For general contractors
Spend less time on paperwork and more time building.
Crest & Crucible builds working AI systems for general contractors and remodelers: faster estimates, bids that always get a follow-up, missed calls that get a reply right away, and paperwork drafted from a quick voice note. We build it around how you already run your jobs, then train your office and crew until it sticks.
10+ years in product and technology including at Waymo and Workday.
Based in Loomis, CA. Serving Rocklin, Roseville, Granite Bay, Auburn, the Sacramento area, and remote.
Sound familiar?
You are great at building. The office side is what wears you down.
Most contractors we talk to are not short on skill or work. They are short on hours, because the estimating, chasing and paperwork all land on the owner.
What we build
Working systems that take the office work off your plate.
Each of these is built around your jobs, your pricing and your way of doing things. Pick one to start, or put a few together.
Estimate drafts from your past bids
Describe the job and get a first-draft estimate built from how you have priced similar work before. You review it, adjust it, and send it. Your numbers, your judgment, a lot less typing.
Automatic bid follow-ups
Every bid you send gets a polite, well-timed follow-up in your voice, so no job goes quiet just because you were busy.
Missed-call text-back
When you cannot pick up, the caller gets a text right away saying you will call back, and the system collects what the job is so you know before you return the call.
A job-status assistant
Ask a simple question by text or voice and get an answer pulled from your schedule, notes and job records. No digging through folders or calling the foreman.
"Where is the Smith remodel?"
Change orders and daily logs from a voice note
Talk for thirty seconds on the drive home. The system turns it into a clean daily log or a change order ready for the client to sign, filed with the right job.
Payment reminders
Progress payment reminders go out on schedule, politely and consistently, so you are not the one making the awkward call.
You stay in charge. Estimates, change orders and anything that goes to a client wait for your approval before they go out, unless you decide otherwise.
Before and after
What a normal week can look like.
An illustration of the kind of change we aim for, not a promise of specific results.
Fits how you already work
No new platform to force on your crew.
Most contractors already have a system, even if it is a spreadsheet, a shared calendar, a phone full of texts, and some estimating or accounting software. We build on top of what you have, so your team does not have to learn everything over again.
If a tool is truly getting in your way, we will tell you plainly and explain the trade-offs. Otherwise, we leave it alone.
How we work
We build it, then train your office and crew until it sticks.
The goal is a system your team uses every day without thinking about it. We stay until that is true.
01
Learn your jobs
We start by learning how a job moves through your business today, from first call to final payment, including the spreadsheets and texts that hold it together.
02
Fit your existing tools
We build on the software, spreadsheets and phones you already use. No forcing your crew onto a platform they will ignore.
03
Train your office and crew
We show your office manager, your foremen and you how to use it, then stay involved and adjust until it is simply how work gets done.
04
Hand it over
Once your team runs it on their own, it is yours. Ongoing support is optional, only for what you cannot handle yourselves.
Start with a conversation
Tell us where the hours go.
In a free 30-minute consultation, walk us through how a job moves from first call to final payment. We will tell you plainly where a working system would save you time, and where it would not.
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