Talkify / Carpenters / Nelson
AI receptionist for Carpenters in Nelson

Saw running. Phone still answered.

A nail gun and a phone call do not mix, and the person ringing about a deck in Tāhunanui will not leave a message. Talkify answers while you keep working, takes the size of the job and where it is, and books the ones worth your time. Small work across Nelson gets quoted on the call if you have given it a price.

Get my carpenter agent · $129 → Hear it take a call · 09 242 0020
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Tāhunanui · booked
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Three carpentry calls you would have missed in Nelson.

Nelson is a long thin city pinned between the hills and the sea, and almost all of the work runs out along one road through Stoke and Richmond towards Motueka. Traffic on that single corridor, not the jobs themselves, is what decides how many you fit into a day. The port, the orchards and the packhouses each keep their own hours, and boat and harvest work does not sit politely waiting for a callback.

The rotten deck

A caller in Tāhunanui has soft boards underfoot and is worried the whole deck is going. The agent asks how big it is, how high off the ground, whether it is attached to the house and roughly how old, then books a look instead of trying to price it blind.

Answered

The door that will not shut

A small job, the kind that fills a Friday afternoon nicely. The agent takes the fault, the address and whether the house has moved anywhere else, then slots it into the gaps in your week rather than letting it become a missed call and a lost customer.

Answered

The fit-out on a deadline

A shop in Nelson needs shelving and a counter built before it opens in three weeks. The agent takes the drawings if there are any, the deadline and who is paying, then books the site measure and texts you the brief so you can say yes or no properly.

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.

  • What the job is, and roughly what size
  • Whether it is new work or a repair
  • The address, and whether access is easy
  • The timber, materials and finish they have in mind
  • When they need it done by
  • The best mobile to call back on

What reaches your mobile at once.

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

  • A structural failure such as a deck or a balustrade
  • Storm damage that has left a house open
  • A site whose deadline has just moved
  • An existing client with a defect

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 Nelson, 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 enquiry written in with the site and the call notes, the diary read before a time is offered, and the visit booked itself once you switch that on. →
02 Tradify Every enquiry the agent takes lands in your Tradify Enquiries inbox with the name, the number and what they want built, ready to turn into a job. early access
03 Google Calendar Measures and small jobs written into the real diary at the next free slot, with the address and the job in the entry. →

Running something else in Nelson? 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 carpenters 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

Nelson, and the 03 number you already have.

Nelson is one of the sunniest places in New Zealand, and its port is a major fishing and horticulture base with the apple and hop growing of the Tasman district right on its doorstep.

Your patch.

From Atawhai to Richmond, Stoke to Motueka and out to Māpua. You set the area you actually drive to, and anything outside it is turned down politely rather than booked and cancelled.

Nelson

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 carpenter 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 carpenters in Nelson 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.

Is it worth it for a one-person carpentry business?
That is exactly who it is for. One person on the tools cannot answer a phone and cut at the same time, and the calls you miss are the ones that go to the next name on the list. The agent answers everything, books what it can, and texts you only what genuinely needs you.
Can it turn away work outside my area?
Yes. You give it the suburbs and towns you cover around Nelson, and anything outside them is declined politely, with an offer to text the caller a name you trust. No wasted drives, and no locals missed.
Can I keep my 03 Nelson number?
Yes. Keep the 03 landline or mobile your customers already have and forward it to your Talkify agent when you are busy, after hours, or always, or we provision a local 03 number for the agent and sell you the line. It works the same day, there is no hardware, and the call recordings and transcripts stay in New Zealand data centres.
How fast can a carpenter in Nelson 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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Carry your control deck in your pocket.

The Talkify mobile app puts the dashboard, transcripts and live coaching in your hand. Listen back to any call, edit your agent's prompt mid-shift, get push-notified the moment a hot lead lands.

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