Use case
AI for construction and trade contractors, on hardware you own
Quote drafting, after hours voice intake, project galleries, and a site chatbot that answers the same five questions every trade contractor gets asked, from drywall crews to flooring and roofing outfits. Built by an engineer who has shipped this exact pattern to a working contractor, and who now builds it as a private federation instead of a rented tool.
Quotes lost to slow response, jobs lost to missed calls
The pain in a trade business is rarely the work itself. It is the phone ringing while the crew is on a roof, and the quote that arrives three days after a competitor's. Homeowners shop fast. The contractor who responds within a day wins more often than the one who responds within a week.
Contractors we have worked with run into the same four bottlenecks. Phone tag during work hours, because the crew is on the job and the owner answers between tasks. Quote turnaround that loses to faster competitors, because the homeowner takes the first serious offer. Project galleries that never get updated, because the crew takes phone photos and nobody has time to post them. And the same handful of homeowner questions, answered by the owner in person, over and over: what finish do you use, do you do refinishing or only new install, what is the service area, are you insured.
Every one of those is a private AI problem, not a headcount problem. A federation you own can draft the quote, take the after hours call, sort the photos, and answer the repeat questions, without a subscription that meters every conversation.
What it does
Five capabilities sized for a one truck or fifty truck operation
Web intake plus AI quote draft
The homeowner answers a handful of questions, photo upload optional. The system drafts a rough quote from your published rates, the owner reviews on a phone, and it goes back out the same day instead of the same week.
After hours voice agent
A caller at midnight hears a real voice that takes the lead, schedules a callback, and captures the address and scope, running entirely on your own infrastructure rather than a rented answering service.
Project gallery automation
The crew uploads phone photos. The system tags scope, materials, and location, and the gallery updates itself, so finished work actually shows up as proof instead of sitting on someone's phone.
Site chatbot for drywall, roofing, and flooring questions
Service area, insurance, materials, financing, and warranty questions get answered with citations to your own published terms, whether the visitor is asking about drywall finishing or a full roof tear off.
Customer portal
Project status, change orders, photos, and invoices live behind one login, which cuts down the "what is the status of my job" calls that eat the owner's day.
Real work, already shipped
Heritage Hardwood Floors is a hardwood install and refinish contractor based in Northwest Arkansas. We unified their name, address, and phone number across their booking channels and built a search optimized property that carries full local business and service schema, a machine readable brand file, and an image sitemap, all separate from their main brand site so the search side could be strengthened without touching what customers already trusted.
That work stayed true to the same principle a federation extends further. The contractor's information and assets lived on infrastructure built and operated for them, not scattered across a rented platform's terms of service. A private federation is the same idea taken all the way through: the quote drafting, the voice intake, and the customer data all stay on hardware the contractor owns.
Construction FAQ
Buyer questions, trade specific
Do you integrate with Jobber, Housecall Pro, or ServiceTitan?
Yes, through supported APIs where the vendor exposes one, or through a private connector we build on the federation's event path. Integration scope is set during the assessment, not guessed at.
Will the AI quote a job without me looking at it?
No. The system drafts a rough number from your published rates and the homeowner intake. The owner reviews and sends. Nothing goes out as a binding quote without sign off.
Can the voice agent take a real lead at midnight?
Yes. It captures name, phone, address, and scope, schedules a callback for the next business day, and notifies the owner immediately, all running on hardware you own rather than a rented call answering service.
What about license and insurance content on the site?
The site publishes your license number, bond status, and certificate of insurance, and the chatbot cites those documents when a caller asks.
How do crew photos get to the project gallery?
Crew uploads to a shared folder or a phone app. The system sorts, tags, and pushes finished work to the site without the office doing formatting.
Other industries
Verticals with the same shape of problem
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Should your trade business own its AI?
The readiness assessment answers exactly that, for your intake, your service area, and your crew, and ends with a real plan.