How AI Helps Carpenters
Carpentry and remodeling shops lose evenings to estimates, change orders and client updates. 12² builds estimate, change-order and update templates plus missed-call logging around the shop's tools.
Carpentry Contractor Back Office · From $1,950 + $349/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for carpentry contractors: the short answer.
12² builds AI for carpenters that takes on the routine work: drafting estimates and change orders from site notes, sending scheduling updates, logging missed calls and drafting invoices. It runs inside the tools you already use. You still set every price and do the work.
Sources
- Goodcall AI answering service: Starter $79/mo, Growth $129/mogoodcall.com
- General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures
Where the hours go now.
Estimates and change orders
Carpentry and remodeling shops lose evenings to estimates, change orders and client updates.
Scheduling and progress updates
Reminders and follow-ups slip when the day gets busy.
Logging missed calls into a callback list
The dates and records live in inboxes, spreadsheets and people's heads.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Estimates and change ordersIt drafts estimates and change orders from site notes.
- Scheduling and progress updatesIt sends scheduling and progress updates from templates.
- Logging missed calls into a callback listIt logs missed calls into a callback list.
- Drafting invoices from completed job notesIt drafts invoices from completed job notes.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsEstimate, change-order and update templates plus missed-call logging around the shop's tools.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to your tools on the first call and write it into your quote.
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See also: all industry packages · pricing
From $1,950 + $349/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small shop (1-4 staff, one location)From $1,950 + $349/mo. The core build for 1-4 staff, one location: estimate, change-order and update templates plus missed-call logging around the shop's tools. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
- Mid-size: Mid-size shop (5-19 staff)From $6,500 + $650/mo. Everything in Small shop, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
- Enterprise: Enterprise (20+ staff or several locations)From $12,500 + $1,250/mo, custom quote. Everything in Mid-size shop, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataLicensed trades own the work, permits and code compliance; TCPA consent for texts.
- Not professional adviceNot engineering or code-compliance advice: your licensed staff approve every estimate and document. 12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
Straight answers.
Does AI price our jobs?
No. You set every price; it drafts the paperwork.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle estimates and change orders now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- You'll hear back within one business day12² reads your note and replies about your project.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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