Will Doug give electrical advice to a homeowner?

No. He answers questions about your services, prices, area and scheduling from your own material. Safety questions go to a person, and anything urgent gets your emergency number.

Can Doug quote an EV charger install?

He shares the price ranges you give him and what changes them, like panel capacity and distance from the panel. Then he books the estimate.

Does Doug answer calls for electricians?

No. He answers on your website and in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Muse, typed or spoken in the chat window.

Is Doug worth $49 a month for a small electrical shop?

Starter is $49 for 2,000 messages, and one booked panel upgrade covers years of it. Growth is $149 and adds live handoff and actions. Extra messages are $10 per 1,000.

AI receptionist for electricians

Doug answers electrical customers on your website and in ChatGPT at any hour and books service calls and estimates for EV chargers, panel upgrades, generators and lighting, with a Stripe deposit if you want one. Sparks, a burning smell or a hot outlet get your emergency line, never advice. He doesn't answer phones. Plans start at $49 a month.

Updated September 28, 2026

Homeowners often don't know if they need you

Electrical work gets more 'am I asking the right person' questions than most trades. Is it a tripped breaker, a handyman job, or the power company's problem? People aren't sure, so they type the question into your website before they commit to calling anyone.

Half my outlets stopped working. Is that a breaker or something worse?
Do you install EV chargers? Tesla wall connector? What does that usually cost?
Can you upgrade a 100 amp panel to 200? Do you pull the permit?
Do you install whole-home generators, and which brands?
Do you do recessed lighting, ceiling fans, hot tub hookups?
Are you licensed, and do you work in my town?

Where does Doug stop and a person take over?

At anything that sounds dangerous. You set the words: burning smell, sparks, a warm or buzzing panel, a line down in the yard. Doug tells the customer to call your emergency line or the utility and leaves it there. He doesn't explain how to reset a GFCI, doesn't guess at what's wrong, and never gives electrical troubleshooting advice.

What a planned job looks like in chat

Take a customer who just bought an EV and writes at 10pm. They want a Level 2 charger in a detached garage on the far side of the house from a 100 amp panel. Doug answers with the price range you've set for charger installs, explains that panel capacity and the length of the run change the number, notes both, and books an estimate for Saturday morning. Your electrician shows up already knowing it might turn into a panel upgrade.

Panel upgrades, generator quotes, lighting projects and remodel wiring go the same way. Those customers research at night and book whoever answers clearly. Doug answers only from your website and the ranges you give him, takes the address and the details you ask for, and books from your real open times on your Google or Microsoft calendar.

Deposits for service calls versus estimates

For service calls, most shops set the deposit to the trip or diagnostic fee and take it off the invoice. Estimates for bigger work are a judgment call. Some electricians take a small deposit to hold a panel or generator visit and some take none, since the estimate is how they win the job. You set it per service, along with the refund window. Doug takes the deposit through Stripe at booking and keeps none of it.

Getting found for 'EV charger installer near me'

Electrical searches are specific: 'EV charger installer near me', 'panel upgrade Georgetown', 'generator installation'. A home page that says 'residential and commercial electrical services' rarely wins any of them. A page about the job, with the town on it, often does.

Doug checks your Google Maps rank weekly and asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the questions people nearby ask about electricians. Then he publishes what's missing to a Doug-run site or your WordPress site: EV charger installation, panel upgrades, generator installs, lighting, surge protection, outlet and circuit work, and a page for each town you serve with details that are true there, like the 60 and 100 amp panels common in older subdivisions. Our guide to showing up in Google AI Overviews covers why plain, specific pages get quoted.

Licenses, installer directories and reviews

Google reviews carry the most weight, then Yelp, Angi, HomeAdvisor, Thumbtack, Nextdoor and the BBB. If you're certified by an EV charger or generator brand, that brand's installer directory sends real leads, so keep the listing current.

Doug asks customers for a review after a booking and replies to the ones that come in. In a licensed trade, a license number that doesn't match across listings makes you look careless, so he flags any listing where your license, phone or hours disagree with your Google profile.

Residential service shops get the most out of him

If you mostly bid commercial work for general contractors, a website agent won't change much. If you do residential service and installs, a lot of your next jobs start with a search and a question at night. Keep your phone setup for calls and let Doug take the website, ChatGPT and the weekly getting-found work.

Try the free ChatGPT visibility check first. It shows whether ChatGPT recommends you when someone nearby asks for an electrician.

Questions

Will Doug give electrical advice to a homeowner?: No. He answers questions about your services, prices, area and scheduling from your own material. Safety questions go to a person, and anything urgent gets your emergency number.
Can Doug quote an EV charger install?: He shares the price ranges you give him and what changes them, like panel capacity and distance from the panel. Then he books the estimate.
Does Doug answer calls for electricians?: No. He answers on your website and in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Muse, typed or spoken in the chat window.
Is Doug worth $49 a month for a small electrical shop?: Starter is $49 for 2,000 messages, and one booked panel upgrade covers years of it. Growth is $149 and adds live handoff and actions. Extra messages are $10 per 1,000.