There are plenty of people who'll sell a trades business "AI." Most of them have never had a callback go to voicemail during a job, never watched good help walk out the door, never had a slow week eat a month's margin. They build for the demo, not the truck.
I'm the other kind. I started Toolbelt Automations because I saw how much time owners lose to the stuff between the work — the chasing, the sorting, the paperwork that piles up after the real job's done. I taught myself to build the systems that take that weight off, and I build them for how trades actually run, not how software companies imagine they run.
I build custom AI tools for trades and home-service businesses — the kind that handle the judgment calls your software can't. Reading a lead and knowing if it's real. Screening applicants before they waste your time. Turning a pile of missed calls into booked work. Pulling the signal out of the noise so you and your crew can stay on the tools.
Not templates. Not a platform you have to learn. Built around your business, running on accounts you own, documented so you're never locked to me or anyone else. You hold the keys — I just build what goes on the ring.
When you hire Toolbelt, you get me — the person who actually builds the thing. Not a salesperson who disappears after the contract, not a ticket in an offshore queue. I keep it lean on purpose: small enough to care about your shop, hands-on enough to build it right, and straight enough to tell you when automation isn't the answer.
That means I take on the work I can do well, and I'd rather earn a few shops that trust me than chase a hundred that don't.
We talk first. No pitch deck. Thirty minutes on what eats your week.
I find the bottleneck. The one or two spots where time leaks worst.
I build it. Custom, on your tools, tested before it touches a customer.
You own it. Documented and handed over. It's yours.