Calls missed up a ladder
An AI front-desk assistant, trained on your own services, that answers in your voice and captures every lead — including the 8pm ones. Bespoke and built around your business, so it knows the job, not just a script.
Built in Cornwall, for construction trades
Every job enquiry answered.
Built for construction trades.
For electricians, plumbers, builders, roofers and every trade whose phone rings when their hands are full. An AI front desk that answers your website, WhatsApp and missed calls in your voice, from your own information — and texts you every enquiry while you're on the tools. Set up by someone who spent forty years in the trades, and kept accurate so it never quotes last year's prices.
- Experience
- 40 yrs
- in the trades
- Base
- Kernow
- meet me in person
- Standard
- Secure
- GDPR & monitored
Ask our front desk
Every enquiry answered, every lead to you
You didn't learn a trade to miss the work
The same questions, all day
Do you cover Truro? How soon can you come? Are you Gas Safe, MCS, NICEIC? What's the call-out charge? Answered instantly from your own information, and anything it can't answer comes back to you once — then it knows.
Assistants that go out of date
Most chatbots are loaded once and left. Every answer here carries a review date — you get a text when prices or lead times are due a check, and stale answers stop being used.
Paperwork too? Built to order
Quoting tools, certificate apps and admin automation are built around how you already work, and quoted before anything starts.
Also on the menu — waking up dormant customers, chasing reviews and reputation, lead scoring. Built around your business when you need them; just ask.
Built for your trade
Your customers' questions, in your words
Electricians
EICRs, EV chargers, rewires and call-outs — answered while you’re on the job.
Plumbers & heating engineers
Breakdowns, boiler services and oil-fired heating — someone answers at 7pm.
Builders
Extensions, groundworks and joinery — big jobs start with one enquiry.
Roofers
Leaks, slate, flat roofs and storm damage — running live for a roofing firm today.
Renewables installers
Solar, batteries and heat pumps — five-figure jobs researched at 9pm.
Kitchen & bathroom fitters
Design, supply and fit — answer the evening browsers before your rivals do.
Drainage & septic tank installers
Failed tanks, treatment plants and house-sale deadlines — urgent, high-value, all year.
Contractors with staff
Kelvo answers your own team's questions on procedures, RAMS, site rules and prices — from what you've approved. See how it works →
Built the right way
Security isn't an extra. It's the standard.
Every build ships with security by design, UK GDPR compliance, live fault monitoring, and proper access controls — the engineering standard big firms demand, applied to tools for Cornish trades. No quick fixes, no shortcuts.
- Live error monitoring on the tools I build for you — faults found before you feel them
- UK GDPR-compliant handling of your customers' data
- Secure access, validation and rate-limiting as standard
Building your own?
Good. Let's make sure it doesn't leak.
AI makes it easier than ever to build your own tools — and easier than ever to leave the door open on customer data. More trade firms will build their own; the smart ones will build safely.
I advise on doing it right: security reviews of what you've built, straight answers on GDPR and the incoming AI rules, and honest guidance on when DIY works — and when it'll cost you more than it saves.
Ask about a reviewUsing AI in your business
Already using ChatGPT? Read this first.
Most trades are already using AI for quotes, emails and paperwork — and most don't know where the line is with customer data. Plain-English guides on what's worth doing, what's achievable, and what you need in place to stay safe.
Can I put customer information into ChatGPT?
The single most common way small firms leak data. When it is fine, when it breaches UK GDPR, and how to make it safe.
AI for tradespeople: what is worth your time
Written by someone who spent forty years on the tools. What genuinely helps a working trade, and what is sales patter.
A one-page staff AI policy you can actually use
Free template. What staff may and may not put into AI tools, which tools are approved, who checks the output. Prevents most incidents before they happen.
Free check · nothing stored
Where do you stand with AI? Two minutes, no charge.
Tick the ones you can honestly say are true today. If you’re not sure, leave it — “don’t know” is the finding, not a fail. Most trade firms score low the first time; the point is knowing which two things to fix first.
Proof, not promises
Live in the wild
Backed by AUTAIMATE — over 20 live software products already out in the wild. This isn't a side project that vanishes; it's a track record you can check.
Roofing
Halls Roofing
A live assistant trained on the firm's own services, answering visitor questions and capturing enquiries around the clock — so a job doesn't slip because everyone was up a ladder.
Read the case study →Playground safety
Cornwall Play Safety
An RPII-accredited inspection firm working with parish councils, holiday parks and schools across Cornwall. Their Foredesk assistant, Piran, answers questions on inspection tiers and turnaround, and passes anything site-specific to the inspector.
Their website, their assistant and the voice-driven inspection app their inspector uses on site — all three built here.
Read the case study →See it in action
Try one that's actually live.
Not a demo built to impress you — a Foredesk assistant working on a real Cornish business's website, answering real customers. Go and try to catch it out.
- Answers instantly, day or night
- Captures the enquiry so no job slips
- Says it's an assistant, and hands over to a person
- Trained on your own services, in your voice
Live right now
Meet Piran
Cornwall Play Safety run a Foredesk assistant called Piran on their site. It answers questions about playground inspections in seconds, and takes a number for a callback when a question needs the inspector rather than the assistant.
Go and ask it something awkward. That's the honest test.
Try Piran live ↗Straight answers
- What does Kernow.ai actually do?
- AI and automation for Cornwall’s construction trades — electricians, plumbers, builders, roofers, renewables, kitchen and bathroom fitters and drainage contractors. The core is Foredesk, an AI front desk that answers your website, WhatsApp and missed calls from your own information and texts you every enquiry, so no job slips while you’re on the tools. When you need more, bespoke tools are built to order. Built here in Cornwall, to a professional security standard.
- Is it safe to use ChatGPT for quotes and customer emails?
- It can be, if you know what not to put in it. Customer names, addresses, phone numbers and key-safe codes pasted into a free AI tool can breach UK GDPR. The guides on this site set out what’s fine, what isn’t, and the one-page staff policy that stops most problems before they start.
- What does "built the right way" mean?
- Security by design, UK GDPR compliance, live error monitoring on the tools I build, proper access controls and validation. The same engineering standard a big firm would demand — applied to tools for Cornish trades.
- Can you help if I want to build my own AI tools?
- Yes. AI-assisted building is getting easier, and more owners are doing it themselves. I offer straight-talking advice and security reviews so what you build doesn’t leak customer data or fall over — and I’ll tell you honestly when DIY is the right call.
- How much does it cost?
- The AI front desk is £499 to set up, then £99 a month — no tiers, no per-lead fees, no VAT on top. Bespoke tools are quoted per job before any work starts. No meter running, no surprise invoices.
- Are you actually in Cornwall?
- Yes — I live and work here, with 40 years in the trades and construction before moving into software. Meet me, ring me. No ticket queue up-country.
Want more of the right work coming in?
Tell me where enquiries are slipping — or the bit of the paperwork you'd pay to get rid of. I'll tell you straight whether I can fix it, and what it'd cost.
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