AI in Service Businesses
Hi everyone, Does any of you use AI for their business? If so, which AI software do you use and what makes the difference for your company?
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I use Chat GPT for everything " ChatGPT +" . That said my best use for AI is in advanced calculations and converting them into Quotes. AI has been wonderful at calculating materials used , estimating hours of labor and breaking everything down into an easy to understand document that I can then copy into my quotes
Thanks to ChatGPT Plus, we’ve been able to:
Land repeat clients in the multifamily industry,Draft effective collection and property dispute letters,
AI (aka “Chatty”) and our team are now driving our rebrand and price shift—focusing on delivering a premium experiences, not just a “cheap clean or paint job.” No more chasing dollars. We’re selling value.I'm using N8N to build out the workflows and automations. That connects to all the LLMs.
One thing we just built was a Google folder that when my older owner wants to create invoices, print them off, he can take a photo of it and upload it to the folder. My workflow will use OpenAI image analyzer and scan it for all the contact details, property details, project details (we're in roofing) and then add that person to Jobber.
It's not perfect but it at least helps us stay up to date with what he's doing (he's our OG sales guy) while not forcing him to use new tech that he doesn't want to use.Very excited to start getting deeper into the Ai Agents that do a lot of the admin in the backend. I chose Jobber because it's supposed to be the best Open API that can connect to any other tools like hover, eagleview, gmail, etc.
I'm using N8N to build out the workflows and automations. That connects to all the LLMs.
Curious to know how that's going for you. Connecting to Jobber without using something like Zapier has been a right royal pain for me. Their implementation of OAuth seems to buck the trend everyone else uses and seems to require extra hoop jumping to get working.
I’ve been building on Jobber + n8n for a while now, and totally agree with the comments about OAuth being quirky. Took me a fair bit of trial and error, but I’ve now got a stable setup that handles token refresh automatically, processes webhooks, and can run complex flows that go beyond Zapier’s webhook-only integration.
I’m self-hosting so each customer has their own isolated n8n environment — more secure and avoids any “shared account” issues.
Right now I’m putting together a small beta group of Jobber users who want to try some plug-and-play automations without having to mess around with the setup headaches. If that sounds interesting, feel free to DM me and I can share more about what’s possible.
I cant get anyone to stay on long enough to find out they all hang up as soon as they here AI receptionist. Honestly I think people would at least attempt if I could set it to not say those two words.
I also found that people didn’t like the AI
I think once it’s improved a bit it will be great but for me it didn’t work out well so turned it off and built my own automations instead to deal with enquiries
I tried a few other AI phone services but they were all either too expensive or too AI like
you can edit it and remove that part. Mine says " Hello, thanks for contacting_______________! This call may be recorded for training. Our team is currently assisting other customers, but I’ll take your info and have someone get back to you shortly. How can we help today?" use a girls voice its softer and always mention your recording in some way to avoid alawsuit.
This is Awesome advice, thank you!
Hello,
I have just started using AI
We use AI Front Desk (https://www.myaifrontdesk.com/?via=m-s) as one of our 2 business numbers to answer our phone calls. We program it with everything about our business and services. It can give out pricing and answer questions about our business. It will email us a transcript of the conversation. We also set up a call transfer workflow that connects it to our Jobber AI receptionist. It can also transfer calls directly to staff members. It is working well for us right now.
We are also looking into using Nowsite for social media as it has AI features to assist with creating relevant posts to engage your audience and this an area we currently need to improve on.
We started using Claude.ai as an alternative for Chat GPT. Its very business oriented and great coming up with business plans, marketing plans and educational materials as just a start.
Yes! I am currently building one but I used ChatGPT and DeepSeek before I started building me own.
Jobber AI Receptionist has been awesome for overflow and off hours! Much better then just a voicemail.
I built an automation that automatically sends out the jobber request call to the caller
Increased lead conversion from calls and reduced admin massively
We use ChatGPT a lot and there is other features within ChatGPT like Sora - still exploring for image and video creating. And there is search option within ChatGPT
