AI for installers
Work orders, quotes, planning.
No more evenings at the table.
You record a voice memo or take a photo on site, and by the evening the work order is ready. The same for the quote after a site survey and for next week's planning. AI does the groundwork, you check it and press approve. I know those evenings from six years of VTS Audiovisual, my own AV installation company.
The work after the work.
Writing up work orders at night
The job is done, but the work order is not. Hours, materials and what was done, from memory or a note in the van. Every evening again.
A quote is an evening of retyping
After the site survey everything is in your head and in a few photos. Then you spend an evening looking up articles and typing in lines.
Technicians who hate forms
An app with twenty fields does not get filled in. Then you get a work order that says 'done' and you have to call to find out what actually happened.
Planning without materials
The technician is scheduled, but the materials have not arrived. Then he drives out for nothing, or hunts for parts at the wholesaler on the way.
Photos that end up nowhere
The technician's phone holds photos of the fuse box, the rack or the before and after. The customer's file does not.
Invoices that wait
As long as the work order is not finished, the invoice cannot go out. Work done in March gets invoiced in May.
How I build AI for an installation company.
Pick one task
Work orders, quotes or planning: we start with the task that costs you the most evenings. Better one thing done well than three done halfway.
On your own data
The AI works with your own article list, prices, customers and projects. What it cannot find there, it does not invent; it flags it.
A draft, not a decision
The work order, quote or planning appears as a draft. You or the technician read it, adjust it and approve it. Only then does anything go to the customer.
Working the way your technicians work
A voice memo in the van or a photo on site, not a form with twenty fields. It works on the phone they already carry.
Three tasks where AI gives an installer time back
AI work preparation works best on work that comes back every day, has language in it and that a human can check in half a minute. At an installation company there are three of those.
A work order from a voice memo or photo
The technician records in the van what he did, or takes a photo of his note. The AI turns it into a work order with hours, materials from your article list and a description. The technician or the planner approves it.
An AI quote for the installation, from the site survey recording
You record the site survey or speak your notes. The AI turns it into a draft quote with articles and quantities from your own list, and prices that go through a calculation function. You read it and send it. More on the system underneath at quoting system.
Planning that accounts for materials
When scheduling, the system checks whether the materials for that job are in or need ordering, and flags it when a technician is scheduled without parts. The proposal is a proposal: the planner decides.
What an AI assistant for an installation company may not do
An AI that sends a quote to a customer or creates an invoice on its own is a risk no time saving is worth. A wrong price to a regular customer costs more than an evening of typing. So I build it to prepare, and you decide.
- Articles and prices only from your own data
- Calculations through a function, not the model
- Every work order, quote or planning is a draft first
- The same permissions as the user, no more
- What it is not sure about is flagged
- A daily usage limit and one switch to turn it off
The proof: Avitly, which I use every day
Avitly is my own platform for AV and IT installers, and I use it daily in my own AV company. Floor plan, quote, materials list and maintenance are in it, and an AI assistant that searches projects, quotes and equipment through tools, with the user's permissions. It points out on the floor plan what has not been quoted yet.
If the assistant wants to create or change a task, client, ticket or quote, a card with the proposal appears. What is not confirmed does not happen. I build AI for your installation company the same way. How such an assistant works technically is on AI agent development.
Also for carpenters, electricians and plumbers
The problem is the same in every trade: the work during the day, the paperwork in the evening. An electrician with work orders per circuit, a plumber with emergency jobs between the scheduled ones, a carpenter who has to make a quote with materials and hours after every site visit.
An AI assistant for carpenters works the same way as one for an AV installer: speak on site, get a draft back, check it and send it. If you also need a website that brings in requests, see website for contractors.
Electrician
Work orders from a voice memo, materials from your article list, and a quote from the site survey recording.
Plumber
A work order after every job without a form, and planning that shows which parts are still to come.
Carpenter
A quote from your site visit notes: materials, measurements and hours as a draft, with prices from your own list.
What it costs
The build is a fixed amount you hear up front, excluding VAT. You pay for AI model usage and hosting yourself, capped with a daily limit. How pricing works is on pricing.
AI in your existing software · € 2,950 to € 5,500
Your work orders, customers and articles are already in one system I can extend. Lead time three to six weeks.
AI on data from several packages · € 4,500 to € 8,500
Articles in one package, planning in another, invoices in the accounting software. First the integrations, then the AI on top.
New software with AI built in · € 6,500 to € 12,000
There is no system yet for the AI to live in. Then it becomes a software project, with the AI as one of the parts.
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Translated from the Dutch originals on Google.
I am Bas Voets. Since 2021 I have been building websites, client portals and business software for small and mid-sized companies, from Berkel en Rodenrijs in the Netherlands. From first call to launch you talk to me, not to an account manager.
What can AI do for an installer?
What if the AI makes a mistake?
Is my data safe, and where is it stored?
What does it cost per month on top of the build?
Do my technicians have to learn a new app?
Does it work with my current software?
Why should I have you build this?
Is this also for a carpenter or plumber?
You don't have to take my word for it.
Three pieces that show up in most websites and applications, as working examples instead of screenshots. Click into them, they actually run.
Price calculator
Visitor drags the size, picks options and sees what it costs right away.
Multi-step request
The same questions, but in three steps with a check per step. This one gets finished.
Dashboard
The numbers you now paste together from three systems, on one screen with filters.
One hour of looking before any building.
In the AI scan we spend an hour together on one process in your business. Afterwards you get a short plan: what AI gains you there, what it costs and how long building takes. Free, and you are not committed to anything.
Tell me what you want to build.
A half-hour call. You get an honest answer about what it costs, how long it takes and whether building it is smart at all.