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AI for construction and trades.
Most contractors are specialty trades with fewer than 50 field staff. A missed call usually means a lost job, and estimating eats evenings. AI answering and takeoffs are the two proven starts.
You probably run ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Procore, Buildertrend.
Where AI helps
After-hours and overflow calls
An AI receptionist answers, books into your real calendar and escalates emergencies. It never quotes a price or arrival time outside your script.
Takeoffs
AI measures plans automatically. The estimator checks scale, layers and scope exclusions before anything is priced.
RFIs, submittals and daily logs
Drafted from photos, plans and voice notes. Procore's Helix agents do this for commercial GCs.
Job-specific safety plans
A JHA or toolbox talk built from the actual scope, reviewed by the foreman instead of copied from last year's binder.
Rules to know
- Both statesRecording calls needs only one party's consent in Iowa and Minnesota. Have the AI say it is AI and that the call is recorded; out-of-state callers may be protected by stricter laws.
- Both statesSafety and OSHA responsibility stays with a person. An AI-written JHA is a draft until a competent person signs it.
Tools that fit
- Jobber Receptionist. $29 a month including 30 conversations, then $0.79 each.
- ServiceTitan Atlas or Housecall Pro CSR AI. If you already run those systems.
- Togal.AI or STACK. AI takeoffs; Togal is $299 per user per month on an annual plan.
Where we would start
AI answering on after-hours and overflow calls
Two weeks of phone-log baseline, then turn on the add-on for the field-service system you already use, with approved scripts. 30 to 60 days.
What we measure: answer rate, calls that became booked jobs, revenue from those jobs, and any mis-promises (target: zero).
Other industries
- Accounting firmsGovernance first, then a 30 to 50 person pilot
- Tax practicesScan and populate on 20 of last year's returns
- Insurance agenciesPolicy checking and email triage, using what you already license
- Banks and credit unionsPolicy assistant, then memo drafting
- Agriculture and co-opsAn answer assistant for agronomists and the grain desk
- ManufacturingA quoting assistant for one estimator
- Food processingMultilingual SOPs on one line
- Trucking and logisticsRate con and BOL intake
- Clinics and hospitalsAn ambient scribe for 5 to 10 willing clinicians
- Veterinary clinicsTwo scribes, back to back, for 2 or 3 vets
- Law firmsRecord and deposition summaries
- Nonprofits and churchesThank-you and lapsed-donor workflow
- Cities, counties and schoolsAI-drafted minutes
State rules are shown for Minnesota, where we're based, and Iowa; for any other state we check yours before you start. Prices and features are as published by each vendor in November 2026 and change often. Rules are summarized to help you ask the right questions; they are not legal advice, and your attorney or CPA signs off.
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