For painters & decorators
Room refreshes, whole houses, exterior season: Sayora answers while you're cutting in, captures what they want painted, and texts you the lead before it dries.
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Yesterday
📞 New call · 5.52pm
Karen Doyle · 07700 900558
Moving into 27 Restalrig Avenue at the end of the month. Wants the hall, landing and stairs plus two bedrooms done before the furniture arrives. Flexible on dates, wants a quote this week.
Listen: sayora.ai/c/vwx123
Today
📞 New call · just now
Alistair Brogan · 07700 900696
Exterior job at 5 Craigcrook Road: render, sills and all the woodwork. South-facing and flaking. Hoping to catch the good weather. Home after 5 for a look-round.
Listen: sayora.ai/c/yza456
Top of a ladder, cutting in a ceiling line with a loaded brush. The phone rings in your pocket. Answering means a drip down the wall and a wet handprint on the screen.
Painting a hall, landing and stairs averages around £1,600. The caller books whoever picks up, and today that isn't you.
A family has just had an offer accepted and wants the whole house decorated before they move in: every room, all the woodwork. You're wrapping rollers at the end of a long week.
A full five-bed redecoration averages around £6,000. Move-in dates are fixed, so they book the first decorator who answers, this evening.
First dry week of exterior season and every south-facing wall in town is suddenly urgent. Three enquiries ring while you're up scaffolding with a masonry brush.
Exterior work only fits a short season. Every missed call is a job that lands in someone else's summer.
Hi, you've reached Fairlie Decorating. I'm Sayora, the AI receptionist. Janek's mid-ceiling just now, but I can sort this with you. What needs painting?
We're moving house at the end of the month and want a few rooms done before the furniture goes in. The hall and stairs, and two bedrooms.
Perfect time to do it, while the rooms are empty. Walls and ceilings only, or the woodwork too, skirtings, doors, banister?
Woodwork too, honestly. It's all a bit tired and yellowed.
Fresh woodwork makes the whole job. Is there wallpaper anywhere that'd need stripping, or is it painted surfaces throughout?
Painted throughout, as far as we know.
Straightforward, then. Janek can look round and give you a firm price; empty houses he can usually see quickly. Would tomorrow at five suit, at the new place?
Tomorrow at five works. Karen Doyle, 27 Restalrig Avenue.
Booked, Karen. You'll get a confirmation text now, and Janek will bring the schedule so you'll know it's all done before moving day.
Your line stays crisp. One text: move-in redecoration, hall, stairs and two bedrooms plus woodwork, quote visit tomorrow at five.
Steady hands are your living. She picks up every call so you never choose between a crisp line and a new customer.
Which rooms, walls only or woodwork too, wallpaper up or coming down, empty house or lived-in. Your quote visit starts half-done.
She offers your real availability, books the look-round mid-call, and texts the customer a confirmation from your business name.
Exterior enquiries in summer, insides in winter, move-in deadlines all year. Tell her your lead times once and she sets expectations on every call.
Trade-lead resellers and 'page one of Google' pitches get politely turned away before they interrupt a finish coat.
Everything Sayora does, unlimited minutes, cancel anytime. One recovered job pays for months of her.
Only the ones you've given her. If you price per room, a medium room averages around £450 nationally, she can share your rates and book the job. For bigger or trickier work she explains that a look-round comes first and books it. Your prices, your rules.
She asks the date first, because everything hangs on it. If your book can take it, she books the quote visit fast; if you're full, she says so honestly rather than wasting their week. Tell her your lead times once and she manages every caller against them.
Yes. Exterior enquiries get flagged in your text so you can jump on them while the weather holds, and she captures what matters: render or wood, roughly how big, how flaky, and whether there's scaffolding access.
She tells every caller upfront, then helps them properly, which is more than a voicemail ever did. Callers with a moving date want progress, not a debate. The few who insist on a human get your callback, captured neatly in the text.
No. Yours stays on the van and your listings. You get a dedicated UK number for Sayora and forward calls whenever your hands are full, or always. Switch it off any time.
£49 a month on early access: unlimited minutes, every skill, no contract, cancel anytime. Less than a tin of good trade paint a week.
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