Emergency mitigation
Burst pipes, appliance failures, storm intrusion and fire or smoke damage — urgent enquiries can be captured on connected lines, with follow-up tasks created under your configured process.
Industries · Home Services
Configure Restoration Emergency Intake
For emergency calls that reach a connected line, the agent can capture loss details, triage urgency and create an owner task for your configured on-call team to review.
You have reached Northgate Restoration emergency intake. Is this an active water, fire, or mold loss?
A pipe burst upstairs and water is coming through the ceiling.
I am treating this as an emergency mitigation. If it is safe, shut off the water at the main. Is the water still spreading?
I shut it off. It is still dripping through two rooms.
Good. How many rooms are affected, and is this a home or a commercial property? Do you see any sewage or is it clean water?
Home. Two rooms. Clean water, I think.
Understood. Have you contacted your insurance company, and do you have a claim number yet?
Not yet, we just found it.
That is fine — we can document the loss for the claim. I’ll record the details for the configured on-call team to review. What is the address, your name and the best number to reach you?
7 Foxglove Ln, Marcus Reed, 555-0177.
I have recorded your details for the team. They can review the request and confirm next steps and any arrival estimate.
Industry context
How restoration work actually comes in
Restoration teams may receive emergency requests outside regular office hours and need a clear process for intake, insurance documentation and referrals.
Insurance-driven jobs
Loss documentation, moisture mapping, adjuster coordination and Xactimate-based estimates that take weeks to settle.
Mold & rebuild
Mold remediation, contents and pack-out, and the rebuild phase that often follows the mitigation work.
A water loss that sits for hours becomes a mold and rebuild job — and the homeowner calls whoever responds first. Speed of intake directly determines the size of the job and the referral you keep.
For emergency calls that reach a connected line, Praktivo can capture loss details and create an owner task for your configured on-call team to review. It can also keep adjuster and follow-up details organized.
Water mitigationExtractionDryingDehumidifiersAir moversMoisture mappingMold remediationFire & smokeContentsCAT losses
Where leads are being lost
Where restoration leads are being lost
In restoration, the first qualified responder usually owns the whole job.
Common leaks in water & fire restoration businesses
- 3 a.m. water-loss calls rolling to voicemail.
- Storm and CAT events overwhelming the office line.
- Pack-out, mold and rebuild estimates never followed up.
- Adjuster coordination that stalls with no reminder.
- Plumber and insurer referrals lost to slower follow-up.
- Past customers never re-contacted after a completed mitigation.
Illustrative: the first hour
- 3:12 AMHomeowner calls your line — no answer
- 3:14 AMThey call the next restoration company on the list
- 3:22 AMCompetitor answered, dispatched a crew and started intake
- By morningWater has spread; the job is now mitigation + rebuild
- ResultA referral relationship and a multi-week job lost
AI emergency intake
Connect emergency intake to your on-call process
For calls reaching a connected line, the agent can triage the loss, capture insurance details and create an owner task for your configured on-call team to review. Carrier routing depends on your phone setup.
What the agent does on the call
- Captures emergency calls received on connected lines; actual call coverage depends on the carrier and your phone configuration.
- Triages water, fire, smoke, mold and CAT losses.
- Gathers rooms affected, water category, property type and safety.
- Captures insurance status and claim details for documentation.
- Captures the caller’s name, address and number, then creates an owner task for the on-call team to review and coordinate next steps.
- Creates an owner task for the team to share an arrival update; automated SMS needs a connected provider.
- Creates an owner task to escalate complex or distressed callers to a human with the captured details.
From 3 a.m. call to on-call review task
- 3:12 AMEmergency water-loss call captured
- 3:16 AMOwner task created for the team to review the loss details
- 3:16 AMOwner task created to share next steps with the customer
- 3:17 AMLead created with source = Google Ads / “water damage”
- MorningOwner task created to prepare an adjuster introduction and documentation checklist
- Post-mitigationMold check and rebuild estimate conversation queued
Illustrative example
Illustrative example of the emergency calls the agent handles for a restoration company. On-call escalation, crew rotation and safety scripting come from you.
What the AI handles end-to-end
What the AI handles end-to-end
Emergency intake today, insurance and rebuild follow-through tomorrow.
