McDole GroupIndependent Technology
Vertical · East Bay restoration contractors

Managed AI for restoration contractors.

I work with restoration contractors handling fire, water, and mold — insurance-claim-funded work where every job ships ten documents. The engagement covers three agent patterns I'll tailor to your shop, handling the paperwork and homeowner updates so your crews can focus on the work.

The pain you live with

Every job has a carrier on the other side. Every carrier sends ten emails — supplementals, photo requests, scope disputes, coverage questions. Your project manager spends half their day in the inbox instead of on the site. Emergency calls come in at 2am and either get answered or get lost. Customers go four weeks without a status update and start calling daily.

This is the bundle that handles all of that.

The three patterns
  1. 01

    Carrier correspondence parser.

    Reads carrier emails on every job. Files documents to the right project, flags coverage disputes and supplemental requests, drafts your response.

  2. 02

    After-hours lead intake.

    Calls and form fills outside business hours get a personalized response within 60 seconds. The agent qualifies for emergency vs scheduled, captures the situation, and pages the on-call tech.

  3. 03

    Customer status updates.

    Long jobs go silent. The agent drafts weekly progress updates to homeowners during multi-week jobs — pulled from job-site notes and crew logs — for your project manager to approve and send.

What it connects to

Encircle, Dash, Albi, Xactimate — plus carrier claim portals, QuickBooks, your email and calendar, and your phone system. The agents bridge the tools your shop already runs on. If it has an API, an export, or an inbox, I can wire it in.

— How it's delivered

I bring you a small server for your office network. I deploy it, I administer it remotely, and you'll have my cell phone number — and I answer when you call.

How managed AI agents work
Pricing

Sized to your shop, not to a fixed package. Here's the general shape:

Install · one-time
$12,000 – $18,000
TYPICAL RANGE

Covers design and custom build of the three agents, job management system integration, and edge-appliance provisioning.

Monthly retainer
$2,500 – $4,500
TYPICAL RANGE

Covers ongoing operations, cloud AI costs, monthly business review, and on-call support.

The Discovery Audit produces a precise quote for your shop.

Smaller engagements — project work, scoped integrations, fractional advisory — scoped on request. Talk to me about what fits

Start here

Start with a Discovery Audit.

One week on-site with your shop. I interview your project managers and crew, sit with the carrier-email pile, and deliver a written report on the top opportunities — with hours saved per week and dollar value for each. A flat $2,500, money-back guarantee on the report, credits 100% toward whatever I build next.