The estimate request comes in at 9pm. You are cleaning up from a twelve-hour day on a job site. An Ai agent answers at 9pm, gets the address and the scope, and the lead is yours instead of the next contractor's on the list.
Somers is a rare mix of jobs for a builder or trades pro. On one street sits a company-era cottage from the sawmill days, a hundred-plus years old and full of surprises behind every wall. A few hundred yards away someone is finishing a new lake-view home above Somers Bay. In between are docks, decks, wells, septic, roofs that take real snow load, and everything a Montana winter does to plumbing. Crews based around Somers work a corridor that runs up U.S. 93 to Kalispell and down the west shore to Lakeside, and the person driving that corridor is usually the same person who answers the phone. Except they cannot, because they are on a roof, under a sink, or forty minutes deep in a walkthrough.
That is the whole case for an Ai agent, and it is why we built one for the trades first. Homeowners call more than one contractor, and the one who answers usually wins the walkthrough. Your agent picks up every call in a natural voice, asks where the property is, what the job involves, and when they hoped to start, then texts you a summary you can act on from the truck. It answers the basic questions that eat your evenings: licensed and insured, service area, whether you handle that kind of work, what the process looks like. And it does the same on your website chat for the folks who research at night. It is the trades version of our Ai Receptionist Somers setup, and it never stops answering when the season gets loud.
Your rules, your service area, your kind of jobs.
Name, property location, job type, rough scope, and timeline, gathered on the first call and texted to you as one summary.
You define the work you take. Remodels yes, mobile home roofs no, whatever your lines are. The agent sorts politely.
Walkthroughs offered only inside the days, hours, and drive-time rules you set. You stay in charge of the calendar.
Burst pipe in January or a tree through a roof gets flagged and pushed to you immediately, not buried in messages.
Licensed and insured, service area, how estimates work, and when you could realistically start, answered consistently.
Finished work can trigger a friendly review invitation, so your Google profile grows with every happy customer.
It will not price a job, and you would not want it to. Estimates in this valley depend on what is behind the drywall, how far the concrete truck has to come, and what winter did to the site, and that is judgment, not scripting. The agent also will not promise start dates, commit your crew, or agree to scope changes; it captures the request and hands the decision to you. If a caller asks something you never taught it, it says so and takes a message. You review the whole agent before it takes its first real call, so what it says is what you would say.
One saved walkthrough usually covers it.
Free
A basic chat demo built on your real business, plus a sit-down or a call to work out what you actually need. No card, no obligation.
$249 setup · $99/mo
A website chat agent in your brand voice, trained on what you sell, working day and night. Ai hosting and every future upgrade included.
$1,999 setup · $499/mo
For a Somers business that already has its own tech person. Support, appointments, leads, order tracking and text backs, plus an after-hours receptionist built for you and handed over ready to install.
$3,999 setup · $999/mo
Your own Ai Super Computer, set up and run for you. A receptionist answering your phone 24/7, a website or a blog, an SEO audit, and ongoing training and tuning.
$4,999 setup · $1,499/mo
Everything in Automatic Drive, plus website optimization, a backlink blog with original content, automatic social posting, Google Business, the Review Agent and 24/7 Overdrive Support.
$0 to hear it
Every package starts with a free basic demo built with your business basics. Hear it handle a fake estimate call before you spend a dime.
It qualifies. You tell it what work you take and where you go, and it asks callers the right questions: property location, type of job, rough scope, and timeline. Work you want gets flagged as a hot lead. Work you do not do gets a polite no, so your callback list is all signal.
Yes, if you want it to. You set the rules: which days, which hours, how much drive time between stops. The agent only offers slots inside your rules, and you can keep final confirmation for yourself if you prefer to stay in control of the schedule.
Test Drive is $249 setup and $99 a month for a website chat agent trained on your business, with Ai hosting and every future upgrade included. Every package starts with a free basic demo built on your actual business, so you hear it answer before you pay anything.
Free basic demo built on your trade and your service area, always before any payment. We are local, so you can sit down with the person who builds it anywhere in the Flathead Valley, no pressure at all.