Contractor AI Office / Day 30
When a platform acquires a contracting company it keeps the local name, the trucks and usually the owner. What it changes is the office — and it changes it on a schedule.
Twelve systems get installed in the first thirty days. None of them require a change of control. Check the ones you already run.
| What gets installed | Why they bother | Who runs it here | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After-hours phone coverage | The single fastest revenue change available. A homeowner with a leak calls three companies and the one that answers gets the job — rarely the cheapest one. | Annie |
| 2 | One customer record | Every call, text, estimate, photo and invoice against one job, so nobody has to ask anybody what happened. | Albert |
| 3 | Estimate follow-up as a rule, not a habit | The industry average is about 1.4 touches on an unsold estimate, and contractors above $10M report follow-up producing 11–15% of income — both from a software vendor’s own survey of residential contractors, so weigh them accordingly. Directionally, follow-up is not a rounding error. | Albert |
| 4 | A standardized pricebook with three options | 54% of thriving contractors present Good / Better / Best on at least half their jobs against under 10% of struggling ones — again a vendor’s survey, and again worth knowing rather than quoting as law. | Albert |
| 5 | Weekly reporting to somebody above the owner | In a platform it goes to a regional VP. The point isn't the VP — it's that the numbers get read on a schedule by someone who acts on them. | Albert |
| 6 | Job costing while the job is open | Material and labor variance caught on day four is a decision. At month end it's a postmortem with a number attached. | Victor |
| 7 | Production scheduled against real capacity | Crews, materials and dates coordinated without the owner brokering it by phone every morning. | Victor |
| 8 | Change orders approved by rule | A written threshold and an audit trail, so a $4,000 change order doesn't wait for someone to get off a roof. | Victor |
| 9 | An onboarding curriculum | New hire productive in week one instead of month three. In a platform this is a program. In most independents it's a guy following the owner around. | Albert |
| 10 | A recruiting funnel that runs when you're not hiring | Labor is the binding constraint in every trade. Platforms treat hiring as always-on infrastructure, not as an emergency. | Albert |
| 11 | AR and collections as a workflow | Chasing money stops being a personality trait somebody has to have and becomes a sequence that runs. | Eleanor |
| 12 | Purchasing discipline | The one we're honest about: we can standardize what you buy and when, and surface what you're overpaying for. We cannot get you multi-state purchasing power. That gap is real and software doesn't close it. | — |
It took a platform thirty days and a change of control. Eleven of the twelve are running the week you go live. The twelfth we told you the truth about.
Five minutes, your real numbers, no email required to see the result.