AI phone system for Solar installation and lead-driven solar companies
AI phone system for solar installers
Qualify roof age, utility bill, shading, financing, and homeownership before a sales rep ever drives out, and handle service calls on existing arrays without pulling installers off rooftops.
Meet Your Solar AI Employee
PhoneMachine answers calls for solar installation, qualifies the request, captures the details, routes urgent work, and gives your team the clean next step.
What it handles for solar:
New solar leadQualify homeownership, utility, average bill, roof age, shading, and decision-maker.
Financing inquiryCapture credit comfort, cash vs. loan vs. PPA interest, and household income range if shared.
Existing system serviceTriage production drops, inverter faults, monitoring alerts, and warranty status.
Roof age and conditionScreen out roofs that need replacement before panels can be quoted.
Permit, interconnection, PTO statusUse approved job notes or open a status task for the office.
Referral and add-on (battery, EV charger)Capture upgrade interest from existing customers without interrupting installs.
Why solar teams choose PhoneMachine
Solar leads are expensive and tire-kickers are everywhere. The companies that qualify fastest and answer first turn marketing spend into installed kilowatts.
Capture
Lead-spend leak
A company pays $180 per lead and misses 30% of calls during canvasser knock hours. The AI catches every call and qualifies bill size, ownership, and roof age before a closer is dispatched.
Route
Renter tire-kicker
A caller is excited about solar but rents the duplex. The AI confirms ownership early and politely closes the loop without burning a setter appointment.
Follow up
Inverter alarm Monday
A customer sees a red light on the inverter and calls four times. The AI logs the fault code, system size, and warranty stage instead of routing them to voicemail.
Automate
Roof-too-old quote
A salesperson drives 45 minutes to find a 22-year-old roof. The AI would have screened roof age and flagged a roof-first conversation up front.
How it works
Answer, understand, route, follow up.
Solar caller reaches you
Use a PhoneMachine number or forward the line customers already call.
AI handles the front desk work
It follows your solar scripts, FAQs, escalation rules, and caller history.
The conversation becomes structured data
Transcript, summary, tags, urgency, contact updates, and next action are saved.
Your team gets a clean handoff
Call back, text, assign a task, route urgent work, or launch approved follow-up.
Solar call handling, built in
Every vertical page keeps the current PhoneMachine system, with the scripts, boundaries, and intake fields changed for solar installation.
Voice
Voice
Answers solar calls 24/7 and captures intent.
Text / SMS
Text / SMS
Sends links, reminders, confirmations, and follow-up replies with consent controls.
Outbound
Outbound
Runs approved callback and follow-up scripts without inventing promises.
Knowledge
Knowledge
Uses approved solar FAQs, policies, fields, and never-say rules.
Team handoff
Team handoff
Moves the conversation into your shared inbox with context and next steps.
Live call example
Hear the AI handle a solar call.
New solar lead is the kind of scenario the page is built around.
New solar lead
CALLERI got your mailer and want to look at solar.
PHONEMACHINEHappy to get you in front of a designer. Do you own the home, what is your average monthly electric bill, and roughly how old is the roof?
CALLEROwn it, about $260 a month, roof is maybe 8 years old.
PHONEMACHINEPerfect. I will capture utility, address, shading notes, and preferred consult windows.
The math
Solar leads are too expensive to send to voicemail.
At $150-$300 per lead and average install revenue in the tens of thousands, recovering one missed qualified call a week pays for the system many times over.
Guardrails for solar
The AI uses the same PhoneMachine workflow with industry-specific safety and compliance boundaries.
Tax credit guardrails
The AI does not promise federal or state incentive eligibility; it routes to a designer.
Financing disclosures
APR, lease terms, and PPA escalators are not quoted by the AI.
Call recording
Recording and consent settings should match the state the caller is in.
AI Receptionist
Starter
AI answers, records, and summarizes calls for one-person businesses.
$39/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $49/mo
Start free trial- 120 AI voice minutes / mo
What's included
- 1 business number + 2 users
- Inbound SMS inbox + outbound SMS (after carrier approval)
- Call recording + transcripts
- Browser video links
- 25 fax pages / mo
Best ValueMost popular
Business
The full AI phone system for growing teams.
$99/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $129/mo
Start free trial- 300 AI voice minutes / mo · 500 SMS / mo
What's included
- 5 users + 2 numbers included
- AI auto-learning + knowledge base
- API keys + webhooks
- Team chat + internal video
- Review collection + SMS keywords
Outbound Automation
Business Pro
Outbound automation for teams that run larger calling lists.
$239/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $299/mo
Start free trial- 600 AI voice minutes / mo · 1,000 SMS / mo
What's included
- Unlimited users + 2 numbers included
- Power Dial Contacts & Campaigns (voice + SMS)
- SMS drip automation
- Sentiment + predictive follow-up
- Voicemail drop
Enterprise
Enterprise
Custom — built for your team.
Custom
Contact Sales- Custom voice + SMS pool
What's included
- Custom users and numbers
- SSO, SCIM, audit logs
- Dedicated account manager + custom AI training
Solar setup
What the AI needs to know.
Lead qualification+
Homeownership, utility company, average bill, credit comfort, roof age, shading, and decision-maker presence.
Financing posture+
Cash, loan, lease, and PPA are explained at a high level only; approved language only, no APR quotes.
Service triage+
Inverter fault codes, monitoring alerts, production drops, and warranty stage get a service ticket, not advice.
Roof gate+
Roofs older than the approved threshold are flagged for a roof conversation before a solar design.
Never-say rules+
Do not quote savings, payback, tax credit eligibility, or guarantee utility approval timing.
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