$5,700/Month Selling AI To Tradespeople

📝 Special-Mastodon-990 started his UK-based AI agency as a side project in September 2025 alongside freelance web dev.

By month 7: 12 clients and ~$5,700 MRR 🤑

Pricing: ~$3,200 setup + ~$500/month retainer. Cost per client is $20 to $40. All infrastructure on a single $5/month Hetzner box.

The product is an AI voice agent that answers a tradesperson’s calls and runs the front office 👇

• Books jobs into a live calendar
• Fires an SMS within 30 seconds to anyone who got missed
• Follows up on quotes at day 2, 5, and 10
• Sends a review request a day after each job
• Sends the owner a weekly WhatsApp summary

📝 From his system breakdown…

Small trade businesses lose 30-40% of inbound calls because the owner is up a ladder, under a sink, or driving between jobs.

That 30-second SMS catches a chunk of them…

Around 40% of those missed calls convert into booked jobs just from that one text.

What’s worked: LinkedIn outbound to dental practices and estate agents, cold email to US HVAC companies, and demo-first sales – let prospects hear the agent live.

What hasn’t: Facebook ads, cold calling, content marketing on its own.

You could try this with vets, cleaners, mobile mechanics, local gyms 💪

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