Voicemail buys time for the next shop.
When nobody answers, the homeowner keeps calling down the list.
Done-for-you back office for Chicagoland trades
We run the office behind your trade business.
Real people answer customers. Mary logs the work. Your schedule, invoices, and books keep moving—without you stepping off the job.
- Calls answered
- Jobs booked
- Invoices sent
Takes 5 minutes · Month to month · Live in 72 hours or your first month is free
In other words: we handle the #*$% you don't.
The work
The office
Real people answer customers.You tell Mary once.
- Customer call answeredFurnace out · Oak Park Confirmed
- Job bookedTuesday · 11:30 AM Handled
- Invoice sentJob #1842 · $640 Handled
72 hoursLive—or your first month is free.
Real peopleAnswer every customer call.
Your accountsMonth to month. You keep control.
1–10 tech shopsPlumbing, HVAC, and electrical.
The mechanism, not the mystery
A Tuesday, handled.
Your customers get a competent office. You get the short version. The business keeps moving while you do the work only you can do.
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A customer calls.
A real person answers with your business name, understands the job, and gets the details right.
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You tell Mary once.
No new portal to babysit. Give Mary the decision and get back to the work in front of you.
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The office keeps moving.
Scheduling, follow-up, invoicing, and books advance—with a clean record of what happened.
Find the leak
Calls
Cash
Good field work can still lose to a broken office.
A customer does not see the clean repair you would have made. They see whether someone answered, booked the right window, followed up, and sent the paperwork. That handoff is where good shops quietly lose work.
A finished job is not paid work yet.
The invoice and follow-up still have to move after the tools are packed.
What could missed calls cost your shop?
Use your own ticket and call count. Nothing is saved.
Replace the example with your real number.
Potential monthly work−$5,629
Potential annual work−$67,600
Illustrative estimate based only on the numbers you enter; not a forecast.
One operating layer
Five lanes. One office. No pile of vendors to manage.
ATKS connects what happens from the first ring to the paid invoice. Real people face the customer; Mary keeps the record and the follow-through moving behind them.
Your shop · operating board Handled by ATKS
01Real people · customer-facing
Phone & intake
Calls are answered in your business name, the job is understood, and the details are captured.
02Office team + Mary
Schedule & dispatch
The calendar, confirmations, and job windows stay organized around your actual field capacity.
03ATKS workflow
Invoices & follow-up
Completed work becomes a sent invoice and a consistent follow-up rhythm instead of a note in your head.
04Mary + configured tools
Records & reporting
Calls, jobs, and invoices share one record so the owner gets a useful weekly view.
05ATKS managed
Digital front door
Your website, Google presence, and review requests look and behave like a real company.
The promises we can verify now
Proof starts with terms you can hold us to.
We will publish named client outcomes when clients approve them. Until then, the site makes only the operating promises ATKS controls.
72 hoursLive—or the first month is free.
Real peopleCustomer calls stay human.
Month to monthNo long-term contract.
Your accountsYour number, data, and profiles stay yours.
Who this is built for
A good trade shop with an office bottleneck.
The strongest fit is a Chicagoland plumbing, electrical, or HVAC shop with 1–10 techs, real service demand, and an owner ready to let a standard system run the office.
- Customers are already calling
- The field team needs a cleaner handoff
- Someone at home is absorbing office work
- The owner wants control without being the dispatcher
Pricing, without the fog
One monthly operations relationship.
The quote changes with trade, call volume, team size, and the systems already in place. What does not change: no setup fee, no long contract, no ATKS-owned hostage accounts.
Included from the start
The office, run as one system.
- Customer call answering
- Scheduling and dispatch
- Invoice workflow
- Invoice follow-up
- CRM setup and records
- Weekly owner reporting
- Website and Google profile
- Review-request workflow
A low-pressure first look
See your digital front door before a sales call.
Enter a business name and town. The builder takes you to a real ATKS site preview for the shop; the fit questions come next.
Straight answers
The questions owners actually ask.
Will my customers get a robot?
No. Real people answer your customers, every call. Mary is AI, but she works for you, not for them: she never picks up a customer call. She is your back office on the phone, so you can log a finished job, a parts run, or your hours by voice and have it in the books before you're off the ladder.
What happens after hours?
Your line is covered after hours the same as it is at 2pm. The call is answered and captured, and emergency triage is handled, so a burst pipe at midnight doesn't wait for morning.
Do I keep my phone number?
Your number stays yours, and you own your accounts. Pointing your line at the team that answers it is part of setup inside your 72 hours, and it points back whenever you say so.
What about call recording consent?
Illinois is a two party consent state, so consent is spoken on every call that gets recorded, including yours with Mary. It's built in, not an afterthought.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. Month to month, no setup fees, and you're live in 72 hours or you don't pay for the first month. If it stops working for you, you leave with your accounts.
You've got enough to do.
You didn't get into the trades to run an office. We handle everything else.
See if it's a fit. Takes five minutesWe only take on clients where we know the system will work. If it's not the right fit, we'll say so.