Practical AI for shops that run trucks, not IT departments.
We write the prompts, templates, and documented systems small businesses actually use. No theory, no software to buy, no calls to sit through.
Thirty prompts for the parts of running a shop nobody writes down — quoting, getting paid, reviews, hiring, SOPs. Each with a worked example and a line telling you when not to use it.
Or start free: ten prompts for quotes that went quiet.
Ten copy-paste prompts for reviving unsold estimates. Works on any free AI assistant.
Most shops already know AI could help. Almost nobody has been shown a finished example.
That's the whole gap. It isn't cost — the tools are free or nearly free. And it isn't that AI doesn't work for shops like yours: among contractors already using it, 62% report measurable efficiency and productivity gains.¹
The barrier is that every article on the subject explains what AI is, and none of them hand you a finished thing you can use before lunch. Nobody needs another explainer. You need the actual words, already written, with the blanks marked.
That's all we make.
The Estimate Rescue Kit
You already did the expensive part on every quote sitting in that folder. You took the call, drove out, measured, sized the equipment, priced it, wrote it up. Then they said "let me think about it."
Ten prompts that turn those quotes back into work:
The 3-day check-in that doesn't sound like a sales push
The 10-day message that finds out what's actually wrong
A seasonal reason to reappear that isn't "circling back"
One number rewritten into three real options
The financing mention that doesn't become a finance pitch
The proof message about the job three streets over
A cleanup prompt that ranks every dormant quote you're sitting on
The scope rewrite for a quote nobody understood
A last touch that closes the file without burning the relationship
The review request, sent at the hour it actually gets answered
Each one comes with a worked example and a note on when not to send it — which is the part most templates leave out.
No card, no call. One email field.
The Trade Shop Prompt Vault — $49
The kit above is ten prompts about one problem. The Vault is thirty across the
rest of them — quoting and change orders, getting paid, customer messaging,
reviews, hiring, marketing, and turning "how Dave does it" into a written
procedure a new hire can follow.
Organized by the job, not by the technology. Every prompt has a worked example,
the fill-in fields marked plainly, and a note on when it will go wrong.
One of the thirty is on the Vault page in full, free — read it before you decide.
It's a Word document, so it opens on your phone, your laptop, or in Google Docs.
$49, one time, nothing recurring.
One of the thirty is on the Vault page in full, free — read it before you decide.
It's a Word document, so it opens on your phone, your laptop, or in Google Docs.
$49, one time, nothing recurring.
Three things we don't do.
No calls. Not a discovery call, not a free consultation, not a fifteen-minute intro. Everything arrives written. If you can read it at 10pm, you can use it at 7am.
No software to buy. Every prompt we write runs on a free AI assistant. If something needs a paid tool, we say so plainly and tell you what it costs before you're invested.
No hourly anything. Nothing here is priced by time — ours or yours. You buy a finished thing for a fixed number, or you subscribe and get a finished thing every month.
Built for the shop with twelve people and no IT department.
We write for owners and office managers at small service businesses — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, cleaning, remodeling, roofing, pest. The specific examples lean toward the trades because that's where the quoting and follow-up problems bite hardest.
If you run a small professional practice or a two-person shop in another line of work, most of it still applies. You'll just have to translate the equipment nouns yourself.
This isn't for you if you have an internal IT team, a marketing department, or a consultant on retainer. You're already covered, and we'd be a fourth opinion nobody asked for.
One useful thing a month. That's the whole list.
New kits, new prompts, and the occasional short note about something that actually worked. No drip campaign, no "we noticed you didn't open our last email," no selling your address to anyone.
Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every one, and it works on the first click.