Saint Paul, Minnesota
(651) 661‑5010

After-hours call answering

The call you missed at 11:47 pm was a job.

Nortthline answers your phone when you can’t — nights, weekends and any time it rings out. We take the caller’s name, number and what’s broken, and text it straight to you.

Set up for you 14 days free, no card Cancel any time

How it works

Three things happen while you’re asleep.

11:47 pm

Your phone rings out

The call rolls to us automatically instead of to voicemail. Your number stays your number — nothing about it changes for the caller.

11:47 pm – 11:49 pm

We answer and take it down

Name, callback number, town and what’s gone wrong. The number is read back digit by digit so it’s right the first time.

11:49 pm

You get one text

Everything on one screen, urgent jobs flagged. You decide in the morning whether it’s worth the drive — or ring back that night.

What you’re paying for

The answering is the easy part.

Plenty of software can answer a phone. Missed calls keep happening because of everything around it — the setup nobody finishes, the junk nobody filters, the failure nobody notices. That’s the work, and that’s what we do.

We set it up on your phone

Call forwarding differs by carrier and by plan, and it’s where most of these setups quietly fail. We configure it, test it, and confirm a real call lands where it should before you rely on it.

We filter out the junk

Most short late-night calls are silent robocall drops. They get answered, recognised and ended. You never hear about them.

We check it every week

Someone confirms your calls are still getting through, and fixes it when they aren’t. Phone setups break quietly, which is the worst way for them to break.

Emergencies go to 911

A caller who smells gas, sees fire, or has someone hurt is told to hang up and call 911 before anything else. That instruction is fixed and never negotiable.

Urgent jobs stand out

No heat in January and a blocked drain don’t look the same on your screen. You can tell at a glance what can wait until morning.

A person answers when it breaks

And it will. You get someone local who picks up and sorts it — not a support form and a ticket number.

What it costs

One price. The same number every month.

$297
per month
Includes 400 minutes of answered calls — more than a one to ten truck shop normally uses.
Setup and forwardingFree
First 14 daysFree · no card
Over 400 minutes$0.75 / min
ContractNone
CancelAny time

If one after-hours call a month turns into a job, the service has paid for itself. That’s the whole argument, and you can test it for two weeks without giving us a card.

Straight answers

Three things it will never do.

Pretend to be a person

It says it’s an automated assistant in the first sentence, on every single call.

Quote a price

It doesn’t know your prices and won’t guess at them. Pricing stays your conversation.

Promise you’ll turn up

It never says someone is on the way or gives a time. Nobody is told a van is coming when it isn’t.

Ring the demo line and listen to it yourself.

It’s the same assistant your callers would get, set up for a made-up heating company. Tell it your furnace has quit and see how it handles you. Takes two minutes.