AI for contractors and remodelers
AI for Contractors: Never Lose a Bid to Slow Follow-Up
You can't answer the phone from a ladder, and you don't have time to chase every estimate you send. We put AI on your phones, your website and your follow-up so every lead gets an answer, every walkthrough gets booked, and every open bid gets chased until it closes or says no. Done for you, live in 2-3 weeks.
Contractors close 50% more work when they follow up within a day.
Cyber Dogs AI builds and manages AI for contractors, remodelers and builders. An AI receptionist answers every call and web inquiry while you're on the job, asks your qualifying questions, and books walkthroughs on your calendar. AI then follows up on every estimate you send, by text and email, until the customer signs or says no. We start with an AI Profit & Strategy Blueprint that shows where AI will make your company the most money, then we build it and manage it.
AI for Contractors: What a Normal Day Looks Like
This is what AI for construction looks like in practice. Here's a normal day with AI handling the phones and the follow-up. Nobody on your crew is replaced. You just stop losing work to voicemail and forgotten bids.
7:10 AM, Monday.
You're framing a wall and your phone rings. You let it go. The AI receptionist answers, learns the caller wants a kitchen remodel, confirms they're in your service area and in your budget range, and books a walkthrough for Thursday. The lead lands in JobNimbus with a summary.
10:30 AM, Monday.
A homeowner fills out your website form about a basement finish. The chat replies right away, asks about square footage and timeline, and offers walkthrough times. They pick one before they've closed the tab.
3:00 PM, Wednesday.
An estimate you sent last week still hasn't been signed. The customer gets a friendly check-in text, then an email two days later. When they reply with a question, it goes straight to you.
Every day.
Clients on active jobs check their project portal for schedule updates and CompanyCam photos instead of calling you. Walkthrough reminders go out automatically, and every conversation is logged so you can see where your best jobs come from.
Where Your Company Is Losing Jobs Today
Most contractors don't have a lead problem. They have a follow-up problem. The work is out there. It just goes to whoever calls back first and keeps in touch.
Calls you can't take on the job
When your hands are full, the phone goes to voicemail. Most people don't leave a message. They call the next contractor on the list.
Estimates that go quiet
You spend hours on a site visit and a detailed bid, send it, and then get busy. Without steady follow-up, a lot of good bids just fade out.
Walkthroughs with the wrong leads
Driving across town to meet someone who wants a job you don't do, or has half the budget, costs you a morning you can't get back.
Client calls asking "what's the status?"
Every update call and text from a current client pulls you off the job and eats hours you should spend building.
What We Build for Contractors
Book Walkthroughs Without Leaving the Job Site
The AI answers while you work, asks the questions you'd ask (type of project, address, rough budget, timeline) and only books walkthroughs that fit your rules. You get a text summary and a calendar invite. If a job isn't a fit, the caller gets a polite answer and, if you want, a referral. You stay on the tools and your calendar still fills up.
Bid Follow Up Automation That Never Forgets
Estimate follow up is the easiest money most contractors leave on the table. Once a bid goes out, the AI starts a sequence you approve: a thank-you, a check-in, an answer to common questions, and a last friendly nudge. It stops the moment the customer signs, books a call or says no. You see every open bid and where it stands, instead of trying to remember who you meant to call.
A Client Portal for Project Updates
Your clients want to know what's happening. A custom portal gives them the schedule, progress photos from CompanyCam, selections and change orders in one place. The AI can answer simple status questions by text from the same information. Fewer interruptions for you, and clients who feel looked after, which is how referrals start.
How We Get Your Company Running on AI
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AI Profit & Strategy Blueprint
We review your phones, lead handling, estimates, follow-up and admin work, find where AI makes or saves the most money, and give you a prioritized plan with projected payback. It includes a leadership discovery session and workflow audit, profit-gap and bottleneck analysis, an AI readiness and data review, a security and privacy assessment, prioritized AI opportunities, a custom 90-day roadmap, ROI and payback projections, and an executive findings presentation.
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Build and launch
We set up your AI receptionist, website chat, bid follow-up and client portal around your services, service area and qualifying rules, test it with your team, and go live. Most contractor systems are live in 2-3 weeks.
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We manage it
We monitor conversations, tune answers, adjust follow-up sequences and report on calls answered, walkthroughs booked and bids closed.
What Contractors Get
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AI Profit Scorecard
Find the estimates that never get followed up
9 quick questions. Get your AI Profit Score, an estimate of what missed calls and quiet bids are costing you each month, and your top 3 AI opportunities.
Your Leads, Your Rules, Your Data
The AI works for your company and follows your rules. Here's how we set it up:
Your data stays yours.
Conversations, leads and bids stay in your private, encrypted deployment. We don't use your company's or your customers' information to train public AI models.
No surprise pricing.
The AI only shares the price ranges you approve. Final numbers always come from you.
Your qualifying rules.
Service area, job types, minimum job size and what counts as urgent are set by you and can be changed anytime.
Call recording handled correctly.
Disclosures are configured for the states you operate in, since consent rules for recording calls vary by state.
Full visibility.
Every conversation is logged with a transcript and summary, so you can see exactly what was said.
Questions Contractors Ask Us
Does it work with Buildertrend, JobNimbus and Procore?
Yes. We work with the tools contractors already use, including Buildertrend, JobNimbus, AccuLynx, Procore and CompanyCam. We map the exact connections during your Blueprint and set them up during the build.
Can an AI receptionist for contractors really qualify leads?
Yes. It asks your questions about project type, location, budget and timeline, and only books walkthroughs that match your rules. Everyone else gets a polite answer.
Will the AI give prices over the phone?
Only if you want it to. You can give it ranges to share, or have it say that pricing comes after the walkthrough.
How does estimate follow up work?
When a bid goes out, the AI starts a text and email sequence you approve. It stops when the customer signs, books a call or says no, and every reply comes to you.
Will customers know they're talking to AI?
The receptionist uses a natural voice and can introduce itself as your company's virtual assistant. You decide how it's disclosed, and callers can always ask for a person.
What about urgent calls, like a leak or storm damage?
You set what counts as urgent. Those calls can be transferred live to you or your on-call person, or flagged by text right away.
How long does it take to go live?
Most contractor systems are live in 2-3 weeks after the Blueprint.
What does it cost?
It depends on your call volume and how much you want automated. We start with the AI Profit & Strategy Blueprint, which shows the projected return before you commit to a build.
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