AI answering for HVAC and plumbing: feature comparison

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ServiceTitan Voice Agent: permission and job-type controls

ServiceTitan’s Basic Phones/Phones Pro setup guide, updated October 22, marks the feature Early Access for specific accounts. Booking, rescheduling and cancellation require both the overall capability and the applicable job-type toggle. This is a concrete control to check when plumbing repairs may be booked but installation estimates follow a different policy.

Its FAQ describes unbooked-call follow-up tags and email summaries. The same FAQ still lists a launch limitation on adding notes, summaries or transcripts to booked job records. Ask the provider to reconcile that limitation for your account rather than assuming a call summary is attached to every booked job. The setup guide directs configuration of Adaptive Capacity; confirm readiness and account eligibility before comparing it as an available option.

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Avoca: compare the job record and CSR handoff

Avoca’s ServiceTitan page describes sending customer details, appointment times, service information, booking source and conversation notes to ServiceTitan. Its inbound page describes contextual escalation to a CSR. Neither description establishes that every account has the same permissions to change or cancel an existing appointment.

For an HVAC/plumbing evaluation, request the exact record produced for a repair, maintenance visit and estimate. Then ask for an appointment-change case and an integration write failure. Require the proposed scope to identify whether the service changes the record, captures a request or escalates it. A transcript saying “booked” is insufficient if the job did not arrive in the authoritative system.

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Sameday: distinguish trade workflow from confirmed field availability

Sameday’s plumbing page describes applying a business’s urgency rules and routing calls to an on-call plumber. Its HVAC page describes service versus maintenance and install workflows. The ServiceTitan integration page documents customer-data synchronization, scheduling/service information and on-call notification.

Treat those as documented workflow claims to validate with your configured service area, job types and calendar. A water-damage caller may need plumbing intake, restoration or an escalation outside your offered work. Have the business specify that boundary. Do not require the agent to diagnose the cause or treat an urgent label as proof that a qualified technician has accepted the job.

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Rosie: a calendar workflow is a separate buying option

Rosie’s Professional plan sends an appointment link; Scale lists direct calendar booking and warm/live transfers. Growth adds multiple transfer destinations. Those published tier boundaries matter if the office expects an urgent request to reach a person rather than receive a booking link.

The reviewed pricing evidence does not establish a native ServiceTitan job write or the permission structure above. A supported calendar may be sufficient for estimate requests while the dispatcher creates the final job. If your office needs a service-board record during the call, do not mark a calendar event as equivalent without demonstrating the intervening workflow.

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Run four call cases against the matrix

These are original proposed acceptance cases, not measured provider results. First, request routine maintenance where availability exists: inspect the stored service type and appointment. Second, change an existing plumbing appointment: verify that the original record changes rather than a duplicate job being created.

Third, report water entering a room but request work outside the contractor’s scope. Check that the caller’s words and unsupported-work boundary reach the authorized office contact without an invented diagnosis or arrival promise. Fourth, request a fully booked same-day window while the escalation recipient is unavailable. Record the unbooked request, attempted contact, fallback and next owner.

For each finalist, mark an operation documented, demonstrated on the proposed setup or unverified. Confirm who may accept a job and which hours the field team actually serves. These answering products are not interchangeable with a dispatch commitment; no capabilities of the listed providers are attributed to Revo.