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It picks up
Answers within two rings, in Dutch or English, with your company name and your tone of voice.
AI phone agent
Every call answered. Even when your hands are full.
Ringaide picks up on the second ring, asks the right questions, books the job in your calendar and puts real emergencies straight through to you.
Dutch and English. Inbound calls. Nothing for your customer to install.
Live call
00:00
The missed call
The call comes in while you are under a sink.
You cannot answer. It goes to voicemail and the caller does not leave one. They call the next name on the list. By the time you have washed your hands, the job belongs to someone else. Nothing else in your business goes wrong this quietly.
An answering service costs you per call and reads from a script. Voicemail loses you the job. Hiring someone for the phone alone rarely adds up. That gap is the entire reason Ringaide exists.
How it works
Three things happen while you keep working.
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It asks the right things
What broke, where, how urgent, who is calling. A conversation, not a menu with options one through four.
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It acts
Books the appointment, sends you the summary, or transfers a real emergency straight to your phone.
What it handles
Built around how service work actually goes.
Books the job on the call
Reads your availability and puts the appointment in the calendar while the caller is still on the line. They hang up with a time, not a promise that someone will call back.
Knows when it is urgent
A burst pipe does not wait for office hours. Ringaide recognises the difference and warm transfers to the on-call number.
Evenings and weekends
Saturday night is answered the same way as Tuesday morning. No voicemail, no answering service reading from a script.
Quote requests, properly captured
Scope, address and access details written down the same way every time, so you quote from real information instead of half a memory.
Two languages
Dutch and English from the first call, following whichever language the caller opens with.
Every call written down
A full transcript and a short summary land in your inbox. What was agreed no longer depends on whether someone remembered to write it on a note in the van.
Listen in
A call that would otherwise have been missed.
Summary sent to the owner
Leaking boiler, Kerkstraat 14 Utrecht. Main tap closed by the caller. Engineer booked today at 14:40. Caller confirmed by text.
A written reconstruction of a real call flow, not a recording.
Built for
Trades where the phone is the front door.
Honest about the edges
What it deliberately does not do.
Most of this market sells you a system that claims to handle everything. That is how trust gets lost on call number four. Ringaide has a hard line between what it settles and what it hands to you.
It never guesses a price, never gives technical advice over the phone, and never argues with an angry customer. Those calls go to a human, with the context already written down.
Handled by a person, not the agent
- Quotes that need an inspection first
- Technical advice and diagnosis
- Complaints and disputes
- Anything the caller asks a human for
In each of those cases you get the call warm, with the summary already in hand.
Pricing
One monthly fee, minutes included.
Start
One van, one calendar
EUR 99/month
250 call minutes included, then EUR 0.40 per minute
- Your own agent, trained on your company
- Appointment booking in your calendar
- Emergency transfer to your phone
- Transcript and summary of every call
- Dutch and English
Most chosen
Grow
A team and a duty roster
EUR 249/month
1000 call minutes included, then EUR 0.30 per minute
- Everything in Start
- Setup and training included
- Routing by job type and duty roster
- Follow-up text to the caller
- Connection to your field service software
- Monthly review of the transcripts
Multiple locations
Several branches or numbers
Tailored
Priced on numbers, locations and call volume
- Everything in Grow
- A separate agent per location
- Own duty roster per branch
- Reporting across locations
Setup is EUR 450 once on Start and is included on Grow. No contract term, cancel monthly.
Questions
What people ask before they start.
Does it sound like a robot?
No. It speaks with natural pacing, it interrupts politely, and it lets people finish. Play the call above and judge for yourself. If a caller asks whether they are speaking to a person, the agent says honestly that it is a digital assistant.
Do I need a new phone number?
No. You keep your number and forward it, either always or only when you do not pick up within a set number of rings. Nothing changes for your customers.
What happens if it does not understand something?
It says so and offers two ways out: transfer to a person, or take a message and confirm the details back to the caller. It never invents an answer to sound smooth.
How long before it works?
Two to five working days for the standard setup. We train the agent on your services, your area, your prices where you have fixed ones, and your duty roster, then you call it yourself before it goes live.
What does it cost when nobody calls?
Only the monthly fee. Minutes that you do not use do not roll over, but you are never charged for calls that did not happen.
Get started
Call your own agent before you decide.
Tell us what your phone does on a normal day. We set up an agent that already knows your company, give you the number, and you call it yourself.
- A working agent for your own company, not a generic demo
- You call it and hear it handle your kind of job
- No obligation, and we tell you honestly if it is not a fit