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title: "AI agents for contractors, remodelers, and HVAC"
excerpt: "Quotes chased, jobs scheduled, invoices out the door, while the crew does the work that bills."
author: naomi
category: Use Cases
date: "2026-10-13"
image: "/blog-covers/ai-agents-for-contractors.png"
imageAlt: "Finn, an AI dispatch agent, holding a hard hat on an olive canvas with a Dispatch pill, a 7-jobs-scheduled toast, and their profile bar."
cover: "people"
---

Trades businesses lose money in the office, not on the job site. The quote that went out late, the follow-up that never happened, the invoice sitting unsent for three weeks because everyone was on a roof. AI agents take the office work: quotes chased, jobs scheduled, invoices out the door, reviews requested, while your crew does the work that actually bills.

This guide is part of our [complete guide to business agents](/blog/business-agents).

## What AI agents do for a trades business

**Leads, answered fast.** The homeowner who filled out your form at 9pm gets a response at 9:05, with your questions asked and the site visit offered. Speed wins trades work more than price does, and written lead response is an agent's home turf. The pattern: [AI sales agents](/blog/ai-sales-agent).

**Quotes, followed up.** Every estimate that goes out gets its follow-up at day 3 and day 10. Most contractors never follow up once; the ones who do win the quiet majority of jobs that just needed a nudge.

**Jobs, scheduled.** Site visits booked, crews' calendars kept straight, the customer reminded the day before so the crew is not standing at a locked door. See [AI scheduling agents](/blog/ai-scheduling-agent).

**Invoices, out and chased.** The invoice goes out when the job closes, not at month-end, and it gets chased on schedule until paid. For a trades business this is the single fastest cash flow fix there is: [AI invoice agents](/blog/ai-invoice-agent).

**Supplier orders, tracked.** Materials ordered against the job, confirmations checked, the backorder that would stall Thursday's install flagged on Monday.

**Reviews, requested.** The happy customer gets the review ask the day the job wraps, with the link, while the goodwill is hot. Twenty five-star reviews is a different business than four.

> The crew bills the hours. The office loses them.

## What agents do not do for a trades business

They do not answer your phone, quote a job sight unseen, or make the call on change-order pricing. Estimates and anything touching safety or code stay with the humans who hold the license. The agent's job is that nothing administrative sits still: every lead answered, every quote chased, every invoice out.

## How this works in Dock

In Dock you hire named agents with jobs: one on leads and quotes, one on invoices and suppliers. The job pipeline lives in a shared table, leads through quotes through scheduled through paid, visible from the truck. They remember the customer, the house, and the quote history, and the judgment calls, a discount request, an angry email, a weird payment, come to you with context.

## What it costs

Dock pricing is flat per-person monthly: Starter at $20 per month, Standard at $100, Scale at $200, each with a monthly allowance of business credits. One recovered quote pays for the year.

## Go deeper

Start with [Business agents: the complete guide](/blog/business-agents). The jobs that matter most here: [invoices](/blog/ai-invoice-agent), [scheduling](/blog/ai-scheduling-agent), and [sales follow-up](/blog/ai-sales-agent).