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AI tools for builders and general trades
Jobs where AI tools can help: longer quotes, supplier documents, scheduling and keeping customers updated. These are tools we think suit this kind of business. Each links to its checked price and free plan.
Quotes and invoicing
Calls and customer service
Jobber
Job management for service businesses: quotes, scheduling, invoicing and payments, with an AI Receptionist add-on.
Rosie
An AI answering service that takes messages, sends booking links and, on higher plans, books and transfers calls.
Goodcall
An AI phone agent billed per unique customer rather than per minute.
Bookkeeping and banking
Xero
Cloud accounting for invoices, bank feeds, VAT and payroll, with AI-assisted features.
QuickBooks
Cloud accounting with invoicing, expenses and VAT, plus Intuit Intelligence AI features (some in beta).
Admin and email
ChatGPT
A general AI assistant for drafting emails, quotes, policies and posts, summarising documents and answering questions.
Claude
An AI assistant that is good with long documents, careful writing and summaries.
Marketing and design
UK pricing
Tools here that publish prices in pounds: Tradify, Xero, QuickBooks. Many of the others price in US dollars. US-based call-answering services need checking for UK number support before you sign up.
Prompts to try
- Turn notes into a to-do list
- Reply to a complaint
- Find my selling points
- Turn a job into a post
- Set payment terms
- Offer email
Free tools
Price a job with the quote and VAT calculator or work out your day rate.
Guides: AI receptionist for builders · AI quoting for builders · AI invoicing for builders
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