Use cases / Construction

AI for construction and trades that ship work, not paperwork.

Quote pipelines, scheduling automation, project galleries, lead routing, customer portals. Built by an engineer who has shipped to a flooring contractor and across the trade vertical.

01The problem

Quotes lost to slow response, jobs lost to missed calls.

Most trade contractor pain is missed calls, slow quotes, and a phone that rings while the crew is on a roof. Homeowners shop fast. The crew that quotes within twenty four hours wins more often than the crew that quotes in three days.

Trade contractors we have spoken to ship the same four bottlenecks. Phone tag during work hours. Quote turnaround that loses to faster competitors. Project galleries that never get updated. And homeowner questions that should be answerable from the site but are not.

  • Phone tag during work hours. Crew on the job. Owner answers between calls. Caller leaves voicemail. Three days of phone tag for a two minute conversation.
  • Quote turnaround. Homeowner gets three quotes. The first one that arrives often wins. A web intake plus AI quote draft cuts the turnaround.
  • Project gallery rot. Crew finishes a beautiful job, takes phone photos, never posts them. Galleries are the most important social proof. AI auto extracts metadata and pushes to the site.
  • Same homeowner questions, daily. "What kind of finish?" "Do you do refinishing or only new install?" "Service area?" "Insurance?" Answered fifty times by the owner.
02What AI does

Five capabilities that fit inside a one truck or fifty truck operation.

Web intake plus AI quote draft

Homeowner answers six questions, photo upload optional. AI drafts the rough quote, owner reviews on phone, sends back inside the day. Workflow pattern.

  • photo intake
  • service area gating
  • auto follow up

After hours voice agent

Caller hears a real voice that takes the lead, schedules a callback, captures address and scope. Voice pattern.

Project gallery automation

Crew uploads phone photos, AI tags scope, materials, and location. Gallery updates without the owner doing anything.

FAQ chatbot for the site

Service area, insurance, materials, financing, warranty answered with citations to your published terms. Chatbot pattern.

Customer portal

Project status, change orders, photos, invoices, and warranty docs in one login. Reduces "what is the status of my job?" calls.

03Real work

Heritage Hardwood Floors.

Heritage Hardwood Floors is a hardwood install and refinish contractor based in Northwest Arkansas. We unified their NAP across (479) 426-5337, HeritageHardwoodFloors2010@yahoo.com, and Mon Fri 8 to 5 hours. The Squarespace site at heritagehardwoodfloorsllc.com is the source of truth for NAP. We built a separate SEO optimized static site at /var/www/sites/heritagehardwoodfloors/ on the nwa.com vhost with full schema, aeo.json, brand.json, and image sitemap to capture the search side without touching the brand site.

What ships on that property: full LocalBusiness plus Service schema, image sitemap, machine readable brand and AEO files, and the answer engine optimization stack that lifts the contractor into ChatGPT and Perplexity for "hardwood floor refinishing northwest arkansas" type queries.

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04Pricing

What Construction AI work costs.

For most trade contractors a 97 build plus a 97 monthly retainer ships the SEO and answer engine surface within four weeks. Quote pipeline plus voice agent is quoted from the ,997 tier.

The 97 Full Visibility Stack is the right baseline for any contractor who wants to show up in answer engines for trade searches in their service area. See all pricing.

05Construction FAQ

Buyer questions, Construction specific.

Do you integrate with my CRM, Jobber, Housecall Pro, or ServiceTitan?

Yes via supported APIs and Zapier hooks where direct integration is gated. We scope the integration during intake.

Will the AI quote a job without me looking at it?

The AI drafts a rough number from your published rates and the homeowner intake. The owner reviews and sends. AI does not commit a binding quote without owner sign off.

Can the voice agent take a real lead at midnight?

Yes. The agent captures name, phone, address, scope, schedules a callback for the next business day, and texts the owner immediately. The homeowner gets a real interaction, not a voicemail.

What about license and insurance compliance content?

The site publishes your license number, bond status, and certificate of insurance. The chatbot cites those documents when asked.

How do I get the photos to the gallery automation?

Crew uploads to a shared cloud folder or a phone app. AI sorts, tags, and pushes to the site daily. No formatting work for the office.