Enquiries while you’re on site
Missed callers get a text back within seconds and the enquiry carries on in writing. Website and WhatsApp enquiries land in the same job file, so you see the whole picture before you ring back.
For Cornwall Builders
Big jobs start with one enquiry.
Don’t miss it.
An extension enquiry can be worth tens of thousands, and it usually arrives while you’re on site. Foredesk answers it properly, gets the details and texts you while the customer is still keen.
Kernow.ai sets up Foredesk for Cornwall builders, groundworkers and joiners: an AI front desk that answers website visitors, WhatsApp messages and missed calls from your own information, captures every enquiry and texts it to you — £499 setup, then £99 a month.
See it on your websiteWhat Foredesk does for you
Booked months ahead
When you’re full until spring, every enquiry still needs an honest answer about when you could start. It gives your current lead time from your own wording — and asks you to confirm it when it’s due a check, so nobody is promised a start date you gave out in June.
Never a made-up price
It gives only the guide figures you’ve approved, each with a review date. It never invents a price — anything specific to a customer’s job is taken as an enquiry for you to price.
Paperwork eating your evenings too? Certificate, quoting and admin tools are built to order and quoted separately — tell me what takes the time.
Every build ships secure by default, UK GDPR-compliant and monitored — see how we build.
What your customers ask
Answered from your information, in your words
- “How far ahead are you booked?”
- “Do you do the groundworks as well, or just the build?”
- “Can you help with the planning drawings?”
- “Do you do bespoke joinery — stairs, windows, doors?”
- “Roughly what does a single-storey extension cost?”
- “Are you insured, and is the work guaranteed?”
It only ever answers from what you’ve approved. If it hasn’t got an answer, it says so, takes the customer’s details and texts you the question. You answer once, and it knows next time.
Why it matters in Cornwall
Granite, cob and the Cornwall National Landscape
Cornish customers ask questions builders elsewhere rarely hear: will you work on a cob wall, can you match the stone, does the cottage being in the Cornwall National Landscape or a conservation area change things? Foredesk answers those from your own experience, in your words — and anything that needs a planning officer’s view comes to you rather than getting a confident guess.
Proof, not promises
Live in the wild — go and ask one a question
Halls Roofing, Exeter
Trained on the firm’s own services, answering visitors and capturing enquiries around the clock — the same job it would do for builders.
Cornwall Play Safety — “Piran”
An inspection firm’s assistant answering questions on services, turnaround and quotes, and taking a number when a question needs the owner.
Straight answers
- What does it cost?
- £499 one-off setup, then £99 a month. No tiers, no per-lead fees, and no VAT on top.
- Will it give out prices without me agreeing them?
- Only the guide figures you give it, each with a review date. It never invents a price — anything specific to a customer’s job is taken as an enquiry for you to price.
- Will it give planning or building-regs advice?
- Only what you’ve approved, such as “we can recommend an architect” or “we handle the building-control application”. It won’t tell a customer they don’t need planning permission — that question comes to you.
- What if a customer asks something it doesn’t know?
- It says so rather than guessing, takes the customer’s name and number so the job isn’t lost, and texts you the question. You answer once, in your own words, and from then on it can answer it for everyone.
- Can you build estimating or project tools too?
- Yes, as a separate bespoke build, quoted before any work starts. Foredesk is the ready-made part; estimating tools are built around your real rates and margins.
Using AI in your business
Straight guides for the trades
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.
AI website assistants for small businesses
What one actually does, whether it is worth it, why most quietly go out of date, and who is liable when one invents a price.
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 tools
Calculators for the job
Brick and block calculator
Bricks, blocks and mortar for a wall, with wastage.
Concrete calculator
Concrete volume converted to cement, sand and ballast bags.
Free, no catch. I built these at TradeCalcs, my calculator site for UK trades.
See it answering your customers
A short demo, on a page that looks like your own website, answering from your own information. £499 to set up, then £99 a month.
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