Fred for general contractors.
Capture remodel and build leads, book site visits, and qualify the big jobs around the clock. Configure guardrails for your business and reserve professional decisions for your team.
Every project lead, captured and routed.
A homeowner planning a kitchen remodel or a full addition starts reaching out after hours. Fred answers, captures the project type, the scope, the timeline, and the budget range, and books the site visit, while design-build and commercial jobs get qualified and routed without tying up your office.
What Fred does
- Answers hours, service area, and the work you take on
- Books site visits for remodels, additions, and new builds
- Captures project type, scope, timeline, and budget range
- Qualifies design-build and commercial projects
When Fred hands off to you
- A jobsite injury or safety emergency
- Structural, engineering, or permit determinations
- Pricing changes, change orders, or scope adjustments
- A defect, lien, or property-damage dispute
What Fred won’t do
- Give structural, load, or engineering determinations
- Advise on permits, safety procedures, or hazmat removal
- Promise a final price sight-unseen
Pre-configured for general contracting: remodels, additions, new construction, design-build, and commercial projects.
Big project, big questions. Fred captures the lead.
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Server-side guardrails
Example rules to review and configure for your deployment.
Every general contractor deployment runs the Construction & Contractor pack. The panel below illustrates industry rules, custom rules, and intended boundaries. Configured checks target recognized patterns; they can miss context or flag harmless content. Confirm the active rules and test them for your deployment. Example messages are illustrative and must be adapted to your services and escalation workflow.
Automated Guardrail Actions
Pack rules enforced in addition to baseline protections.industry.construction
| Rule ID | Action | Severity | Phase | Message | Triggers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| con-emergency | ESCALATE | S4 | input | If someone is injured or in danger, call 911 immediately. Don’t enter a trench, confined space, or collapse zone to attempt a rescue without proper training. Let me connect you with our team. | contains: worker fell, fall from height, trench collapse +28 |
| con-no-safety-procedures | DENY | S3 | output | I can’t provide jobsite safety procedures. OSHA requires a trained, authorized competent person to develop and oversee fall protection, excavation, confined-space, and scaffolding safety. | contains: fall protection steps, harness instructions +23 |
| con-no-structural-advice | DENY | S3 | output | I can’t provide structural assessments, load calculations, or engineering determinations. These require a licensed Professional Engineer for your specific conditions and codes. | contains: load bearing capacity, can support the weight +18 |
| con-no-hazmat-guidance | DENY | S3 | output | I can’t provide hazardous-material handling or abatement procedures. Asbestos, lead, mold, silica, and PCBs require certified abatement contractors with EPA and state licenses. | contains: how to remove asbestos, lead paint removal +15 |
| con-no-permit-determinations | DENY | S3 | output | I can’t determine whether your project needs permits, licenses, or inspections. Requirements depend on your local jurisdiction, scope, zoning, and building codes. | contains: no permit required, permit not required +14 |
| con-complaint-escalate | ESCALATE | S2 | input | I understand your concern. Let me connect you with a project manager who can address this directly and review any defect, damage, or lien issue. | contains: speak to manager, file a complaint +22 |
| con-estimate-escalate | ESCALATE | S2 | input | I’d be happy to connect you with our team. They can schedule a site visit, review the scope of work, and provide a detailed estimate. | contains: get an estimate, get a bid, how much to build +22 |
| con-disclaimer | DISCLAIMER | S2 | output | Licensed contractors perform regulated work; a Professional Engineer handles structural determinations. Permit and licensing requirements vary by jurisdiction. | contains: construction, remodel, renovation +19 |
Hard limits
Intended boundaries for the configured rules. Detection and handoff are not guaranteed.
- Do not give jobsite safety procedures, OSHA requires a trained competent person
- Do not make structural or load-bearing call, that’s a licensed engineer’s job
- Do not walk anyone through asbestos, lead, or hazmat removal
- Do not tell you a permit isn’t required
Your custom rules
Layered on top of the pack, unique to your business. No developer required.
The pack is the starting line, not the ceiling. Every deployment can add its own rules in the admin, block, warn, or just log on any phrase you choose, in either phase, with your own response message. They run right alongside the pack.
- BLOCKoff-topic requests that aren’t your business
- WARNbefore anyone is quoted a price over chat
- LOGwhen a visitor mentions a competitor by name
These industry rules stack on top of the always-on baseline, your region’s privacy and crisis rules, and macro overlays. See how the guardrail layers work
Know which job to call back first.
With an enabled integration, Fred can send lead scores and conversation summaries to your system. Delivery depends on your configuration and the receiving system.
General contractor questions.
Will Fred answer structural or load-bearing questions?
No. Structural assessments, load calculations, and engineering determinations require a licensed Professional Engineer. Fred says so plainly and routes the question to your team.
Can Fred tell a customer whether they need a permit?
No. Permit requirements depend on the local jurisdiction, scope, zoning, and codes. Fred won’t determine permits or tell anyone a permit isn’t required, it routes the question.
Will Fred quote a price for a build?
Fred explains how your pricing works and captures the scope, but it won’t commit to a final number sight-unseen. It books the site visit so you bid the real project.
Does it handle commercial and design-build?
Yes. Commercial and design-build projects are qualified separately and flagged as higher-value leads so they reach the right person quickly.
Capture every construction lead. Stay in your lane.
Choose a plan, configure Fred for your business, and test before launch. Or ask Fred a question in the corner of this page.