Talkify / Roofers / Invercargill
AI receptionist for Roofers in Invercargill

Three storeys up. Nobody rings out.

You cannot take a call on a wet roof, and the day the weather turns is the day everybody rings at once. Talkify answers every one of them across Invercargill, separates the leak coming through a Waikiwi ceiling from the reroof quote, and texts you the ones that cannot wait for the rain to stop.

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Three roofing calls you would have missed in Invercargill.

Southland is farm country served from one small city, so the drive to a job is often longer than the job itself. Winter comes early, stays late and is genuinely cold, and a frost or a snow day turns an ordinary week into a run of urgent calls from sheds and plants that cannot wait until Monday. Dairy shifts start well before dawn, which means the phone starts well before dawn too.

The leak in the storm

A southerly puts water through a Waikiwi ceiling and there is a bucket on the dining table. The agent takes the address, asks where the water is coming in and whether anything electrical is near it, then gets it to your mobile immediately with a fair idea of how bad it is.

Answered

The reroof quote

An older house with tired long-run and an owner who wants a number before they commit. The agent asks the age, the profile, the pitch, whether there is a second storey and whether scaffolding will be needed, then books the measure for a day the forecast will actually allow.

Answered

The insurance job

Wind takes tiles off a Invercargill house and an assessor is involved. The agent takes the claim number, the insurer and the address, notes what has already been done to make it safe, and books the inspection with the lot attached so nobody rings the customer back for the basics.

Answered

What it asks, what it texts you.

The agent takes the whole call rather than a message. Anything on the urgent list reaches your mobile as a text within seconds, with the address and the number, and the caller gets their own text confirming somebody is on it.

What it asks every caller.

Your questions, in your order. Anything you would ask standing in the doorway with a notebook.

  • Where the water is coming in, and how much of it
  • The roof type, and roughly how old it is
  • Single or two storey, and whether scaffolding is likely
  • The address and the best mobile
  • Whether an insurer or an assessor is involved
  • Whether anything has been done to make it safe

What reaches your mobile at once.

You set the list. These are the defaults for roofers, and every one of them texts you rather than waiting in a summary.

  • Water actively coming into a house
  • Roofing lifted or loose in wind
  • Water anywhere near lighting or a switchboard
  • A commercial roof over stock or equipment

The job written straight into Fergus.

On the tools the diary is not a calendar app, it is the job system. Talkify writes the enquiry, the site address and what the caller actually said into the one you run in Invercargill, so nobody types the same job in twice. Where a connector is marked early access it is built and tested, and set up with you rather than left for you to wire up.

01 Fergus The leak or the reroof written in against the customer and the site, the diary read so a caller can be told when somebody is coming, and the visit booked itself once you switch that on. → 02 ServiceM8 The caller matched to your client list, told what stage their job is at, offered times worked out from your real dispatch board, and the job lodged with the site address on it. You keep your existing number and carrier. early access→ 03 Google Calendar Measures and inspections written into the real diary at the next free slot, so a day already committed to a reroof does not get an inspection booked over it. → 04 Xero Recognises the customer from your Xero contacts, answers what they owe on the phone, and rings the accounts that have gone past terms. →

Running something else in Invercargill? Tell us what you use and we will quote the integration work. See every integration →

Already on Fergus? Sign in with it.

Press the button, approve Talkify at Fergus, set a password. Talkify builds the whole account out of what Fergus already knows: your company, your team, your line already pointed at the right town, your customer list copying in behind you and Fergus already connected. It drops you on the agent builder with a reception agent half made, rather than on an empty screen.

Sign in with Fergus → What the Fergus connector does

No job software yet? You still get the diary and the customer list.

Plenty of good roofers run the week off a notebook and a phone. Nothing here asks you to open an account somewhere else first.

01 A diary we keep A calendar of your own, one column per person, that the agent checks before it offers a time and books straight into. Included with an agent rather than charged for, and if you connect Google or Outlook later the diary carries on beside it. Team Calendar→
02 An address book that fills itself Every caller is filed with their number, what they rang about and the calls before it. A returning customer is greeted by name, and you can read the history of anyone who has ever rung you without keeping a spreadsheet. Every caller
03 Leads you can actually work A quote enquiry that did not book is not lost. It lands as a lead with the name, the number, the address and what they wanted, ready to ring back or hand to whoever prices the work. Nothing dropped

Invercargill, and the 03 number you already have.

Southland is one of the country's biggest dairy and sheep farming regions and Invercargill is the only city serving it, so much of the work here is rural and industrial rather than residential.

Your patch.

From Waikiwi to Otatara, Bluff to Winton and out across Southland. You set the area you actually drive to, and anything outside it is turned down politely rather than booked and cancelled.