Connected-line emergency intake
Water, fire, smoke, mold and CAT requests can be captured on connected channels; owner tasks can flag requests for your configured on-call review.
Loss triage
Rooms, water category, property type and safety captured consistently.
On-call follow-up
Creates an owner task for the team to coordinate next steps and share an arrival update; automated SMS requires a connected provider.
Insurance capture
Claim status, carrier and adjuster details recorded for documentation.
Estimate follow-up
Keeps mitigation, mold and rebuild estimates moving patiently.
Adjuster coordination
Creates owner tasks for scheduled reminders and status checks; automated SMS requires a connected provider.
SMS follow-up tasks
Sequence SMS steps create owner tasks; automated texts require a connected SMS provider.
Referral follow-up
Keeps plumbers, insurers and property managers warm after each job.
Review requests
Collects reviews after a completed job and routes complaints to a human.
Reactivation
Revisits past losses and property managers for repeat and rebuild work.
Follow-up sequence
A rebuild estimate, followed up properly
Rebuild work often follows mitigation weeks later — the follow-up has to outlast the claim.
Rebuild estimate — Day 0 to Day 30
- Day 0Owner task created to share the rebuild scope after mitigation dries out and check with the customer.
- Day 2Offers to walk the scope room by room.
- Day 5Checks in on the adjuster’s response.
- Day 10Owner task to send a scheduling reminder; automated SMS requires a connected provider.
- Day 20Reiterates that timelines for materials may shift.
- Day 30Final touch, then nurture and revisit at the one-year mark.
The team reviews any reply or opt-out and pauses or ends follow-up as needed. SMS sequence steps create owner tasks until a connected provider is available.
Human in control
What stays human
The agent owns response and follow-up. Your technicians own the loss.
- Escalated or unsafe conditions and any decision about sending a crew to the loss.
- Estimating, Xactimate scope and adjuster negotiation.
- Pricing and any commercial commitment.
- Traumatised or vulnerable callers — routed to a person per your escalation rules.
- Insurance advice beyond the process you approve.
Approval before it goes out
Where approved business sources and escalation are configured, the agent can use supplied service, pricing, availability and policy information for supported questions. Requests outside those materials can be routed to a person for review under your rules.
Keep those sources current; a person retains final say on money and scope.
Owner visibility
Owner visibility: leads, pipeline and true ad ROI
See emergency capture and the jobs that came from weather events.
Admin panel
Every captured loss with its source, category, request status and claim notes.
Pipeline view
Track each loss from intake and on-call review through mitigation, rebuild and completion.
Conversation history
Full emergency transcript on each lead for documentation and training.
Marketing ROI you can actually read
- Which campaigns produced captured emergency enquiries during a storm event.
- Cost per captured loss and per completed rebuild by channel.
- After-hours capture rate — the emergencies that used to go to voicemail.
Attribution, attached to the loss
- SourceGoogle Ads / “water damage restoration”
- LeadFoxglove Ln — burst pipe, two rooms affected
- Agent actionDetails routed to the configured on-call team; owner task created for follow-up
- OutcomeMitigation completed → mold check → rebuild estimate
- ReportingCaptured enquiries and completed jobs by campaign
FAQ
Restoration questions, answered
What restoration owners ask before they automate emergency intake.
Can an AI really handle 3 a.m. emergency intake?
For calls that reach a connected line, the agent can triage the loss, capture details and create an owner task for the on-call rotation according to your configured process. Complex or distressed callers can be routed to a human.
Will customers know it is AI?
It introduces itself as an assistant. You control the wording, and the goal is simply that someone responsive answered the emergency.
Can it handle insurance questions?
With your approved intake process and escalation rules configured, the agent can capture claim status, carrier and adjuster details and share approved process information. Questions about coverage or claim outcomes should be routed to a qualified person; do not rely on it for insurance advice.
Does it connect to our job-management tools?
We build around common restoration and CRM platforms and are honest when a native integration is not available.
What about CAT events and call surges?
Connected calls can be handled within available telephony capacity, with overflow routed by configured escalation rules and follow-up logged for the team.
Can it follow up on the rebuild phase weeks later?
Yes. Follow-up sequences can create owner tasks to keep the rebuild estimate and adjuster conversation moving after mitigation is done.
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