Builders, architects, and developers don't need a callback. They need a number. Drag a floor plan into the chat. Our vision model reads it, asks the three things it can't see, and returns a calibrated cost range while you make a coffee.
Standard FAQ duty plus a vision-model takeoff layer that reads your drawings and computes a quote without anyone dialling Brad.
Vision model extracts building type, unit count, storeys, room dimensions, MDF position, and likely drop locations.
Bot fills in what it can read, then asks two or three clarifying questions instead of the full eight-step questionnaire.
Low/mid/high based on Brad's actual past-job invoices for the matching project class. Never a single guess number.
Opens Brad's calendar, shows real availability, books the survey. SMS confirmation fires the moment the slot is locked.
Smaller jobs can pay a refundable deposit in chat. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay. Funds in Brad's Stripe.
Bigger jobs trigger a WhatsApp brief to Brad with project class, range, extracted drawing data, and full transcript.
A vision-capable model parses the drawing the moment it lands in chat. Anything ambiguous gets bounced back as a one-line clarification, never silently guessed.
The vision layer is fast at the obvious stuff: building footprint, storey count, room labels, dimension callouts, MDF location, riser shafts, plenum vs riser zones, and likely drop counts based on labelled outlets. It's slower on hand-marked sketches and unscaled photos, where it asks for confirmation before quoting.
Every extracted value is read back to you in the chat: "I'm reading 28 units across 4 storeys, ~22,000 sqft total, MDF on ground floor - right?" If you correct it, the bot logs the correction so the next quote is more accurate.
If the drawing is genuinely unreadable (low resolution, crop, or hand-sketch with no scale), the bot says so and falls back to typed questions. Never auto-quotes from bad input.
A property developer in Quinte West is bidding three contractors. They drop the architect's PDF into the chat at 11:08am. By 11:11am they have a $42k to $58k range and a survey on Brad's calendar.
Riverbend Living · 28-unit MDU retrofit · Quinte West · PDF dropped at 11:08am.
Half the rows below were read straight off the PDF. The rest came from three follow-up questions.
Drawings show what's there. They don't show how cable comes in, what topology you want, or your timeline. We never auto-quote on vision output alone - sorry, we never auto-quote without confirming.
Anything above the self-serve threshold or in the complex-class lanes routes Brad immediately. The drawing, the extracted data, the answers, and the range. He calls when he's free.
"New lead, 28-unit MDU retrofit Quinte West, $50,000 mid-range. Aerial drop, GPON, occupied. Architect's PDF read clean. Buyer is Richard at Riverbend Living, comparing 3 bids."
The PDF drop happened at 11:08am on a Wednesday. Brad was on a roof in Belleville. By the time he got down, the email had been sent, the WhatsApp was waiting, and the survey slot was held.
Vision model extracted unit count, storeys, total area, MDF position, riser shafts.
Three clarifying questions: entry method, topology, occupancy stage. Never auto-quoted on vision alone.
MDU small class, Quinte rural uplift, occupied-retrofit complexity multiplier, 6-week rush surcharge.
PDF transcript with extracted data and the range, sent to richard@riverbend.ca within 90 seconds.
Three-line summary plus full transcript link plus the original PDF. Project class, range, customer contact.
Contact, drawing, extracted-data JSON, range, calibration version. Searchable in the CRM forever.
Vision-model usage is bundled into the monthly retainer up to 200 drawing reads. Beyond that, $0.40 per read at cost. No per-conversation fees, no per-deposit cut.
$1,500 / month - sorry, monthly retainer covers hosting, vision-model usage (up to 200 reads), monthly calibration review, and ongoing accuracy tuning.
$0.40 / extra read beyond 200 drawings per month, billed at cost.
Owned by BOQ. Hosted on BOQ.ca. Drawings stored encrypted on Brad's own S3 bucket. Cancel anytime.
30-day pilot. Calibrated against Brad's real numbers. Vision-extract layer live from day one for MDU and small commercial drawings.