For Wellington trade businesses
Wellington tradies: halfway up a hill is no place to take a call.
Three storeys of scaffold in Brooklyn. A crawl space under a Mt Vic villa. A northerly trying to take the tarp while you strap it down. The phone rings anyway — and an AI receptionist answers it in a natural Kiwi voice, in your business name, then texts you the job.
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Weather makes the work — and the calls
When a front comes through, half the city rings a tradie at once. Lifted iron, downed fences, flashings letting go. Every one of those calls gets answered in seconds, flagged for urgency, and texted to you.
Hill jobs eat both your hands
Karori, Brooklyn, Wadestown — steep sections, no vehicle access, gear carried up forty steps. You're not climbing down to catch a call. The AI takes the address, the access notes, and the job instead.
A job sheet, not a voicemail
Name, number, address, what's wrong, how urgent — texted and emailed within a minute of hangup, with the full transcript and recording sitting in your dashboard.
Built for the way Wellington trade work actually is
Wellington's housing stock keeps tradies honest. Weatherboard villas in Mt Victoria and Newtown sitting on hundred-year-old piles, with wiring older than your apprenticeship. Monolithic-clad homes from the leaky era still working through weathertightness remediation. Older buildings and apartments queued up for earthquake strengthening. It's skilled, complicated work — and the enquiries for it arrive while you're on the tools, not while you're near a phone. TradieCall picks up in seconds, 24/7, knows your services and your patch, never invents a price, and on Pro pencils jobs straight into your diary with Google Calendar sync.
Then there's the weather. This is the windiest city going — gale-force gusts on well over a hundred days a year — and every rough day makes work. After a decent southerly, builders and roofing crews field a week of calls in a day. Cold snaps kill hot water cylinders and keep plumbers moving, and the old wiring in those villas gives electricians steady work year-round. If you're flat out — or out of coverage halfway up a Khandallah driveway — the AI answers instead of your voicemail. And unlike a traditional answering service, it doesn't clock off at 5pm.
Plenty of Wellington tradies live in one place and work everywhere else — over the hill from Wainuiomata, down SH2 from the Hutt Valley, down SH1 from Porirua and the Kāpiti Coast. You set the service area, and the AI handles callers outside it politely, so you're not pricing a job in Upper Hutt when you only work city-side.
Not in Wellington? TradieCall answers for trade businesses across the country — see Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton and Tauranga, or anywhere between.
Straight answers
The southerly doesn't wait for business hours. Neither do callers.
Set it up free in about 10 minutes, ring it yourself, and switch it on when it sounds right.
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