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AI receptionist in Murfreesboro, Tennessee

An AI receptionist answers Murfreesboro calls 24/7 and books the job.

Murfreesboro searches for a plumber run about 1,000 a month, and an AI receptionist answers every call that follows for $179 a month, no contract.

  • A live answer after hours
  • Booking rules you set
  • Transfers to your own crew

Calls start with a search

Searches for local trades in Murfreesboro each month

3,900

searches a month

  • plumber murfreesboro
    1,000
  • roofing company murfreesboro
    880
  • pest control murfreesboro
    720
  • garage door repair murfreesboro
    590
  • landscaping murfreesboro
    390
  • electrician murfreesboro
    260

Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.

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Businesses we’ve worked with

  • Willard Power Vac
  • Sarkinen Plumbing
  • Robinson Restoration
  • Town & Country Glass
  • Dixie Glass
  • Byers Septic Service
  • F&W Fence Co.
  • Drake’s 7 Dees
  • Rickabaugh Construction
  • Hillsview Building
  • Dozer Dave
  • Mt. Hood Pro Painting
  • On-Target Landscape
  • Atiyeh Bros Carpet
  • Lovett
  • Westmore Construction
  • Northwest New Homes
  • Porter Sealcoating & Paving
  • RescueHero Restoration
  • Panda Plumbing
  • Biermann Plumbing & Heating
  • Ballistic Junk Removal
  • Smart Doors LLC
  • Peak Performance Roofing
  • Deluxe Heating & Cooling
  • Lifetime Exteriors
  • Bruce Johnson Construction
  • Madrone Painting
  • Smart Tree Service
  • Premier Gutter Cover
  • NW Pacific Electric
  • Universal HVAC
  • Lenny Martin Painting
  • Next Level Decks & Exteriors
  • Prodan Construction
  • Smooth Rollin’ Sealcoating and Paving
  • Lovett Restoration
  • Greenlight Titles
  • G.W. Hartley IV
  • Advanced Coatings
  • Thomson Equipment
  • MyADU

The phone, answered

What a Murfreesboro AI receptionist covers

An AI receptionist answers every call, 24/7, using your services, hours and service area, then books the job, texts the caller or transfers the call to a person you choose. Lithium Marketing sets that up for Murfreesboro service businesses and keeps it running. Custom AI automation, including a website chatbot, is quoted separately, because a workflow beyond the phone gets its own scope.

A missed call can send a customer to another number, and Rutherford County has 90 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors to choose from. The receptionist answers with your hours and service area, then books the visit or sends the details to the tech on rotation.

The Murfreesboro market

A phone line that does not keep business hours

Murfreesboro summers are hot and humid, and the winters are mild. The phone line does not close for either: if a call comes at 2 a.m. or 6 a.m., the receptionist answers it, books the visit under your rules or transfers to the person on call.

Rutherford County has 386,352 people, and not every caller lives inside the city line. The receptionist checks the address against your service area before it books, so a caller beyond your map gets a straight answer, not a wasted visit.

residents (2025 estimate)
171,178
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+12%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
66,400
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
52.4%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
18.4%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$402,100
median home value

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.

Trades in Rutherford County

What the county's trades ask of a phone line

Painting and pest control make two different phone trades, with 22 painting contractors and 15 pest control companies in Rutherford County. A painting estimate may wait a few weeks; a pest call may need someone this week, and the booking rules should not treat them the same.

Your rules can make a garage door or HVAC call urgent and send a plumbing emergency straight to the on-call tech. The receptionist collects the address and the problem first, then follows the rule you set for that trade: transfer, book or text.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Rutherford County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Landscaping services
    105
  • Residential remodelers
    99
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    90
  • Electrical contractors
    69
  • New home builders
    58
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    37
  • Roofing contractors
    22
  • Painting contractors
    22

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).

Set up and handover

What we set up before the first real call

You approve the answers, the booking rules and the transfer numbers before a customer hears any of it.

1

Decide what the phone may settle

We map what a caller usually asks, what your team must decide and what the receptionist may handle alone.

2

Fill the answer library

Your team's own words go into the system: what you sell, when you open, where you drive and how you answer the questions you get most. You choose how it sounds.

3

Hook up the calendar and the handoff

Where a calendar or CRM connection exists, a booking lands there. A call that needs a person rings the number you name.

4

Hand over the recordings

Every call is recorded and transcribed, and your team gets access, so an answer that missed can be corrected.

What the AI receptionist does on every call

The same eight parts go into every AI receptionist setup, wherever the business is.

See the full AI receptionist service

  • Answers every call, 24/7
  • Qualifies the lead
  • Books the appointment
  • Answers common questions
  • Sends follow-up texts
  • Captures every detail
  • Transfers to a real person when needed
  • Connects to your CRM and calendar

Proof from real phones

An AI receptionist on a garage door company's phones

Smart Doors LLC sells and installs garage doors, and its calls go through Lithium's AI receptionist; the website came first. A plumbing company's custom AI phone system is the other project here, shown in the callout.

AI phone project, plumbing company

3x

more leads

60% of after-hours emergency calls had been going to voicemail. A custom AI phone system now sorts urgent calls, texts the on-call tech and books non-emergency jobs.
Smart Doors LLC garage door website built by Lithium Marketing
24/7Lithium’s AI receptionist answers the phones at Smart Doors LLC

Around Murfreesboro

One phone line for the cities you serve

One phone line can cover every city you serve. Each nearby city has an AI page below, and the state page lists the rest of Tennessee.

Published price

What the AI receptionist costs a Murfreesboro business

$179

per month, fully managed

No contract and no setup fee, so you can cancel anytime. The voice, knowledge base, call rules and calendar and CRM hooks are all set up by Lithium. Custom AI automation is scoped after a free discovery call.

FAQ

Murfreesboro AI receptionist questions

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].

What happens when a caller asks for a person?

You set the rule. The receptionist can transfer a call to the number you name, and the caller reaches a person without explaining the problem twice.

What does the AI receptionist cost, and what is extra?

It is $179 a month with no contract and no setup fee. That covers the receptionist. Custom automation gets its own quote once we have seen the workflow, so it does not ride on the monthly price.

How quickly can it answer our calls?

Expect the line to be live in days. The call rules and calendar access take the longest to settle, and after that the setup is quick. You listen to the greeting before it answers a customer, then tell us what to fix.

What if a caller asks something your team has not covered?

It should not invent an answer. The receptionist can take the details and transfer the call or text them to your team, and any gap it hits gets added to the knowledge base after review.

Does the receptionist text a caller after the call?

Yes. Follow-up texts are part of the service, and you set what they say and when they go out. The wording is yours, so a booking text sounds like your business, not a generic confirmation.

Free action plan

Get a free Murfreesboro AI receptionist plan

Bring your call rules and the number a transfer should ring. On a short video call, a co-founder will set the booking limits and walk through the monthly price.

What we’ll cover

  • What’s working (and what isn’t) in your current marketing
  • Site and funnel gaps that are costing you leads
  • Local SEO and paid traffic opportunities
  • Simple tracking and KPIs to measure success

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