An AI chatbot for builders that filters out the time-wasters

Stop qualifying bad leads yourself

Most builders qualify their leads at night, on the phone, after a day on site. Half the calls are a job you don’t do, a job too small to be worth it, or someone who wanted a price to wave at another builder. She has that conversation instead — and the ones that were never going to be work end there, without you.

• Out-of-scope work turned away politely, using your rules, not hers
• The genuine leads come through with the detail already in them
• You open an enquiry knowing whether it’s worth the call

Built with your website, not bolted onto it

A chatbot stuck on the side of an old site has to answer everything, because the site answers nothing. We build them together. The pages say what you do and where, the renovation planner collects the brief, and she handles what’s left: the question the pages didn’t cover, the job you don’t take, the homeowner stuck halfway through the planner. Most visitors never need to ask her anything — which keeps her running costs down, and means the conversations she does have are the ones that matter.

• The planner covers rooms, finishes and stage, and she fills it in with homeowners as they talk
• She picks up what they told her in the chat, so nobody is asked the same thing twice
• Fewer conversations, not fewer leads: the site does the talking, she does the sorting

Stop giving your hard work away for free

A site visit, a measure-up and a quote is hours of skilled work, and most builders give it away to anyone who asks. Homeowners do ask whether the first visit costs anything — so she answers with your policy, whatever it is, before you’ve left the yard. The people who still want you to come out are the ones worth the drive.

Get your evenings back

The hours go somewhere. Time spent sorting enquiries and quoting jobs that go nowhere comes out of paid work, or out of time with your family. We can’t tell you how many hours she’ll save — that depends on how many time-wasters you get — but every one she turns away is one you never have to.

She asks what a good builder asks

Someone planning a bathroom often hasn’t thought about the ensuite, the finish level, or whether the house needs another room. A builder standing in the kitchen would ask. She does the same — once, plainly, and only about work you actually do. She never tells anyone something is easy, cheap or allowed: that is your call on site, not hers in a chat window.

Moving into new work

If you’re a builder branching into renovations or extensions, the website and the assistant have to carry you where your job history doesn’t yet. She describes what you do without overstating what you’ve done, and she can’t be talked into a price or a start date. That matters more to a licensed builder than it does to almost anyone, because the claims go out under your licence number.

What happened at AHO Renovations

AHO Renovations, a Brisbane renovation builder, relaunched on 5 September 2026 with the assistant and the planner working together. These are observations from the first four weeks, measured on 3 October 2026, not a before-and-after — that needs a full quarter of traffic.

• Five enquiries by 3 October, three of them through the renovation planner — four bathrooms and an extension, the extension arriving with plans already drawn
• Two of the five described the job in real detail. The owner says customers now arrive “more sure” of what they want
• She turned away a pool, a laundry-only job, small bathroom repairs and panels over existing tiles — all work the owner had told her he doesn’t take
• Half her replies came straight from the business’s published answers, with no AI call at all. The AI behind her has cost US$0.03 in total, with no errors
• Her conversations so far have mostly been short questions — do you do pools, what happens if I get in touch — rather than leads. That is what we are watching as the numbers grow
• The requests coming in are for whole-room renovations and extensions, the larger work the rebuild was aimed at
• The owner tells us the planner and the assistant together have given him a lot more of his time back — time he is putting into growing the business in the direction he wants