and returning customers get recognised and handled like the regulars they are, with urgency flagged in your text.
Timber merchants you already use get through. Cold-calling insurance brokers and directory salesmen do not.
Everything Sayora does, unlimited minutes, cancel anytime. One recovered job pays for months of her.
She quotes what you've given her and nothing more. Bespoke work gets priced from a measure-up, and she says so while booking it. If you keep set rates, hanging an internal door, say, where around £120 in labour is typical, she can share yours and book the job.
Yes, and she treats them like trade: what's the job, how many doors, when's the deadline, who's the contact on site. Contractors ring the joiner who answers; being that joiner is the whole point.
It's most valuable exactly then. Every hour at the bench is an hour you can't answer, and workshop machinery means you often shouldn't. She catches everything while you work, and your callbacks happen when the machines are off.
Yes. Tell her once that you're booking eight weeks out and she manages expectations on every call, which saves you the awkward conversation and filters out anyone who needed it yesterday. Update her whenever the book changes.
No. Your number stays on the van and your listings. You get a dedicated UK number for Sayora and forward calls whenever the machines are on, or around the clock. You control it.
£49 a month on early access, unlimited minutes, everything included, no contract. One captured wardrobe enquiry covers years of it.
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