AI customer follow-up for contractors, from call to review

AI customer follow-up for contractors is the set of messages that keeps a job moving after the first contact. One sequence with a named owner for each step closes the usual gaps: the unanswered call, the quiet estimate, the aged invoice, and the missing review request. An AI employee drafts every step. You approve what goes out.

Where does contractor follow-up break?

• Requests arrive in four places, and no one sees them all.
• “I'll call back after this job” turns into tomorrow.
• A sent estimate has no date on which anyone checks it.
• An invoice goes out and then ages without a reminder.
• A finished job ends the relationship: no review request and no reminder for next season.

None of these is hard to fix. Each one needs a trigger, a draft and a person who decides.

How does AI customer follow-up for contractors run from call to review?

1. A missed call or a new inquiry gets a short text soon after, with one question about what the person needs. AI phone answering is available, so for now AI employee Mia, the chief of staff, answers calls on your own number, texts back missed calls, and drafts the reply for your approval. See the missed call checklist.
2. After an estimate goes out, a nudge follows a few days later and one more a week after that, then the sequence stops. Each message names the job and adds one useful fact. See the estimate follow-up routine.
3. When the job is done, the customer gets a thank-you with the invoice, and the next step if there is one, such as a maintenance visit.
4. A late invoice gets a friendly reminder, then a firmer one, then a call from you. See the invoice follow-up routine.
5. Once the job closes, the customer gets a review request with your own review link, and later a reminder tied to the season or the service cycle. Customers who went quiet get a different list: see who to include in a reactivation list.

Every step runs the same way. Here's the estimate nudge as it runs in Omni Studio.

Which rules apply to every step?

• Text customers who called you or agreed to hear from you. Set quiet hours and honor every stop request.
• Decide who handles a reply at each step: you, the office manager, or the estimator.
• Set a cap on the number of messages for each estimate and each invoice. After the cap, a person decides, because repeated messages start to feel like pressure.
• When the customer answers, stop the sequence for that item and let a person take over. Nothing more goes out unless you approve it.
• Each message waits for your yes. After weeks of reading drafts, you can choose one low-risk message to run on its own and keep the rest on approval.

One owner for each step, and a cap on each sequence.

What if a customer writes back unhappy?

A message that says the problem came back, the visit ran late, or the price was unclear is a complaint, and the sequence stops. The AI employee pulls the job history and notes into a short summary, and a person replies. Anything about a refund or a credit, a formal complaint, or a third party such as an insurer or a landlord is written by a person.

A good first reply names the visit, owns the problem in a line, and offers a next step. Here's an example:

Hi Maria, I'm sorry the furnace is acting up again after Wednesday’s visit. I'd like to send a technician back this week. Does Thursday morning or Friday afternoon work?

If you're wondering why contractor follow-up breaks, look at the gaps above: no owner, no date, and no cap.

What should you do next?

Start with the step that leaks most for you. For many contractors that is the estimate that goes quiet. Build that one, read every draft for a week, then add the next step. For the last step, see how review requests work in Omni Studio, or open the home services workspace.

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