JobStorm AI is a 24/7 answering service for HVAC contractors in Dallas–Fort Worth. It answers every call, qualifies the caller, routes the emergency, books the appointment on your calendar, and texts your office a summary. $1,299 per month flat, no per-minute charges — less than a part-time front desk hire.
Steady 2–4 truck shop? Crew starts at $799/mo — answering and booking, without Heatwave Surge. See all pricing →
Every AC in the county quits at once. Your front desk takes one call. The rest roll to voicemail — and the homeowner sweating in a hot house is already dialling the next company on the list.
The no-cool emergency, the call that pays best, and nobody’s there. Your team is off the clock, your on-call tech is asleep, and the call that would have paid for the week goes to whoever answers.
The price shopper who would have booked if you’d rung back in ten minutes instead of tomorrow. By then they have two other quotes and a technician already scheduled.
The phone barely rings, and you’re still paying whoever you hired for the summer. Staffing for the heat means carrying that cost through every month the heat isn’t there.
This is every summer in DFW. The figures above come from third-party research, not from us — the 52% is measured across home-services calls, and the 3% across callers who reach voicemail. Both are listed, with links, on our sources page.
You've probably tried one. Most HVAC contractors have. A traditional answering service takes a message. Someone in a call center who's never seen a condenser writes down a name and a number and emails your office. You call back four hours later. They already booked someone else. Here's what happens instead.
Caller says the unit won’t cool below 80 and it’s six years old. Your agent knows that’s likely a failed capacitor or low charge, flags it urgent, and books the morning slot.
A no-cool call at 11 PM in July goes to your on-call tech. A maintenance question waits until morning. Your after-hours rules, set during the build.
Straight onto your calendar. Not “someone will call you back.”
While they’re still on your site comparing you to two other companies.
The “let me ask my spouse” caller gets one callback the next day to book the appointment.
Turning finished work into Google reviews, without anyone in your office remembering to ask.
Every call recorded, transcribed, summarized. Nothing slips.
Bookings and lead details go into your CRM, so your team isn’t learning a new system. Most CRMs connect directly as long as your plan includes API access — we check yours before you sign anything.
Flags priority, captures address and who's in the home, and texts your on-call tech immediately.
Tells the caller to get out and call 911 or the gas company first — then flags a priority furnace call so your tech takes the repair the moment it's safe.
Collects system details and books the appointment window straight into your calendar.
Captures the customer and offers the seasonal agreement on every qualifying call.
…and this is what lands on your phone before they hang up.
Heat wave week is where the money is. The calls that come in the six hours after the first 100° day don’t shop around. They hire whoever picks up.
Ava picks up like a real call — talk to her the way a homeowner would. The live demo runs on the homepage, and it runs an HVAC call.
Talk to Ava →An $850 capacitor repair is one job. The maintenance agreement that comes with it is a 5-to-10 year customer. JobStorm AI is built to ask for the agreement on every qualifying call — not as an afterthought, as the close.
The recurring revenue every emergency call should produce — captured while the tech is still on the way.
The $850 capacitor that walked to your competitor wasn't an $850 loss. It was a 10-year relationship that started somewhere else.
"Since we've got a tech coming out anyway — most folks add our seasonal maintenance plan to keep this from happening again. Two checkups a year, priority emergency response, and a discount on parts. Want me to mention it to the tech when he arrives?"
→ Soft offer. Tech closes on-site.A receptionist forgets to ask. A call center doesn't know to ask.
JobStorm AI never forgets.
When DFW hits triple digits, every AC in Frisco fails on the same Friday night. Storm Surge Mode automatically expands your call capacity and activates summer-emergency protocols — including no-cool triage, capacitor failure flagging, and priority routing for elderly homeowners and homes with infants.
No other AI voice service offers this. Most charge per-call overages that cost you more than the calls were worth. JobStorm AI Foreman includes Storm Surge Mode at no additional cost — because heat wave Friday is the moment you actually need us.
For the steady 2–4 truck shop
Answering and booking, without Heatwave Surge or the automatic lead callback.
For the 3–7 truck operation
Less than a part-time front desk hire — a full-time one runs about $37,200 a year, before payroll taxes and benefits.
Founding rate — 8 spots
We’re taking 8 founding clients. You get full Foreman service at $997/month and a $997 Performance-Backed Implementation Fee, locked for life, plus Rick’s direct cell. We get DFW case studies we can show the next contractor who asks.
Heat wave week doesn’t change your bill. A per-minute answering service charges you most in the exact week you’re busiest. Yours reads the same in July as it did in April.
