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PLUMBING BUSINESSES · 10+ STAFF

It’s 9:40pm and a ceiling’s leaking.
Whoever answers gets the job.

For plumbing businesses with an office, a dispatcher and vans on the road. Nexi isn't another answering service. It runs a crew of AI agents across your website, phone and WhatsApp. They sort emergencies from routine work. They get urgent jobs to your on-call plumber and pass hot water, renovation and commercial quotes to your team with all the details.

Free · built on your own website · no sales call needed

9:40 PM · INCOMING CALLWater through the ceiling
9:41 PM · NEXIFlagged urgent · on-call alerted
7:30 AM · DISPATCHFull record waiting, no voicemail
Plumbing company dispatcher with a headset at her desk, service vans parked outside
24/7Every call and message answered, any hour
0Made-up prices or recommendations. Ever.
1CRM record per customer, with a named owner
100%Your team stays in charge
What that actually looks like

Your plumbers are on the tools. Your office can only take one call at a time.

A busy plumbing business loses work in two places. After you close, the burst pipe goes to whoever picks up. Callers rarely leave a voicemail. During the day, the office is on one call while three more ring out and the website form waits.

The expensive leak isn’t always the emergency. It's the hot water replacement, the bathroom renovation or the apartment building repair call that waited until the afternoon and went to someone quicker.

Plenty of tools will answer the phone. A 10-plus person business needs more than that. It needs to remember every customer, tell an emergency from a quote, and get each one to the right person on your team.

Commercial plumber inspecting copper pipework in a building plant room
One call, two outcomes

The job goes to whoever answers first.

Same late-night call. Same good plumbing business. The difference is whether the call gets answered, or ends up on a voicemail nobody hears until morning.

“Water’s coming through the ceiling. Can someone come tonight?”ILLUSTRATIVE · 9:40 PM · INCOMING CALL
Without Nexi the usual
  1. 9:40 PMCall rings out to voicemail
  2. 9:42 PMCaller rings the next plumber on Google
  3. 9:55 PMCompetitor is on the way
  4. 7:30 AMYour office hears the voicemail
  5. WEEK 2The follow-up renovation goes to them too
With Nexi the new normal
  1. 9:40 PMNexi answers and says it’s an AI
  2. 9:41 PMFlags it urgent: address, is water isolated
  3. 9:42 PMPasses to your on-call plumber, per your rules
  4. 9:43 PMCaller told who’s coming next
  5. 7:30 AMDispatcher opens a complete record
Before you spend more on ads

You don’t need more calls. You need fewer of them missed.

The ads bring in calls, forms and messages. The office answers what it can. Some calls ring out. Some forms wait until the afternoon. Quoted work goes quiet after one reply.

The monthly numbers look flat, so the marketing gets questioned, and the answer is usually to spend more on getting more of the same leak.

Nexi fixes the step that leaks: every call, form and message answered and sorted, urgent work passed on, and quoted work followed up until the customer replies.

The phone rang. Nobody was free to answer it.
STEP 1Adsrun
STEP 2Calls & formsarrive
STEP 3Ring outor wait
NEXI
FIXES
THIS!
STEP 4Fewer jobsbooked
STEP 5Marketingblamed
STEP 6Spendmore
↻ and round again
The wrong-fix loop
0of 168 hours
a week covered
Helps your team, never replaces it

Your office works 38 hours. Burst pipes don’t check the time.

Nexi doesn't replace your office team or dispatcher. It takes the overflow when every line is busy. It covers nights and weekends and passes each job to the right person, already written up.

Nexi · all 168 hours, every way in

Late-night emergencies, weekend calls, and the fourth call that rings while the office is on the third.

Your office and dispatcher · their 38

They set what counts as urgent, who's on call and how jobs are booked. Working out what's wrong always stays with your team. So does pricing, unless you've told Nexi to share it.

Not a chatbot

A chatbot waits for a click. Nexi answers every call and chat. It remembers every customer however they get in touch, flags the urgent ones and passes your dispatcher a job with all the details.

So is it a chatbot? →
How Nexi works

Nexi sorts the emergency. Your plumber fixes it.

Nexi handles everything up to the point a customer is ready to talk price or buy. You decide where that point is. After that, it’s your team.

Nexi’s side · answers & finds out moreYour team’s side · dispatches & quotes
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WHAT THEY WANT LINE · YOU SET IT
PASS TO TEAM
019:40 PM

Customer gets in touch

CallWebWhatsAppChat
Incoming call · Tue“Ceiling’s leaking from upstairs. Can someone come out tonight?”
02Nexi

Nexi answers

Nexi, the AI agent
0 secto first reply
● AI · and says so
in seconds · any hour
03Your rules

Nexi finds out more

  • ✓Issue: active leak
  • ✓Urgency: flagged urgent
  • ✓Suburb: Carlton
  • ✓Access: home now
Buying score0/100
04Your team

Your dispatcher

DN
DanDispatcher, on call
Active leak, flagged urgent. Customer home now. Water turned off at the main.
Takes overDispatchesQuotesBooks the job
05CRM

One CRM record

CRM RECORDNEW
OwnerDan
SuburbCarlton
SourceGoogle call
What they wantUrgent leak
NextCallback in 5 min
01

Urgent or routine, sorted.Your rules decide what’s an emergency and who gets alerted, day or night.

