u/Notrigious

Hey everyone- solo founder here. I come from a trades background and recently built an AI voice receptionist specifically for home service businesses like HVAC, chimney, and dryer vent companies.

The problem I kept seeing was pretty simple: owners are often on a job, driving between jobs, or closed for the day- so calls go to voicemail. And when someone needs an HVAC or chimney company, they often aren't leaving a voicemail. They just call the next company on Google.

So I built CatchLine AI as a backup.

When a business can't answer, it picks up the call, talks to the customer, collects their name, phone number, and what they need, and sends the information to the owner.

It's not meant to replace human office staff. It's simply there to catch the calls nobody is available to answer.

I'm still early with this, so I'm looking for 1–2 real businesses to test it for free and give me brutally honest feedback after using it with actual calls.

I'm not looking for a testimonial or trying to make a sale here. I want to know whether this is genuinely useful, where it falls short, and whether it's solving a problem that's actually worth solving.

If you run an HVAC, chimney, or dryer vent business and want to try it, I'd love to hear from you. Happy to answer questions or send over the demo number.

So recently I started creating an AI receptionist (vapi+n8n) for small trade businesses that will be active 24/7, and will catch all calls forwarded from the owner's phone. It will collect the caller's info and send it to the owner directly.

Obviously the next step will be to give the AI the ability to schedule appointments, cancel, move, etc, and I've been looking into that for some time now. Now on paper it is very simple, just use n8n, and connect it to a simple google calender with all the appointments, but I still can't ignore all the other issues that can occur. Distance between appointments, different services times, unexpected delays and complications, etc.

Am I just overthinking and overcomplicating it? How should I work around this? I thought about trying to sell the saas right now but I'm not confident enough in the current product.

Thoughts?

So recently I started creating an AI receptionist (vapi+n8n) for small trade businesses that will be active 24/7, and will catch all calls forwarded from the owner's phone. It will collect the caller's info and send it to the owner directly.

Obviously the next step will be to give the AI the ability to schedule appointments, cancel, move, etc, and I've been looking into that for some time now. Now on paper it is very simple, just use n8n, and connect it to a simple google calender with all the appointments, but I still can't ignore all the other issues that can occur. Distance between appointments, different services times, unexpected delays and complications, etc.

Am I just overthinking and overcomplicating it? How should I work around this? I thought about trying to sell the saas right now but I'm not confident enough in the current product.

Thoughts?

So recently I started creating an AI receptionist (vapi+n8n) for small trade businesses that will be active 24/7, and will catch all calls forwarded from the owner's phone. It will collect the caller's info and send it to the owner directly.

Obviously the next step will be to give the AI the ability to schedule appointments, cancel, move, etc, and I've been looking into that for some time now. Now on paper it is very simple, just use n8n, and connect it to a simple google calender with all the appointments, but I still can't ignore all the other issues that can occur. Distance between appointments, different services times, unexpected delays and complications, etc.

Am I just overthinking and overcomplicating it? How should I work around this? I thought about trying to sell the saas right now but I'm not confident enough in the current product.

Thoughts?