Boston contractors work in some of the oldest housing stock in America: brick row houses, triple-deckers, and brownstones where heating emergencies spike every winter. Boston winters punish old triple-decker boilers and prewar furnaces, and the first contractor to answer a no-heat call at midnight gets the customer. OnCrew's AI answers your line 24/7 for HVAC crews serving Beacon Hill, Cambridge, and Somerville and anywhere else in Boston. It triages urgent HVAC calls, captures the caller's name, address, and problem, and alerts your on-call team so a real person can call back fast.
Start a self-serve trial in minutes, or book a founder-guided pilot intake if you want help configuring scripts before anything goes live.
Common scenarios callers describe when they need a HVAC contractor right now.
AC not cooling during a heat wave
Furnace not heating on a cold night
Burning smell from the air handler
Frozen evaporator coil
Thermostat reading errors with no airflow
Non-urgent calls get the same intake so your team can follow up on their own schedule.
Seasonal tune-ups and filter changes
Mini-split installs and quotes
Duct cleaning and zoning estimates
Heat pump and high-efficiency system quotes
Indoor air quality consultations
A Boston caller dials your existing business line, even after hours.
Asks the questions a HVAC owner would ask: what is happening, where, how urgent, callback number, and address.
We send the call summary to your on-call workflow quickly. A real person on your team decides on next steps.
Same number, same professionalism across Greater Boston.
This page focuses on Boston HVAC calls. The guides below explain how OnCrew compares against other answering options for contractors and HVAC businesses, and what the total cost looks like across the plans.
Use these when you serve more than one trade or want a general overview of OnCrew before drilling into the Boston page.
Use these when HVAC drives most of your call volume and you want OnCrew compared against other HVAC answering options.
Starter is $49/month and includes 100 calls. Pro is $149/month and includes 400 calls. Multi-Truck is $349/month and includes 1,000 calls. Calls beyond your plan are $0.99 each. Most HVAC contractors start on Starter or Pro and grow into a higher plan as volume builds.
Yes. OnCrew is built for service-trade calls. The AI answers your existing business number, asks the questions a HVAC dispatcher would ask, and writes the call up so an owner or on-call tech can follow up. It works for contractors anywhere in Boston and the surrounding Greater Boston area, and the intake script can be configured for crews serving Beacon Hill, Cambridge, and Somerville.
OnCrew's AI flags the call as urgent based on what the caller says, captures the caller's name, address, and problem, and alerts your team through the channel you choose. A human on your team is the one who calls the customer back and decides on next steps. OnCrew does not promise dispatch times or send anyone on its own.
Starter is $49/month and includes 100 calls. Pro is $149/month and includes 400 calls. Multi-Truck is $349/month and includes 1,000 calls. Calls beyond your plan are $0.99 each. Most Boston HVAC contractors start on Starter or Pro and move up as call volume grows.
OnCrew is a phone-and-channel layer, so it covers wherever your trucks already roll across Greater Boston. The intake script can be tuned to recognize Back Bay, South End, Beacon Hill, Cambridge, Somerville as Boston service-area context, plus any other neighborhoods you target in advertising. The AI does not need a separate set-up per neighborhood.
OnCrew supports multilingual call handling, which matters across Boston. The AI can greet callers, ask intake questions, and capture details in English and Spanish, then hand the call summary off to your team in the language you prefer.
Pilot intake takes a short conversation with a founder. We confirm fit before anything goes live.
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