From the roof. Answer the phone from the roof. While you're on the tools, an AI runs the office: takes the calls, books the jobs, drafts the quotes, sends the invoices, chases the money. You get one text at knock-off saying what got done.
- 6:10amMissed call from a new customer. Answered, quoted the call-out, booked Thursday.
- 7:45amTwo photos from the van turned into a written quote. Sent.
- 9:30amYesterday's job invoiced. Payment link on it.
- 11:20amSupplier confirmation read, delivery moved to the job address.
- 1:05pmTomorrow's three customers reminded by text. One rescheduled, calendar updated.
- 3:40pmLast week's unpaid invoice chased. Paid twenty minutes later.
- 5:15pmReview request sent to this morning's customer. Five stars.
- 6:00pmDay summary texted to you. Eleven things done, none by you.
The best tradie apps still need you to use them.
You've probably got the job software already. It's good. It's also a thing you have to open, type into and remember, at the end of a day that started at 5:30. So the quotes go out Thursday night, the invoices go out Sunday, and the phone rings out while you're up a ladder.
This is different. It isn't an app you use; it's a person you don't have to hire. It picks up the phone in your name, works your calendar, drafts in your price list and writes in your words. The apps you've got become the filing cabinet. You just do the job.
A day, without you doing any of it.
Calls
Every call answered, in an Australian voice, with your hours and your prices. Booked straight into the calendar, confirmed by text.
Quotes
Send it two photos and a voice note from the van. A written quote comes back for you to approve, then it goes to the customer.
Invoices
Job marked done, invoice out with a payment link. Not paid in a week, it's chased, politely, then firmly.
Reminders
Tomorrow's customers get a text the night before. Fewer no-shows, fewer "I thought you said Friday".
Suppliers
Order confirmations read, deliveries moved to the right site, and you're told if something's late.
Reviews
Happy customer, review request sent that afternoon. The five stars pile up on their own.
How it's set up.
One call, twenty minutes, usually while you're driving. You tell us what you do, what you charge, and what you're sick of. We connect your phone, calendar, job software and accounts, and load your price list and your way of saying things.
First week, everything it writes comes to you to approve, so you can hear it sounds like you. After that it runs, and we keep an eye on it. Change your prices, change your hours, add a second van: send us a text.
The two things most tradies start with are the AI receptionist and automated invoicing. Both are here, plus the rest of the office.
Questions people ask.
What does AI actually do for a tradie?
The office work. It answers the phone while you're on the tools, books jobs into your calendar, turns photos and a voice note into a written quote, sends the invoice the day the job's done, chases it if it's not paid, and reminds tomorrow's customers you're coming. You keep doing the trade.
Is this another tradie app I have to learn?
No. It sits behind the tools you already use: your phone, your calendar, ServiceM8, Tradify, Simpro, Fergus or Jobber, and Xero or MYOB. Nothing new to open. You get a text when something needs you.
Will customers know they're talking to an AI?
On the phone it introduces itself as your assistant and sounds like a person, with an Australian voice. It never pretends to be you. Most people just care that someone picked up and they got a time.
I'm a sole trader. Is it worth it for one person?
Sole traders get the most out of it, because you're the one currently doing all this at 9pm. One extra booked job a week from a call you'd have missed covers it.
What about quotes? They need my judgement.
They still get it. The AI drafts the quote from your photos, your notes and your price list, and you approve or change it from your phone in thirty seconds. It only sends what you've signed off.
How much does AI for tradies cost?
A fixed monthly price, agreed before we start, set up in a week. No per-call fees and no lock-in. If it isn't saving you hours a week by the end of the first month, you stop paying.
Photo to come: Cal.
Calum Buchanan.
Melbourne. Ran the systems behind a services business, the phones, the invoices, the marketing, the reporting, and spent the last few years handing them to AI that works. This is that, for yours.