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Electrician answering service.It books and reschedules, 24/7.

An AI permit desk that shows where every job is waiting and gets the next step ready for your office.

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SoldPermitRough-inFinalUtility noticeActivatedWaiting here, 4 days

SSE-2614 Set and wired 4 days ago. The final is requested for tomorrow morning. It is not activated: the manufacturer says to wait until all permitting is complete, so it will not start on its own in an outage yet.

Sample Street Electric and its jobs are made up. The rules they wait on are not, and each is cited below.

The work passes. Then the utility has to hear about it.

Wired is not live. Every permitted job sits behind one open breaker, and somebody other than you is holding it. This is the board that says who.

  • SSE-2611 made up

    New service, backyard casita

    W Sample Ave, Phoenix

    SoldPermitRough-inFinalUtility noticePower on2 days here
    Waiting on
    City clearance, then the utility

    The final passed 2 days ago. Nobody at the office has confirmed yet that the city's clearance reached the utility, and no meter date has come back. The homeowner has called twice.

    After a successful final inspection, the gas and electrical utilities are notified that they can be turned on. City of Phoenix, Arizona, Residential Inspections. Read 20 Sep 2026.

    Once an account has been established with SRP and clearance has been received from the AHJ, the service lateral will be energized and installation of the meter scheduled. After panel modifications, SRP reconnects power when both SRP and the AHJ approve. SRP Electric Service Specifications, Section 1, General Information (rev. 10/15/20). Read 20 Sep 2026.

    What Dex has ready. Nothing has gone anywhere.

    Draft, not sent

    For whoever calls the utility: permit number, service address, the date the final passed, the account holder's name, and the one question to ask: has the city's clearance reached you, and what is the meter date?

    A person still: Someone at the office calls the utility and then the homeowner. Dex contacts neither.

Every rule this line hangs on, as its source writes it

Not code or legal advice. The first five rows are the City of Phoenix, Arizona, only. The sixth is SRP, one Arizona utility. The last is one generator manufacturer's own instruction. Other cities and utilities set their own steps, and we read yours before anything goes on your board. All sources read 20 Sep 2026.

The second trip is decided the night before.

Called too early, nobody home, or tagged twice. Each one sends a licensed crew back, and Phoenix puts a price on all three.

Tonight, for tomorrow. The list is the shop's own: lead marked the work complete, photos on file, access confirmed, permit card on site. It is never the code.

  1. SSE-2614

    Standby generator, 22 kW

    Final, requested for tomorrow

    Ready

    • Lead marked the work completeMarked complete 4 days ago
    • Photos on file11 photos
    • Access confirmedHomeowner confirmed 8 to 12
    • Permit card on siteIn the panel door, per the lead

    Nothing on the shop's list is open.

  2. SSE-2609

    Kitchen remodel, rough-in

    Rough, re-inspection, requested for tomorrow

    Your call

    • Lead marked the work completeBoth corrections marked done yesterday
    • Photos on fileNo photo of either correction
    • Access confirmedRemodeler's crew on site from 7
    • Permit card on sitePosted at the front window

    This is the first re-inspection, included in the permit fee. If it fails again, the next one is $195.

  3. SSE-2625

    Garage subpanel, rough-in

    Rough, requested for tomorrow

    Hold it

    • Lead marked the work completeTwo items still open on the lead's list
    • Photos on fileNo photos yet
    • Access confirmedNo reply to yesterday's text, and the job notes say the side gate is locked
    • Permit card on siteOn site

    Two of the city's fee lines fit: called before the work was ready, and no access. Each is $195.

Check finished. One inspection is ready, one is your call, and one should be held.

Three ways Phoenix charges $195 for the next visit

  1. Called before the work was ready

    “For any inspection called before work was ready for that inspection ... $195 each”

  2. No access on the day

    “For any inspection that cannot be made on date requested due to no access ... $195 each”

  3. Tagged a second time

    “Second and subsequent re-inspections required for failure to correct deficiencies ... $195 each”

The same page: “If corrections are required, first re-inspection to verify corrections: No additional charge (included with permit fee)”. City of Phoenix PDD Fee Schedule, Ordinance G-7465, effective 1/20/2026, Building Safety Inspection Fees (opens in a new tab). Read 20 Sep 2026. One city only. The fee is the small part: a licensed crew goes back, and whoever closes the walls waits.

