Trades & marine services
Call capture and scheduling for teams covering long distances between jobs.
Island businesses serve a wide area with small teams. Automation covers the ground that travel time makes expensive.
Nanaimo anchors a service area stretching well up and down central Vancouver Island: trades and marine services, healthcare and allied health, retail and hospitality, and professional firms serving a dispersed population.
Distance shapes everything here. Time spent driving is time not spent answering the phone or following up — which is exactly the gap an AI agent fills.
For Island service businesses, the hours lost aren't only the admin hours — they're the calls that went unanswered during a two-hour round trip. Automation closes that specific gap better than any scheduling discipline can.
Call capture and scheduling for teams covering long distances between jobs.
Booking, reminders and recall for practices serving a wide catchment.
Enquiry handling, reservations and review management.
Nanaimo serves central Vancouver Island, where the nearest alternative supplier is often a ferry ride away — and where the customer will still phone the next name on the list.
Business locations with employees across the Nanaimo census metropolitan area. A compact base serving a long stretch of coast, so responsiveness carries more weight than reach.
The average business takes 42 hours to make first contact with an inbound enquiry, and only 37% manage it inside an hour — but those who do are 60× likelier to qualify the lead.
Nanaimo businesses serving island and coastal customers keep booking details, service histories and staff records across several disconnected tools. All of that is personal information under B.C.’s Personal Information Protection Act, and it stays your responsibility — which is exactly why you should interrogate any vendor, us included.
Your organisation remains responsible for personal information it handles, including information passed to contractors — and service contracts are expected to carry clear privacy requirements. Handing a workflow to an automation vendor moves the work, not the accountability.
Every organisation covered by PIPA must designate at least one privacy officer responsible for compliance, and must have a privacy policy available on request that sets out how information is collected, used, stored, disposed of, and how complaints are handled.
PIPA requires reasonable arrangements against unauthorised access, use, disclosure or disposal — administrative, physical and technological. An integration that quietly copies client records into a third-party tool is where this usually comes apart.
Questions worth asking any provider: where does the data physically live, which sub-processors touch it, what happens to it when we stop working together, and will you sign terms that reflect PIPA? The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner publishes guidance for private organisations if you would rather check our answers against the regulator’s.
General information, not legal advice — confirm your obligations with the OIPC or a privacy lawyer.
Inspired Cannabis runs 51 retail locations across Canada. Reviews were being answered on a 72-hour average because the work sat with people who already had jobs. We built the system that reads, scores, drafts and routes them — response time is now under two minutes, and the reporting that used to take days is a dashboard.
No discovery retainer and no six-week scoping phase. We look at where enquiries are arriving and where they stall, then build the smallest thing that fixes it.
What comes in, through which channel, and what happens when nobody is free to answer it. That is the whole brief.
You get the number before anything is built, along with what is explicitly not included so nothing is argued about later.
We wire it into the tools you already run — your calendar, your CRM, your phone line — rather than asking you to move to ours.
Most builds are running in two to six weeks. The first fortnight after launch is where the useful adjustments happen.
Most agencies make you sit through a discovery call to find out whether you can afford them. Ours are on the pricing page, and they are the same for a Nanaimo business as anywhere else in BC.
Plus $650 a month. The essentials: capture every enquiry, book every job, chase every follow-up.
Plus $1,500 a month. Automation across acquisition, admin and retention rather than a single workflow.
Plus $2,800 a month. Sales, operations and knowledge wired together across the back office.
We build around your existing tools rather than asking you to move. If you run something that isn't listed, it almost certainly has an API and we'll connect to that.
No. Delivery is remote and we're in the same time zone, so there's no coordination penalty.
Yes — routing by location, service type or availability is standard, which suits businesses covering a large catchment.
That's the usual starting point, and it's the easiest thing to measure improvement on: every captured call is one that previously went to voicemail or to a competitor.
Packages start at $2,500 setup plus $650 a month for the essentials — capturing every lead, booking every job and chasing the follow-ups. Growth is $4,500 plus $1,500 a month and Scale is $8,500 plus $2,800 a month. Every figure is published on our pricing page rather than quoted after a discovery call.
Most builds go live in two to six weeks depending on scope. A single automation — missed-call text-back, or booking wired to your calendar — is usually running inside two weeks. Connecting several systems together takes longer, because the integrations rather than the AI are the slow part.
Two things, mostly. It builds the systems that answer enquiries and book work when nobody is free to pick up, and it connects the tools you already run so the same information stops being retyped between them. For most Nanaimo businesses that starts with the phone, the inbox and the calendar.
A free 30-minute call. We'll find where time and revenue leak out, and show you what automating it would actually involve — whether you work with us or not.
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