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Project qualifier

"What would a heat pump cost at our place?" – Without the year built, the insulation state, the radiator info, that's not an inquiry but an invitation to fly blind. And today it often ends in a call-out that wasn't worth it.

Inquiry qualifier

01Project qualifier

The project qualifier pulls the clarifying forward: it asks for the plan, the property, the scope, the timeframe and the decisive technical points – and asks for the photos that round out a description. Your business receives a structured brief the boss can size up: does the project fit us, what's the ballpark cost, is the on-site visit worth it? You spot unsuitable inquiries in a minute instead of after a call-out – and the right ones get a solid answer faster than at the competitor, where the email ping-pong is still running. For businesses that can pick their projects, that's exactly the lever: not more inquiries, but spotting the right ones faster.

For context: the qualifier is the counterpart to the inquiry router – the router points visitors the way BEFORE the inquiry, the qualifier prepares the project inquiry FOR your business. And it decides nothing on its own: no automatic prices, no automatic rejections – whether a project fits is the boss's call.

02Demo

simulation · fictional business

Three project inquiries as they arrive daily. On the left the original – on the right what your business gets instead, after the qualifier has asked for the project, property, scope and timeframe.

// how it arrives today

// the brief for the team

03How it works

  1. 01

    Understand your project types

    New build, renovation, heating swap, custom job – which inquiries come in, and what do you really need per type for an assessment? Usually five must-haves plus photos. They're just never in the first email.

  2. 02

    Shape the follow-up questions

    Phrased the way customers speak – with choices instead of a jargon hurdle. Whoever can't describe their roof uploads two photos; whoever doesn't know the year built picks a decade.

  3. 03

    Set the brief format

    How should the result arrive? A structured email, an entry in your trade software, a card in the project overview – the brief adapts to your process, not the other way round.

  4. 04

    Build it in and wire it up

    The qualifier becomes part of your website – ideally as the destination of the router's project track. Incomplete inquiries are completed politely rather than rejected.

  5. 05

    Sharpen on real volume

    After the first weeks it shows where prospects drop out and which technical question comes too early. Questions and brief get adjusted – until the boss says: I can cost from this.

04Stages

The entry point can do without AI – and already solves most of the problem.

Tier 1

Entry: the guided project form

Structured required fields per project type plus photo upload and a clean email brief. Without AI – and the blind call-outs get rarer.

Tier 2

Extended: thinking follow-up questions

An AI spots gaps and special cases, asks targeted follow-ups and pulls the brief together – including a first read on which project type it is.

Tier 3

Full build: connected

Handover to trade software or CRM, prioritisation by fit and region, photos filed with the project – the inquiry becomes a continuous process.

05Technical implementation

  • Front end: guided form or chat flow in your website – styled in the business's presence.
  • Tier 1 is pure form logic with required fields per project type and photo upload – reliable, without AI.
  • From Tier 2 a language model asks follow-ups on gaps and condenses the details into an internal brief; it names no prices.
  • Photo uploads with a clear storage and data-protection rule – images belong to the inquiry, not to nowhere.
  • Handover to suit your process: email, Airtable, trade software or CRM.
  • Built in your website's stack; Tier 2 adds a small back end.

for context · This shows how something like this usually gets built – not how it has to be built for you. What actually fits is worked out in the project: around your existing setup, your team, and what stays easy to maintain.

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