for Surrey & Metro Vancouver contractors

Your business number, answered by an AI receptionist built for contractors.

It answers the calls you miss while you’re on site, books the job into your calendar, and chases the quotes that go quiet. Installed in about a week.

From $1,500 CAD, one time · live in about a week · optional care plan from $99/month. You keep the number, the data and the accounts — cancel any time.

Try the live AI demoRequest a free 10-minute fit check

The demo needs no signup. The fit check is a short form — I read it myself and reply within one business day.

one call — example, not a customer result
  1. 4:52 PMIncoming call

    604-555-0117 — new number

  2. 4:52 PMYou're on a roof in Cloverdale

    Nobody free to pick up

  3. 4:52 PMAnswered on the second ring

    Takes the job details, checks your calendar

  4. 4:56 PMBooked — Thursday, 9:00 AM

    Gutter replacement estimate, Cloverdale

  5. 4:56 PMTexted to you

    “New booking Thu 9am. Reply STOP to cancel.”

Your number. Your calendar. Your customer list.4 min, no missed job
Illustrative example using made-up details — not a customer result.
  • Built in Surrey & Delta, BC
  • One builder, discovery to deployment
  • Fixed CAD quote before work starts
  • Tested on real calls before handover
  • You keep your number, data and accounts
  • Support from the person who built it

try it before you talk to me

Talk to the receptionist yourself. No form first.

Pick the worker and the trade, then type what one of your customers would actually say. You’ll see the reply, the details it captured, and the summary that would land on your phone.

  • Six workers — reception, quotes, follow-up, invoices, reviews, proposals
  • Nine trades, so the answers use your vocabulary and not a generic script
  • Every booking, text and CRM update in the demo is simulated, and labelled as simulated
  • No signup, no email, nothing gated
Try the live AI demo

what you’ll see

  1. You type“My hot water tank is leaking, can someone come today?”
  2. It answersAsks the two things it needs, then offers the next real slot.
  3. It capturesName · phone · service · urgency · address · preferred time
  4. You getA one-paragraph summary of the call, with what to do next.

test us before you call

Work out what the missed ones are worth.

No login, no email, no results page you have to unlock. Move the sliders.

missed-call check — runs in your browser
120
25%
$1,200

Assumes 70% of missed calls are real prospects and you’d win 40% of those. Change those assumptions in the full tool.

Walking away each year

$120,960

Roughly 8.4 jobs a month you never hear about.

Get this checked properly

An estimate from your numbers — not a quote.

start where it hurts

Which one is costing you the most right now?

I'm missing calls while I'm on site

The phone rings when both hands are busy. By the time you listen to voicemail they've already called someone else.

What we install

An AI receptionist on your existing number — answers, takes the details, books into your calendar, texts you.

See what missed calls cost youHow the install works

the difference

Two things quietly cost you the most work.

Neither is a skills problem. Both are what happens when a two-person office is also a full-time trade.

The phone

  • Calls ring out while you're on a roof
  • Voicemail nobody checks till 8pm
  • The keen ones just call the next guy

The quote

  • Quotes sent, then silence
  • You meant to chase it on Sunday
  • You already did the site visit for free

Once it’s installed

  • Every call answered, in your business's voice
  • Follow-up goes out whether you remember or not
  • Replies land with you, not in a system you can't see

one call, end to end

What happens while you’re on the roof.

Six steps, about four minutes, none of them yours. This is the whole system — there is no second product.

  1. 01A call comes in

    Incoming

    604 ••• 0148

    You’re thirty feet up with both hands on a ladder.

  2. 02Answered on your number

    Answering

    Your number. Your business name.

    604 ••• 0148not a new linein your name
  3. 03Details taken

    Captured on the call

    Job
    Gutter replacement
    Property
    Single family, two storey
    Area
    Cloverdale
  4. 04Qualified

    Checked before booking

    Inside your service areaCloverdale ✓
    UrgencyNot an emergency
    Job type you takeYes ✓
  5. 05Booked

    Straight into your calendar

    • Wed 2:00 PMon a job
    • Thu 9:00 AMbooked
    • Thu 1:00 PMfree
  6. 06You get the summary

    Lands on your phone

    Handbuilt AInow

    Gutter replacement, Cloverdale. Two storey. Booked Thu 9:00 AM. Caller asked about eavestrough guards — worth quoting.

