Friday Fives: raise a PO from the van, load a year of PPM in minutes

An engineer on site sends a text or WhatsApp with what they need: the job reference, supplier, items and cost. AI reads the message, raises the purchase order against the right job in your job management system, and sends the PO number back so they can give it to the supplier there and then.

It solves engineers buying materials with no PO because raising one was too much hassle, costs landing on the wrong job or no job at all, and the office being interrupted all day by two-minute PO requests that add up to hours.

• POs raised in the time it takes to type a message
• Every purchase logged against the right job from the start
• Engineers back to work instead of on hold to the office

Raise POs from the van →

When a client sends their PPM schedule as a spreadsheet, hundreds of sites, dates and asset lines, Build Concierge reads it and creates every job, visit and financial line in your job management system automatically, mapped to the right contacts and contracts.

It solves days of manual keying every time a contract starts or renews, sites missed because a row was skipped, and new contracts starting on the back foot before the first visit even happens.

• A full year of PPM loaded in minutes instead of days
• Every visit in the diary from day one of the contract
• No data-entry marathon and no rows missed

Load a year of PPM in one go →

Build Concierge continuously checks for jobs that have stopped moving: not closed down days after the visit, sat at the same status too long, or past their expected completion date. Anything stalled is flagged to the right owner automatically, with the job details attached.

It solves jobs drifting for weeks because they fell out of view, a WIP report nobody trusts, and the end-of-month scramble through hundreds of open jobs to find out which are actually finished.

• A live list of every job that needs a push, with no reports to run
• Work keeps moving and work in progress stays honest
• Month end stops turning up surprises

Keep every job moving →

When a job is marked complete, Build Concierge reads the job card and checks it is genuinely finished and consistent before anything is billed. Clean, complete jobs get a draft invoice ready to review. If there is further work, or the card does not add up, it raises the follow-on work or flags it for a person instead of invoicing.

It solves half-finished or contradictory job cards being invoiced automatically, remedial work billed as if it were complete, and the office re-reading every job card by hand to work out what is ready to send.

• Only genuinely finished, tidy jobs get invoiced
• Clean jobs invoiced the day the work completes
• Nothing half-done slips onto a bill, nothing finished sits waiting

Only invoice what's ready →

When a call comes through Concierge Support, AI reads the conversation for sentiment as well as content. Frustrated or at-risk customers are flagged immediately and logged against their record, so a manager can step in while the problem is still small.

It solves frustration signals lost the moment a call ends, managers hearing about unhappy customers weeks later or never, and churn that nobody saw coming because nobody was listening for it.

• Unhappy customers surfaced the moment they hang up
• A record of customer mood across every conversation
• Problems handled before they become cancellations

Hear the warning signs early →