For local service businesses

Make AIWork For You.

Missed calls texted back. Follow-ups sent. Reviews requested. Invoices chased. Built around your operation by one person. No software to learn, no robot answering your phone.

Free setup. If it hasn't earned its keep in 30 days, walk away and keep it.

Services

Built for how your business actually runs.

Setup is free — you watch it catch real leads before you pay a dollar. Keeping it running is a simple monthly rate.

Missed Call Capture

Automatic text-back the moment a call goes unanswered.

What we set up

The second a call rings out, a text goes back in your business's name asking what they need. It runs whether you're on a roof, under a sink, or already on another call.

What that does for you

  • The customer hears from you before they dial the next name on their list.
  • You stop rushing to the phone in the middle of a job.
  • Every caller lands somewhere you can see, so nothing gets lost.

Lead & Quote Follow-Up

Leads and estimates that go quiet get nudged automatically — often your biggest recovered dollars.

What we set up

Every estimate that goes quiet gets checked back on for you, on a schedule you approve, in wording that sounds like you and not like a machine.

What that does for you

  • Your biggest tickets stop going cold in silence.
  • You never have to make an awkward "just checking in" call again.
  • Work you already did the estimating for turns into booked jobs.

Review Requests

Review requests sent automatically when the job is done.

What we set up

When a job is marked done, the review request goes out while the work is still fresh in their mind, spaced out so it never looks automated.

What that does for you

  • Your Google rating climbs without you having to ask face to face.
  • You show up higher when someone local searches for your trade.
  • New customers decide you're the one to call before they ever pick up the phone.

Appointment Booking & Reminders

Customers get booked, confirmed, and reminded without you babysitting the calendar.

What we set up

New calls, texts, and form fills can be guided toward the next available appointment, then reminded before the visit so the job actually happens.

What that does for you

  • More interested customers turn into scheduled jobs.
  • Fewer people forget, cancel late, or leave you with holes in the day.
  • Your team spends less time going back and forth over times.

Invoice & Payment Follow-Up

Unpaid balances get polite reminders before they become awkward collection work.

What we set up

When an invoice, deposit, or remaining balance is still unpaid, the right reminder goes out at the right time with the payment link ready.

What that does for you

  • Money comes in faster without you personally chasing every balance.
  • Customers get a clear next step instead of another vague follow-up.
  • Office cleanup stops eating the end of your day.

Ongoing Management

Setting it up once isn't the whole job. We keep it running, tune it as you learn what your customers actually respond to, and add to it as your business changes.

What that does for you

  • You get a plain recap of what it caught, so you can see whether it's earning its keep.
  • Wording and timing get adjusted instead of left to go stale.
  • When new busywork shows up, it gets automated too, without starting over.

And whatever else keeps showing up

The five services above are where most businesses start. From there, we keep adding the repetitive work that keeps showing up.

Process

A simple setup, built around how you work.

No new habits, no software to babysit — it runs in the background of however you already operate.

Setup
  1. Diagnose

    We find the gaps

    We map the calls, quotes, follow-ups, and busywork quietly costing you jobs today.

  2. Setup

    We wire it up

    The right automations wired into how you already work: follow-up, reminders, reviews, invoicing.

  3. Live

    AI starts working for you

    Leads, follow-ups, reviews, and invoices, all handled automatically. You win back work you'd have lost, and get your time back.

Why it matters

Lost work never makes a sound.

  • A call you couldn't get to.
  • A quote that went cold.
  • A review nobody thought to ask for.

No alarm goes off. The customer just calls the next name on the list.

If your average job is worth $500, what did last week quietly cost you?

About

Founder-led by design

You work with the person who builds it.

Tim Tafel, founder of Octrie
Tim Tafel Founder & Builder

Octrie is deliberately founder-led. When you call, text, or email, you're talking to me: the person who scopes your setup, builds it, and keeps it tuned around your business.

You get a managed system shaped around how calls, quotes, follow-ups, reviews, and payments already move through your operation. No generic dashboard dropped in your lap. No sales-to-support shuffle.

  1. Direct from day one

    The context from our first conversation stays with the build.

  2. Built around your operation

    Your workflows lead; the automation fits the way your team already works.

  3. Tuned by real results

    You see what it caught, what changed, and what we should improve next.

My promise

You only pay when it works.

Tell me what's slowing you down and I'll build the automation for your business, free. You watch it catch real work before you pay a dollar. If it hasn't earned its keep in 30 days, walk away and keep everything I built.

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Tim Tafel Founder, Octrie