Talkify / Mechanics / Newcastle
AI receptionist for Mechanics in Newcastle

Head under a bonnet. Phone still answered.

A workshop phone rings while you are under a car with oil to the wrists, and the caller who cannot get through simply tries the next place down the road. Talkify answers every call to your 02 number, books warrants and services straight into the diary, and texts you the breakdowns. Regulars from around Warners Bay are recognised the moment they ring, anywhere in Newcastle.

Get my mechanic agent · A$129 → Hear it take a call · +64 9 242 0020
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A$129/mo
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24/7
Local number
02
Calls handled in
Australia
Warners Bay · booked
On the job in Newcastle.
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Three workshop calls you would have missed in Newcastle.

Newcastle is a working port city with the Hunter behind it, so one business here covers a harbour, a lake, a coast and a valley of vineyards and coal country, all inside an hour. Industrial and shift work sets the hours, and the people who ring are usually on a break rather than sitting at a desk, which means they ring once and move on. Coastal southerlies and east coast lows knock the region about most winters, and every one of them brings a wave of storm work.

The warrant booking

Somebody in Warners Bay needs a warrant before the end of the month and wants the first slot going. The agent takes the rego, the make and model, checks what you genuinely have free, and books it. They get a text confirmation and you get a car that turns up on the right day.

Answered

The breakdown on the roadside

A car dies on the way to work and the driver is on the verge with the hazards on. The agent finds out where they are, whether they are safe, whether it is drivable and whether they have roadside cover, then texts you immediately instead of putting them through a menu.

Answered

The service that turns into more work

A regular rings to book the annual service and mentions a noise on the turns. The agent books the service, notes the noise against the job, and asks how long the car can be left, so you quote the extra work properly rather than finding out at four in the afternoon.

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.

  • The rego, and the make, model and year
  • What the car is doing, and when it started
  • Whether the car is drivable
  • Warrant, service, repair or diagnostic
  • How long they can leave it, and whether they need a courtesy car
  • The best mobile for the text confirmation

What reaches your mobile at once.

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

  • A breakdown at the roadside
  • Brakes, steering or a warning light on a car still being driven
  • A fleet or courier vehicle off the road
  • A car booked in this morning that has not arrived

The job written straight into MechanicDesk.

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 Newcastle, 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 MechanicDesk Reads your own job types and your open days live on the call, so the time the caller is offered is a time you actually have, and the booking lands in MechanicDesk with the rego and the reason on it. → 02 Workshop Software Reads your appointment types and your real weekly slots, then lodges an online booking request for you to accept. It cannot look a caller up or read a job status, because that sits on an interface the phone cannot search. early access→ 03 Google Calendar Running the workshop diary in a calendar instead? Bookings land in the real one at the next free slot, with the rego and the job in the entry. → 04 Xero Recognises the customer from your Xero contacts, answers what they owe on the phone, and rings the accounts that have gone past terms. →

Running something else in Newcastle? Tell us what you use and we will quote the integration work. See every integration →

No job software yet? You still get the diary and the customer list.

Plenty of good mechanics 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

Newcastle, and the 02 number you already have.

Newcastle is the largest city in New South Wales outside Sydney and one of the world's biggest coal export ports, with the Hunter Valley's wine and farming country directly behind it.

Your patch.

From Maitland to Belmont, Cessnock to Nelson Bay. You set the area you actually drive to, and anything outside it is turned down politely rather than booked and cancelled.

Newcastle

Keep the number on the van.

Your 02 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 02 number for the agent and sell you the line itself, so the agent has a number of its own without you running two providers.

02 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

Australian numbers, handled in Australia.

Calls to an Australian number are answered and handled in Australia rather than routed through somewhere else and back, and an Australian account is quoted and invoiced in Australian dollars. Most of what is sold here is an American platform wearing a local logo, and you hear the difference on the line before you ever see it on a bill.

Australia

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 Australian 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 Australia on the alternatives page, including where each of them is the better pick, and there is a row by row of us against Tradies Line on the head to head.

Price the mechanic 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 mechanics in Newcastle ask us first. If yours isn't here, ring our live demo agent on +64 3 242 1262, it'll either answer or queue a callback from a human.

Can it book a warrant into the workshop diary?
Yes. It reads what you genuinely have free, offers times that fit the length of the job, and writes the booking in with the rego, the make and the reason. The customer gets a text confirmation, so fewer of them forget and the hoist is not sitting empty.
Will it recognise my regular customers?
It knows them from the number they ring on. A regular is greeted by name, their vehicle and their history are already there, and the agent picks up where the last visit left off instead of asking a customer of ten years who they are.
Can I keep my 02 Newcastle number?
Yes. Keep the 02 landline or mobile the Hunter already knows and forward it to your Talkify agent when you are busy, after hours, or always, so a shift worker ringing on a break gets a real answer first time. We can also provision a local 02 number for the agent and sell you the line, and Australian numbers are answered and handled in Australia.
How fast can a mechanic in Newcastle 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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