02

Quotes followed up.Hot water, renovation and commercial quotes chased until the customer replies or asks it to stop.

03

One record per customer.The same person across web chat, phone and WhatsApp, with one CRM record and a named owner.

Illustrative example. Names and figures show how Nexi works, not a client record.

Nexi● online · AI assistant
ILLUSTRATIVE
Monday · 8:12 pm · website chat
VisitorOur hot water system has died. Gas storage unit, about 12 years old. Family of five. Can someone come tomorrow? How much for a new one?
Nexi · AIThat’s a tough one with a full house. I’m Nexi, the AI assistant here. I’ll get this to our team tonight. Is the unit inside or outside, and what suburb are you in?
VisitorOutside, side of the house. Carlingford.
Nexi · AIThanks. Pricing and what’s wrong with it are for our plumbers once they’ve looked. I’ve marked it as no hot water, so our dispatcher will confirm a time first thing. Is this the best number for a 7:30am call?
VisitorYes, that works.
▸ CRM RECORD CREATEDOwner: Dispatcher · north-west
Job: hot water replacement · gas storage · outdoor · ~12 yrs
Priority: no hot water · Callback 7:30 am
Your dispatcher · 7:32 amCalls, confirms a morning slot and a plumber.
What you’ll see in your demo

It sorts the job. Your team books the plumber.

1

It answers on the website, phone and WhatsApp

Phone, website and WhatsApp, with the same memory, so nobody repeats themselves.

2

It asks what your dispatcher would ask

What’s happening, where, how urgent, and what kind of system, in your terms.

3

It passes to your team, then writes it down

Urgent jobs passed on, quotes sent to your estimator, and one CRM record waiting.

The rules it works to

Try to make it diagnose a leak. It won't.

Nexi follows the rules you set. The ones in red are built in, and nobody can switch them off.

Nexi does
  • Answer every call, form and message, day and night
  • Sort emergencies from routine work, using your rules
  • Pass urgent jobs to your on-call plumber immediately
  • Route quoted jobs to your estimator with the details attached
  • Follow up quotes until the customer replies or asks it to stop
  • Keep one CRM record per customer however they get in touch
Nexi never Locked
  • Makes up a price or a rough guess. It only shares pricing you've told it to; everything else goes to your team
  • Diagnoses faults or tells customers how to fix them. That’s your licensed plumbers’ call
  • Pretends to be a person. It says it’s an AI, every time
  • Contacts people who never contacted you
Who it’s built for

Plumbing businesses big enough to have an office.

Got a dispatcher or office team, vans on the road and a mix of emergency, maintenance and quoted work? Nexi is built for you.

Plumbing businesses with 10+ staff

Home, commercial and apartment building plumbing, with an office team juggling calls, forms and sending out vans.

Emergency & after you closeHot water systemsBlocked drains & CCTVGas fittingBathroom renovationsBackflow testingCommercial maintenanceApartment & property managers
  • More than 10 staff
  • An office or dispatch team taking calls
  • A mix of emergency, maintenance and quoted work
  • Growing, with more calls than the office can comfortably answer
Comic panel: an office manager gets the morning summary from Nexi

Probably not a fit, and we’ll say so

  • Owner-operators and teams under 10
  • Fewer than ~40 calls or messages a month
  • Franchised or centrally-routed national networks
  • Wanting the AI to quote or diagnose
Before you build your demo

What plumbing business owners ask us.

If yours isn’t here, build the demo and reply to the email it comes in. A person reads those replies.

Build My Free Demo →
We already looked at AI receptionists. How is this different?

An answering service answers the phone. Nexi works as one system across your phone, website and WhatsApp. It has a shared memory, so it knows the customer who chatted on Monday and calls on Friday. It sorts emergencies from quotes and follows up quoted work. Your team gets one record per customer, not a pile of call summaries.

How does it handle emergencies?

You set what counts as urgent and who's on call. Nexi flags those calls right away and passes them to a person. It captures all the details. It doesn't diagnose faults or give repair advice.

Will it replace my office staff?

No. It takes the overflow and work that comes in after you close. It writes up every call or message so their time goes on dispatch and customers, not phone tag.

Can it quote hot water replacements?

Only if you tell it to, using pricing you've trained it on. It never makes up a price. Otherwise it takes down the details your estimator needs and passes them over.

What does it cost?

There's no set price. It depends on your call and message volume, your team structure and which contact methods you switch on. The Leaking Leads Check works that out from your own numbers.

Tonight’s burst pipe is already on its way

Answer the call your competitors miss.

Build the free demo on your own website. Tell it your hot water’s gone and ask how much a new one costs. See what it does next.

No set price: what you pay is worked out from your own numbers.