14h+
Lost every week to chasing information, sorting out mix-ups and redoing mistakes. That's about 35% of the work week.
Source: Autodesk & FMI, Construction Disconnected (survey of ~600 construction professionals)
Open Meadow
The office that never clocks out.
We learn how your business runs, then build AI into the work that eats your day: calls, quotes, scheduling and paperwork. Built for trades businesses.
Where the time and money go
Every one of these is costing you a job.
Most business owners think AI means a chatbot. It's actually whichever of these is quietly costing you money right now.
- Calls going to voicemail after hours Fixed: Answered and booked, day or night
- Quotes that sit for a week Fixed: Sent the same day, automatically
- Timesheets and payroll eating hours every week Fixed: Tracked automatically, no spreadsheet chasing
- Material orders and shipments falling through the cracks Fixed: Tracked and flagged before it's a problem
- A website that doesn't turn visitors into calls Fixed: Rebuilt to book jobs
48%
Of all rework in construction comes from poor information and miscommunication.
Source: Autodesk & FMI, Construction Disconnected
21x
More likely to qualify a new lead when you get back to them within 5 minutes instead of 30.
Source: Lead Response Management Study (Oldroyd, MIT)
How we work.
Four steps, the same every time. You always know what's next and what it costs.
01
Audit
The paid diagnostic. We learn how your business actually runs: how work comes in, gets quoted, scheduled, done and invoiced. Then we map every place AI can take work off your plate.
02
Architect
We design the AI tools and automations around how the business already runs. Nothing about how the team works has to change to make room for it. The system fits them, not the other way around.
03
Integrate
We set everything up and connect it to the tools you already use, without disrupting a single day of work.
04
Scale
Every month we track the hours saved and the jobs won, and tune the system as the business grows.
It starts with the audit. Everything after that is your call.
While you were off the clock.
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Furnace not heating on a cold night. Booked for 8 AM, confirmation texted.
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The estimate is in their inbox before they call anyone else.
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Materials for today's jobs ordered from the supplier. The crew knows what's waiting.
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Timesheets filled in from the day's jobs, ready for payroll.
Fewer than 1 in 10 Canadian construction businesses, trades included, used AI in the past year: 9.2%, half the rate of businesses overall (Statistics Canada, Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, 2026). Being early is the advantage, and the audit removes the guesswork before any commitment.
Illustration of the kind of work the system takes off your plate.
Why work with Open Meadow.
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Trade credibility
5+ years designing and commissioning BAS and HVAC control systems before writing a line of AI code. Real trade experience, not a sales deck.
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Built, not just advised
Builds and connects the system personally. Not a consultant who hands over a list of tools and disappears.
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No platform to push
Not tied to reselling one platform, so the recommendation fits the business, not a commission.
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Direct access
Whoever calls talks to the person who built the system, not a support queue that has to look up your account first.
What it costs
The Audit: $1,500 CAD.
One fixed fee, agreed up front, with no surprises. You get a written report: what's costing you, what tools fix it, ranked by payback. It's yours to keep and act on however you want, whether we build it or your own team does.
Running a bigger operation, with multiple crews or locations? Book a free consultation and we'll scope it properly.
If you want it built
A separate fee, scoped per project, since a simple automation and a multi-system integration take very different amounts of work. Every build ships with a 6 to 12 month warranty covering fixes and support. After that, ongoing tuning continues on a monthly retainer, only if you want it kept running.