AI for Tempe businesses
An AI receptionist that answers Tempe calls at any hour.
Tempe service businesses can route every call through an AI receptionist that answers 24/7, books work and transfers to a real person, for $179 a month.
- A phone line open 24/7
- Jobs booked into your calendar
- Live transfers to your team
Calls start with a search
Searches for local trades in Tempe each month
2,140
searches a month
- plumber tempe880
- pest control tempe320
- electrician tempe260
- landscaping tempe260
- garage door repair tempe170
- roofing company tempe110
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
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Businesses
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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
Tempe AI, answered
AI on the phone for a Tempe business
Tempe service businesses can hand their phones to Lithium Marketing: an AI receptionist that answers every call and books the work, plus custom automation built around the jobs you take. The receptionist is $179 a month with no contract, and custom automation is scoped separately after a free discovery call.
A burst pipe leaves the caller with no shortage of options: Maricopa County counts 1,604 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors. After dark, the caller still gets the same services, hours and booking rules as one at noon.
Calls in Tempe
What customers look for first
The calls worth answering start as searches: 880 a month for “plumber tempe”, 320 for “pest control tempe” and 260 for “electrician tempe”. Each one likely starts with a customer who has a job, and a phone that rings out gives them nothing to act on.
The table below shows what a click costs by trade: $56.43 for a plumber, $49.45 for pest control and $28.21 for garage doors. When a paid click becomes a call that rings out, the money is gone, so the receptionist and the ad budget belong in the same conversation.
| Search | Cost per click |
|---|---|
| plumber tempe | $56.43 |
| pest control tempe | $49.45 |
| roofing company tempe | $40.29 |
| garage door repair tempe | $28.21 |
| landscaping tempe | $24.46 |
| electrician tempe | $20.64 |
| water damage restoration tempe | $14.89 |
| hvac repair tempe | $11.33 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- The first thing on the page
- Search ads
- None recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 321 to 5,200 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, Houzz, MapQuest, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber tempe”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Tempe. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Tempe market
Who is calling, and who approves the work
Tempe has 78,279 occupied homes, and 42.3% of them are owner-occupied, so tenants and property managers belong in the list of callers you plan for. A receptionist that asks who authorizes the repair, and books the visit around access, keeps those calls moving.
Maricopa County holds 4,689,558 residents, and a Tempe service area that crosses into Mesa, Chandler or Phoenix needs the receptionist to check the address before it promises a time. Getting that wrong costs a crew a wasted trip.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 190,571
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +3.5%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 86,182
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 42.3%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 41.2%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $455,400
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Maricopa County
Two kinds of call, two sets of questions
The biggest trade group in Maricopa County is plumbing, heating and air-conditioning, with 1,604 contractors. When one of their calls is about something broken, the receptionist's questions are short: what is wrong, where, who is there, and whether the on-call tech should ring back.
Project calls ask for something else. There are 1,406 residential remodelers in Maricopa County, and when a homeowner is choosing one, the conversation that matters is about scope, budget and timing before anyone drives out. The receptionist books that conversation and captures the project, the address and the rough dates, and the estimate stays with your team.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Maricopa County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors1,604
- Residential remodelers1,406
- Landscaping services1,148
- Electrical contractors1,135
- New home builders588
- Painting contractors419
- Pest control companies369
- Excavation and site preparation contractors361
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Set up for you
Getting a Tempe phone line live
Nothing reaches a real caller until you have signed off on each rule.
List the calls that matter
We list the calls your business gets, mark the ones that must reach a person and decide which can be booked or answered by text.
Choose a voice and the answers
You choose from 30 voices, and the answers come from a knowledge base Lithium builds with you: the services you sell, the towns you cover, your open hours and the questions callers repeat.
Wire the bookings and transfers
A booking lands on the connected calendar or CRM, and a transfer rings the number you assign.
Listen back, then tighten the rules
You and Lithium read the recordings together, and any rule that misled a caller gets rewritten.
What the AI receptionist does on every call
The same eight parts go into every AI receptionist setup, wherever the business is.
- 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
A custom AI phone system, and Smart Doors on the line
The card for the plumbing project is a custom AI phone system Lithium built for a company that was losing after-hours emergency calls. The screenshot beside it is the Smart Doors LLC garage door site, and the company runs Lithium's AI receptionist on its phones after the website build.
AI phone project, plumbing company
3x
more leads
Around Tempe
The phone answers for all of them
One phone line can answer for every city on this list, and Arizona's page covers the towns beyond them.
Published price
What the Tempe AI receptionist costs
$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
AI phone questions from Tempe owners
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What happens if a caller asks for a human?
The transfer list is yours to set. A caller who asks for a person goes to whichever number you name, and so do the situations you flag, such as an emergency or a warranty issue. Every other call gets answered, qualified and booked, or texted a next step.
What does it cost, and is there a contract?
It is $179 a month, with no setup fee and no contract, and it can transfer a call to a real person at any point. Custom automation is a separate build, quoted after a free discovery call, so the receptionist price does not cover it.
When can I test the line?
A few days is normal. Lithium sets up the voice and the answers from the details you send, connects the booking calendar, and calls your phone so you hear it before a customer does.
Can it reach the on-call tech at night?
The line answers, at midnight as at noon. From there your rules take over: ring the on-call tech, book the first open slot, or text the details to the crew. The plumbing project in the card beside this one handles after-hours emergencies the same way.
What else can automation take off my desk?
It can cover the work that repeats after a call: the quote follow-up, the review ask, the note that has to land in the CRM. A free call sets the scope first, and a build usually takes one to two weeks.
Free action plan
Call the demo line and hear the AI receptionist
Lithium's own receptionist answers the number in the contact section, so you can judge the voice before you buy anything. After that, a co-founder will take your call rules and turn them into a setup plan 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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