Estimate follow up
Every quote that has not been answered gets a timely, personal nudge, then a second one. Where it stops: it follows up on the number you set; it does not discount on its own.
AI for field services
Landscapers, tree services, irrigation, fencing, outdoor maintenance. One truck, or six crews and a route supervisor, or a maintenance book of ninety properties with an office manager holding it together. What follows is worth putting to work in a business like that today, once the job system underneath can carry it.
What we find in these businesses
Jobber, Housecall Pro, a calendar plus QuickBooks, or a notebook and a phone. What they tend to need before AI is worth adding: one place the schedule lives, a customer record that carries the site and the history, and quotes that are tracked after they go out. That review is the diagnosis, and it is inside the plan.
Where the week leaks
Each one names where it stops. That part is usually left out of the sales pitch.
Every quote that has not been answered gets a timely, personal nudge, then a second one. Where it stops: it follows up on the number you set; it does not discount on its own.
A new lead gets a reply in minutes with the next available site visit. Where it stops: it schedules the visit; it does not quote from a text message.
Customers confirmed, crews sent the day's list with addresses and notes. Where it stops: the schedule has to live in one system first.
Spring cleanups, fall services, annual maintenance, offered to last year's customers at the right time. Where it stops: the customer list has to be clean enough to trust the dates.
Sent the day the job closes, in your voice. Where it stops: it asks once.
Quotes out, quotes won, jobs closed, what is unpaid. Where it stops: it reports; you decide.
Two ways in
One conversation, a review of your own data, and a written plan. Free.
Everything runs and you want to know what AI would do for your business now. The plan opens with the opportunity review.
Something is not working and you want to know what. The plan opens with the diagnosis, because AI on top of a broken system automates the problem.
Real engagements
The two engagements written up in full are practices. The plan is made the same way from a field services business's own numbers.
Common questions
Not on price alone. The cost left out of that comparison is the move itself: exporting the customer list and the site history, checking it came across, and retraining a crew that had finally learned the old system. Jobber, Housecall Pro and the rest all creep upward and all add modules nobody asked for. It is worth moving when the system cannot hold something the business needs, such as recurring maintenance routes or per job costing you can actually read. We will price both sides from your own numbers.
Usually not. Most field businesses are paying for scheduling, quote tracking and review requests that sit switched off. The first pass is turning those on and fitting them to how the crews actually work. A migration is only worth it when the current system cannot do something you need, and we will say so plainly rather than selling you a move.
That is the first job, and it is worth doing before any automation. While the schedule lives in one person's head, or on a whiteboard and a text thread, the business stops the week that person is away. Getting it into something the crew leaders can read is a setup project rather than an AI project, and it is usually what the plan recommends first.
The follow up gets drafted and sent without anyone remembering: a note a few days after the estimate goes out, then one more, in your wording, approved once. The limit is that it follows up. It does not negotiate, requote, or chase someone who has already said no. What it removes is the evening spent working out who replied.
One conversation, a full review of your business, and a written plan you keep either way. If there is nothing here worth doing yet, we will say so.