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A South Florida AI receptionist that helps you book jobs.

Give South Florida callers an answer and a next step with a managed AI receptionist that picks up 24/7.

  • Service questions answered on calls
  • Appointments and text follow-up
  • Transfers using your call rules

Calls start with a search

Searches for local trades in South Florida each month

1,000

searches a month

  • roofing company south florida
    480
  • pest control south florida
    170
  • landscaping south florida
    110
  • electrician south florida
    90
  • garage door repair south florida
    70
  • plumber south florida
    50

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

From ringing phone to next step

South Florida AI reception starts with your callers

Lithium Marketing sets up and manages AI phone answering for South Florida service businesses, including qualification, appointments and staff transfers. A click on “garage door repair south florida” averages $8.99. When that visitor calls, the receptionist can check the job details and help them arrange service while your staff is busy.

The receptionist explains your services, collects the details needed for follow-up and uses your rules to book, send a text or transfer the call. You decide when a person should take over. If your company needs more automation after the conversation, we scope that workflow separately.

Know which property the call concerns

Ask enough to help your team follow up

The South Florida metro has 2,334,797 occupied housing units across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. An answering script should turn a broad place name into a service address before discussing availability. We set the cities you cover and the questions needed to check a caller’s location.

In the South Florida metro, 60.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Where your services involve tenants, owners or property managers, the receptionist can ask who is arranging the work and who should receive the follow-up. Your staff keeps responsibility for permissions, technical decisions and final quotes.

residents (2025 estimate)
6,391,072
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+4.1%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
2,680,465
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
60.5%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
45.4%
of homes built before 1980

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns. Geography: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

A script built for your service

Repair calls and project calls need different questions

South Florida metro plumbing, heating and air-conditioning businesses total 2,638. If you offer urgent service, the call rules can identify requests that need a person and transfer them to your chosen number. If you do not, the receptionist should explain your hours and the next available booking step.

The South Florida metro also has 2,827 residential remodelers. For project work, a caller may want to describe an idea before setting an estimate appointment. We can collect the project type and requested timing, then send that context with the contact details so your estimator starts the follow-up informed.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in South Florida

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    2,827
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    2,638
  • Landscaping services
    2,293
  • Electrical contractors
    2,080
  • New home builders
    1,181
  • Painting contractors
    1,048
  • Pest control companies
    644
  • Roofing contractors
    545

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts). Geography: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Managed setup

Prepare the answers before the phone goes live

We test the greeting, questions and next steps with you so the receptionist handles calls the way your business requires.

1

Bring the calls your staff handles

We go through common questions, urgent requests and estimate calls, then agree which need an appointment, a text or a person.

2

Write and test the phone answers

Lithium prepares the business knowledge and voice. You check the wording with sample calls and correct anything that misstates your services.

3

Verify booking and transfer connections

We check your calendar or CRM before confirming an integration, and test the staff numbers and text follow-up used by the setup.

4

Keep the answers aligned with your business

As services or appointment arrangements change, we update the setup. Recordings and transcripts help us find where callers need a better answer.

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

Reception and custom phone work

See how service companies use these systems

A website was the first project Lithium delivered for garage door business Smart Doors LLC. Phone answering came later, through our managed AI receptionist. For a separate plumbing customer, we built urgency checks into a custom AI phone system: emergency requests trigger a text to the on-call technician, while non-emergency callers can book a job.

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

Set the coverage in the script

Answer accurately across your South Florida service area

Miami, Pembroke Pines, Coral Springs and Boca Raton are among the cities linked below with their own AI service pages. Browse the Florida directory for additional locations, then give the receptionist the specific cities your company covers.

Published price

Managed answering with an optional automation scope

$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

Getting the phone setup right

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What does the receptionist subscription include?

The $179 a month service includes managed AI answering, call qualification, appointment booking, FAQs and follow-up texts. The setup follows your hours, coverage and transfer instructions. We check the booking tools you use before confirming connections, and your team can review calls through recordings and transcripts.

Am I committed to a long receptionist contract?

There’s no contract and no setup fee for the AI receptionist, and you can cancel anytime. The monthly service covers managed reception. If you also want custom automation, we discuss that work separately and give you a scope before building it.

How do we keep a human involved in important calls?

Set transfer instructions for the calls your staff needs to take. The receptionist can send a caller to a real person at your chosen number and collect context for other follow-up. We test that handoff before launch, including the instructions for when the person is unavailable.

Does setup require replacing our scheduling software?

We review your current calendar or CRM before recommending a change. If a supported connection can handle your booking process, we test it as part of setup. More complex workflows may need a separate automation project, which we scope before promising the connection.

What can a custom automation project do after a call?

Custom automation can handle CRM updates, document processing, review requests and follow-up across your systems. We start with a free discovery call to understand the task and the software involved. Typical builds take one to two weeks once the scope is agreed; each project gets its own proposal.

Free action plan

Design a better next step for South Florida callers

Tell us which calls interrupt your day, which go unanswered and how you schedule work. A co-founder will map out a free receptionist and automation plan with you on a short video call.

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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  • Response within 24 hours
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