    Reply to reach them. Nothing to log in to.

Illustration of the installed workflow. Sample job details — not a customer, and not a performance claim.

what I have actually built

Three systems I run myself.

No client logos and no testimonials — I don’t have clients yet, and I’m not going to invent them. What I can show you is software that is live right now, most of it holding up my own businesses.

Ironwood Grounds

Live

Live · my own fence company

The problem
I run a cedar-fence business in South Surrey. On a post-hole day nobody answers the phone, and a quote that goes quiet is a job someone else does.
What I built
The back office first: a quote form that emails me and fails loudly instead of silently, and a self-hosted AI phone receptionist that I put on the real business line in July.
What it connects to
Python · pipecat · Asterisk · VoIP.ms · a quote form wired to email
How it was tested
A 7-suite check runs over the site before anything ships, and the receptionist has its own automated test suite.
Who controls it
It is my number and my line. On 27 August I took the AI back out of the call path while I rebuild the call flow — which is the honest state of it today, and the reason I will not tell you an AI receptionist is finished the day it answers its first call.
Open Ironwood Grounds

COITracker

Live

Live · my own product

The problem
Small businesses that hire subtrades have to keep every vendor's insurance certificate current, and they find out it lapsed when something has already gone wrong.
What I built
Upload a certificate, confirm the fields it read back, then get reminded 30, 14 and 7 days before it expires. Two scheduled jobs do the chasing.
What it connects to
Next.js · Supabase · Stripe · Resend · two daily crons
How it was tested
A large automated test suite, including a set of deliberately awkward PDFs the reader has to refuse rather than guess at.
Who controls it
Free for the first handful of vendors, then a flat monthly price.
Open COITracker

PayNudge

Live

Live · my own product

The problem
Service businesses send an invoice and then feel rude about chasing it, so it sits there.
What I built
Reminders on day 1, day 3 and day 7 that stop the moment the invoice is paid — so nobody gets nagged after paying.
What it connects to
Syncs with Jobber, QuickBooks, Square and Stripe · scheduled jobs
How it was tested
Its own automated test suite, run before each deploy.
Who controls it
One plan, one flat monthly price in CAD.
Open PayNudge

Everything else on this site that looks like a customer story is an illustration, and it is labelled as one. When there is a real one, it will have a name on it.

Pavneet Singh, founder of Handbuilt AI

the one builder

Built by Pavneet Singh, in Surrey, BC.

I’m one person, and you deal with me from the first conversation to the day it goes live. There is no account manager, no offshore team, and nobody who will hand your project to someone who has never spoken to you.

I run a cedar-fence company in South Surrey, so I know exactly what a missed call on a Tuesday afternoon costs — that is why I built an AI receptionist for my own line before I offered one to anyone else. Alongside it I build and run two live products: COITracker and PayNudge.

I work in TypeScript, Next.js and Supabase, with Stripe for payments and Resend for email, and I test on real calls before handing anything over.

What I won’t do: invent a customer, quote a number I didn’t measure, or promise you’ll never miss a call again. I’ll tell you what a build does, what it doesn’t, and what it costs to keep running.

More about how I workpavneets956@gmail.com

how it works

Three steps. Usually live in about a week.

No new platform for your crew to learn. Nothing changes hands except the work coming off your plate.

what you actually get

A system that runs in your accounts, a number to judge it by, and a person to call when it needs changing.

  • Your accounts, your data, your number
  • Export any time
  • Cancel any time — it keeps running
  • Based in Surrey, BC
Request a free AI opportunity review
  1. 01

    Find the leak

    We go through your calls, quotes and the admin that eats your evenings, and put a number on what's actually leaking.

  2. 02

    Install the workflow

    Built around your real services, prices and calendar — inside your accounts, with your phone number. Tested before it answers a single customer.

