Emergency mitigation
Burst pipes, appliance failures, storm intrusion and fire or smoke damage — calls at any hour that must be answered now.
Industries · Home Services
Answer Every Restoration Emergency, 24/7
Mitigation is won in the first hour. The AI captures the loss, triages urgency and dispatches your on-call crew while competitors sleep.
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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 document the loss for the claim. I can dispatch an on-call crew within the hour. Address, name and best number?
7 Foxglove Ln, Marcus Reed, 555-0177.
Crew dispatched, ETA under 60 minutes. You will get a text with the technician’s name and a link to track arrival.
Industry context
How restoration work actually comes in
Restoration is a 24/7 emergency business built on speed, insurance documentation and referral relationships.
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.
Praktivo captures the loss at any hour, dispatches your crew, then keeps the adjuster and follow-up conversation moving.
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
An intake line that dispatches while you sleep
The agent triages the loss, captures the insurance details and dispatches the on-call crew in minutes.
What the agent does on the call
- Answers every emergency call instantly, 24/7/365.
- 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.
- Takes name, address and mobile, then dispatches the on-call crew.
- Texts the customer the technician name, ETA and tracking link.
- Routes complex or distressed callers to a human with the full story.
From 3 a.m. call to crew dispatched
- 3:12 AMEmergency water-loss call captured
- 3:16 AMLoss triaged; on-call crew dispatched, ETA under 60 minutes
- 3:16 AMCustomer gets a text with tech name and tracking link
- 3:17 AMLead created with source = Google Ads / “water damage”
- MorningAdjuster intro and documentation checklist sent
- Post-mitigationMold check and rebuild estimate conversation queued
Illustrative example
Illustrative example of the emergency calls the agent handles for a restoration company. Dispatch rules, 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.
24/7 emergency intake
Every water, fire, smoke, mold and CAT call answered in one ring.
Loss triage
Rooms, water category, property type and safety captured consistently.
Crew dispatch coordination
Dispatches the on-call crew and confirms the ETA to the customer.
Insurance capture
Claim status, carrier and adjuster details recorded for documentation.
Estimate follow-up
Keeps mitigation, mold and rebuild estimates moving patiently.
Adjuster coordination
Reminders and status check-ins so the claim does not stall.
SMS follow-up
Arrival, drying-check and equipment-pickup texts.
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 0Rebuild scope sent after the mitigation dries out; agent confirms receipt.
- Day 2Offers to walk the scope room by room.
- Day 5Checks in on the adjuster’s response.
- Day 10Reminder with a scheduling angle; stops instantly on reply.
- Day 20Reiterates that timelines for materials may shift.
- Day 30Final touch, then nurture and revisit at the one-year mark.
Sequences stop automatically the moment a customer replies or opts out.
Human in control
What stays human
The agent owns response and follow-up. Your technicians own the loss.
- Escalated or unsafe conditions and any dispatch judgement calls.
- Estimating, Xactimate scope and adjuster negotiation.
- Pricing and any commercial commitment.
- Traumatised or vulnerable callers — routed to a person immediately.
- Insurance advice beyond the process you approve.
Approval before it goes out
Agents only use your approved knowledge base — service list, pricing rules, availability and policies. Anything outside that scope is flagged for a human instead of guessed.
No invented pricing, policies or appointments. A person always owns the final call 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 loss with source, category, dispatch status and claim notes.
Pipeline view
Intake → Dispatched → Mitigation → Rebuild → Complete, updated automatically.
Conversation history
Full emergency transcript on each lead for documentation and training.
Marketing ROI you can actually read
- Which campaign produced emergency dispatches during a storm event.
- Cost per dispatched 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 actionTriaged, dispatched on-call crew, SMS tracking sent
- OutcomeMitigation completed → mold check → rebuild estimate
- ReportingDispatched 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?
Yes. It answers instantly, triages the loss, captures the details your crew needs and dispatches the on-call rotation. Complex or distressed callers go straight 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?
It gathers claim status, carrier and adjuster details and explains only the intake process you approve. It never gives insurance advice or promises a claim outcome.
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?
The agent answers concurrent calls, so a storm surge does not become a backlog. Everything is logged for follow-up as capacity frees up.
Can it follow up on the rebuild phase weeks later?
Yes. Long, patient sequences keep the rebuild estimate and adjuster conversation moving after mitigation is done.
Get your plan
Put this to work on your emergency intake
Tell us how after-hours losses are handled today. We will map the fastest win — usually emergency capture and dispatch.
- A free 30-minute AI strategy call — no obligation.
- A scoped blueprint: the biggest leak, and the first automation to fix it.
- Honest fit check — we will tell you if automation is not your fastest win.
The fastest way in: answer six short questions and we will map your lead journey, find the biggest leak and show the fastest automation win — before we ever get on a call.
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