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The going rate for AI phone answering is $99 a month. Ours is free.
Every missed call books with the next company on the list. Your Pool Founder line answers every call, greets your customers by name, and hands you the lead. Included on every plan.
Your line’s home base: every call and text in one inbox, stats, and the switches that control it.
What answering the phone costs.
Everyone else treats a ringing phone as an upsell. We think it’s part of running your business.
Takes a message. Knows nothing about your customers, your schedule, or your billing.
Calls only. Answers from a knowledge base built from your website, on top of per-pool software fees.
Answering included on every plan. It reads the customer’s actual account. Optional $25/mo business line adds a dedicated number with two-way AI texting.
Published prices, August 2026. Skimmer’s AI Phone is “$99/month at our launch price,” per their own page. Answering-service figure is the high end of typical published rates.
“When are you coming?” stops reaching your cell.
Most of your inbound calls are customers asking about their next visit or their bill. A message-taker writes those down and sends them to you anyway. Ours answers them — it recognizes the caller, greets them by name, and reads the answer live from their account: next visit, balance, what that invoice was for, whether the payment cleared, what your tech did last time.
Anything it can’t answer becomes a message with a full transcript in your inbox, and the caller hears a named person is getting it.
The only pool software whose AI answers texts.
Skimmer’s AI answers calls. Generic services answer calls. Nobody answers the text your lead sends at 8:30pm — except your line. Two-way conversations, real intake, on your $25/mo business number.
Leads get answered tonight
Name, address, and what they need — captured while your competitors’ lines sit dark. The lead lands in your inbox ready to schedule.
Customers text like they text you
Balance questions, “did you get my payment,” photos of the pool. Answered from the account, or handed to you with the thread attached.
You stay in charge of it
Take over any thread yourself. Turn AI replies off for new numbers, existing customers, or both — texts still land in your inbox and your team gets notified on every message.
Woken for burst pipes. Never for green pools.
The two things owners fear: missing a real emergency, and being woken at 2am by a routine complaint. The assistant asks about the pool, not the caller’s mood — is water leaking, is equipment sparking, does someone need to come out right now?
You’re woken through quiet hours, callback number in the notification.
Handled politely, logged, and waiting for you in the morning. No matter how annoyed the caller is.
Things it will never do.
An AI on your phone line earns trust by knowing its place. These are built into the product, not settings you have to get right.
It never quotes a price
Pricing is your call. It captures what the customer needs and hands it to you.
It never books a job
Every commitment passes through a human. You approve from your phone in ten seconds; the customer gets the confirmation text.
It never promises a visit time
Structurally can’t. The only time a customer ever hears is the one you approved.
It never records audio
Transcripts only. Every call is written down in your inbox, never taped.
Hey, I’m Corey. I’ve been on a pool route for 15 years. The apps I tried felt like they were built by people who’d never skimmed a pool, so I built this one. Every feature exists because I needed it that day. When you call, a founder picks up.
And it comes with the software that runs the rest of your day.
The front desk is one piece of Pool Founder. Routes, invoicing, chemistry, profitability — click around, these are the actual screens.
Also in the box: the tech mobile app, GPS on every completed stop, customer portal, quotes with e-signature, scheduling, two-way QuickBooks sync, texts and email — unlimited customers, pools, and routes, on every plan.