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017 of 025 · Trades & Main Street

AI for

Plumbing Pros

The water is already on the floor, and the smart shutoff cannot mop it up. This is the quoting, the explaining and the invoicing that fills your evenings.

Ebook $7.99 · Audiobook $14.99 · instant download · no DRM

eleven hours
every week.

That’s eleven hours in a normal week — and more in the weeks that aren’t normal, which in this trade means a hard freeze or a holiday weekend. Your first week will be slower, because you’re learning a tool. By week three the numbers above are realistic, and they hold whether you run one van or six. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4Writing quotes and explaining the repair~3 hours
  • Chapter 5Customer texts, dispatch messages, follow-ups~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Invoices, service agreements, payment chasing~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 7Review responses and complaint letters~1 hour
  • Chapter 8Job write-ups, parts lists, homeowner explanations~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 9The marketing you keep putting off~2 hours
Contents

Twelve chapters.

Twelve chapters, 150 copy-paste prompts, a glossary that assumes nothing, and a thirty-day plan to get there.

  1. Line illustration: a chrome bath tap standing alone on a bare floor with a full steady stream of water already pouring from its spout while its handle is turned hard shut, nothing else in the frame and no lettering or markings anywhere, the handle and the stream of water the accent colour 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: an enormous brass pressure-test gauge screwed onto one short capped stub of pipe clamped upright in a stand, the round dial completely blank and unmarked with no numbers or lettering of any kind, the gauge bezel and its single needle the accent colour 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: a single wall-mounted tap spout fed by three separate handles of three wildly different sizes mounted on one shared body, everything plain and unmarked with no lettering or numerals, the smallest handle the accent colour 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: three tank water heaters of increasing height standing on a three-step winners' podium, the tallest on the centre step, the podium blocks bare and unmarked with no numbers or lettering on them, the tallest heater the accent colour 04 The Quote That Gets Approved
  5. Line illustration: a smartphone spliced into a run of copper water pipe as though it were just another fitting, a quarter-turn ball valve on the line below it standing wide open, the phone screen entirely blank and unmarked, the valve handle the accent colour 05 The Phone That Never Stops
  6. Line illustration: a small waterwheel whose paddles are folded paper invoices, turning under a steady stream falling from a copper pipe above it, every sheet completely blank and unmarked, the copper pipe and the falling stream the accent colour 06 Money Paperwork — and the Service-Agreement Engine
  7. Line illustration: one drop of water hanging from a soldered copper pipe joint suspended above an enormous orchestral bass drum, the drop poised to land dead centre on the drum skin, the drum hoop and the single drop the accent colour 07 Reviews, Complaints, and Your Name
  8. Line illustration: a plain panel work van seen side-on with a full filing-cabinet drawer pulled out of its flank, packed with upright file folders, the van's panels and the folders completely blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers anywhere, the open drawer the accent colour 08 On the Job — Your Second Brain in the Van
  9. Line illustration: an oversized map pin standing upright in an empty stainless-steel kitchen sink with its spike driven down the plughole, nothing else in the basin and no lettering anywhere, the pin's round head the accent colour 09 Getting Calls Booked
  10. Line illustration: a desktop paper shredder mounted directly over a chrome P-trap that runs away into a floor drain, plain blank unmarked sheets feeding in at the top, the P-trap the accent colour 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: a plumber's drain auger drum with its cable spooled out in a long loose curve and, where the cutting head should be, a computer mouse, the drum, cable and mouse plain with no lettering, symbols or maker's marks anywhere, the mouse the accent colour 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: a short freestanding rig of copper pipe, elbows and tees standing on a workbench and plumbed in a closed loop back into itself, its one chrome tap running straight into its own supply, no stamps, lettering or numerals anywhere on the fittings, the running tap and its stream the accent colour 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,007 words The Water Is Already on the Floor About 9 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for plumbing pros The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I run a [SIZE]-person plumbing company in [CITY, STATE] called [BUSINESS NAME]. We do [residential service and repair / drain cleaning / water heaters / repipes / remodel / new construction]. Typical jobs: [YOUR TOP 5 JOB TYPES]. When you write anything a customer will read, keep it plain, professional and short — no hype, no exclamation points, no scare tactics, eighth-grade reading level. Leave every price as a blank for me to fill in unless I give you the number. Never state a pipe size, a fixture unit count, a venting rule, a permit requirement or any code requirement as fact — mark anything like that VERIFY so I check it against my adopted code and my local amendments.”

One of 150 in AI for Plumbing Pros.

Formats

Pick how you want it.

Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

Line illustration: a single paperback standing in an open postal box exactly its own size
Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 895 KB · about 31,006 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-443-8
$7.99
Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 23m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-444-5
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. The free tiers carry you through every TRY IT NOW box in this book and your first few weeks of real use. You will know it is time to pay when you hit the daily limit in the middle of an ordinary workday, which is the tool telling you it has earned about $20 a month. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, The Water Is Already on the Floor, free: 2,007 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Quotes & Estimates (16–40), Customer Communication & Emergencies (41–65), Money & Service Agreements (66–85), Reviews & Reputation (86–105), On the Job (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 31,006 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 23m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-443-8; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-444-5. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.

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