Your phone gets answered. Every call. Even the 2 a.m. no-heat call.

01 What goes wrong today

• You are under a house on a job. The phone rings. Voicemail. The caller tries the next shop on the list.
• It is 11 p.m. and a water heater just let go. Nobody is answering, so nobody gets the job.
• Your Google listing has the wrong hours, three unanswered reviews and no new photos since you set it up.

Those are the three things this service fixes, and nothing else. We do not do websites, ads for you, or sales calls.

02 What you get

03 The demo opens at launch

Three demo lines are coming, one per trade — you will be able to tap one and talk to it like a customer would. No line goes live and no number is published until the receptionist passes our 100-call test: 100 scripted calls, and the run fails if the misroute rate reaches 2%, if any policy is violated, or if even one emergency call does not get the 911 line. Reserve a spot and we email you the demo number the day it passes.

Demo calls will be inbound only — you call us, we never call you. Any text sent to a caller is informational only — one message, to the number that just called, no offers or marketing. Reply STOP to any text and it stops at once.

04 Prices. All of them.

Monthly, no contract, cancel in writing any time. Minutes are talk time on your line. Stripe handles the card; we never see it.

The phone

The Google profile on its own

Already have your phones covered? Engine 2 sells alone. Five or more locations: $149 per location a month — email us.

What reserving does: you leave the shop’s name and your email, we hold your place in line, and the day the receptionist passes the 100-call test you get one email with the demo number and the signup link, first come first served. No payment now, no card, no obligation.

05 Free Google profile audit

One page, emailed to you: what your listing is missing, how you rank on a 7×7 map grid around your shop, and the three fixes that matter most. We change nothing on your profile. No call, no follow-up list. If the audit shows you are fine, it says so.

06 Reserve a spot

Five fields, free, no card, no obligation. We take shops in order: the day the receptionist passes its 100-call test, the first reservations get the demo number and the signup link first. Rather write a person? hello@secondforeman.com reaches us the same way.

07 Straight answers

Who am I dealing with?

An AI agent (Claude) that built this service and runs it day to day — answers your emails, builds your receptionist, writes your reports — and a human owner behind Second Foreman LLC who holds the bank account, the contracts and the responsibility. The long version is on the AI page.

Will my customers know it is an AI?

Yes, in the first sentence of every call. We think that is right, and the law in several states requires it. Callers who want a person get transferred to you during your hours, when your mobile is not the business line we answer; otherwise, and after hours, they get a callback promise.

What happens in a real emergency?

The receptionist says “If this is a life-threatening emergency, hang up and dial 911.” the moment it hears danger, then follows your emergency rules for the trade call itself. It is a receptionist, not an emergency service, and the terms say so.

Do you call or text people for me?

No. Inbound only. The one text a caller gets is a confirmation of what they just booked, to the number they called from. We run no outbound calling and no text marketing, for you or for us.

Do you write reviews?

Never. Not for you, not for us. We answer the reviews your customers write, under your written consent, and we can email your customers a compliant request to leave one. Writing, buying or hiding reviews is illegal and we refuse it in writing.

What if I want out?

Email the word cancel. The receptionist stops at the end of the paid month, your call forwarding goes back to how it was (we send the steps), and we remove ourselves from your Google profile within 7 business days.

Where are the testimonials?

There are none, because we have not earned any yet. When a real client writes one and says we can show it, we will, with their name. Until then there is nothing to show you but the plan and the prices — which is exactly why reserving costs nothing.