AI for your trade business: quotes out faster, less paperwork in the evening. We build AI that takes paperwork off your office and your sites.
Enquiries, measurements, quotes, daily reports and invoices: in the trades, a lot of office work waits until the evening. AI Værk works with you from the first call to a solution in daily use. Customer data stays under your control, on a server in your business if you prefer.
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AI Værk is your 360° partner for AI in mid-sized companies.
Together we pin down where AI can take work off your hands, and then we implement it.
We know the day-to-day work in the skilled trades: quotes for customer enquiries, daily site reports and measurements for the invoice. We also know what holds things up everywhere: re-keying data from one system into another, or waiting for the one person who knows the answer.
You can start wherever you are: with an early idea, a workflow that takes too long, or a finished plan for us to implement.
Justus August and Elias Arndt
About us-
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Consulting and AI audit
In a free initial call of about 30 minutes, we listen. In the €500 AI audit, we review your workflows, data and software, then agree with you where to start.
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Workshops and training
Your team practises on real tasks from their own day-to-day work and learns to use AI tools safely and check the results.
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AI assistants and chatbots
Your team or your customers ask, your company knowledge answers: with sources, and only with what the person asking is allowed to see.
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Process automation
Recurring workflows run on their own from intake to result, connected to the software you already use.
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Custom development
We build custom software where off-the-shelf products fall short, for example for a workflow that only exists at your company.
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Operations and maintenance
We host, monitor and maintain the software and extend it when your workflows change.
Operations and monitoring
Where AI saves your business time
Turn enquiries into quotes
Enquiries from email and your contact form land in your trade software as a project, photos included. If measurements are missing, the software asks the customer.
Daily reports from voice notes
Your fitter records a voice note on site. It becomes the daily report with hours, materials and photos, filed under the right job.
Measurements and hours into the invoice
The software prepares the invoice from measurements, timesheets and delivery notes. Your office checks and sends it.
From customer enquiry to finished quote
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Take in the enquiry
A customer wants two offices painted and sends photos. The software creates a project in your trade software and asks for the room measurements.
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Add the measurements
On site, your master painter dictates the measurements: 86 m² of wall, 32 m² of ceiling. The software enters the quantities in the draft quote with your standard descriptions of work.
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Check and send
Prices come from your costing. Your office checks the draft and sends the quote the same day.
Customer data stays where you decide.
Addresses, floor plans and costing belong to your business. You decide where the software runs, and we set it up that way.
- GDPR from the start: the software reads only the data the task needs.
- A data processing agreement under the GDPR, signed before the software sees real data.
- Your data and your costing are never used to train AI models.
- Every access is logged. You see who opened what, and when.
Connected to your trade software
Where your trade software offers an interface or an import route, we pass projects, draft quotes and reports straight to it. Otherwise your office moves them across from a work list with one click. We set up existing AI features, such as those in plancraft and HERO, with your team.
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Working safely with AI: training for your office and site team
Your team practises on an everyday customer enquiry: what does the software file, what does the AI see of it, and what does the master craftsman settle himself? The switch shows how customer data stays protected.
“Hello, we would like two offices painted, photos attached. I will send the measurements as soon as I have them. Could you start before 15 March? Best wishes, Person 4182Thomas Krüger, Address 0915Lindenstraße 14, Kiel”
- Your server inserts placeholders
- Sent encrypted
- Cloud AI processes it
- Your server puts the names back
Only your server knows which placeholder belongs to which person.
- Message arrives
- The AI on your server works with the full message
Nothing leaves your business.
File the enquiry
Turn the request and photos into a project, so nothing sits in the inbox.
Keep the measurements in view
Log the promised measurements as an open item. The reminder goes out by itself after three days.
Pass the date to the master craftsman
Pass the question about the start date to the master craftsman. He plans the job and confirms.
Questions before getting started
Can we use AI with customer data?
Yes, with a data processing agreement under the GDPR, which we sign before the start. If the software and the AI model run on a server at your business, the data stays on your premises from start to finish.
Does it work with plancraft or HERO?
Yes. Where your trade software offers an interface or an import route, we pass projects and draft quotes straight to it, otherwise with one click from a work list. We check the routes for Craftnote and other software in the same way.
What does getting started cost?
The initial call is free. If the task is already clear, we move straight to a proposal. If a closer assessment is needed, the AI audit costs €500, fully credited towards implementation with AI Værk. Small solutions start at around €2,000. If we find no useful AI application, the audit fee is waived; previously agreed expenses remain payable. Our proposal lists setup, licences, hosting and support separately.
Is it worthwhile for a small business?
Often even more so, because owners and office staff carry a lot of paperwork in the evening. In the AI audit we do the maths with your own figures. If it does not pay off, we tell you plainly.
Where does your business lose the most time?
In the free initial call, tell us what holds up your office every evening. We will show you where AI helps, what it costs and how it works with your trade software.