Can AI create accurate inventories from photos or walkthroughs for estimates?
Anyone here using AI to build inventories from photos or on‑site for moving quotes? We’re a moving company looking to automate as much of the quote process as possible. Right now, we’re still doing a lot of manual inventory collection and data entry, and it’s slowing us down and leaving room for mistakes. I’m specifically interested in: AI tools that can take phone photos or short videos (or an on‑site walkthrough) and automatically create an itemized inventory we can use for estimates. Anything that can recognize furniture/boxes from images and turn that into quantities, cube/weight, or at least a structured checklist. Workflows where the customer does a virtual survey themselves and we just review and price it. Bonus points if it can be integrated within jobber If you’re doing this today, which software are you using, how accurate is it, and what does your workflow look like from first contact to approved quote? Any “don’t waste your time on this tool” stories are welcome too.How do you manage different level Service Contracts in Jobber?
We are currently offering one service contract; however, we are looking to create three tiers. We would have a Silver, Gold, and Platinum package. Each package/membership would offer something different. How could we effectively manage this in Jobber to keep track of which clients are on which level package? How many visits they have/have used? Payments? Etc.How to start an in house training center for painting?
I am looking for feedback on starting a training center for residential painting. We have a shop but it is kind of small for what I am looking at doing. Is there any creative ways I could go about purchasing, or leasing a building that is specifically for training and education? My goal would be to hire on young men and women who are interested in the painting trade and have a facility to train them in before they every step foot on a job. For example, there would be a class room to learn about products and applications. Then there would be actually rooms built out and small exterior walls build out with different substrates to actually train applications. I would hire some of my current employees to be paid extra to run classes and training. What do you think? Am I dreaming too big or is this something I could accomplish? How could I go about making this happen?How to implement safety meetings? Certs?
When growing your painting business how can you go about focusing more on safety? With a larger team and more people on jobs/bigger jobs what do safety meeting look like? How do you go about getting your team and your self educated? What certs can you get and how do you offer them?Building an AI online bid?
I have been messing around with the idea of creating a way for my customers to submit some information on their own through our website and AI provide them their bid for painting. Has anyone done this? Have any ideas on how to do it? And what could be the potential pros and cons of this? I'm thinking that it would need to have a customer login & portal. There would need to be a way to upload additional files. Pictures and videos of project. There would need to be a fee that is charged to use this service to try and gatekeep competitors from using it. The fee would be removed if the job is landed. There might need to be an agreement signed that unforeseen work that wasn't included in the submission could result in a change order. What would you add?Why I Stopped Chasing Jobs and Started Building Systems
Early in my career I equated motion with progress. AKA: Rocking chair syndrome. If the phone rang, I was winning. If my schedule was full, I was successful. But all that movement was just noise. I was busy, not effective. The shift came when I started documenting everything! How calls were answered, how quotes were written and how materials were ordered. Once I built systems, my business stopped depending on how many hours I worked and started depending on how well I led. Systems create predictability. Predictability builds trust. Trust builds freedom. Stop being the technician who holds it all together with duct tape. Be the leader who builds a machine that runs smoothly, even when you step away. Have questions? Message me!Has Anyone Here Built Their Own GPT Yet? Or Just Using ChatGPT Like Google?
Hey everyone just curious where the community stands with AI right now. I’ve seen a lot of folks using ChatGPT to look stuff up (like Google 2.0), but I’m wondering if anyone here has gone deeper? Has anyone tried to build or train their own GPT yet? Or customized prompts/workflows to actually support your day-to-day? We’ve been working on building a custom GPT model trained on contractor logic — estimating, soft skills, job-site communication, pricing, SOPs, etc. For our company now, instead of broad knowledge. I see huge value in contractors having their own smart assistant, not just a chatbot. Something that speaks the language of our company. Is that something you’d use or find helpful? Curious to hear what direction you guys are taking.
Anyone using automation to save time and money?
Hey everyone! I’ve been testing out some automation tools alongside Jobber to streamline my window cleaning business — things like auto-replies to leads, follow-ups for quotes, and syncing bookings with my calendar in real time. Curious if anyone else here is using automation to simplify their operations or boost client communication? I’m working on some AI-based workflows and would love to swap ideas or even show what I’ve been building if there’s interest. What tasks are you still doing manually that you wish could be automated?
