10:10 pm in January. A family's heating has failed, and your phone is in the living room.
The AI secretary for your plumbing and heating firm
scoco.ai tells a heating failure from a request for a quote: emergencies go straight to your on-call engineer under your own rules, with a spoken note of what it is about. Everything else arrives as a complete job, with the callback number read back digit by digit. No new number, no hardware at the office.
Voicemail doesn't take jobs.
The call comes in when both hands are on the pipe. The customer leaves no voicemail — they call the next firm. Calling back in the evening means the customer has long since said yes to someone else. In January the phone rings at ten at night, and then it is not about a quote. And one transposed digit in the callback number loses the job just as reliably as not answering at all.
Five calls you know
Every one of them ends in a concrete action at scoco.ai — not in a voicemail somebody has to listen back to.
Heating emergency
“Our heating is out and we have two small children.” scoco recognises the emergency words YOU have set, takes the name, address, system and callback number, and puts the call straight through to the engineer on call, saying what it is about.
Result for the engineer: they know where they are driving and what is waiting for them before they pick up.
Water damage
“It's dripping” and “it's under water” are two different calls. scoco asks: since when, how much, is it still running, can you reach the stopcock. Then it follows your rule.
Result for you: you drive out when you have to drive out — and not because somebody pushed on the phone.
Service appointment
“My boiler is due a service.” scoco takes the system, the location, the preferred window and the callback number, and books straight into your Google or Outlook calendar if you want it to.
Result for the office: an appointment you can plan around instead of a callback note.
Rescheduling
“I won't be there tomorrow after all.” Service rounds change daily. scoco takes the change with the appointment, the customer and what they now want.
Result for the office: the engineer does not stand at a locked door.
Quote enquiry
“What does a new bathroom cost with you?” scoco takes the name, location, project, timeframe and callback number. No price information, no quote, no remote diagnosis.
Result for the office: a qualified enquiry you return when you are sitting at your desk.
What does voicemail cost you?
Lost revenue€2,400per month
scoco.ai: from €49 per month (plus VAT).
A scenario with your own numbers — move the sliders.
What reaches the engineer
Text message to the engineer on call, 10:11 pm:
scoco - EMERGENCY Heating - Mustermann GmbH Customer: Berger family Address: Talstrasse 8, 69115 Heidelberg Callback: 0151 2223344 Reported system: Vaillant gas boiler, approx. 8 years old Report: heating completely out since approx. 20:00, no hot water, display shows a fault Two small children in the household Received: 22:11 Full text in the inbox
The same information goes to the office by email at the same time, and sits in full in the team inbox.
Your trade software
Live and verified: Google and Microsoft calendars, Google and Microsoft contacts, the scoco team inbox, and handover by text message and email. Everything else is planned or on request — and we say who can already do it today.
- TAIFUN+ (OneQrew) — HalloPetra is an official partner, we are noton request
- pds — Hey Telo is an official partneron request
- KWP — Hey Telo is an official partneron request
- mfr — Hey Telo is an official partneron request
- M-Soft, Label, Streit V.1, WinWorkeron request
Honestly: if the job has to land in TAIFUN+ or pds automatically, you need one of the specialists. If your office checks the job before it is created anyway, you get the same information from us — complete, digit-exact, and for a tenth of the price per minute.
What scoco.ai expressly does not do for you
These limits are here and not in the small print, because they are the reason the rest is reliable.
- No quotes and no price information. Not “roughly”, and not “something like that normally costs”.
- No remote diagnosis. No reasoning from a fault code to a cause, no assessment of whether something is dangerous, no repair instructions over the phone.
- No promise of when somebody will come — except through a calendar you have released.
- No judgement of its own about whether a call is an emergency. Only the word list and the rule you have set apply.
- No statement about warranty, guarantee or goodwill.
Voice samples
Hear what your reception sounds like.
You define the character: choose your AI secretary's voice, name and tone — from down-to-earth to formal.
Starts in German — switches mid-call when needed:
- German
- English
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Dutch
- Russian
Trust
Honest & secure
Servers in Germany
Runs on our own infrastructure in Falkenstein (Hetzner) — hosting never leaves the country.
GDPR & deletion policy
Processing within the EU, clear retention periods, deletion on request. Transcripts instead of call recordings.
AI disclosure built in
Every caller is told in the greeting that an AI is speaking — exactly as the EU AI Act requires. Honesty is part of good craftsmanship.
Transparent usage
Calls and minutes visible in your dashboard at any time — with export for your records.
An office administrator costs you €4,022 a month, plus employer contributions, plus holiday, plus sick days — and at ten at night in January they are at home. scoco.ai costs from €49 per month and answers then too.
Median full-time salary, Germany, office administrator (Bürokaufmann/-frau) · Entgeltatlas of the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit), retrieved 15.08.2026
Pricing
Clear pricing. No surprises.
from €49 per month
4-week free trial — then from €49 per month (plus VAT).
- Team · €99
- Business · €199
- Scale · €399
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Does the AI recognise a real emergency?
It does not decide that itself. It checks the word list and the rule you have set — and when in doubt it puts the call through rather than reassuring anyone. You remain the one who decides what an emergency is.
What about the callback number?
scoco reads it back digit by digit and has it confirmed before the call ends. One transposed digit loses the job just as reliably as not answering at all.
Do I need a new number?
No. You set up call forwarding on your existing number, which takes about ten minutes. Nothing changes at the office, and no hardware is added.
Can I start small?
That is the recommended way: after hours and at weekends only. During the day everything stays as it is, and the expensive calls are covered all the same.
What if I run TAIFUN+ or pds?
Then the answer is an honest one: we are connected to no trade software, HalloPetra and Hey Telo are. If the job has to end up in the specialist system automatically, you are better served there. If your office checks it anyway, you get the same information from us — complete, and for a fraction of the price per minute.
Will the caller notice they are talking to an AI?
Yes, and precisely because the greeting says so. That has been mandatory since August 2026 (EU AI Act, Article 50) and it is switched on by default with us.
Try it. Right now.
Call our demo business — it picks up.
Or write to us: support@luminabyte.de