Your numbers, your math. Most missed calls never get a callback, and the customer rarely waits.
After-hours calls skew to the bigger tickets. We lift the job value, never the call count.
Tap any figure to type your own — your numbers, not ours.
Honest math. Built only from the figures you enter — no hidden coefficients. Every annual, year-one and breakeven figure is computed at render from the monthly price and the one-time Performance-Backed Implementation Fee. Illustrative, not a guarantee of results.
The Hire You Don’t Make
| Cost | |
|---|---|
| Full-time front desk, fully loaded (BLS) | ~$37,200/yr before payroll taxes and benefits |
| JobStorm AI — every call answered, 24/7 | $15,588/yr |
One captured replacement covers most of the year.
Founding spots: no monthly cent until your agent captures its first 10 qualified leads. No leads, no bill. After the eight founding spots close, the standard threshold is 5 qualified leads.
You approve it before it takes a single live call. You’ll hear exactly how it sounds and sign off first.
Month to month. Cancel anytime, no early-termination fee. Every lead is yours to keep.
We tune it with you every month. Not a template you’re left to figure out. First 60 days of tuning included.
We’re Rick and Colleen Leyba — husband and wife, based in McKinney. Colleen was born and raised here; Rick has called North Texas home for twenty years.
We both started in oil and gas, then spent thirteen years building a manufacturing and three-location retail business from scratch, and sold it in 2026. We know what a missed call costs a growing operation, and what it takes to run one where nothing slips.
Every call flow is hand-built, tested on real DFW homeowners, and never answers a live call until you’ve heard it and signed off.
“I won’t put fake testimonials on this page. We’re new. The first contractors who sign on become the proof for everyone after them.”
— Rick Leyba, Co-Founder
JobStorm is $1,299/month flat plus a one-time $1,299 Performance-Backed Implementation Fee — one month of service. Founding clients get full Foreman service at $997/month with a $997 Performance-Backed Implementation Fee, locked for life — 8 spots. Traditional answering services bill per minute or per call, which means your bill spikes exactly when you’re busiest.
It takes several calls at the same time. No hold music, no busy signal, no voicemail — and the tenth caller in an hour gets the same greeting the first one did.
Yes. A no-cool call at 11 PM in July gets flagged and routed to your on-call tech. A maintenance question gets scheduled for morning. You set those rules during the build.
Because it’s the same price in October as it is in a heat wave, and the alternative is staffing up for summer and paying for it in fall. The quiet months are also when the callbacks and maintenance-plan renewals you never got around to actually get made.
Some will, and they’ll likely be less frustrated, not more. Your agent is built deep into one trade. A homeowner calls saying the AC won’t cool below 80 on a six-year-old unit — your agent knows that’s likely a failed capacitor, flags it urgent, and books the morning slot. That beats voicemail or a call center that can’t pronounce their street. You approve exactly how it sounds before it goes live.
That’s the difference between a message service and an AI answering service. A traditional service writes down a name and a number and emails your office hours later. This one qualifies the caller, routes the emergency, books the job on your calendar, logs every call for your records, and texts you the urgent ones within minutes.
Buy it if a generic answering machine is all your phone needs. Out of the box means built for everyone, which means built for no one — it answers your phone the same way it answers a dentist’s. Yours is built around your services, your service area, your after-hours rules, and the way your calls actually go. Then we run it, tune it, and answer for it. And you don’t pay a monthly cent until it captures its first 5 qualified leads.
Spam filtering is built into every setup. Real callers only.
Most likely. We connect to any CRM with an API — the one catch is that some only turn the API on at higher plan levels. Tell Rick which system you run and which plan you’re on and he’ll confirm before you sign anything. If your plan doesn’t include API access, call details still come to your office by text and email, and nothing gets lost.
Two to four weeks from kickoff. It takes that long because nothing is a template — we map your actual call flow, build it around your trade and service area, and test it before you ever hear it. Then you approve it, and only then does it take a live call.
Yes. Crew is $799/month and covers AI answering and booking — every call answered, qualified, and on your calendar. It doesn’t include Heatwave Surge mode or the automatic lead callback, which is why this page quotes Foreman: for HVAC, the surge week is the whole point. See full pricing.
It checks the address and tells them politely — so you’re not driving to a call you’d never take.
When it hits, every AC in the county quits in the same week — and the homeowners who can't get through to you will call somebody else.
Either you pick up, or they do.
Fifteen minutes. No pitch. Bring your call volume and your average ticket. Rick brings the calculator and the demo line. If it's not a fit, he'll tell you.