Software for construction and trades, from quote to certificate.

In most trades businesses the quoting, the job reports and the certificates are done in the evening by the owner, because the day is spent on site. That is unpaid time and it is the reason growth stalls.

It is also almost entirely structured work, which makes it a strong automation candidate rather than a judgement problem.

When quoting lives in one person head, prices drift and margin varies by mood and workload. Encoding the pricing rules produces consistency, and consistency usually reveals that some work was being underpriced all along.

Quoting on site and job tracking as one build sits at the lower end of the £8,000 to £30,000 range, and it is usually worth the mobile surface because the work happens away from a desk. Certificate and evidence capture is frequently the second phase.

Where the problem is that customers cannot find or contact you properly, web development at £4,000 to £16,000 is the cheaper first move. An audit at £2,500 to £6,000 tells you which.

Time from site visit to quote issued, which is where most trades lose work for administrative rather than commercial reasons. Then quote to acceptance rate, which usually improves purely because the quote arrives while the customer is still deciding.

On compliance, measure how long it takes to produce a specific certificate or sign off for a job completed six months ago. If the answer is more than a few minutes, that is a risk as well as an inefficiency.

A 30-minute call to hear how the operation runs today, then a paid discovery step: interviews with the people doing the work, a look at the systems and data you already hold, and a ranked list of what would pay back, each with a price, a timeline and the monthly running cost once live. In most construction or trades business engagements the first thing built is quoting from a site visit, so the estimate goes out the same day rather than the same week, because it is measurable inside a month and it funds the rest.

The build runs in weekly demos against your real inputs, including the messy ones. Integration with the systems you already run comes before anything clever, because that is where most of the value and most of the risk sits. Go-live is followed by handover: the code, the provider accounts and the credentials in your name, a runbook, documentation and a recorded walkthrough, plus a session for the people who will use it daily. Every price is fixed in writing before work starts, with a list of what is not included.

Health and safety obligations, the CDM regulations on larger jobs, Gas Safe and electrical certification, CIS for subcontractor payments, and the retention and defects terms in contracts all generate paperwork with deadlines. Software cannot take the responsibility, but it can make sure the certificate is on file, the RAMS are issued before the start date, the subcontractor’s status is checked before the payment run and the retention release is chased on the day it falls due. Personal data is lighter than in most sectors, but customer addresses, payment details and workforce records still need the ordinary UK GDPR discipline.

Our published prices apply to every sector: an AI adoption audit at £2,500 to £6,000 fixed, credited in full against any build; a first AI implementation at £4,000 to £15,000; a custom AI system at £8,000 to £25,000; applications at £8,000 to £30,000 per phase; websites at £4,000 to £16,000; training from £1,200. For a contractor that usually means quoting and enquiry response as the first implementation, job tracking with compliance reminders as a custom system, and a website that turns a search for a local trade into a booked visit.

The running cost is stated before go-live, per feature, and it scales with volume rather than headcount. From operating our own AI products, the model is rarely the expensive part; the channels around it, telephony and messaging, usually are, and a well-designed workflow sends most of its work to the small, cheap models. Every system we build reports cost per feature from day one and has spending ceilings that were tested by watching them fire.

Trades lose work in three places. The quote that takes a week, because it is written in the evening after the day on site; the phone that rings out because everyone is on a roof; and the website that says nothing about price and gives no way to book. Automating the quote from the site-visit notes, answering the phone with an AI that qualifies and books, and a site with published ranges and a booking flow are the three fixes, in that order.