You lost work last month. You just don't know which jobs.

So we answer the phone when you can't. The details get taken and the job booked into your diary while you're still up the ladder. Miss one and they get a text back in seconds.

CallsWebsite enquiriesWhatsAppTexts
Find out what it's costing youTen questions, about two minutes. No email needed.
See Cobalt workingFifteen minutes on a video call. No pitch.

£297 a month, excluding VAT, three-month minimum. The whole system, not a starter version.

16:41Incoming callANSWERED AS YOUR BUSINESS01:12Afternoon, how can I help?The gutter's come off atthe back. Two storey.I can get someone outThursday at 10:30.Does that suit?Perfect, thanks.TAKEN DOWNNameMobileAddressBooked into your diaryThu 10:30 · GutteringWhatsApp21:14 · last nightPhotos of the leak underthe kitchen sinkSaved to the customer recordMissed call16:52 · on a jobSorry we missed you. Replyhere and we'll get straightback to you.TEXT SENTTHIS WEEKMonTueWedThuFriThu 10:30 · guttering
16:41Incoming callANSWERED AS YOUR BUSINESS01:12Afternoon, how can I help?The gutter's come off atthe back. Two storey.I can get someone outThursday at 10:30.Does that suit?Perfect, thanks.TAKEN DOWNNameMobileAddressBooked into your diaryThu 10:30 · Guttering
Don't take our word for it

Ring it. That's our own line, and the same thing we'd put on your number.

Ask it what we do, what it costs, or something awkward it can't possibly know. Nobody rings you back unless you ask.

07401 200177
Answering now, day or night
18:07 The part nobody sees

Your competitor isn't better than you. They just answered first.

The same Tuesday afternoon, the same call while you're on a roof. This is what your phone shows when you get down.

Without Cobalt Tuesday18:07Phone16:41Missed call07700 900 461Phone16:44Missed call07700 900 461No voicemail
Two missed calls. They rang the next name on the list.
With Cobalt Tuesday18:07Cobalt16:43Job booked · Thu 10:30Guttering, two storey.Cobalt16:52Missed call texted backThey replied. It is in the record.Cobalt17:30New WhatsApp enquiryPhotos of a leak. In the record.
Answered, texted back and booked while you were working.

You don't need more enquiries. The ones you already get are being decided while you're up a ladder.

One place Every way in

The phone, your website, WhatsApp and texts. All of it in one record.

Nobody has to remember anything, and you can see what's waiting without ringing round.

PhoneMissed call at 16:41Text"It's for the bathroom"Website form"Can you quote a full refit?"WhatsApp3 photosEmail"Thursday suits me"SMSarah MitchellBathroom refitNext step: survey, Thu 10:30Missed callMon 16:41Texted back straight awayText replyMon 16:58"It's for the bathroom"Website formTue 21:12"Can you quote a full refit?"WhatsAppWed 07:553 photos of the old suiteEmailWed 08:02"Thursday suits me"Survey bookedWed 08:10Thu 10:30, reminder setReply sentin your business's nameReminder duethe day before the surveyYou're told oncenot five timesNOTHING GETS MISSED
PhoneTextWebsiteWhatsAppEmailSMSarah MitchellBathroom refitNext step: survey, Thu 10:30Missed callMon 16:41Texted back straight awayText replyMon 16:58"It's for the bathroom"Website formTue 21:12"Can you quote a full refit?"WhatsAppWed 07:553 photos of the old suiteEmailWed 08:02"Thursday suits me"Survey bookedWed 08:10Thu 10:30, reminder set
A terrace. Two thousand pounds of work. The quote sat in my head for three weeks and he chased me for it twice. Both times I told him I was waiting on the tile price. I wasn't. I just hadn't written it.

Leon Smith, who runs Cobalt. Twenty-five years of running businesses. Recruitment, then a construction company, then haulage. Built some, lost some, started again. “This isn't a theory about small firms. It's the thing that kept happening to mine.”

Try it The one on this page

This is one part of what we build. Ask it something.

It answers questions about Cobalt and it'll take you to the diary when you want to book. On your site it would do the same for you, at eleven at night, without you. Push at it. Ask it something awkward, or something it can't possibly know.

Cobalt assistant ANSWERING
Hello. I'm the assistant on Cobalt's site, not Leon. Ask me what this thing does, what it costs, or anything you'd want to know before you let something like it near your customers.
What does it actually do?What does it cost?Won't it annoy my customers?Book me an audit
Ask it somethingSend
£297 What it costs

Prices are on the website, where they belong.

The phone is where work disappears fastest, so answering it is where Cobalt starts rather than where it stops.

Cobalt Core, the complete system

Never miss an enquiry

£297a month
Missed call16:52 · on a jobSorry we missed you. Reply hereand we'll get straight back to you.Rang back, bookedThu 10:30 · guttering
  • Your line answered, day or night
  • A missed call gets a text back in seconds
  • Books straight into your diary on the call
  • Every enquiry in one record, followed up for a week
  • 100 minutes, standard setup included
Book an audit

Standard setup included. Three-month minimum, then monthly.

Our own software · nobody else can sell you this
Cobalt + Sitebooks

Run the job from your phone

£497a month
Voice note · 0:48In under two minutesQuote ready to checkBathroom refit · £5,810excluding VATDRAFTyou check
  • Everything in Cobalt Core, and 200 minutes
  • Quotes, invoices, receipts, job diary, snagging
  • It drafts, you check, nothing goes out unseen
See what Sitebooks does Or compare both plans

Standard setup included. Three-month minimum, then monthly.

All prices exclude VAT. VAT is charged where applicable. Telephone-network usage, texts and any receptionist minutes beyond your plan are charged separately, at rates confirmed in writing before anything starts. Phone service is UK only at the moment.

Stop carrying your business around in your head.

Take the check for a rough figure from your own numbers, or watch it working on a fifteen-minute call.