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AI automation for plumbing, heating & AC companies.

Every unanswered call is a job lost. Every emergency report left unwritten costs you money. We automate call answering, quote generation and emergency triage, integrated with your trade software.

The bottleneck in the plumbing & heating trade: the time between office and job site.

Six operational time-drains that every plumbing & heating business owner knows from daily life.

Missed calls while you work

Your technicians are on site, the office is busy, but calls still go unanswered. Every missed call is a potential job that moves on to the next competitor.

24/7 call answering with job capture

Emergency triage at night and on weekends

At 11pm the emergency phone rings: burst water pipe or just a dripping tap? Without clear rules, technicians end up on trivial jobs at night and miss the real emergencies.

Urgency classification in seconds

Quote and job costing

The customer sends a photo of the faulty combi boiler and explains the rest over the phone. Writing the quote costs the owner half an hour at home in the evening, every single time.

Quote from photo + voice message

Maintenance appointments for heating systems

Regular customers with maintenance contracts expect to be thought of once a year. Without systematic reminders the calendar fills up and contracts slip through the cracks.

Automatic scheduling for regular customers

Invoicing and bookkeeping prep

Weeks often pass between finishing a job and sending the invoice. Timesheets, material receipts, photos, all transferred by hand into the trade software.

Draft invoice right after job completion

Material and team planning

Mornings are already chaos: which technician goes where, what material is in the van, what's still missing? Dispatch ties up half an hour of the owner's time every day.

Route planning and material dispatch prepared

What we automate specifically in a plumbing & heating business.

AI call answering with job capture

The AI answers calls, speaks naturally with the customer, captures name, address, request and preferred date, and writes the job directly into the job book of your trade software. Around the clock, even when your office is unstaffed.

Emergency triage by urgency

Gas leak, burst water pipe or just a dripping tap? The AI recognises keywords, sorts by category (emergency, urgent, routine) and routes real emergencies straight to the on-call technician via SMS and app.

Quote generator from photo and voice message

The customer sends a photo of the heating system and a short voice message via WhatsApp. The AI identifies the device type and problem, proposes materials and labour time, and the owner reviews and sends the quote in minutes.

Maintenance appointment reminders

Every customer with an active maintenance contract is contacted in good time. The AI proposes available slots, the customer confirms with a click, and the appointment lands directly in your software's scheduling plan.

Draft invoice after job completion

The technician finishes the job and briefly speaks into the mic what was done. The AI pulls together timesheets, material receipts and the dictated note and creates a draft invoice, which the office reviews and sends.

Material ordering assistant

From the day's jobs the AI calculates material requirements, compares them with stock, and prepares the order with the wholesaler. The owner reviews, clicks, done.

Customer appointment confirmations

Automatic appointment reminders by SMS or email the day before, with arrival window and a way to get in touch. Fewer wasted trips, fewer frustrated calls to the office.

A typical case from the plumbing & heating trade.

Plumbing & heating company, 12 technicians plus office

A mid-sized plumbing & heating business with the classic mix: heating installation, sanitary, emergency service. Before the project: around 40% of incoming calls went unanswered during working hours because the office and workshop were fully occupied. Emergency triage at night was chaotic, technicians driving out to dripping taps while real burst pipes sat in the queue.

After rollout: AI call answering captures jobs around the clock, assigns categories (emergency, maintenance, enquiry) and writes directly into the existing trade software. Quotes from photo and voice message are ready to send in five minutes, with the owner reviewing on the phone between jobs. The office staff win back three hours a day.

95%
of calls captured instead of lost
+30%
more jobs through faster response
3 h
office time saved per day

We connect with your trade software.

Integrated into your existing systems, not as yet another tool on the side.

pds Trade Software Sander+Doll Label Syska ProOffice Streit HottgenrothSoftware DATEV lexoffice 3CX NFON Sipgate Microsoft 365

We don't sell anything we haven't built ourselves: our own AI apps in the App Store, a voice agent, and fully automated customer acquisition that we run in-house every day.

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Consulting

We look at the typical working day together with the owner and the office. A clear list: which automation delivers visible time savings the fastest.

Development

We build the solution to fit your trade software and phone system. Pilot in weeks, not months.

Operations

After go-live we stay on board. Monitoring, adjustments to seasonal demands, training for the office and technicians.

How a project works with us.

01

Process analysis

One to two days on site with the owner, the office and selected technicians. A clear list of levers.

02

Pilot project

One concrete use case (e.g. AI call answering) live in 3-5 weeks.

03

Integration

Connection to your trade software, phone system and calendar, no duplicate work.

04

Scaling

Adding further use cases step by step: emergency service, quotes, maintenance.

Questions from the plumbing & heating trade.

The AI answers the call, speaks naturally with the caller, captures customer details and the request, assigns the category (emergency, maintenance, enquiry) and enters the job directly into your job book. In a genuine emergency, the call is immediately routed to the on-call technician.
The AI recognises emergency keywords such as „gas“, „smoke“, „water spraying“ or „heating off in winter“ and immediately escalates to the on-duty technician. Address, contact details and the situation are handed over via SMS and app, so the technician can set off right away.
Yes. The AI identifies boilers, combi units, fittings or pipe types in photos, combines this with the problem description from a voice message or phone call, and proposes suitable materials and labour time. The master tradesperson reviews, adjusts and sends the quote.
Yes, pds provides documented APIs, so we write jobs, appointments and draft invoices directly into your database. The same applies to Sander+Doll, Label, Streit and the other common trade systems.
Typically the monthly cost sits in the mid three-figure range (operation plus usage), plus a one-time setup fee for integration and configuration. We give you the concrete range in the initial call, once we know your systems and the feature set you want.
Yes. Data processing on EU servers is available on request, GDPR-compliant, with no sharing with third parties and no use for training public AI models. On-premise is also possible on request, so your data stays entirely within your own premises.

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By the end you'll know whether AI automation pays off for your plumbing & heating business, and if so, where the best place to start is.

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