Bespoke AI automation for service businesses

We don't sell you a platform. We build you a system.

GainedTempo is a hands-on AI automation agency. We start with the admin that's actually slowing your business down — missed calls, cold quotes, unpaid invoices — and build the specific system that removes it, inside the tools you already run.

Nothing gets ripped out · Built around your existing tools · Free scoping call

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Which quotes are going cold this week, and what should I chase first?

4 quotes have gone quiet past your follow-up window. Two are over $8k, one client has opened the email five times without replying, and one is a repeat customer from March.

▤ Quotes · 14 openJob softwareEmail · read receiptscallout-rates.pdf
Drafting a follow-up for each one…

An example of what we build — an assistant grounded in your own quotes, rates and job notes.

What we do

Automation that fits the business, not the other way round.

Most AI sold to service businesses is a CRM with a chatbot bolted on, and you bend your workflow to fit it. We do the boring, valuable part: work out where the admin actually costs you, wire the fix into the tools you already run, and hand it over working.

Front-desk agents

Calls, texts and web enquiries answered, qualified and booked against your real availability — using your rates and your wording, not a generic script. Every conversation lands in your inbox as a summary.

Follow-up systems

Quotes chased until you get an answer, invoices reminded on a schedule, reviews asked for at the right moment. You sign off the wording once and a human approves anything unusual before it goes out.

Crew assistants

Questions answered out of your own job notes, spec sheets and past quotes — with a citation on every answer, so anyone can check the work instead of ringing you from a roof.

How we work

A process, not a platform.

01 — SCOPE

A short working session on where your week actually goes.

Your phone log, your quote pile, your inbox. We name the two or three places automation pays for itself and tell you exactly what we'd build — not a vague “AI strategy”.

  • Free scoping call, no obligation
  • Grounded in your real calls, quotes and invoices
  • A concrete list, not a slide deck
Phone
● your stack
Quotes
● your stack
Accounting
● your stack
Job software
● your stack
Inbox
● your stack
Whatever you run

02 — BUILD

A working first version, usually inside two to three weeks.

Built against your real jobs and your real tools, so you're judging the actual thing rather than a demo. It runs beside you before it runs for you.

  • Working prototype on your own data
  • You approve before anything reaches a customer
  • You review, we iterate
AGENT · quote-followup● example build
Quote sent, no reply after 3 days
Checks job value, history and who sent it
Drafts the nudge in your voiceneeds approval

03 — HAND OVER

You own what we build.

We document it, train whoever runs your office on it, and stay on for support if you want it — but you're never locked into us to keep it running.

  • A plain-English runbook of what runs where
  • Accounts and logins in your name
  • Optional ongoing support — no lock-in

Cable size for the Riverdale kitchen circuit is 6mm² TPS on a 32A breaker — 18m run from the board, derated for the roof cavity.

▤ Riverdale — site notes · p.3Ashwood job · Mar
Example · every answer cites its source

See it in action

Real prototypes, not mockups.

Here's what we build when we point AI at a real workflow.

01 — PROTOTYPE · CALL HANDLING

After-hours call agent

A call comes in at 7pm. The agent triages it against your own callout rules, checks who's actually free, quotes the after-hours rate from your price list and books the job — then texts the details to whoever is going.

After-hours call agent
KM
Half the house has no power and the board is clicking. Can anyone come tonight?
That's an urgent callout. Dave finishes in Werribee at 8:15 and can be with you by 8:40 — callout rate is $180 plus parts.
Triaged against your callout rules
Checked Dave's live schedule
Writing the job into your scheduler

A working prototype that turns a missed after-hours call into a booked job — works with your existing phone system and scheduler.

02 — PROTOTYPE · QUOTE FOLLOW-UP

Quote follow-up agent

Most jobs are lost to silence rather than price. Every quote gets three follow-ups over a fortnight, worded like you wrote them, backing off the moment someone replies — and handed to you when the job is big enough to warrant a phone call.

Quote follow-up agent
QuoteValueTouchState
Switchboard upgrade$8,4002 of 3Waiting
Warehouse LED retrofit$23,1001 of 3You call
EV charger install$2,950RepliedWon

A working prototype that chases every open quote on a schedule and escalates the big ones to you.

03 — PROTOTYPE · INVOICE RECOVERY

Invoice recovery agent

Overdue accounts chased at 7, 14 and 28 days — firm without being rude, stopping the second payment lands. Anything disputed, or over the threshold you set, comes to you instead of going out.

Invoice recovery agent
INV-2291 · Marlow BuildersSecond reminder sent Tuesday
$6,120
INV-2274 · Halden PropertyDisputed — handed to you
$18,400
INV-2263 · Cobbett GroupPaid — chase stopped automatically
$3,480

A working prototype that recovers overdue accounts without anyone making the awkward call.

Working with us

What a first project looks like.

1 call

scoping session — free, no obligation

2–3 wks

to a working system — like the ones above, built against your own jobs and tools

Yours

you review, we iterate, you own the result

Approach

We take your data seriously — without overclaiming.

No badge wall, no vague promises. Here's exactly how we handle your data on every project — what we access, what we never do with it, and what the systems we build on already guarantee.

Least access by default

We work inside your existing accounts and permissions — never more access than the job needs.

Never used for training

Your job notes, customer details and pricing are never used to train a model. Your data stays yours.

NDA on every engagement

Standard confidentiality terms signed before we look at anything, on every job.

Australian obligations

Built to your Privacy Act obligations, on infrastructure that already carries SOC 2 / ISO certification.

Let's find the one thing worth automating first.

A 30-minute call. We'll look at one real part of your week and tell you honestly whether automation helps — and if it doesn't, we'll say so.

  • Free scoping call, no obligation
  • Working system in two to three weeks
  • You own everything we build

A real reply within one business day.