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Answers for construction and trades firms
Straight answers to the questions building and trades firms actually ask about missed enquiries, choosing an agent, and keeping AI inside its lane.
Can construction recruit its way out of the labour shortage?
Skills England expects around 595,000 workers to need replacing, taking total demand to around 1 million, against a programme training up to 60,000 by 2029. The lever a firm actually controls is the hours its own people lose to the office.
Read it →What is Ryku AI?
An AI agent platform for construction and trades firms. It answers your voice, email, chat and social from your own business details, so every call is answered and every enquiry is caught, day and night.
Read it →The work is done. The money is not.
Late payment costs the UK economy almost £11 billion a year, but the biggest cost inside your own firm is the chasing. A small firm loses 138 hours a year to it. A medium one loses 324.
Read it →What does an AI agent cost a trades firm, and how does it compare?
£299 a month, live in two to six weeks. Here is the honest comparison against an answering service, a part-time admin, and the cheaper AI receptionists, including where they beat us.
Read it →What does a missed call really cost a building or trades firm?
You cannot answer the phone from the top of a ladder. More than half of callers will not even leave a voicemail, and the work you are chasing is the work paying next month's wages.
Read it →How do you stop AI guessing in a construction business?
The danger is not a rude machine. It is a confident one. Here is how you bound it so it cannot invent a price, a date, or an opinion on safety.
Read it →AI agent, answering service, or someone in the office: which should a trades firm buy?
An answering service takes a message you still have to return. An AI agent answers the question and books the site visit. Here is the honest comparison.
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