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The receipts. Real businesses, real numbers.

Every workflow we ship gets measured. Below: a month-by-month look at what AI did for the trades businesses we work with — what we built, how long it took, what changed in their P&L.

What we measure on every engagement
30d
Time to live
From contract signed to first AI workflow producing measurable output. We don't take projects we can't ship in 30 days.
$2,500
Sprint price
Two-week AI Clarity Sprint. 90-day roadmap, 8-system fit analysis. Most engagements start here.
47s
Lead response time
Real metric from the Houston deployment cited in the case below. After-hours leads booked while teams sleep.
0%
Retainers we haven't earned
Flat fees tied to outcomes. No long-term contracts. If a system isn't working, we don't bill for it.
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The pattern: small shop, leaky pipeline, AI ships in 30 days.

Roofing · Tampa storm restoration · ~$8M annual

Insurance claim documentation cut from hours to minutes per house.

"We deployed pre-hurricane season. Tested on the small summer storms. Was ready when the real thing hit."

30d
To live
2.4×
Claim volume capacity
0
New admin hires
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Roofing · Houston ~25 jobs/mo · JobNimbus

From 6+ hour lead response to under 60 seconds, 24/7.

"Day 13 of the Sprint, the AI booked a Saturday-night Facebook lead. That one job covered the engagement."

47s
Lead response
30d
To live
+34%
Inbound close rate
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Roofing · Mid-South family shop · ~14 jobs/mo

The rollout that almost failed — and what we changed mid-flight.

"We almost refunded the client. They almost fired us. Both of us were frustrated. But we kept talking, scoped down, and shipped something real."

3
Systems shipped
Honest case
1
Lesson learned
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All three case studies are anonymized to protect the client relationship. Specific numbers are pulled directly from engagement docs. Full studies live on our roofing-vertical site at roofing.riptideai.co/case-studies.

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