  3. 03

    Measure what changed

    A plain monthly note: calls answered, quotes followed up, work recovered. If it isn't earning, we say so.

pricing

Project pricing, in Canadian dollars, on the page.

One-time build. The care plan is optional and only exists once something is installed.

AI Starter System

One AI worker, live in days.

From $1,500

CAD · Live in ~5 business days

Start with Starter
  • One focused AI worker (receptionist, chatbot, quote intake, or review replies)
  • Trained on your services, pricing, hours & FAQs
  • Connected to one channel (website, SMS, email, or WhatsApp)
  • ~5 business days to launch + 14 days of tweaks

Best if you want to start with one focused win and test before scaling.

Most popular

AI Business System

2–4 connected AI workers, one system.

$3,500–$7,500

CAD · Live in 2–3 weeks

Build my system
  • 2–4 connected AI workers running as one system
  • Integrates with your CRM, calendar, email, payments
  • Automated workflows: call handling, quotes, lead follow-up
  • Simple dashboard + 30 days of hands-on tuning

Best for businesses losing money to slow replies and manual admin.

Custom AI App

A full app or platform you own.

From $10,000

CAD · Typically 4–8 weeks, scoped on a call

Request a quote
  • Full custom app, portal, internal tool, or SaaS MVP
  • Custom AI logic built around your data & rules
  • Accounts, database, admin, integrations as needed
  • Built on a modern stack you own — 60 days support

Best when you've outgrown off-the-shelf tools and need something custom.

Care Plan — from $99/mo CAD

Optional, and only for systems we’ve installed. Cancel any time — what’s in your accounts stays there.

Full pricing

free contractor tools

Use these whether you ever hire us or not.

No login, no email, no paywall. They run in your browser and nothing you type is sent to us.

Pricing & profit

Contractor Profit & Pricing Calculator

You're not sure what to charge, or your quotes feel like guesswork.

Open the tool
Sales & follow-up

Contractor Quote Follow-Up Generator

You send quotes and then they go quiet, and following up feels awkward.

Open the tool
Lead recovery & growth

Missed-Call Revenue Calculator

You miss calls when you're on the tools, and you don't know what it's costing you.

Open the tool
Pricing & profit

Contractor Labor Burden Calculator

You bill a wage-based rate and wonder why the crew's hours don't add up to profit.

Open the tool
Lead recovery & growth

Contractor Lead-Leak Audit

Leads come in but not enough turn into booked jobs, and you're not sure where they're lost.

Open the tool
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where we work

Based in Surrey. We come to the job.

Setup happens in your accounts, on your phone number, with your calendar in front of us. That is easier to do properly when we can sit at your table for an hour.

Outside the Lower Mainland? Most installs work remotely too — the review call is the same either way.

Request a free AI opportunity reviewAI receptionist in Surrey

Service area

  • Surrey
  • Delta
  • Langley
  • White Rock
  • Burnaby
  • New Westminster
  • Coquitlam
  • Richmond
  • Abbotsford

Working with roofing, exteriors, landscaping and general home-service contractors across the Lower Mainland.

the questions people actually ask

Straight answers, before you call.

It answers in your business's voice, says it's an assistant when asked, and hands anything awkward straight to you. You approve exactly what it says before it ever speaks to a customer, and you can listen to the calls. If it isn't better than voicemail, it isn't worth installing.

Something not covered? Read the full FAQ

the last thing on this page

The calls are still going to voicemail while you read this.

Every one of them dials the number already on your truck, your invoices and your yard signs. That number is the thing worth fixing — not replacing it, not adding a second one, just making sure somebody picks it up.

Request a free AI opportunity reviewor just use the free calculators

Surrey and Metro Vancouver. Remote everywhere else in BC.

What happens after you click

  1. We read it the same day and reply by email — no deck, no discovery process.
  2. We look at your call log, your quotes and your calendar together.
  3. You get a number for what's leaking and a fixed price to fix it.
  4. If there's nothing worth installing, we say so and you owe nothing.

Not sure yet? The calculator above runs on your own numbers and asks you for nothing.