The short answer
A service request arrives as an email or a form and has to become a work order with the right address, contract and materials. The workflow prepares that work order as a draft; the planner checks it and schedules it. Building this one process costs 1,500 euros excluding VAT and takes ten working days.
Processes worth investigating
At installation and maintenance companies these are the handover moments worth looking at in the free AI plan.
Does a customer email a fault with two photos and an address, and does someone in the office retype that into the work order?
Is the request incomplete, so the planner calls back first before anything can be scheduled?
Does the work order come in without hours or materials, so administration can only invoice after calling the engineer?
How one workflow runs
Request comes in
Email or form, with photos and attachments.
Customer, address and installation recognised
From your own customer and asset history.
Missing details flagged
With a draft question to the customer, which is only sent when an employee wants it.
Draft work order created
Complaint, urgency signals, preferred time and attachments in one place.
Planner checks and forwards
Urgency, engineer and time slot stay with the planner.
Work order lands
In your own software or as a separate check overview; what is possible is determined by the diagnosis.
Illustrative example: AI in daily work. A customer emails: 'Boiler shows an error code, no more hot water, can you come quickly?' with two photos and an address. The workflow creates a draft work order with customer, asset from the history, complaint, error code from the photo, urgency flagged and the question whether the maintenance contract covers it. The planner sees three fields to check, not an empty work order.
AI prepares, the planner decides
AI prepares
- reading and structuring the request;
- looking up customer and installation;
- flagging missing details and preparing the question to the customer;
- creating a draft work order;
- after the visit, checking hours, materials and photos for completeness.
The planner decides
- assessing urgency and safety;
- choosing engineer and time slot;
- sending the question to the customer;
- releasing the work order;
- releasing the completion report and invoice.
The stop point sits before scheduling. AI-first, with a human in the loop: first look at which part of the intake an AI workflow can prepare, only then who does what by hand, with a planner who approves and remains owner of the outcome.
Before I build anything, we go through five controls: input, authority, approval, exception and evidence. Each control gives a written outcome, and together they determine whether we build, repair first or do not build. How those five controls work.
What the workflow does not do
- replace your work order or planning software;
- take over the planning board;
- handle a fault as urgent or non-urgent by itself;
- give engineers a new app;
- promise an integration before the diagnosis has shown what is possible.
When this fits and when it does not
Probably interesting if
- requests come in daily by email or form;
- the planner or office team retypes them;
- the software has a mailbox, export or integration, or a separate check overview is already a gain.
Probably not the right first workflow if
- requests come in almost only by phone and are scheduled straight away;
- every job is a unique project without a fixed intake;
- nobody in the office can say what a complete request is.
The diagnosis can also conclude that automating is not sensible right now. Then you get that advice in writing, with the reason.
What I take off your hands if you want to continue
After the free AI plan you choose: have one process built for €1,500, or connect multiple workflows in the AI Operating System for €4,500, excluding VAT. Analysis, testing, team training and handover are included. Compare the options.
- Investigating your situation and the service intake
- Carrying out the audit
- Making a concrete plan
- Building and implementing the workflow
- Training the office by working alongside them
- Giving updates on progress
- Staying available for questions, without an invoice
Asking questions is free, during and after a programme. I usually reply within a few minutes, including weekends. Additional building work is a new agreement. The full route is on the how it works page.
Three options, three prices
FreeOption 1, the free AI plan. An AI plan for your whole business, three tailored examples and a demonstration, plus a personal video and a review call. Within a week of our call. No obligation.
€1,500Option 2, this one process with AI. One-off, excluding VAT, ten working days: reviewed, built and tested, with an opportunity map for the rest of your business. Credited in full if you move on to option 3 within 30 days.
€4,500Option 3, the AI Operating System. Your whole business on AI, excluding VAT, in three weeks. Stop point after week one for €1,500.
Who does the work
I am Joost, from Utrecht. I am an AI specialist, shaped at one of the largest banks in the Netherlands, where I work with AI within agreements on compliance, risk, privacy and IT. For your process, we agree what needs to improve and measure whether it does, including time spent on review and rework.
Better work. More business.The tools, the plan and the implementation.
My experience covers administration, customer contact, marketing and complex workflows. You get a concrete plan, working applications and a team that can use them.
One specialist, one point of contact. I diagnose, build and improve the workflow myself, and I help choose which models and working environments fit. Read how I work.
Frequently asked questions
What do I need to provide to get started?
One service request as it came in, without names or customer details. Nothing more. You do not need to know which AI solution you need; I will work that out for you.
We already have work order software, what does this add?
The workflow sits in front of the software: the intake from email and forms, not the software itself. Whether the result can land in your software via an API, import or mailbox, or as a separate check overview, is determined by the diagnosis.
My engineers do not want a new system
They do not need one. The workflow sits in front of the software and gives engineers no new app. Whether the more complete work order lands in your current software via an API, import or mailbox, or as a separate check overview for the planner, is determined by the diagnosis.
What if the workflow misjudges a fault?
The workflow flags urgency signals, the planner decides. Nothing is scheduled and nothing goes to the customer without an employee saying yes.
Does this also work with phone and WhatsApp?
The first workflow works on email and web forms. Other channels are looked at in the diagnosis.