A tag, turned into the return visit

SSE-2609, made-up result

Rough electrical: not approved. 1) Protect cables at two stud penetrations, north wall. 2) Secure cable at island box. Call for re-inspection when corrected.

You priced it in the spring. Copper did not wait.

Your software keeps the price book current going forward. Nothing goes back over the quotes already sitting in customers' inboxes. This does, every night.

400500600202420252026Q-1163 510.8602.5
Real data. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index, Copper Wire and Cable, series WPU10260314, Dec 1986 = 100, not seasonally adjusted (opens in a new tab). Read 20 Sep 2026. The dashed months are preliminary and BLS may revise them. Aug 2025 473.485, Aug 2026 602.480. Our arithmetic: 602.480 divided by 473.485 is 1.272. The ringed points are the months the made-up quotes below were priced.

3 of 5 open quotes are past your line: Q-1163, Q-1177, Q-1184.

Draft for Q-1163, not sent

We priced this work in Dec 2025. Copper wire and cable has moved since then, and the wire lines in your quote no longer cover what our supplier charges today. Before you sign, we would like to send you a revised figure for those lines only. Everything else in the quote stands.

A person decides whether to requote, honor or withdraw. Dex sends nothing.

The quotes and their costs are made up. With no supplier's price file on a demonstration page, each quote's copper cost is moved by the real index from the month it was priced to Aug 2026. On your shop it would read your supplier's own file. A margin point here is margin as a share of the quoted price.

On the contractor's job, the clock starts the first day on site.

Arizona gives a subcontractor twenty days to mail a preliminary notice. Mail it late and the early work falls outside the window. Move the day and watch it.

SSE-2619 made up

Restaurant remodel, service and rough-in. Hired by a general contractor, not by the owner.

Mailed on day 26, the window opens on day 6. The first 6 days of work, $11,400 of made-up billing, sit outside it.

The bars are made-up daily billing. The arithmetic is subsection (E). Whether a lien is available at all is an attorney's question, never Dex's.

What Dex does: takes the first day on site from your own time and delivery records, counts the twenty days, fills the notice in from the job file, and watches the estimate against the thirty percent line in subsection G. What a person does: checks the names, signs it, and mails it the way subsection F describes.

“shall be given not later than twenty days after the claimant has first furnished labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools to the jobsite”

Given late, the claimant “is entitled to claim a lien only for such labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools furnished within twenty days before the service of the notice and at any time thereafter”.

Arizona Revised Statutes 33-992.01 (opens in a new tab), subsections C and E. Read 20 Sep 2026. Arizona only. Other states write their own notice rules, and we read yours first.

An owner-occupied home is a different rule. “No lien provided for in this article shall be allowed or recorded by the person claiming a lien against the dwelling of a person who became an owner-occupant prior to the construction, alteration, repair or improvement, except by a person having executed in writing a contract directly with the owner-occupant.” Arizona Revised Statutes 33-1002(B) (opens in a new tab). Read 20 Sep 2026. The four jobs below are commercial work and a builder's townhomes, where a contractor hired the shop. What either rule means for one of your jobs is an attorney's question.

  • SSE-2630 Tenant improvement, dental suiteDay 6 of 20

    Hired by Sample General Builders (made up). Estimate $64,200. Filled in from the job file and waiting for a signature. 14 days left.

  • SSE-2627 Four townhomes, rough-inDay 17 of 20

    Hired by Made-Up Homes LLC. Estimate $38,600. Filled in 12 days ago and never mailed. 3 days left.

  • SSE-2619 Restaurant remodel, service and rough-inDay 26, not mailed

    Hired by Sample General Builders (made up). Estimate $41,800. Nothing was mailed. If it goes in the mail today, the first 6 days of work sit outside the window.

  • SSE-2598 Medical office build-outMailed day 4

    Hired by Sample Commercial Interiors (made up). Estimate $52,000, now $64,900 with approved changes. A new notice is called for at $67,600, thirty percent over.

Electrician answering service, and the office work around it.

Deeplathe answers calls, books the job, and handles reschedules, 24/7. Most of the other office software an electrical shop needs is already bought.

Panel schedule

Breaker off: already in your software, or sold to you elsewhere. Deeplathe still answers, books, and reschedules. Breaker on: we would build it.

