AI Implementation for Trades Operators

Run the business.
Don't get buried by it.

Most trades businesses are leaking revenue through missed calls, slow estimates, and follow-ups that never happen. We build the AI systems that close those gaps. Monthly pricing, starting at $500. Founding client rates locked for life. Real automations deployed inside the tools your team already uses.

The leak you're not measuring

The average trades shop is leaving six figures on the floor.

30%+
of inbound calls go unanswered or unreturned. Every missed call is a job your competitor books instead.
15 hrs
per week the average estimator spends building quotes that AI can draft in under two minutes.
2 of 5
service customers never get asked for a review, a service agreement upsell, or a follow-up. Pure margin, walking away.
What we actually build

Specific systems. Not strategy decks.

We don't sell PowerPoints or "AI roadmaps." We deploy working systems inside your existing stack, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, FieldEdge, Jobber, your CRM, your phone system, and hand them off to your team to run.

01

AI Dispatcher

Answers every inbound call 24/7. Qualifies the lead, books the appointment, and texts the dispatch confirmation. Sounds like a real person, hands off to one when it should.

Capture 100% of after-hours calls.
02

Quote & Estimate Engine

Customer describes the job, AI drafts the estimate from your pricebook. Estimator reviews and sends in minutes instead of hours. Works for installs, replacements, and service.

Save 15 hours per week, per estimator.
03

Missed Call Recovery

The moment a call goes unanswered, AI texts the caller within seconds. Books appointments, captures details, and routes hot leads to dispatch before the prospect calls a competitor.

Recover 30%+ of missed calls into booked jobs.
04

Service Agreement Upsell

AI watches every completed work order and prompts your tech with the right service agreement pitch at the right moment. Personalized to the system, the customer, and the season.

Lift recurring agreement revenue 20%+.
05

Review Request Flow

Triggers Google review requests at the perfect post-service moment, personalized to the tech and the job. Routes negative experiences internally before they become public reviews.

5x your Google review velocity.
06

Tech Recruitment Screening

Voice agent calls every applicant, runs the same screening interview, and forwards only qualified candidates to your hiring manager. Same questions, no scheduling, no ghosting.

Cut time-to-hire by 60%.
Founding Client Pricing

Start small. Scale up.

We're new. Our pricing reflects that. We need case studies as much as you need results, so our first batch of clients gets senior-level implementation work at rates that don't exist anywhere else in the AI consulting market. Lock these rates in now and they stay locked for as long as you're a client. No contracts. Cancel anytime.

Tier 01
Starter
$500/ month
For owners testing the water
Dip a toe in without committing. One small automation built or improved every month, plus our brain on call when you need it.
  • One automation built or improved per month
  • Async support via email and Loom
  • Monthly 30-minute strategy call
  • Full ownership of every system we build
  • Upgrade or cancel at any time
Start at $500
Tier 03
Operator
$4,000/ month
For active growth or M&A on the horizon
For $2M+ revenue shops ready to compress a full AI transformation into monthly delivery. You get the pace of a sprint, every month.
  • Unlimited automations in flight
  • Weekly working sessions with your ops team
  • Priority response within 4 hours
  • Quarterly business reviews with you and leadership
  • Dashboards for owner, ops manager, and CSR teams
  • Full handoff documentation, you own everything
Talk to Us

Software and API costs (CRM seats, OpenAI/Anthropic usage, voice/SMS providers) are passed through at cost, typically $100 to $400 per month depending on volume.

Free Discovery Call No obligation

Before any subscription, we run a free 45-minute discovery call. We walk through your operation, identify your top three AI opportunities, and give you a written one-pager with ROI estimates. Whether you sign up or not, you keep the analysis.

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How engagements run

Discovery. Build. Handoff.

Every engagement follows the same three-phase structure. No drawn-out discovery, no "strategy phase" that drags for months, no consultant dependency.

01

Discovery (Week 1)

We sit in on a few hours of your operation. Listen to calls, watch dispatch, walk through estimates. Map the leaks. Pick what gets built first based on ROI, not what's trendy.

02

Build (Weeks 2 to 5)

We configure, integrate, and test the systems inside your real environment. You see weekly progress. Nothing goes live until you sign off on every flow.

03

Handoff (Week 6+)

Team training, written runbooks, and 60 days of performance monitoring. You own everything we built. If you want ongoing optimization, the retainer is there. If not, you're set.

Why this matters for your exit

Build the business you'd want to buy.

AI-driven operations don't just save time and recover revenue. They create the kind of operational maturity that drives premium exit multiples. Buyers pay more for businesses that don't depend on the owner answering the phone, drafting the quote, and chasing the review.

That's not a coincidence. Skilled Legacy is an M&A advisory firm first. We see exactly what buyers reward and what they discount. The systems we build are the systems we wish every owner had three years before they tried to sell.

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The math, briefly
A $4M HVAC business with 18% margins is worth roughly $2M to $2.5M at exit.

Add a real recurring service agreement engine and a working dispatcher that doesn't depend on the owner, the same business often sells for $2.8M to $3.6M.

A year of our Growth tier costs $18,000. If it lifts the exit by $600K+, it's the highest-leverage spend an owner can make in the three years before a sale.

Let's talk

Find your leak. Fix it.

30-minute call to walk through your operation and see if AI implementation is the right next step for your business. No pitch deck, no obligation.

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