VERTICAL · PEST CONTROL

The virtual receptionist built for pest control companies.

An AI receptionist that answers every call in your company's name, asks what is crawling where, quotes inside the ranges you approved, and books the job. We build the systems pest operators use to capture every call, dispatch the right tech, and stop losing leads to the next company on the customer's list. Live in production with ProCare Pest Control today - metro Atlanta and Georgia.

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Serving metro Atlanta · Canton · Marietta · Roswell · Alpharetta · Buckhead · Sandy Springs · and the wider Georgia market.
WHAT'S BROKEN

The drag that's costing Pest Control operators money.

Three patterns we see across every pest control operator we audit. If any of these sound familiar, artificial intelligence belongs somewhere in your operation.

- Issue 01 -

Missed calls = lost jobs

Pest control has the highest call volume of any home service. When the front office can't answer fast, customers dial the next company. Every missed call is roughly $400-800 in lifetime customer value walking out the door.

- Issue 02 -

Routine intake buries the team

Bug ID, basic pricing, schedule changes, and after-hours leads pile up on a small office staff who should be handling complex cases and existing-customer relationships - not routine first-time questions.

- Issue 03 -

Peak season breaks the system

Spring and summer pest pressure means call volume can 5x in days. Hiring seasonal staff is slow and expensive. Most operators end up missing the spike and watching competitors grow into it.

WHAT WE BUILD

Artificial intelligence systems, built for pest control.

Every build is custom - engineered specifically for one operator's workflow, integrations, and customer relationships. Below is a representative sample of what we deploy in the pest control vertical.

- Build 01 -

Artificial intelligence receptionist (Maddie)

Custom voice artificial intelligence answering every inbound call 24/7. Qualifies new customers, books appointments, transfers existing customers and complex cases to humans. Live in production with ProCare since May 2026.

- Build 02 -

Smart dispatch + routing

artificial intelligence calculates job duration, customer location, technician skill matrix, and day-off filters to book the right tech for the right day. Removes the dispatcher's manual juggling.

- Build 03 -

After-hours lead capture

When the office is closed, the artificial intelligence captures full new-customer details and routes structured leads straight into the booking system. No more voicemail-to-competitor handoff.

- Build 04 -

Operations dashboard + monitoring

Real-time call volume, transfer rate, lead capture rate, technician load. Owner sees the business at a glance.

THE FIRST CALL

What the virtual receptionist handles on the first call.

A pest call is not a plumbing call. The receptionist is written for the questions a pest control office actually gets, in the order a good front desk asks them.

- Step 01 -

New customer or existing

The first question. Existing customers with a service, billing or reschedule question are transferred to your office or taken as a message on your rules. New customers go into intake. This is the split that keeps your office staff on the relationships and the receptionist on the volume.

- Step 02 -

What is crawling, and where

Pest, location in the home, how long, whether anyone has been bitten or stung, kids and pets in the house. Termite swarmers get a different path than a mouse in the garage. The receptionist knows the difference because you told it the difference on the build sheet.

- Step 03 -

Property and plan

Address, property type and rough size, one-time treatment or a recurring plan, and the service area check against your routes. If the address is outside your radius, the receptionist says so politely instead of booking a job your tech cannot reach.

- Step 04 -

Quote inside your rules, then book

Quotes come only from the ranges you approved, never invented. The appointment goes onto your schedule, FieldRoutes for the operator running it today, with the notes a tech needs. You get a text summary of every call, and anything the receptionist is not allowed to answer becomes a transfer or a callback, never a guess.

CASE STUDY · PROCARE PEST CONTROL

How DRS built artificial intelligence for ProCare Pest Control.

ProCare is one of the bigger pest control operators in metro Atlanta. Before we worked with them, the owner was the only person reliably answering calls and after-hours leads went to voicemail. We built and deployed Maddie - their artificial intelligence receptionist - handling every inbound call 24/7 with full routing to their FieldRoutes scheduling system. Live in production since May 2026.

A virtual receptionist that actually books the job.

Call it a virtual receptionist or an AI receptionist - the job is the same: when your techs are under a house and the office line rings, somebody professional answers in your company's name, asks what is crawling where, quotes only inside the ranges you approved, and books the appointment onto your calendar. Then it texts you the summary.

Ours is not a generic answering service reading a script. It is trained on your services, your service area and your prices, it answers 24 hours a day including the Saturday evening termite panic, and it has been doing exactly this for a metro Atlanta pest control operator around the clock since May 2026 - including booking jobs at two in the morning.

