AI receptionist for tree surgeons: Verity answers, books and texts, 24 hours a day
Ring Verity is an AI receptionist built for UK tree surgeons. She answers your business phone in two rings, every hour of the day, asks the safety question first when it is urgent, takes the postcode, address and name, books into the slots you have made available, and texts both the caller and you. From £79 a month for 60 answered calls. You keep your number. Below is a real transcript of Verity taking a tree surgeon call.
Say “tree surgeon” when she asks which business to be
What Verity does for a tree surgeon
- Emergency. fallen tree on a road, house, car or line; a tree leaning after a storm; a branch hanging over a path. safety first: "stay well away from it, and if it's touching a power line call 105 now." Then postcode, name, next emergency slot your availability, quote the emergency call-out
- Book / quote visit. fell, reduce, prune, stump, hedge. the job, how many and roughly how big compared to the house, access (rear garden through the house?), postcode, "do you know if it's in a conservation area or has a preservation order?", name, quote visit slot.
Safety first
Before anything else on an urgent call, Verity says the safety line for your trade:
- “stay well away from it, and if it's touching a power line call 105 now.”
What she never does
- Never say whether a tree is safe, never say whether it's protected, never a price without a visit.
An example call: Verity as “Oakhaven Tree Care”
From our script test suite, September 2026. The business is invented; the caller’s lines were played by a scripted tester; every line from Verity is exactly what she generated. Outcome: she booked the job. Quality score 5 of 5 from the same grader that scores every live call.
Prices Verity quotes on the demo line
These are the demo business’s prices. Yours replace them at setup, and Verity only ever quotes what is on your list.
| quote visit | free |
| stump grinding | £90 per stump |
| hedge per metre | £12 per metre up to 2 metres high |
| emergency call out | £180 for the first hour |
Hours on the demo: Monday to Saturday 7:30am to 5pm.
Questions tree surgeons ask before signing up
How much does an AI receptionist cost for tree surgeons?
Plans are monthly and capped by answered calls, prices ex VAT: £79 for 60 answered calls, £99 for 80, £149 for 120 and £249 for 250. Extra calls are 60p each, and after two months over the cap you move to the next plan automatically. Founding offer: a free 7-day trial with 10 answered calls, no card. There is no contract.
Do tree surgeons have to change their phone number to use Ring Verity?
No. You keep your number and divert it to Verity only when you don't answer, using one dial code that works on every UK network. Callers ring the number on your van, your website and Google, and Verity picks up on ring five if you can't.
What does Verity actually say when someone rings a tree surgeon?
She answers as your business by name, finds out what the caller needs, asks the safety question first if it is urgent, takes the postcode, address and name, offers a slot from your real availability, reads the details back and texts the confirmation. The transcript on this page is a genuine call.
Does Verity quote prices for tree surgeons?
Only the prices you give her. She never invents a figure: if something is not on your price list she says the office will confirm and takes a message. Call-out and fixed prices are quoted with what they cover, so a caller never hears a number on its own.
How does Verity handle emergencies for tree surgeons?
stay well away from it, and if it's touching a power line call 105 now.
Can I hear Verity before I sign up?
Yes. Use the Talk to Verity in your browser button on the home page, say "tree surgeon" when she asks which business to be, and have a normal conversation. Nothing is stored except the demo transcript.
Try her as a tree surgeon, right now
Talk to Verity in your browser, say “tree surgeon”, and give her a job. What you hear is what your callers would hear. Then get started: from £79 a month for 60 answered calls, no contract, live within a day.