Call screener that captures jobs for one-person trade businesses

Picture this: you're crouched beneath a kitchen sink, wrench in hand, water dripping everywhere, and your phone won't stop buzzing. It's the eighth call today. You let it go to voicemail. Turns out, that one was a $3,000 bathroom renovation project — gone forever. The other seven? Solar companies pitching panels, HVAC firms making cold calls, and somebody wanting garage door installation when you're a licensed plumber. Welcome to the everyday nightmare of being a one-person trade operation. Call Catch is an AI-powered phone assistant that picks up your calls, weeds out the junk, and locks down genuine leads with every detail you need. When you're unavailable, it steps in and asks the essential questions — What kind of work do you need? What's your address? How soon do you need it done? — then fires off a concise text recap of every legitimate prospect. Spam gets killed on arrival. Actual customers land directly on your calendar without you touching a thing. No more lost jobs. No more burning time on calls that were never going to put money in your pocket. Priced at $49 per month, the target audience is the 2.3 million independent tradespeople across the U.S. drowning in phone chaos. The entry point couldn't be simpler: kill spam, grab leads. But once you control that workflow, you layer on appointment reminders, automated follow-ups on estimates, and a lightweight CRM for returning clients. Down the road, you forge partnerships with trade associations and roll out white-label packages at $500 to $5K per month, converting member frustration into steady recurring income. The launch is lean. Hook up Twilio for call routing, integrate OpenAI for screening intelligence, and pilot with 10 electricians or plumbers recruited from local Facebook groups. Price it at $29/month purely to validate willingness to pay. Within six months, you're looking at 200+ subscribers producing $10K MRR. Growth comes through trade magazine advertising, collaborations with YouTube personalities in the skilled trades space, and aggressive referral incentives where every satisfied plumber recruits two colleagues. Hit 1,000 customers at $49/month and you're sitting at $500K ARR — serving a segment that generic call centers have completely overlooked but that's starving for a purpose-built solution. The addressable market is enormous, the pain is immediate, and retention is ironclad because once someone stops losing jobs, there's no going back to the old way.

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