OPERATOR QUESTIONS

Common questions from pest control operators.

Does the artificial intelligence receptionist actually book appointments or just take messages?
It books real appointments. The system integrates with FieldRoutes (or whatever scheduling tool the operator uses), checks technician availability + skill matrix + day-off filters, and books the appointment directly. Customer gets a confirmation. No human in the loop required for standard bookings.
What happens with existing customers calling for service or billing?
Existing customers and complex cases get transferred to a human at the office. The artificial intelligence's job is to handle new customer intake, qualify, book, and route - not replace the relationship with existing customers. Routine transfers are clean, and the customer often does not realize they spoke with an artificial intelligence.
Will my customers know they're talking to artificial intelligence?
Customer experience is conversational, warm, and natural. Operators who run the system find that customers either don't realize or don't care once their job is booked. We focus on outcomes, not disclosure theater.
How much does this cost a pest control business?
Setup depends on integration complexity, whether you use FieldRoutes, PestPac, ServSuite, or something custom, and the monthly cost scales with call volume and office count. We price it from your real numbers after a short walkthrough, so you only pay for what your operation actually needs.
What if the artificial intelligence gets something wrong?
Every call is logged, every decision is auditable, and the system has hard-coded escalation paths for complex requests. Operators see weekly reports of what got transferred and why. The system improves over time as edge cases get added to the routing logic.
How long until it goes live?
Typical implementation is 2 to 4 weeks from scoped proposal to live in production. The bottleneck is usually customer scheduling integration, not the artificial intelligence itself. We test against the real call flow before going live.
What is a virtual receptionist for pest control?
A phone answering system that does what your best office person would do on call one: answers in your company's name, captures the pest problem and the address, quotes inside ranges you approved in writing, and books the job on your calendar. Ours answers 24/7 and texts you a summary of every call.
Does it really answer after hours?
Yes - that is most of the point. The receptionist we run for a metro Atlanta pest control operator has answered around the clock since May 2026 and books jobs at 2am. After-hours callers are usually the most urgent, and the first company to answer wins them.
What does an AI receptionist for pest control cost?
A one-time build and training fee, then a flat monthly that does not start until the phone is actually being answered. The exact number comes after we understand your operation - we price off your call volume and your numbers, not a menu.
Is a virtual receptionist different from an answering service?
Yes. An answering service takes a message and passes it on, usually by a person reading a script. A virtual receptionist built this way asks the intake questions your office would ask, quotes inside your approved ranges, books the appointment onto your schedule, and texts you the summary. The customer is handled on the first call instead of waiting for a callback.
Does it work with FieldRoutes, PestPac or my scheduling software?
It books directly into FieldRoutes for the operator running it today. For other scheduling tools, the receptionist books into whatever has an API or a shared calendar, and where neither exists it captures the full job and hands it to your office as a structured lead. We confirm the exact path during the build.
What happens in peak season when call volume spikes?
Nothing changes on your end. The receptionist answers every call at once, so a spring swarmer week that would overwhelm a two-person office is handled the same as a quiet February. Transfers to your team still follow your rules, and the summaries keep coming.
Which AI receptionist is best for a pest control company?
The one that books on your schedule and knows your routes. Most of what you will find are self-serve software subscriptions you configure yourself and then babysit. What DRS runs is different in kind: a receptionist named Maddie built around your service area, your pest list and your pricing rules, connected to FieldRoutes, tested on real calls before it takes a live one, and reported on every week after. It has answered for a metro Atlanta pest control operator around the clock since May 2026. If you want software to set up on a Saturday, we are not it. If you want the phone handled, that is the job.
AI answering service or hiring a receptionist: which costs a pest control company less?
A full-time front desk hire costs a salary, payroll taxes and benefits, and still goes home at five, takes lunch, and can hold one call at a time. The receptionist answers every call at once, nights and weekends included, for a flat monthly that is a fraction of one paycheck. The honest split is both: keep your office person on existing customers, billing and the relationships, and put the receptionist on new-customer intake and after-hours. That is how our pest control operator runs it today.
Does the same receptionist work for other trades, or only pest control?
Pest control is where it runs live today, because pest control lives on the first call. The same build, with the intake questions and quote rules tuned to the trade, is what we put in front of plumbing, HVAC, roofing, auto glass and cleaning companies: anyone whose jobs come in by phone and whose competitor is whoever answers first. The build sheet changes. The receptionist does not.

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