Trade AI Toolbox

AI tools that actually help a trade shop.

For owners of residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical shops. Find the tool for the problem you have, in plain words. Picked by someone who runs a shop.

Pick your problem

Scheduling and dispatch

Jobs on a whiteboard, techs calling in for their next address.

  • Housecall Pro

    Business management software made for home service companies.

  • Jobber

    Quote, schedule, invoice, and get paid, all in one app.

  • FieldEdge

    Tracks customers, dispatch, and service history. Built for service companies.

  • Workiz

    Scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and performance tracking, with AI built into the platform.

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Phones and answering

Missed calls after hours are missed jobs.

  • Avoca AI

    AI agents for service businesses that answer calls and help fill the board.

  • Sameday

    An AI front office for home services: answers calls, books jobs, and follows up.

  • Rosie

    24/7 AI call answering. A step up from voicemail.

  • Smith.ai

    AI receptionists plus live human agents for call answering, intake, and scheduling.

Estimates and pricing

Every tech prices the same job differently.

  • Profit Rhino

    Flat rate pricing and a sales tool built for the residential trades.

Reviews and reputation

Happy customers who never leave a review.

  • NiceJob

    Helps service businesses get more reviews, leads, and repeat customers.

  • Podium

    AI tools to capture leads and manage them in one place.

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Receipts and bookkeeping

A shoebox of receipts and card charges nobody can match.

  • QuickBooks

    The accounting system most shops and their bookkeepers already use.

  • Dext

    Captures receipts and invoices and automates the bookkeeping, with AI at its core.

  • Ramp

    Company cards plus expense management in one place.

Job costing

You find out a job lost money a month later.

  • Knowify

    Helps trade contractors bid, manage, and invoice jobs and keep them on budget.

Marketing and ads

Paying for leads without knowing which ones turn into jobs.

  • Google Local Services Ads

    Puts your shop in local Google searches, with the Google Guaranteed badge.

  • Canva

    Free design tool for social posts, flyers, posters, and logos.

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Hiring and training

Everything lives in the owner's head.

  • Trainual

    Write down how your shop does things once, then train every new hire the same way.

  • XOi

    Captures what techs see in the field and uses AI to organize it by equipment.

Everyday AI assistants

Emails, job descriptions, policies, and price sheets that take all night.

  • ChatGPT

    The best-known AI assistant. Good for writing, summaries, and quick answers.

  • Claude

    AI assistant that's strong at long documents, careful writing, and building simple tools.

  • Gemini

    Google's AI assistant. Handy if your shop already runs on Gmail and Google Drive.

Free: Contractor AI Starter Prompts

13 copy-and-paste prompts for shop owners: invoices, estimates, reviews, hiring, CSR scripts, and more. Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

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About

I own and run a residential home-services shop. I use AI every day to run it: answering questions about my numbers, catching mistakes in the books, writing for my team, and cutting the busywork that used to eat my nights.

Most "AI for business" advice isn't written for our trades. This site is. Every tool here is listed because it solves a real shop problem, and anything paid is marked Sponsored.