For trades businesses
AI for plumbers, electricians and builders, built on the tools you already run.
Anno Domini builds systems that draft replies to the WhatsApps, messages and web enquiries that arrive while you are on a job, chase the quotes nobody followed up and ask happy customers for a review, inside the inbox, messaging apps and job app you already use. It runs in your own accounts, and you own it outright.
Start a conversationWhere the jobs go
Four places a small trades business loses work, and none of them is the quality of the work.
Messages wait while your hands are full
Up a ladder or under a sink, the WhatsApps and web enquiries sit until the evening. By then some of those customers have booked whoever replied first.
Quotes go out and nobody chases them
A quote sent on Monday is forgotten by Thursday. Some of those customers were only waiting for a nudge, and the firm that sent one got the job.
Evenings spent on paperwork
Quotes, invoices and job notes get written up after a full day on site, so they go out late or not at all.
Good work, no reviews
Happy customers mean to leave a review and forget. The firm with forty reviews gets the call over the one with four.
What we build for trades
Pick the one that loses you the most work. Marked live: already running in small transport businesses.
Message Catcher
Quote Chaser
Inbound Query Handler Live today
Document & Quote Generator Live today
Reviews & Re-engagement
The arithmetic
A worked example, not a client result. Swap in your own numbers. 20 enquiries a week, 6 minutes handling each, £25 an hour, 15% lost today to slow replies, a 30% win rate and a £450 average job.
Hours back a week: 1.4
20 enquiries × 6 minutes × 70%, the share the system handles while you still approve, ÷ 60.
Admin time saved: £152 a month
1.4 hours × £25 × 4.33 weeks in a month.
Enquiries recovered: about 13 a month
20 × 4.33 weeks × 15% currently lost, rounded.
Work recovered: £1,755 a month
13 recovered enquiries × 30% win rate × £450 average job.
Together, £152 plus £1,755 is roughly £1,907 a month, before running and support costs, which depend on usage and are quoted before we build. Most of it comes from enquiries that wait too long for a reply. If you already answer within the hour, the case is much smaller.
Subscription or a system you own
An AI receptionist or chatbot subscription
A monthly fee per number or per seat, another app to check, and your customers’ messages held in someone else’s platform. Reasonable if all you want is one channel answered.
A system built into your tools
Runs in your own accounts, with usage costs and support quoted before the build. It reads from the messages, inbox and job app you already use, connects the first message to the quote and the review, and once it is handed over it is yours.
Proof
Already running inside a real business.
These systems are not a demo. Several are already running inside small transportation businesses today, built and deployed in live operations before a single external client was taken on.
Questions
Does an AI reply to my customers for me?
Not by default. Each reply is drafted from your own prices and availability and waits for you to send it, so you answer in seconds between jobs instead of in the evening. We do not build phone answering. For most small trades firms, a fast written reply does more.
Will it work with my job management app?
If your job app can export, send email or connect to other tools, usually yes. We confirm it on the scoping call with access to the real system, and if the data cannot be reached the build does not start.
Do I need to be good with computers?
No. Each system works inside the phone, inbox and app you already use, and comes with a walkthrough and a one-page guide. Nothing new to log into.
What does it cost to start?
The Founding Build is one system, built free and yours to keep, in return for a 20-minute debrief and permission to write it up as a case study. Running costs depend on how much the system does, and we quote them, with ongoing support, before we build.
Tell me where the time goes.
Pick the one job that wastes the most hours. That is the next build.
Start a conversation- One system
- Yours to keep
- Nothing sends without you
- Switch it off any day