autoants for HVAC · New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, the Northshore
Never miss an AC call: autoants for HVAC companies
autoants answers the calls your HVAC shop misses, follows up your quotes, lets customers book from the first phone screen and asks every customer for a review. We also keep your Google profile right and check what AI assistants say about you.
We work with HVAC owners in New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner and the Northshore. It starts with a free breakdown of your business; then it's $1,250 a month + $1,000 setup for both, or $500 once to try one assistant.
By autoants · checked October 20, 2026 · prices for our first 3 shops
What we do for HVAC shops
Missed calls answered
Every missed call gets a text from your business within seconds, naming your shop. If you want the phone answered too, an AI can answer it, and it always says it's an AI.
Missed calls in the July rush →Booking on the first phone screen
A Book button or a “next opening” box at the top of your site as it shows on a phone, tied to times your crew will keep.
Can customers book you from a phone? →Quotes followed up
A quote that goes quiet gets a nudge. A reply stops it, and nothing goes out without your OK.
Pre-season tune-up reminders
Past customers who agreed to hear from you get a reminder before the season, at no extra price inside Never miss a job.
Every customer asked for a review
The same ask after every job, with your link. It never picks who gets asked and never pays for reviews.
More reviews, inside Google's rules →Found on Google and in AI answers
Your Google profile, listings and pages kept right, and a monthly check of what AI assistants say when someone asks for an AC company.
Showing up in AI answers →A Spanish option
Spanish pages for your site and the missed-call text and review ask in Spanish, each wording reviewed by a person who reads Spanish.
Do you need a Spanish line? →The local numbers
Each number below has its source and the date we pulled it. Our own checks count sites; they never name them.
| What | The number | Where it's from |
|---|---|---|
| Normal July high, New Orleans airport | 91.4°F | NOAA normals 1991-2020 |
| Days at 90°F or hotter, June to August (normal) | 64 | NOAA normals 1991-2020 |
| Share of a normal year's cooling need that falls in June to August | 53% | NOAA normals: 1,695 of 3,206 cooling degree days |
| HVAC permits in Orleans Parish, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026 | 2,022 | City of New Orleans open data, pulled Oct 14, 2026 |
| Share of those permits pulled by ten license holders | 50% | City of New Orleans open data, pulled Oct 14, 2026 |
| Jefferson Parish residents (5 and over) who speak Spanish at home | 14.3% | Census ACS 2020-2024, table C16001 |
| Kenner residents (5 and over) who speak Spanish at home | 23% | Census ACS 2020-2024, table C16001 |
Source: NOAA climate normals 1991-2020 (read October 20, 2026); City of New Orleans permit data (pulled October 14, 2026); Census ACS 2020-2024, table C16001 (read October 20, 2026). Full list below.
Two things the records can't tell you: how many calls your shop misses, and when. Permits track installs and replacements, not repair calls. So before we start, we count one real week of your own calls, nights and weekends included, and show you the same numbers every month after.
What it costs
Most shops need both, so that's where we start. Prices as on autoants.com/prices, checked October 20, 2026.
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| The free breakdown: a 10-14 page look at how you show up on Google, in AI answers and next to the shops around you, made from public information | Free |
| Get found and never miss a job: missed calls answered, quotes followed up, appointments booked and reminded (pre-season tune-ups included), reviews requested, your Google profile kept right and posted to every week, your listings kept right, 2 new pages a month, what AI answers say about you checked every month, and your website kept up | $1,250 a month + $1,000 setup |
| Not ready? Try one: one assistant on your phone (most shops start with texting back every missed call). Live within 7 days of your go (for texting, within 7 days of the carriers' approval), or the $500 back | $500 once |
| Never miss a job alone: just the calls | $750 a month + $750 setup |
| Get found alone: just Google and AI answers | $750 a month + $250 setup |
| Pay per job: Never miss a job, paid by the job | $250 a month + $25 for each job we save from a call you missed, never more than $750 a month |
| AI phone answering: an AI that answers when nobody can, always says it's an AI, and texts you the job | Priced with you once you're on Get found and never miss a job; minutes written into the agreement |
- You own everything: your accounts, pages and customer list.
- 90 days, then month to month. Cancel by email.
- We don't promise results. We count your calls and jobs before and after, and show you every month.
- Prices shown are for our first 3 shops. Texts and phone minutes run on your own account, billed to you directly.
What we never do
- Let an AI pretend to be a person. It says it's an AI in its first sentence.
- Promise a number of calls, a spot on Google or a place in an AI answer.
- Pay for reviews, or pick which customers get asked.
- Text anyone who didn't contact you first or say yes to hearing from you.
- Let an AI quote a price, diagnose a system or promise an arrival time. Those stay with you.
The full list: what each assistant never does.
Questions HVAC owners ask
- How does an HVAC company stop missing calls in the July rush?
- AI receptionist, answering service or a dispatcher: which fits an HVAC company?
- Can customers book your HVAC company from the first phone screen?
- How does an HVAC company get more Google reviews without breaking Google's rules?
- How does an HVAC company show up when people ask ChatGPT, Claude or Google's AI for an AC company?
- Does an HVAC company around New Orleans need a Spanish line?
- Who can set up a missed-call text-back for an HVAC business in New Orleans?
- How autoants compares with an answering service, a call center and doing it yourself
Want to see it for your shop first? Start with the free breakdown: how you show up on Google, in AI answers and next to the shops around you, made from public information. Every price is written down before anything starts.
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- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, New Orleans International Airport (station USW00012916), monthly and seasonal normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-monthly/1991-2020/access/USW00012916.csv. Read October 20, 2026.
- autoants first-screen check: 51 New Orleans-area HVAC homepages, each loaded once at phone size. A first pass on one date. We count the sites; we don't name them. Checked October 12, 2026.
- autoants language check: the homepages of 135 HVAC businesses in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes, each read once for a Spanish page, link or language switch. A first pass on the homepage only. We count the sites; we don't name them. Checked October 20, 2026.
- autoants AI-answer scan: the same 8 homeowner questions about air conditioning companies, each asked 3 times of one AI assistant (Claude, with web search on), for New Orleans, Kenner and Slidell. One AI, one date. Answers change from run to run, so a count is a snapshot, not a ranking. Asked October 19, 2026.
- City of New Orleans open data, “Permits - BLDS” (dataset 72f9-bi28), HVAC permits issued October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026. Orleans Parish only (Jefferson Parish publishes no open permit data). The city records the license holder, not the company, and permits track installs and replacements, not repair calls. https://data.nola.gov/resource/72f9-bi28.json. Pulled October 14, 2026.
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table C16001 (language spoken at home by ability to speak English), residents 5 and over. Survey estimates with a margin of error, averaged over 2020-2024. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs. Read October 20, 2026.
- autoants prices page. Prices are for our first 3 shops on each plan; the page lists what they become after. https://autoants.com/prices/. Checked October 20, 2026.