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Sunbelt HVAC: AI overflow employee 3.4× heatwave emergency bookings
A 28-tech HVAC shop caught 3.4× more emergency calls in a heatwave (76% vs 22%) by adding an AI overflow employee. First response went from 11 minutes to 42 seconds.
- Task
- catch peak and after-hours no-cool calls when CSRs are submerged
- Result
- 90-day vs prior year: leads 3,891→6,158 (+58%); peak first response 11 min→42 sec; queue drop-off 30–34%→6%; heatwave-week emergency capture ~22%→76% (3.4×); ~$312k estimated incremental revenue; after-hours same-night bookings (was 0)
- Tools
- AI Employis AI Employee — missed-call text-back (<60s)
- web chat
- overflow voice→SMS after 90s hold; HVAC severity qualifier
- Setup
- 14-day deploy
- tune for system type/age, symptom, severity flags (infants/elderly/asthma/heat), last-service date
- severity → same-day dispatch
- install inquiries → sales track
- CSR team keeps escalations
Step-by-step setup guide + copy-paste prompt
Honest note: this vendor sets it up with you; there's no self-serve menu. Below is what you prepare and decide, taken from the vendor's own published process. Steps and timings may differ slightly.
What you do (AI Employis's published 14-day process)
Days 1–2. Discovery: share service area, system types, pricing rules, CRM and calendar access.
Days 3–5. Training: provide recordings or notes of past calls. Define severity flags (infants, elderly, asthma, extreme heat) that trigger same-day dispatch.
Days 6–7. Soft launch: AI handles overflow only, and a CSR reviews every booking.
Days 8–14. Roll out to all channels (calls, chat, missed-call texts, Google leads) with daily tuning. Route installs to the sales track and keep escalations with your CSR team.
Copy-paste prompt
Write the triage rules for an HVAC AI: questions to ask (system type/age, symptom, last service), severity flags that mean same-day, and what goes to sales vs service.Sources
- AI Employis: Sunbelt HVAC. Credit: AI Employis (vendor-published, anonymized).
- Process: AI Employis: How it works.
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