AI for Trades & Home Services
AI for Trades & Home Services means you win more of the jobs you quote and get paid sooner for the ones you finish, without anyone in the office staying late to do it.
Free · 30 minutes · Yours to keep
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Win back the quotes that used to go quiet.
Sound familiar?
It's all up onthe office wall.
The same four headaches, pinned up every week and never quite sorted.
Quotes that die in silence
Your techs write good quotes and then nobody follows them up. A lot never get an answer, the office is too flat out to ring round, and the work goes to whoever chased first.
The phone rings while you're under a sink
The first cold snap hits and the phone goes while the office is on another call and every tech is on a job. A missed call is usually a customer ringing the next firm on Google.
Done on Tuesday, invoiced on Friday
Photos sit on a tech's phone and the certificate is in the van. The invoice waits until someone pieces it all together at the end of the week, and the money waits another week behind that.
One person holding the whole office up
Your office manager answers new enquiries, builds the board, raises invoices and chases payment. When they're off sick, the whole business feels it by lunchtime.
The automations
58 automations we buildfor Trades & Home Services.
Click any one to read exactly how it works: the steps, the software it runs in, and where you sign off. There's enough on each page to build it yourself, or we build it with you.
And 55 more, biggest saving first
- New enquiries turned into booked jobs7 hrs a week
- Common-question replies by email, text and web chat6 hrs a week
- Quotes drafted from site-visit notes5 hrs a week
- Job completion paperwork5 hrs a week
- Daily reports from site photos5 hrs a week
- Proactive job and order updates5 hrs a week
- Crew and route assignment5 hrs a week
- After-hours emergency triage4 hrs a week
- Parts and supplier ordering4 hrs a week
- Daily job packs for techs4 hrs a week
- Subcontractor insurance and paperwork4 hrs a week
- After-hours answering4 hrs a week
- Supplier and subcontractor follow-up4 hrs a week
- Reschedules and running-late texts4 hrs a week
- Appointment confirmations and no-shows4 hrs a week
- Morning briefing4 hrs a week
- Maintenance-plan renewals3 hrs a week
- Warranty and callback tracking3 hrs a week
- Permit and inspection tracking3 hrs a week
- Phone message summaries3 hrs a week
- Lead qualification and routing3 hrs a week
- Past customer win-back3 hrs a week
- Social posts from job photos3 hrs a week
- Receipt capture and matching3 hrs a week
- Job costing3 hrs a week
- Job handover notes3 hrs a week
- Staff requests and fault reports3 hrs a week
- On-my-way updates3 hrs a week
- Recurring job scheduling3 hrs a week
- Supplier quote comparison3 hrs a week
- Review requests2 hrs a week
- Change order paperwork2 hrs a week
- Voice notes to tasks and reminders2 hrs a week
- Quote visit confirmations2 hrs a week
- Welcome pack before the quote visit2 hrs a week
- Referral requests2 hrs a week
- Complaint spotting and escalation2 hrs a week
- Nurture emails for leads who aren't ready yet2 hrs a week
- Google Business Profile updates2 hrs a week
- Local ad reporting2 hrs a week
- Website answers to customer questions2 hrs a week
- Licence and certification expiry tracking2 hrs a week
- Timesheet chasing2 hrs a week
- Compliance and renewal reminders2 hrs a week
- Daily checklists and safety sign-offs2 hrs a week
- Capacity and overtime view2 hrs a week
- Price change alerts1 hr a week
- Monthly customer newsletter3 hrs a month
- Seasonal offers and new service launches3 hrs a month
- Lead source report3 hrs a month
- Quarterly clean-up and year-end prep10 hrs at year-end
- Job ads in your own words2 hrs per role
- Applicant screening4 hrs per role
- New-starter paperwork3 hrs per hire
- Talent pool from past applicants4 hrs per hire
Hours back are typical, not promised. Yours get worked out on the call.
What it's worth
$49,450
a year back in the business, typically
21.5 hours a weekoff your desk.
In a typical week these jobs take 27 hours. Your elves take 21.5 of them. Here's the sum, shown in full, at a modest $50 an hour.
- Chasing open quotes5.5$12,650
- Answering enquiries and booking jobs7$16,100
- Job sign-off and invoicing4$9,200
- Chasing unpaid invoices3$6,900
- Asking for reviews2$4,600
21.5 hours back a week × 46 working weeks × $50 an hour
- 1 in 5
- dead quotes won back, typically
- < 1 min
- to text back a missed call
- Same day
- invoice out, not Friday
Typical figures, not a promise. Your free live build gives you your own.
