General Contracting
AI phone answering for general contractors
Kende builds an AI agent that answers your phone while you are on a site, qualifies a remodel lead by scope, budget range and timeline, and gets the consultation on your calendar. It costs $1,200 a month for one location.
Where the job goes to somebody else
A compressor is running, a saw is going, and your phone is in a pocket under a tool belt. The call you cannot hear is a kitchen remodel worth more than the job you are standing on, and by the time you check the phone at five, they have booked somebody else's estimate for Thursday.
When it gets worse: Spring, and the fortnight after any local storm. Both put a season of leads into a few weeks, and every one of them arrives while you are on a site.
What the agent does on a general contracting call
Built from your answers on the setup form, then tested by you before it answers a single customer.
- Qualifies by scope, rough budget range and timeline before it reaches you
- Separates a full remodel lead from a handyman call you do not want
- Captures the property address and whether the caller owns it
- Books consultations into your calendar on the Professional plan
- Filters supplier and subcontractor cold calls out of your day
- Answers in Spanish, which matters on both sides of a contracting business
What it will not do
It never estimates a job or commits you to a timeline. It gathers scope and gets a consultation booked, and the numbers stay yours.
Run your own numbers
What missed calls cost a general contracting business
Move the four controls to match your shop. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is stored. The arithmetic is on the page so you can check it.
Nights, weekends, and every call that comes in while you are already on one.
Calls you never hear about
520 a year
Work that goes to somebody else
$823,680
every year, at those numbers
What the Essential plan costs
$14,799 in year one, activation included
The calls you are missing are worth more than ten times what the plan costs.
Or call the demo line and hear it first. Nothing is charged until you have approved the agent.
The arithmetic: calls a week, times the share you miss, times fifty-two, times the share that would have become work, times what a job is worth. It is an estimate built from numbers you supplied, not a projection of what your business will earn.
General Contracting questions, answered
Can it qualify a lead before it reaches me?
That is most of the value for a contractor. You define what a real lead looks like, meaning a scope, a budget range, a property type and a timeline, and the agent asks those questions on every call. What reaches you is already sorted, and what does not still lands in the report.
Will it give a price for a remodel?
No. It states only figures you have authorised, such as a consultation fee. Estimating a build over the phone with no site visit is how a contractor ends up bound to a number nobody can hit.
What does an AI receptionist cost for a contractor?
$399 activation and $1,200 a month for one location, 750 minutes included, $0.50 per additional minute. Calendar booking and CRM integration sit on the $1,800 Professional plan.
Can it stop the supplier cold calls?
It filters solicitors on rules you set and logs every one, so your phone stops being a target list while you keep the record of what was screened.
Other trades we build for
Working in something that is not on this list? We build for it too. Tell us what you do on the quote form and we will have the answer ready when we call. We serve Oklahoma and Kansas.
Hear it answer a general contracting call.
Call the number below and talk to the agent yourself. It is the same system that would answer your phone, running live.
That’s our AI answering. It’s the same system we build for you.