Auto Repair
4:45 PM, a car’s on the lift and your hands are greasy — the counter phone rings about tomorrow’s breakdown and rings out.
Caught & sent to youTheir name, callback number, the vehicle and what it needs — flagged urgent if it won’t start.
Your phone rings.
Nobody’s free.
The job is gone.
317 Answer puts an AI agent on your shop’s phone for the calls you can’t get to — mid-job, Saturday rush, or after you’ve closed. Callers just talk to it like a person: no press-1 phone tree, no voicemail they’ll never leave. It takes their name, number, and what they need — and all of it lands in your inbox the second they hang up.
Grab a free 15-minute demo — pick a time on the next screen. The live demo agent is right here on this page, too.
Set up in person by a local guy — or call Jake directly: (317) 504-1071
Live demo
Talk to the demo agent live
Have a real conversation with the agent for Demo Auto Repair — a fictional demo shop (the owner’s “Mike”). It’s the same kind of agent that would answer your shop’s missed calls: no phone tree, just talk.
Try saying: “My car won’t start” · “What are your hours?” · “Can someone call me back?”
Allow microphone access when your browser asks — the agent needs your mic to hear you. Demo Auto Repair isn’t a real business, and nothing you say here goes to a real shop.
Built for the trades. Built for the calls you miss.
317 Answer is an AI phone agent for local shops — it answers when you’re mid-job, on the road, or closed for the night, and sends you exactly what the caller needed.
HVAC
First cold night of the year, both techs out on calls — a furnace quits across town, and whoever answers first gets the job.
Caught & sent to youTheir name, number, and the problem — “no heat” flagged urgent the second they hang up.
Plumbing
You’re under a sink across town when a burst-pipe call comes in — by the time your hands are dry, they’ve booked the next plumber.
Caught & sent to youTheir name, number, and what’s leaking or backed up — emergencies flagged, in your inbox right away.
Barbers & Salons
Saturday, every chair full — the phone rings mid-fade, and nobody’s dropping their clippers to answer it.
Caught & sent to youTheir name, number, and what they wanted to book — so you can call back between cuts.
Already answering phones for an auto shop right here in Avon.
AVON · HENDRICKS COUNTY · INDIANAPOLIS WEST SIDEHear a sample call
No microphone handy? Press play — a 9:14 PM call to a heating shop that had already closed, caught start to finish.
Sample call — Maple St. Heating (demo shop)
Tuesday, 9:14 PM · shop closed for the night
0:00
✓ In the owner’s inbox — 8 seconds after hang-up
- Caller
- Dan Miller
- Callback
- 317-555-0148
- Need
- Furnace out, no heat — baby in the house
- Urgency
- High
No microphone? Start here. This sample call is the no-microphone alternative — an illustrative call with a fictional shop and caller.
How it works
Your number stays your number. Nothing about how your shop runs changes — except the ringing you never hear about.
1
We set up the safety net
Your line gets busy / no-answer forwarding to your 317 Answer agent. If you pick up, nothing changes. If you can’t — or you’re closed — the agent picks up instead of voicemail.
2
The agent has a real conversation
Callers talk normally — no menus, no “say or press 1.” The agent greets them in your shop’s name, takes their name, number, and what they need, and notes how urgent it is.
3
It lands in your inbox instantly
The second they hang up, you get the caller’s name, callback number, and need in your email. You call back on your schedule — they’re still your customer, not the next shop’s.
It answers. You stay in charge.
The agent has a short job description and hard limits. It catches the call — every decision that matters stays with you.
What it does
- Answers on the first ring when you can’tMid-job, both lines busy, nights, weekends, holidays.
- Talks like a person, not a phone treeCallers just explain what they need, in their own words.
- Captures name, number, and the needAnd flags urgency — no heat, burst pipe, car won’t start.
- Puts it in your inbox the second they hang upSo a 9 PM call is still yours to win at 9:01.
What it never does
- Never quotes a pricePricing is your call, on your callback — always.
- Never books or promises a timeIt can note when a caller hopes to come in. You confirm what’s actually open.
- Never diagnoses or gives adviceNo guessing at what’s wrong with the furnace, the car, or the roof.
- Never hides that it’s an AI assistantCallers hear it up front, along with the recording notice.
Plain pricing
Two plans. No per-call surprises, no long contract pitch — pick the one that fits how you run your shop.
Base
Answer
$297 / month
The agent + instant call summaries.
- AI agent answers every missed & after-hours call
- Natural conversation — no phone tree
- Caller’s name, number, and need emailed to you the second they hang up
- Urgency flagged on every summary
- Hard limits built in: never quotes prices, never books times
Base + call log
Answer Plus
$347 / month
Everything in Answer, plus a running log of every call.
- Everything in the Answer plan
- Every call written to a shared call log — caller, need, urgency, time
- See your missed-call patterns at a glance: busiest hours, busiest days
- Searchable history when a customer says “I called last week”
$500 one-time setup on either plan — the agent built for your shop, your greeting, your services, your inbox. Prefer to prepay? A year up front gets two months free ($2,970 / $3,470).
The guy behind the phone number
Jake Harris
Founder, 317 Answer
- Based in
- Avon, Indiana
- Phone
- (317) 504-1071
- First install
- An Avon auto shop, Oct 2026
Born and raised in Avon. I started 317 Answer after setting up an AI phone agent for a local auto shop and watching what it caught: real customers, with real problems, calling at hours and in moments when nobody could have picked up.
This isn’t a call center or a software subscription you’re left alone with. I build each agent for the shop it answers for, set up the forwarding with you, and I’m the person you call if you want something changed. When you book a demo, I come to your shop — and you call the agent yourself, on your own phone, and hear exactly what your customers will hear.
Fair questions
Will my customers hate talking to a robot?
They hate phone trees and voicemail — that’s the comparison. This is a conversation: callers explain what they need in their own words, the agent asks the obvious follow-ups, and it tells them up front it’s an AI assistant. Most callers would rather talk to it for 40 seconds than hear a ring tone and hang up — which is the actual alternative.
Do I have to change my phone number?
No. Your number stays yours. We add busy / no-answer forwarding, so calls you pick up never touch the agent — it only catches the ones that would have rung out or hit voicemail. For a traditional landline, your carrier turns the forwarding on; I’ll walk through exactly what to ask for.
What if a caller asks for a price or tries to book?
The agent takes a note and defers to you — that’s hard-built, not a suggestion. It never quotes a price, never confirms a day or time, and never guesses at a diagnosis. It promises one thing: that you’ll call them back.
What does setup actually involve for me?
About 15 minutes of decisions: how you want to be greeted, what counts as urgent, where summaries go. I build the agent, we turn on forwarding together, and you make a test call before it ever faces a real customer. The setup fee covers all of it.
Which shops is this built for?
Any local shop where the phone rings while everyone’s working: HVAC, plumbing, auto repair, barbers and salons, roofing, pest control, garage doors, electrical. If a missed call means a lost job, it fits.
Next missed call is already
on somebody’s list.
Fifteen minutes, in your shop, and you call the agent yourself. If it doesn’t sound like something you’d want answering your phone, that’s the whole meeting.
Book a 15-minute demoor call / text (317) 504-1071