BOQ Chatbot - Talk To It

When voice helps

When your hands are busy.

Electrician on a ladder

You're already 10 feet up pulling cable. You don't have a hand free for a 14-field web form. Hold the button, describe the run, get a number before you climb down.

Plumber in a crawlspace

Phone is 6 inches from your face, your hands are wet, you can see the conduit gap that needs fibre. Voice is the only input that works at all.

Contractor walking a property

You're walking a building with the owner. Note off the unit count, the riser layout, and the entry point as you go. Bot quotes by the time you're back at the car.

Property manager in a meeting

Faster than typing notes. Speak the spec, the bot fills the answers, you walk out with a quote already in the email queue.

Rural user with thumbtyping fatigue

Forms over 2G connections are punishment. Voice over a single bar of LTE is fine. Local users in Hastings and Frontenac use voice 4x more than urban.

Accessibility

Vision-impaired, low-dexterity, or anyone who finds typing painful. Voice mode is fully equivalent. Same questions, same range, same handoff to Brad.

Live example

Walking a 4-unit retrofit. Four voice notes.

A contractor walks a 4-unit townhouse retrofit in Trenton. He's in and out of crawlspaces, taking voice notes on the fly. The bot transcribes each one, asks two text gaps, prices the job. Total time on the chatbot: under 3 minutes.

BOQ Assistant / Voice mode LIVE / WHISPER ACTIVE

CUSTOMER / VOICE 1 / 11:02

0:14

Hey, I'm walking a 4 unit townhouse complex in Trenton, retrofit job. Two storeys per unit. The owners want fibre to every unit. I'm in the basement of unit one right now.

BOQ / 11:02

Got it. Small MDU retrofit, 4 units, 2 storeys. I'm logging that. Keep going, send more voice notes as you walk.

CUSTOMER / VOICE 2 / 11:04

0:11

There is no MDF in any of the units. The plan is to put a small comms cabinet in unit one's mechanical room and feed across to the other three units along a shared utility wall.

BOQ / 11:04

Logged. New MDF in unit 1 mechanical room, shared utility wall feed to units 2, 3, 4. No IDFs needed at this scale.

CUSTOMER / VOICE 3 / 11:06

0:13

Each unit will need three drops, one in the living room, one in the main bedroom, one in the home office. So 12 drops total across the four units.

BOQ / 11:06

Logged. 3 drops per unit, 12 drops total.

CUSTOMER / VOICE 4 / 11:08

0:09

Tenants are still living here, retrofit while occupied. The owner wants this done by end of August.

BOQ / 11:08

Two text gaps to lock the range:

1. Aerial drop from the pole or buried entry to the building?

CUSTOMER / 11:09

Aerial. Pole is right behind the property.

BOQ / 11:09

2. GPON shared fibre per riser, or active Ethernet dedicated fibre per unit?

CUSTOMER / 11:09

GPON. Standard residential.

BOQ / 11:09 / RANGE

4 unit townhouse retrofit, occupied, 2 storeys per unit, 12 drops, new MDF in unit 1, GPON, aerial entry, end of August target. Per-unit baseline lands at residential pricing, plus shared MDF build:

$3,400 to $4,800 CAD per unit

Mid: $4,100/unit / Total project: $13,600 to $19,200 / Calibration v.2026.5

BOQ / 11:10

This is in Brad's review band. I've sent him the voice note transcripts and the computed range on WhatsApp. He'll confirm within 4 hours during business days.

Want me to email the full transcript and quote summary to you in the meantime?

Hold to talk Whisper transcribes locally / Push-to-talk fallback / Mic permission required

Talk to it.

When your hands are busy.

Walking a 4-unit retrofit. Four voice notes.

Stop typing on a job site.