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Homeowners get three quotes. The first reply usually wins.

Projects get planned on the sofa: the extension, the new roof, the garden. Homeowners message three firms and shortlist whoever replies. Pikul AI answers every enquiry in seconds - WhatsApp, web chat, email, even photos and voice notes - qualifies the job, and books the survey visit straight into your diary. Trained on your business, with you always behind it.

Pikul AI is live right now - answering and booking enquiries 24/7 for businesses across the UK.
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WhatsApp · Thu 20:30
[photo of a flat roof] Hi, water's getting in above the kitchen extension. Can you take a look and quote?
Thanks for the photo - that pooling around the outlet is a common failure point on flat roofs, and worth an inspection before it spreads. I can book a survey visit: Friday 8:30 or Saturday 9:00. Is there side access, or will we need to come through the house?
Friday 8:30, there's a side gate
Booked for Friday 8:30, side access noted. Pop me your email and I'll send the confirmation and what the visit covers - you'll have a written quote within 24 hours of the inspection. ✅
Where trades leak jobs

The gap between enquiry and survey visit is where jobs disappear.

You answer well - when you're not up a ladder, on the tools, or driving between jobs. The leak is the rest of the time, which for most trades is most of the working day.

The sofa-planning hours

Extensions and kitchens get planned after dinner. A homeowner who messages three firms at 8:30pm shortlists whoever replies - and by morning, someone has.

On the tools

You physically cannot answer at the top of a ladder. Every ring-out while you work is a quote request that went to the next name on the search results.

The quiet quote book

Quotes sent and never chased, jobs that went quiet at “we'll think about it”, past customers whose next project you never hear about - months of work sitting in the message history.

What it handles

The office work, minus the office.

Trained on your business: your services, areas covered, rough job process and booking rules. It answers only from what you approve.

01

Photos and voice notes understood

Real enquiries arrive as a photo of the damp patch and a voice note from the car. It reads both, responds sensibly, and asks the follow-up a good tradesperson would ask.

02

Survey visits booked, email first

Real slots offered in the chat, email collected before anything is confirmed, reminders sent - so quote visits stop evaporating.

03

Jobs qualified

Scope, timeline, access, budget comfort - asked politely upfront, so you spend survey visits on real jobs and skip the tyre-kickers.

04

Urgent jobs flagged

The burst pipe and the leaking roof jump the queue: flagged to your phone the same moment, with the address and photos attached.

05

Quote follow-ups and reviews

Sent quotes chased politely through follow-ups you approve, and happy customers asked for a Google review the day the job finishes via the Review Engine.

Speed decides who gets the job.

The evidence is blunt: enquiries contacted within the first minute convert up to 391% better, and replying within the hour makes qualifying the enquiry about seven times more likely. Homeowners gather three quotes - the firm that answers first sets the standard the other two get measured against.

You don't win the job at the quote. You win it in the first ten minutes, when you're the only firm that's answered - and this makes that every enquiry, including the ones that arrive while you're on the tools.

391%
higher conversion when an enquiry is contacted within the first minute. The first reply sets the standard the other quotes get measured against.
Pricing

Starting points.

Published prices are starting points for a typical owner-run firm; multi-site and high-volume systems are scoped individually with an itemised quote. One or two extra booked clients a month can cover the cost several times over - anchor it to your own numbers.

Pro · the AI Receptionist
every text channel answered and booked, trained personally on your business
£495
/month + £750 setup
Where most clients start
Complete · the Full Front Desk
adds live phone answering (Voice AI), missed-call text-back and a bespoke automation
from £995
/month + setup from £1,250
Pikul Reception
the same engine on your own login, wizard setup, no setup fee
Opens September

Add when ready: recall campaigns (flat fee per campaign) · Review Engine £147/month · Missed-Call Rescue £199/month. No long lock-in - 30 days' notice.

Questions

What builders and trades owners ask.

Can it really handle photos and voice notes?
Yes - that's how your customers actually message. It reads the photo of the roof, listens to the voice note from the car, responds sensibly and asks the right follow-up. Anything it can't assess, it says so and books the survey visit - it never diagnoses a job it can't see properly.
How much does an AI receptionist for a trade business cost?
Done-for-you from £495/month plus £750 setup; the Full Front Desk with live phone answering from £995/month; and a self-serve version, Pikul Reception, opens this September. One extra job a month usually settles the question several times over.
Can it price jobs for me?
No - and you wouldn't want it to. It qualifies the job (scope, access, timeline, budget comfort) and books the survey visit; the quote stays yours. What changes is that you quote to warm, qualified homeowners instead of cold callbacks.
I'm on the tools all day. Isn't this just for bigger firms?
It's most valuable for exactly your situation: you're the whole office, and the office is currently up a ladder. The self-serve platform version was built with owner-run trades in mind - same engine, your own login, wizard setup.
How fast can we go live?
Days: a focused discovery on your services, areas and booking rules, then testing until it sounds like you. You approve every answer before a single customer sees it.

Find your leak.

The free 20-minute audit looks at how enquiries reach you today - phone, WhatsApp, checkatrade, web - and shows you exactly where jobs are slipping out.

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