You sign off
Supervised first.Hands-off only where you say.
Your elves draft, sort, chase and remind. Anything that can't be undone, or that speaks for the business, waits for your OK.
- 01
The first few weeks
Supervised
Every draft waits for your OK before it goes anywhere.
- 02
Once you trust it
Routine ones go out
Only the kinds you pick go out on their own. The rest still wait.
- 03
From then on
Check-ups
We look after your elves and adjust them as the business changes.
At every stage
It won't be perfect. That's why a person sees anything that matters.
New enquiries turned into booked jobs
Emergencies, upset customers, commercial work and anything outside your area go straight to a person.
Quote follow-up
Any reply that asks for a discount, changes the scope or sounds unhappy goes to the person who wrote the quote.
Your software
Keep the software you pay for.Your elves work inside it.
Every job on this page runs inside software you already use. Your team keeps working the way it does now.
The number on each is how many of the 58 jobs on this page run in it.
Using something else? We build into that instead. See all the software we work with.
Your business
- 34Jobber
- 22ServiceTitan
- 13Housecall Pro
- 11CompanyCam
- 11QuickBooks
- 9Xero
- 28Twilio
- 41Gmail
How it starts
See it working before you pay a cent.
It starts with a free 30-minute call. We build one real thing with you, on your own work, so you see exactly what this does. If there's more worth doing, you get a plan and a price in writing.
01 · 30 minutes
Free live build
Bring one job, say quote follow-up. We build it with you on the call. It's yours, whatever you decide.
02 · In writing
Your plan
What we'd build next, the hours it should save each week and the price, in writing.
03 · Built for you
We build it
Around how your business already works, inside your software. You sign off before anything goes live.
04 · Your call
Hand over or keep improving
Take it over with video guides for everything, or keep us on monthly to improve it and build what's next.
- How much does AI for a trades business cost?
- There's no fixed price list, because it depends on which jobs we take off your plate and which systems are involved. After a free live build you get a written proposal within 48 hours. Most trades firms start with quote follow-up or missed-call text-back, because that's where the money shows up first.
- How long until it's running?
- The first piece is usually live in one to two weeks. It runs supervised first, with someone on your team approving what it sends. Once you're happy with how it behaves, we hand it over or keep improving it.
Free, 30 minutes, and what we build is yours.
Already know what you need? Ask about a one-off build or a retainer.
Related pages
The rest of the businessgets its hours back too.
Each page is one part of the business, with the jobs we build for it.
FAQ
What owners ask us first.
Something we haven't covered? Ask it on the call.
My customers want to talk to a person. Will they notice?
Calls still ring your office like they do now, so the conversations customers care about stay with your team. What changes for a trades or home services firm is everything around the call: the text back when nobody could pick up, the quote follow-up, the invoice reminder. Those come from your business number, in your words, and anything that needs a proper conversation goes to a person.
We run on Jobber, ServiceTitan or Housecall Pro. Do we have to switch software?
No. We build on the Jobber, ServiceTitan or Housecall Pro account you already run. Your team keeps the same app, the same board and the same logins.
I've been burned by software salespeople before. What's different?
You're not buying a subscription to our software. You get a written proposal within 48 hours of a free live build, a build that runs supervised before it does anything on its own, and every login in your company's name. If we part ways, it keeps running, because it's actually yours.
Will my techs need training?
Barely. Techs keep using the job app already on their phone. The only changes they'll notice are a job pack the night before and a text if they leave a job without the after photos.
Is our customer data safe?
Your customer data stays in accounts your business owns, and the build only gets access to the systems each job needs. Every permission is listed in the handover pack, and you can switch any of them off yourself.
How much does AI for a trades business cost?
There's no fixed price list, because it depends on which jobs we take off your plate and which systems are involved. After a free live build you get a written proposal within 48 hours. Most trades firms start with quote follow-up or missed-call text-back, because that's where the money shows up first.
How long until it's running?
The first piece is usually live in one to two weeks. It runs supervised first, with someone on your team approving what it sends. Once you're happy with how it behaves, we hand it over or keep improving it.
What if it gets something wrong?
A person catches it, because nothing goes out unchecked while the build is supervised. After that, anything unusual (a complaint, a price question, an emergency) still goes to your team. The handover pack shows you how to pause any part of it.
Next step
Take one job off your desk this week.
Every week you wait is another week of the same jobs done by hand. Book a free 30-minute live build and leave with your first elf working.