  1. 1Answering calls and booking jobs, around the clockSold to you elsewhereAlso offered inside field-service software and by other AI receptionists. Deeplathe answers, books, and reschedules, 24/7.
  2. 2Quotes, quote follow-ups, scheduling, dispatch and invoicingAlready in your softwareThe core of the field-service software you already pay for, automatic quote reminders included.
  3. 3Inspection checklists, job photos and a price bookAlready in your softwareA checklist a tech fills in, photos on the job, and a price book you can update going forward. Already yours.
  4. 4Filing permits and tracking inspections for youSold to you elsewherePermitting services sell this to home-services contractors. We found no permit or utility step in the field-service software small shops use.
  5. 5Preliminary notices and lien paperworkSold to you elsewhereNotice services sell these one notice at a time, once you tell them about a job. We did not find one inside the field-service software small shops use.
  6. 6One line from sold to live, the night-before inspection check, open quotes re-costed when copper moves, and the twenty-day count started from your own time recordsNot found for sale. We would build itNot found in the field-service software electricians use. This is what we would build, on your jobs, your cities and your supplier's price file.

Ask Dex. Then try to trip him.

He works from the same made-up board you have just been through. He answers like a permit desk, and he will not answer like an electrician, a lawyer or a dispatcher.

Dex, the AI permit desk at Sample Street Electric

Dex

AI permit desk

An AI, set up here on Sample Street Electric, which is made up. Yours would be set up on your jobs, your cities and your supplier. Type to him, or open his corner and press Call Dex to speak.

What an owner asks him

Try to trip him. A rule in code catches each of these before the AI model can answer

Questions an owner asks first.

Short answers. The long ones are what the first call is for.

Will it answer code questions?

No. Whether a breaker, a wire size or a permit is right is a licensed electrician's decision, and the answer depends on the wire, the load and which code your city has adopted. When a customer asks, it writes the question down and hands it to an electrician at your shop. Dex, on this page, refuses the same questions in code before any AI model sees them.

Our field-service software already does a lot of this.

It does most of the office. Quotes and quote reminders, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, inspection checklists, job photos and a price book are in the software electricians already pay for. Answering the phone around the clock is sold many times over, and Deeplathe answers, books, and reschedules too, 24/7. What we did not find in the software: the line from sold to live, a check the night before each inspection, open quotes re-costed when copper moves, and the twenty-day count on contractor-hired jobs.

Does it file permits, book inspections or mail notices for us?

It prepares them. You or your office submit, request, sign and mail, under your own license and login, so nothing goes to the city, the utility, a contractor or a customer in your name without a person pressing the button.

We do not work in Phoenix. Does it know our city and our state?

Only once we have read them. The examples on this page are the City of Phoenix, SRP and Arizona's preliminary notice statute, because those sources publish their steps and we could quote them. Every city, utility and state runs its own, so we read yours before anything goes on your board. None of it is legal or code advice.

Will it promise a homeowner a date for the power?

No. It tells them which step the job is at and who acts next. The day the power goes on belongs to the inspector and then the utility, so it never promises one.

What it would cost you.

Move the sliders to your shop. Every figure comes off the published price list, and where the honest answer is custom it says so.

Fits Standard, $749 a month.

StandardYour answers

Website and the permit desk, working as one

Starts at

$749/mo

  • minutes on the phone450
  • emails3,400
  • text messages1,200
  • documents read2,000

No setup fee. Or $6,741 for the year, 3 months free.

Pro

Full site with SEO, and the permit desk

Starts at

$1,499/mo

  • minutes on the phone1,300
  • emails8,500
  • text messages2,500
  • documents read5,400

No setup fee. Or $13,491 for the year, 3 months free.

Enterprise

Custom site and custom agent, scoped and run as one

Starts at

Custom

  • no ceilingscoped to you

The number does not exist until the scope does.

  • You see a working demo before you pay anything.
  • One monthly fee covers the demo, building your version, and keeping it running. No setup fee.
  • Stop at the end of any month.
  • 30 days money back from go-live, prorated for the days it ran.

Estimated from the published price list, not a quote. What gets built is different for every shop, and that is what the first call is for.

Finish pass

Ring the number. That's the product answering.

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That number is Deeplathe's own line. We build custom AI inside the tools a business already uses. Dex, in the corner of this page, is the one built for a shop like yours. Ask him who is holding up the casita job.

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Electrician answering service

Custom AI, built inside the tools the shop already uses. It tracks each job from permit to power on. It gives no code advice. Write the voicemail greeting, set the rings before forwarding, and send the unpaid invoice reminder after the job.

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