For contractors

Win every Thumbtack lead in 5 seconds.

ContractorHelper reads, quotes, and books marketplace leads from your own pricing, before your competitors even see them.

15-min call  •  ✓ 45-minute on-site setup  •  ✓ Cancel anytime

THUMBTACK · 2 MIN AGO
⚡ replied in 4.2s
Jessica R. · 94110 · Drain Cleaning
Kitchen sink has been draining really slowly for about a week. Tried Drano twice and a plunger, helped for maybe a day then it's back. There's a garbage disposal that still works fine. Hoping to get someone out this week. How much would it cost?
Acme Plumbing · Draft ready
Hey Jessica, thanks for reaching out. Sounds like a classic partial clog past the disposal, we can sort that out this week. I've got Thursday at 2pm or 3:30pm open. Call-out is $89 and labor is $135/hr; most jobs like yours are in and out in about an hour. Which slot works better?
John, Acme Plumbing
21×
more likely to qualify when you reply within 5 minutes
78%
of customers hire whoever responds first
5s
average reply time with ContractorHelper
4
other contractors will miss the lead
What it does

Six things. No fluff.

Not a generic AI receptionist. Just the six things any working contractor actually needs to stop losing marketplace leads.

📬

Every marketplace, one inbox

Reads Thumbtack, Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Bark leads from your Gmail the second they arrive. No API approvals required.

💰

Your pricing, never invented

Types your call-out fee, hourly rate, and flat rates once. The AI can only quote numbers you authorized. Nothing else. Ever.

📅

Books into your real calendar

Pulls availability from your Google Calendar or a simple weekly schedule. Offers real slots. Writes bookings back automatically.

🧰

Parts inventory check

Knows what's on your truck. Warns you before you leave if you're short a Zep drain cleaner or a wax ring.

🚨

Never an emergency draft

Burst pipe, gas leak, no water: escalates to you in under a second. The AI never drafts a reply for an emergency.

Tap Y or N, move on

Every draft lands in your WhatsApp or SMS. Tap Y to send, N to skip, or reply with edits. That's the whole workflow.

The 30-second loop

What happens between the lead arriving and the job booked

T + 0s

Thumbtack sends the lead to you and 4 other contractors

Same notification email, same race. The other four are still on their current jobs. Their inbox won't ding until their lunch break.

T + 1s

We parse the email and pull the details

Customer name, ZIP, job type, description, budget. If it's outside your service area, we stop right here. No noise, no ping.

T + 2s

Claude drafts a reply using your pricing

Only numbers you authorized. Only slots from your real calendar. If it tries to invent anything, our safety layer blocks it and asks you instead.

T + 4s

Your phone buzzes on WhatsApp

Draft + a parts-inventory warning if your truck is short anything. Tap Y to send, N to skip, or reply with edits.

T + 6s

Reply goes back through Thumbtack, job on the calendar

The other four contractors haven't even seen the notification yet. You've already quoted, scheduled, and queued a confirmation reminder for 24 hours before the job.

Trade knowledge, not chatbot tricks

The AI diagnoses like a pro because a pro wrote the rules

Every trade we support gets its own diagnostic shorthand, pricing guards, and typical-job-to-parts map, hand-written with a working contractor in that trade.

🔧 Live

Plumbing

Knows a partial clog past the disposal from a full backup. Knows a Moen cartridge drip from a washer-style leak. Knows when "no hot water" is a thermocouple and when it's actually an emergency.

In design

Electrical

Panel upgrades, tripped breakers, EV chargers, outlet work. Will flag anything that needs a permit or a licensed journeyman before drafting a quote.

🌡️ In design

HVAC

Seasonal tune-ups, no-cool calls, furnace issues, mini-splits. Summer heat waves get urgency treatment without turning every sweaty customer into an emergency.

🔨 Later

Handyman

The jobs that don't fit one category. Flexible scheduling, quick turnarounds, the small stuff that pays the bills between big jobs.

Where we sit in the market

The other guys are fighting over inbound phone calls. We're not.

Seven different companies are building AI receptionists for shops with CSR teams that can afford $300/month. If that's you, go buy one of theirs. We're building the opposite thing.

Feature
ContractorHelper
Mid-market AI
receptionists
DIY with
Zapier
Reads Thumbtack / Angi / HomeAdvisor leads
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Enforces your pricing (never invents numbers)
Sub-5-second reply to marketplace leads
Parts inventory warning before a job
Approve drafts on WhatsApp with one tap
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45-minute on-site setup with the operator
Honesty block

What we will not fake

Every competitor's landing page has three smiling headshots with five-star reviews and a revenue stat. Ours doesn't. Yet. Here's why.

1

No stock-photo testimonials.

When real contractors see real results, their name, face, and city go here. Shot on their phone, with their permission.

2

No invented revenue numbers.

The 21× and 78% come from the Lead Response Management Study, widely cited by HBR. No "47% more leads converted" with no source.

3

No integrations we don't ship.

If ServiceTitan, Jobber, or QuickBooks isn't listed, we don't ship it yet. We'll add them honestly as they go live.

4

No voice receptionist claims.

We're not pretending to answer your phone. Five other companies already do that. We pitch what we do well: marketplace messaging with safe priced quotes.

Your competitors will reply in 47 minutes.

You'll reply in 4 seconds with a real priced quote. That's the whole pitch. The rest is engineering.

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