Industries · Trades
Most trades businesses do not have an AI problem, they have an hours problem. Quoting at night, follow-ups that slip, reviews nobody asks for, an office held together by one person's memory. AI earns its keep here by taking the repetitive assembly work off the people who should be on the tools or on the phone.
Quoting and estimates. Draft quotes assembled from your templates and job history, reviewed and sent by you. The evening quoting backlog is usually the first thing to fall.
Follow-ups and reviews. The unsexy, highest-ROI work in a trades business: every completed job gets its follow-up, its review request, its next-touch reminder. Nobody has to remember.
The office layer. Scheduling coordination, customer questions answered against your actual job record, service agreements tracked. The office manager's clipboard work, systematized.
It is not a chatbot answering your customers with guesses. It is not a platform your team has to learn. And it is definitely not AI quoting your prices unsupervised, a person approves every number that leaves the building.
The pattern that works in trades: AI assembles, people decide. That split is what makes it safe enough to actually use, and useful enough to actually keep.
Every completed job is supposed to trigger a follow-up call, a review request and a maintenance reminder. In many service companies it happens when someone remembers. A bounded workflow build can make it happen every time, with the owner approving the day's outbound in one short review.
Common questions
Small is exactly where it pays back fastest, the owner is usually doing the quoting and follow-ups personally. Taking ten hours a week off the owner is worth more per dollar than any hire at that stage.
CAD $300 for the Quick Scan. You leave with a concise findings report: the strongest opportunities, the risks, and a recommended next step. Most trades businesses start with one bounded workflow, like quoting or follow-ups, and expand only after it proves itself.
Not without your approval. Drafts get assembled; a human sends. If you ever want a customer-facing piece automated, that is a deliberate decision with guardrails, never a default.
No. The workflow gets mapped against how you actually run today, software, paper or both, and the build connects to that reality rather than demanding a new system.
About 45 minutes of discovery. A concise findings report within 5 business days: strongest opportunities, risks, next step. CAD $300.