AI for contractors
Nobody started a contracting business to write estimates at nine at night. That is where they get written anyway, because the day went on a roof, in a crawlspace, or arguing with a supplier about a delivery date.
This page is about the paperwork side of the job, not the trade. Every task below is one a contractor repeats every week, and each one names the class that handles it. If none of them is your problem, none of the classes is either, and you should keep your money.
The week
Five jobs, and the class each one belongs to.
The estimate you type again
The scope on a bathroom remodel is close to the same lines every time. You rebuild it from scratch, or you open the last one, save-as, and hunt for every place the old address is still buried.
A saved set of instructions that turns your site notes into the first draft of the scope, in your format and your wording. You put the numbers on it. It never prices anything.
The call that came while you were under a house
The phone rang at 10am. You saw it at 4pm. By then they had called two other people and one of them picked up.
Every missed call and form fill gets a reply drafted in your voice within minutes, the details saved, and a reminder set to chase. You approve before anything sends.
The change order nobody wrote down
The homeowner asks for the extra outlet while you are standing there. You say yes. It never reaches the invoice, and you eat it.
A short spoken or typed note becomes a written change order, in your template, ready to send before you leave the driveway.
The invoice nobody chased
Net 30 passed three weeks ago. Sending the reminder feels rude, so it does not get sent, and the money sits there.
A reminder that writes itself on a schedule you set, in language you would actually use, waiting for you to press send.
The five texts every Monday
Confirming Tuesday with the electrician, the drywaller, the inspector, the supplier, and the homeowner. Five messages, same five every week, and if you forget one the day is gone.
One list, one setup, five messages drafted for you and sent once you have looked at them.
Straight answer
Where the class stops, and why.
- Anyone wanting AI to price a job. It has not seen the site, it does not know your labor rates or what your supplier charged you last month, and a confident wrong number is worse than a slow right one. The class builds the scope. You put the price on it.
- Anyone wanting a bot that talks to customers without you reading it first. Everything built in these classes stops and asks you before it sends. That is on purpose, and it is not configurable.
- Anyone who wants the software bought and installed for them. That is the advice session or project work, not a class.
Questions
What contractors ask before booking.
I run everything off my phone. Is that a problem?
For the class, yes — bring a laptop. We are setting things up, not using them, and the setup screens are not built for a phone. What you build afterwards runs fine from your phone.
Will it write the estimate with prices on it?
No, and you should not want it to. It drafts the scope and the wording, which is the part that takes an hour. The numbers stay yours because they are the part that is wrong if a machine guesses.
I already pay for job-management software. Does this replace it?
Probably not, and the first fifteen minutes of the class is spent checking whether the thing you want is already in the software you pay for. Some people are finished at that point, which is a good outcome and still worth the fee.
What do I need to bring?
Five real inquiries you have already replied to, and one estimate you have written recently. Real ones. The whole class runs on your own material, and a made-up example produces a made-up result.
My work is not like other contractors’. Will this still fit?
We build on your own files rather than a template job — your estimate, your inbox, your quote format. The five jobs above are the ones contractors bring most often, but you bring whichever one is costing you the most, and that is the one we finish.
Not sure which of the five is costing you most?
Describe your week and I will tell you which class fits, or that none of them do. It takes a minute and nothing is charged.
Describe your week