Writing quotes and chasing the ones that go quiet.
Industry guide
AI for tradies
You are on the tools all day, then quoting and chasing invoices at night. AI takes the admin off your plate: the quotes, the follow-up, the scheduling, and the calls you miss while your hands are full. The back office runs without you sitting at a desk. You drive. AI delivers.
The reality
The admin that eats your evenings
Most tradies lose hours a week to the same jobs — none of it the work you got into the trade to do, and all of it automatable.
Missed calls while you are on a job, with the customer ringing the next bloke who picks up.
Booking and rebooking jobs around weather, materials and no-shows.
Chasing invoices and payments.
Keeping customers updated on when you will turn up.
What we automate
What we automate for trades
Human Powered builds done-for-you AI automation for Australian trades, shaped around how your business actually runs — on site and in the office.
Answering the calls you miss
When you are up a ladder or under a house, calls go to voicemail and the customer rings the next tradie. An AI receptionist answers in your business's voice, books the job, takes the details and texts the lead straight to you. You stop losing work to a missed call.
Keeping customers in the loop
Customers get updates at the right moments, booked, on the way, job done, without you stopping to send a single text.
Quoting and follow-up
New enquiries get a fast, consistent first response and a quote that goes out while the job is still fresh. Quotes that go quiet get followed up automatically, so you are not the bottleneck and warm jobs do not slip.
Scheduling and reminders
Jobs get booked, confirmed and reminded without the back-and-forth. Customers get a heads-up before you arrive, which cuts no-shows and the dead time between jobs.
Invoicing and payment chasing
Invoices go out on time and overdue accounts get chased politely and automatically, so you get paid faster without playing debt collector after hours.
Built into the tools you already use
We connect AI to the software you already run: your job management (tools like ServiceM8 or Tradify), your accounting (Xero or MYOB), your calendar and your phone. We are not affiliated with those products — we build AI into whatever you already use, so nothing changes about the way you work day to day.
Why a generic AI tool falls short on a job
An off-the-shelf chatbot does not know what a variation is, how your quotes are structured, or that a customer ringing at 7am wants a callback, not a web form. We map how your trade and your business actually run first, then build to that. The automation fits your jobs from day one instead of needing months of fiddling to be useful.
How we work
How a build works
Phase 01
Profile.
We map how you and your business operate: your jobs, your quoting, the way you talk to customers. This is the foundation the AI is built on.
Phase 01
Profile.
We map how you and your business operate: your jobs, your quoting, the way you talk to customers. This is the foundation the AI is built on.
Phase 02
Connect.
We plug AI into the tools you already use. No rip-and-replace.
Phase 02
Connect.
We plug AI into the tools you already use. No rip-and-replace.
Phase 03
Automate.
We build the workflows that remove the repetitive work: calls, quoting, follow-up, scheduling, invoicing.
Phase 03
Automate.
We build the workflows that remove the repetitive work: calls, quoting, follow-up, scheduling, invoicing.
Phase 04
Evolve.
We stay engaged after launch, refining and extending as your business grows.
Phase 04
Evolve.
We stay engaged after launch, refining and extending as your business grows.
Why us
Why Human Powered
We run every workflow on our own business first. Over 1,000 build hours in production before anything reaches a client.
We have built automation across construction and trade-adjacent businesses, so we know how work moves between the site and the office.
No platform lock-in. You own the integration layer, the prompts, the workflows and the data. The underlying models stay your own third-party subscriptions.
We stay after launch. Support and evolution are part of the build, not an upsell.
Who this is for
This fits owner-operators of 2 to 15 person trade businesses that already have customers, revenue and a steady run of work, where you or one stretched person is the bottleneck on quoting, calls, scheduling or invoicing. It is not for anyone wanting a tool to play with rather than a workflow that actually changes how the business runs.
1000+hours in production before a client touches it
$0Human Powered platform fee in the middle
100%yours — the code, prompts and workflows
Common questions
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Ready when you are
See where AI fits in your business.
Book a free 15-minute discovery call. We'll tell you straight where AI earns its place — or whether you're not ready yet.