Invercargill

Keep the number on the van.

Your 03 landline or mobile stays exactly as it is. Forward it to the agent when you are busy, after hours, or always, and switch it back from your phone whenever you like.

Forwarding

Or take a local line.

We can provision a local 03 number for the agent and sell you the line itself, so the agent has a number of its own without you running two providers.

03 number

Everyone answers the phone. The difference is underneath.

There are a lot of AI receptionists now and they all sound much the same on a demo call. These are the six things that are hard to hear in five minutes and matter by month three, and each one is something you can check rather than something we can claim.

Nobody in the middle.

We sell the line as well as the thing that answers it. Numbers sit on our own carrier account, the routing is ours to change, and it is one supplier and one bill. Most AI answering is a layer of software on a phone account somebody else sold you, which is invisible on a good day and the whole game at three in the morning.

One supplier

Answered here. Held here.

Talkify is built in Christchurch, and your call recordings, transcripts and call notes stay in New Zealand data centres, in line with the Privacy Act. Those recordings are your customers talking, which makes where they live your problem rather than your supplier's.

New Zealand

Not eighteen months old.

Talkify has answered business calls since 2024, out of a Christchurch software studio over twelve years old that was doing voice and telephony work before Talkify had a name. Most of this market arrived in the last year and a half. That is not a criticism, but it is worth knowing when you are handing over your phone.

Since 2024

Every connector is one we wrote.

Nothing gets named on this website until the connector behind it exists and we can show it to you, which is why our list is shorter than some and why every name on it is real. Anything we have not built yet, you or your developer can, over a documented API with webhooks and Zapier.

Written by us

It rings out, not just in.

The same account and the same number also chase the quotes you sent, confirm next week's jobs, ring the overdue invoices straight out of your Xero, run phone surveys, work an on-call roster until somebody actually accepts, staff a front counter and answer the chat window on your website.

Same account

Voices from here, and a phone to ring.

Real New Zealand voices that say the street and suburb names properly, so a caller is not spelling their own address at a machine. Support is a phone number in your own timezone answered by the people who built the thing, and the apps for iPhone and Android are on every plan.

iOS + Android

Two more are further up this page rather than repeated here: if you run Fergus you can sign in with it and skip the setting up altogether, and if you run no software at all you still get the diary and the address book. Weighing us against somebody else? We list every provider selling into New Zealand on the alternatives page, including where each of them is the better pick, and there is a row by row of us against Easy AI Agents on the head to head.

Price the roofer agent.

Slide for the number of agents you would run on your number (the plan includes up to 3), pick the integrations you'd connect, and see live what your monthly looks like. Most businesses start with one. No sign-up needed.

How many agents 1 agents
Integrations 0 selected
Your plan
$199/mo Founding rate · 3 months
$129
/mo
Plan
Broadcast
Minutes
200/mo
At once
3 calls
Numbers
1

Broadcast fits most growing NZ businesses. One number carries up to 3 agents and three callers at once.

Includes 200 minutes a month, then 10c a minute (20c after your first 3 months). Each number includes 50 texts a month, then 9c each.

Want more than 3 agents on one number? Extra agents are $39 a month each.

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Frequently asked.

What roofers in Invercargill ask us first. If yours isn't here, ring our live demo agent on 03 242 1262, it'll either answer or queue a callback from a human.

What happens when a storm hits and everybody rings at once?
Every caller is answered at the same moment, so nobody hears an engaged tone and tries the next roofer. The agent triages as it goes: water coming in now reaches your phone by text, and the quotes and inspections are booked out across the days that follow.
Will it book work it should not, like a roof in the rain?
No. It books against your real calendar and the rules you give it, so nothing goes into a slot you cannot work, and weather-dependent jobs are held as enquiries for you to place. It would rather ring the customer back than promise a day you have to cancel.
Can I keep my 03 Southland number?
Yes. Keep the 03 landline or mobile Southland already knows and forward it to your Talkify agent when you are busy, after hours, or always, so the pre dawn callers get a real answer instead of a beep. We can also provision a local 03 number for the agent and sell you the line, and the call recordings and transcripts stay in New Zealand data centres.
How fast can a roofer in Invercargill be live?
Same day. You forward your existing number, mobile or landline, to your Talkify agent, tell it about your business in the dashboard, and it starts answering. There is no hardware, no porting and no setup fee, and you can switch forwarding off again from your phone.
What does it cost?
Business agents are $129/month at the founding rate for your first 3 months, then $199, including 200 minutes of calls, with extra minutes at 10c. No setup fee, no lock-in. Compare that with a single missed job and it tends to pay for itself in the first week.
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