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Plumbing owner's agents run the back office, but big quotes stay human

Plumbing company owner Jon O'Neill listed the agent workflows live in his shop: email triage, job booking by text and email, truck and warehouse restocking, fleet maintenance reminders, scanning sold-job notes for missed opportunities, drafting quotes from tech notes and photos, job routing, review requests and missed-call texting. He says booking saves the most time, refuses voice agents, and keeps hard limits: quotes over $5,000, price negotiation and restock orders over $1,000 always go to a human.

How it works

  1. Customer texts or emails
  2. Agent books the job
  3. Tech completes work and leaves notes and photos
  4. Agent drafts the quote from the notes
  5. Agent scans sold-job notes for missed opportunities
  6. Agents watch truck stock and fleet maintenance dates and flag what is due
  7. Owner reviews anything over the money thresholds

Why it’s worth knowing

A plumber runs a fleet of back-office agents but keeps three hard money limits where a human must take over, and will not let a voice agent near his customers.

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