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AI for Electricians
AI for electricians means qualifying every EICR, PAT and rewire enquiry before it hits your inbox, quoting a consumer-unit swap from a photo, and never forgetting a certificate follow-up. How Do AI builds enquiry handlers and admin tools for UK electricians running single vans or small teams — fixed price, live in 3 to 5 days.
What can AI actually do for an electrician?
These are the jobs worth handing over first for a UK electrician — the ones that give back the most time for the least setup, roughly in the order we would tackle them.
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Qualify EICR and rewire enquiries before you call back
2–4 hrs a weekAn AI enquiry handler on your website asks what the job is (EICR, rewire, fault-find, new circuit, consumer unit swap), the age and size of the property, and whether it is landlord or owner-occupier. Callback lists arrive pre-sorted; you spend zero time on lost-cause enquiries.
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Quote a consumer unit swap from a photo
2–5 hrs a weekCustomer snaps their existing consumer unit and any obvious issues. The AI drafts a ballpark quote based on what it sees — number of ways, RCD/RCBO layout, obvious cable state — for you to confirm on the next call. Cuts a survey visit off half your smaller quotes.
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EICR and certificate follow-ups on autopilot
1–3 hrs a weekAnyone due an EICR next month gets an AI-drafted reminder in your voice. Landlords get a slightly different one to homeowners. You approve the batch in one click; the AI sends and follows up if there is no reply after 10 days.
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PAT test scheduling for commercial clients
1–2 hrs a weekThe AI tracks which commercial clients are due PAT this quarter and drafts a scheduling email with three slot options. Clients pick a slot in one click and it goes straight into your diary.
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Review replies without another late night
up to 1 hr a weekEvery Google and Facebook review gets a drafted reply in your voice within an hour of posting. You approve on your phone in a minute. Bad reviews get a longer, calmer draft flagged for your personal review.
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Materials list from a photo of the boards
1–2 hrs a weekFor rewires and consumer unit jobs, you photo the existing setup and the AI produces a first-cut materials list — cable lengths, RCBOs, back boxes, faceplates — for you to correct and order. Faster than starting the list from scratch.
A note on those time figures: they are our estimate of how long each job typically takes a business your size, not a promise, and they very deliberately do not add up. Nobody sets all of these up at once. Most people start with one or two, see whether it actually helps, and go from there.
A worked example: the EICR that would have slipped
A landlord in High Wycombe emails at 9pm asking for an EICR. Old inbox model: you see it Wednesday morning, reply saying "I can visit next Tuesday for a quote", never hear back because she went with whoever replied that night.
With the qualifying automation doing the front door: she lands on your site, says it is a rental in HP12, three-bed semi, last EICR was 2019. It confirms your standard EICR fee for a three-bed and offers three visit slots this week. She picks Thursday. Your phone pings with the confirmation and her contact details before you have even brushed your teeth.
Thursday you arrive with a quote already priced, an EICR job booked, a customer who is impressed she got an answer at 9pm on a Tuesday. That is one job you would have lost, captured while you were asleep.
How much does AI for electricians cost, and how long does setup take?
Most electricians start with an AI enquiry handler that knows your EICR, PAT, rewire and fault-find scope and can give a sensible pricing indication. Photo-based quoting and certificate follow-ups sit on top of that — a Consulting Lite bundle at £150 for four hours covers the setup, or it can run as part of a monthly Admin plan instead. Consulting hours are the only fixed published price; the enquiry handler and any monthly plan get quoted once we know what you actually need.
What we build for electricians
Two tracks, wherever you start. AI Consulting is the build side — enquiry handling, automations, websites and anything bespoke, at a fixed price. How Do AI Admin is the ongoing side, run for you month to month. What differs by trade is the training data, the workflow and the integrations we set up around them.
AI Consulting
Enquiry handling that qualifies EICR, rewire, PAT and fault-find jobs into pre-sorted callback lists, plus photo-based quoting, invoicing connections and materials-list automation. From £150 for 4 hours.
Websites & apps
A site that sets out your scope, certification and coverage properly, so the enquiries that arrive are the ones you want. Live within a week or two.
How Do AI Admin
Handles reviews, social and certificate follow-ups from one dashboard. Priority Response tier means overnight enquiries get an AI holding reply before you wake up.
Will it sound like me, and what happens if it gets something wrong?
Every price indication the enquiry handler gives is a ballpark you have set — never a fabricated exact quote. Anything outside its trained scope (large commercial, three-phase, EV chargers if you do not fit them) is escalated to you rather than guessed at. Every EICR reminder, PAT scheduling email and review reply is a draft you approve before it goes out; nothing is auto-published without your say-so.
Frequently asked questions
How much does an AI setup for a UK electrician cost?
Enquiry handling — sorting what comes in and drafting the replies — is a fixed-price build, quoted after a free call, normally live within a working week. Photo-based consumer-unit quoting and EICR/PAT follow-up automation go on top as a Consulting Lite bundle at £150 for four hours — that price is fixed and published. The enquiry side depends on how much of it you want taken off your hands.
Can it really quote a consumer unit swap from a photo?
It drafts a ballpark based on visible clues — number of ways, RCD/RCBO layout, obvious cable state — that you confirm on the callback. It never sends a firm price without you approving it. The point is to skip an unnecessary survey visit for a straightforward swap, not to auto-quote every job blind.
Does the certificate follow-up cover EICR, PAT and EIC?
Yes, all three. You tell the system what certificate you issued, the property type and when it expires; the AI drafts the renewal reminder in your voice at 90, 30 and 7 days before expiry. Landlord EICR reminders can be phrased slightly differently to owner-occupier ones. You approve each batch before it sends.
What about calls or enquiries that are outside my scope?
It is trained on exactly what you do (say, domestic and light commercial, no EV chargers, no three-phase). Enquiries outside that scope get a polite decline with a suggestion to call a specialist, so you do not have your callback list clogged with jobs you cannot take. You define the boundaries; the automation enforces them.
Can I connect it to my scheduling or diary tool?
Yes for the common electrician tools — Google Calendar, Fergus, Joblogic, ServiceM8, simPRO, Payaca. On the discovery call we confirm the integration is available and whether it fits in a Lite or Plus bundle. Most cases sit in Lite.
What if a customer sends a rude review after a difficult job?
The AI drafts a longer, calmer reply — acknowledging the specific complaint, offering to take the conversation offline, never getting defensive — and flags it for your personal review before posting. Nothing goes out in your firm's voice publicly without you tapping approve. For anything that looks legally risky (defamation, safety allegations) the AI says "call this one, do not reply publicly".
Want this running in your electrical business?
Half an hour on the phone, free, no pitch. Tell us how your week actually runs and we will tell you honestly which one of these would pay back fastest for you — then quote a fixed price for it.
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