AI workforce for builders & contractors
Clair builds AI Business Developers, Follow-Up Coordinators and Operations Managers for remodelers, custom home builders and concrete and excavation contractors — so leads get answered, estimates get followed up, and the business stops running through you.
Clair can start by reading, organizing and drafting. You decide what needs your approval — and what it’s eventually allowed to handle on its own.
Morning, Mike.
9 jobs active. 3 things need you.
4 things already handled
For contractors
Seven messages before lunch. Every one of them waits on you.
Your best leads don’t say no.
They just stop hearing from you.
How it works
Not a chat window you have to remember to open. Not another app your crew has to learn. An AI Business Developer, Follow-Up Coordinator or Operations Manager, set up around your jobs, your people and the software you already use. It follows up, keeps track and keeps jobs moving — and brings you only what needs a person.
New inquiry · text · after hours
Hi — we’re thinking about finishing our basement. Is that something you do?
It is. Roughly how big is the space, and when are you hoping to start?
About 900 square feet. Ideally before the holidays.
Thanks, Jen. The next step is a quick site visit so we can see the space. I’ll check the schedule and send you a couple of times.
Want me to offer Thursday 4 PM or Saturday 9 AM? Both are open on your calendar.
Illustrative example. What Clair can answer, schedule or send depends on the systems you connect and the permissions you set.
That’s not another app.
That’s a lead that didn’t go cold.
AI employees
Two help you win the work. One helps you run it. Each has a job, a scope and people it reports to — like anyone else you’d hire.
The relationships that bring in your best work get attention every week — not just when you remember.
Ridgeline Homes — purchasing manager
Big estimates stop going quiet just because nobody had time to call.
Henderson — addition estimate, week 3
An owner who leads the company — not acts as its notification system.
Good morning, Mike
Start with one. Build your AI team over time.
See what Clair could take off your plateOn the job
Your people keep working the way they already work. Clair does the follow-up nobody has time for.
Big estimates often don’t get a no. They get quiet — while the client talks to two other contractors. Clair checks in on the schedule you set and hands you the replies that need a person.
The Hendersons
Two-story addition
Replied · week 3
You keep running the jobs.Clair keeps the estimate alive.
Winning work
For site contractors, it’s builders and GCs. For remodelers, it’s realtors, designers and past clients. Winning them takes research, a good first message and patient follow-up — the part that never makes it onto anyone’s calendar.
Step 1 · Research
Finds the right person
Step 2 · First message
Writes like a person
Hi Sarah — saw Ridgeline broke ground on Phase 2. Who’s lining up site work and foundations for the next round of lots? We do excavation and foundations for builders nearby, and I’d be glad to put numbers together whenever you’re ready.
Uses what it found — without making it weird.Step 3 · Keep in touch
Follows up without pestering
Clair drafts and keeps track. You approve what goes out under your name.
Owner briefing
Your AI Operations Manager reads across every job, lead and bid and tells you what matters — not everything that happened. Exceptions first. You make the calls.
Not another dashboard. A summary of your company, and what needs you.
Comparing two bids on the addition and wants a call about timing.
Source: Client emailFoundation bid is due Friday. The takeoff hasn’t started.
Source: Bid inviteTrusses pushed a week. Framing start is at risk.
Source: Supplier emailProof
Core Connect is the operations system we’re building with Corey’s Construction, a residential modular home builder. It isn’t a replacement for the software they already use — it does the work of keeping it all connected, so the owner isn’t the one holding it together.
What it covers
Built around one question: will the house and the site be ready on set day?
We don’t publish Corey’s numbers. We’ll walk you through Core Connect on a call.
Give your best people help with everything around the work.
should estimate.
Not chase replies for three weeks.
should run jobs and people.
Not copy updates between five systems.
should lead the company.
Not be its human notification system.
Clair takes the follow-up, the updates and the chasing. Your people keep the judgment, the relationships and the jobsite.
Trust & control
Neither would we.
You decide how much rope Clair gets.
Start with visibility. Add responsibility as trust grows.
Clair starts by watching and organizing. It earns responsibility one step at a time — and only the steps you allow.
Homeowner texts: “Can we push the tile install to next week?”
Notices the request, ties it to the Miller job, and checks what depends on the tile install.
Nothing yet. It’s on the record.
Tile reschedule request — Miller · source: homeowner text
Every flag shows where it came from — the text, the email, the call.
You choose which actions need a human yes. Start with all of them.
Clair sees only the systems you connect, and does only what you allow.
Clair can get things wrong. That’s why it starts by preparing, not sending.
Your systems
Keep the software you already paid for — project management, estimating, accounting, email and calendar. Clair is configured around the systems your company relies on, where supported, so your team doesn’t rebuild the business around a new tool.
We confirm what connects during setup. If a system can’t be connected, we’ll tell you — and what that means for the job Clair can do.
Your systems — connected where supported
The business case
Contractors rarely lose money in one big moment. They lose it in estimates nobody followed up, partners nobody called and small things nobody had time to catch.
One recovered estimate can matter more than a month of software.
We don’t promise results. We look at where work is slipping through today and show you where Clair could help.
Getting started
Clair isn’t “sign up and figure it out.” It’s built around your company, with you.
Your people, process, jobs, the partners who send you work — and where things slip through.
Where supported, we connect what Clair needs for its job. Nothing more.
Configured around the role you need — business development, follow-up or operations.
Clair begins by reading, organizing and drafting. Your team approves what goes out.
As your team gets comfortable, routine work you approve can run on its own.
Questions
No. Clair takes the follow-up, updates and chasing that eat your team’s day, so your people have more capacity. Your estimators, PMs and supers keep the judgment, the relationships and the jobsite.
Yes. We’re building Core Connect with Corey’s Construction, a residential modular home builder — an operations system covering their sales pipeline, production schedule, procurement and daily huddle. It’s a working system heading into its first pilot. We’ll walk you through it on a call.
It will sometimes. That’s why it starts by drafting and recommending, not sending. Every flag shows its source so your team can check it, and important actions wait for a person to approve them.
Only if you decide it can. Start with approval on everything. If you later trust it with routine work, like confirming a site visit, you set that rule — and you can take it back.
Messages go out from your company, and we set Clair up to be upfront that it’s an AI assistant when it’s talking with someone directly. Anyone who wants a person gets one.
The goal is no. Crews keep texting, calling and sending photos the way they already do, and Clair turns that into records. Exactly how depends on your setup, which we work out with you.
Often, but it depends on what you use. During setup we confirm which systems Clair can connect to and what it can do with each one. If something can’t be connected, we’ll tell you plainly.
It depends on your company, your systems and the role you start with. We give you a realistic timeline after we understand what you need — not a number we made up beforehand.
No. A chat app waits for you to ask it something. Clair is set up around your company — your jobs, people, systems and approval rules — and does ongoing work: following up, keeping track, flagging problems. The AI underneath can change over time. The job Clair does for you is what we build.
Yes, and we’d recommend it. Start with one AI employee — usually estimate follow-up — with approvals on everything. Add more once it’s proving useful.
It depends on the role, the size of your company and the systems involved. Tell us where work is slipping through and we’ll come back with what Clair could take on — and what it would cost.
Your company is growing.
Your workload doesn’t have to grow with it.
Tell us where work is slipping through. We’ll show you what Clair could take off your plate.