Clockworks.

AI systems for trades businesses · Maple Grove, MN

Get your evenings back.

I build quiet, reliable systems for Twin Cities plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and landscaping companies — they catch the calls you miss, chase the quotes you sent, and keep the paperwork moving while you’re on the job.

30 minutes, no pitch. You leave with a written plan either way.

Working demo in 48 hrs You own everything No contracts Coffee-bet guarantee
Built on the tools you already use
JobberQuickBooksHousecall ProGoogleYour phone #

01 — The problem

The work isn’t the problem. The pile is.

Missed calls, quiet quotes, unpaid invoices, reviews you meant to ask for. None of it is hard — there’s just no hour left in the day to do it. Here’s what one ordinary Tuesday looks like when the machine handles it instead.

BEFORE0 HRS FOUND
7:58a
Missed a call — you were under a sinkAnswered by text in 9 seconds. Booked for Thursday 9am
9:15a
Quote #241 has sat in “Sent” for 6 daysFollow-up #2 went out. Customer replied: “let’s do it”
11:30a
“Are you still coming today?” — unansweredOn-my-way text sent itself when you left the shop
1:45p
Invoice #1108 — 31 days unpaidFriendly nudge sent. Paid by card at 2:12p
3:20p
Forgot to ask for the review. AgainReview request texted when the job closed — ★★★★★
4:40p
Voicemail full. Two leads gone for goodEvery call caught, transcribed, and in your inbox
6:30p
Quoting at the kitchen table. AgainHome. Phone quiet. It’s all handled

Keep scrolling — watch the day sort itself out.

02 — What I do

Six systems. One quiet machine.

CALL CATCH01

Never miss another job call

You're under a sink; the phone rings twice and quits. Call Catch texts the caller back in seconds — in your words, from your number — and books them before they dial the next guy.

RUNS ON — Your existing number · Jobber · Housecall Pro

QUOTE CHASER02

Quotes that follow up themselves

Most quotes don't lose — they just go quiet. Quote Chaser sends the friendly nudge you never have time to write, on a schedule you set, until you get a yes or a no.

RUNS ON — Jobber · QuickBooks · Email + SMS

REVIEW ENGINE03

Five-star reviews on autopilot

Job closes, customer gets a short text with your review link. Happy customers talk you up in public. Unhappy ones reach you privately first — before they reach Google.

RUNS ON — Google Business Profile · Jobber

PAPER MOVER04

The office pile, handled

Invoices chased politely until they're paid. Job notes turned into clean records. A Friday summary of what moved and what's stuck — read it in two minutes, done.

RUNS ON — QuickBooks · Your inbox

INTEL DESK05

Know what the big guys know

Live dashboards on your numbers — plus competitor price moves, local demand spikes, and material costs, read automatically from the public web. The analyst desk, scaled to one truck.

RUNS ON — Public data · QuickBooks · a weekly digest

FRONT DESK06

A website that answers back

A trained agent on your site and your text line: answers questions your way, books jobs at 2am, and shows you what customers keep asking for.

RUNS ON — Your site · SMS · your knowledge

Go ahead — poke it

Don’t take my word for it. Play with it.

Every card below is a working demo running right here in your browser, on clearly-labeled sample data. Text the missed-call bot back, run a week of quote follow-ups, poke the dashboards. This is the actual stuff I build — rebuilt around your shop when it’s yours.

03 — Straight numbers

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a week of admin a typical owner carries — the hours we go find

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for a missed call to get a text back with your name on it

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from kickoff to a working demo you can poke at

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cost of the audit — a written plan, yours either way

Most callers who hit voicemail don’t leave one — they call the next name on the list. The first company to answer usually wins the job. That’s the whole pitch. Everything I build exists to make you first.

04 — How it works

Three steps. No mystery.

STEP 1 — FREE

The audit

Thirty minutes, in person or on a call. We walk your week and find where the hours and leads actually leak. You get a one-page written plan — keep it, shop it around, or hand it to me.

STEP 2 — $2,000–$5,000 FIXED

The pilot

I build the one system from the plan that pays back fastest. Working demo in 48 hours, live in about two weeks. Fixed quote before we start — if it grows, that's a new conversation, not a surprise invoice.

STEP 3 — FROM $99/MO

It runs

I watch it, tune it, and improve it while it works. You get a plain-English report of what it caught. Cancel anytime — you own every piece, and it keeps working without me.

05 — Proof

I run these systems every day.

Before I ever sold one, I built them for myself. Thirty-plus automations run my own family’s life and businesses right now — answering, scheduling, logging, chasing. When I say “it just runs,” I’m describing my Tuesday.

Parker Swanson, founder of MN Clockworks

PARKER SWANSON · MAPLE GROVE, MN

06 — Who you’re dealing with

One guy. Local. Reachable.

I’m Parker. I’ve spent a decade-plus running technical operations for a national smart-home company by day, and I live in Maple Grove with my wife and two kids. I built this business for one reason: owners around here work too hard to lose jobs to a full voicemail box. When you call, you get me — not a sales team.

07 — Straight answers

The stuff you’d actually ask.

Do I need to buy new software?

No. I build on what you already run — Jobber, Housecall Pro, QuickBooks, your Google profile, your existing phone number. If you run your business from a notebook and a cell phone, that works too; we start simpler.

I'm not technical. How much do I have to learn?

Nothing, if you don't want to. No new dashboards, no logins to remember. The systems work inside the tools and the phone you already use, and I set every word they say before anything goes live.

What does it actually cost?

The audit is free. A pilot — one working system, built and live — is a fixed quote between $2,000 and $5,000 depending on scope. After that, I keep it running, tuned, and improving from $99 to $299 a month. No contracts. One saved job typically covers months of it.

Am I locked in?

No. You own everything I build — the accounts, the numbers, the logic. Cancel the monthly service anytime and the system keeps working; you'd just be maintaining it yourself.

Couldn't I just do this myself with ChatGPT?

You could, and for some owners that's the honest answer. Here's the real math, though: the paid tiers add up — ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini run about $20+ a month each, an automation platform like n8n is roughly $25+ a month hosted (or a $10–20/month server you maintain yourself), and none of it arrives assembled. The tools are maybe $50–100 a month; the hundred hours of wiring them into Jobber and QuickBooks — and keeping it running when something updates — is the actual product. From $99 a month I bring the tooling AND the mechanic. If you enjoy the duct tape, I'll cheer you on; the audit plan works as a DIY map too.

Will customers know it's AI?

The texts sound like you because you approve the wording. When a conversation needs a human, it hands off to you fast — the goal is never to fool anyone, it's to answer in seconds instead of never.

The next step

Find out what your week is hiding.

The audit is free, it takes 30 minutes, and you leave with a written plan you can hand to anyone — including somebody who isn't me.

30 minutes, no pitch. You leave with a written plan either way. And if I can’t find anything worth fixing, the coffee’s on me.