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From AI for Plumbing Pros

150 AI prompts for Plumbing Pros

Every one of the 150 prompt titles in the book, in the book's own eight groups. Twelve are printed in full and marked; use those today. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in.

Line illustration: a queue-ticket dispenser with an endless ribbon of blank tickets coiling on the floor

Setup & Voice Prompts 1–15

  1. #1Your permanent profile

    Paste into custom instructions: “I run a [SIZE]-person plumbing company in [CITY, STATE] called [BUSINESS NAME]. We do [SERVICE AND REPAIR / DRAINS / WATER HEATERS / REPIPES / REMODEL]. My five most common jobs: [TOP 5]. Anything a customer reads: plain, short, professional, 8th-grade reading level, no hype, no exclamation points, no scare language. Leave every price as $____ unless I hand you the number. Never state a code requirement, permit rule, pipe size, vent arrangement or warranty term as fact — mark it VERIFY and I’ll check it against what’s adopted here.”

  2. #2Teach it how you actually write
  3. #3The tone calibrator
  4. #4Kitchen-table English
  5. #5Half the length
  6. #6Three versions
  7. #7The jargon strip
  8. #8Ask me first
  9. #9Clean up the dictation
  10. #10Email into text
  11. #11The VERIFY flag
  12. #12Explain it like a journeyman
  13. #13Turn this into a checklist
  14. #14The Spanish version
  15. #15What did I miss

Quotes & Estimates Prompts 16–40

  1. #16The estimate engine

    “Turn my notes into a homeowner-ready quote: WHAT I FOUND, WHAT I RECOMMEND AND WHY, WHAT’S INCLUDED (only what I listed), WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED (drywall, paint, anything under a slab I haven’t opened). No warranty or code language I didn’t give you. Under 300 words. Notes: [VOICE RAMBLE].”

  2. #17The walkthrough capture
  3. #18The not-included block
  4. #19Good, better, best
  5. #20The same-day cover note
  6. #21Repair or replace the heater
  7. #22The tankless question
  8. #23The repipe narrative
  9. #24The slab-leak sheet
  10. #25The camera write-up
  11. #26Sewer line, three ways
  12. #27The permit paragraph
  13. #28Why is it so much

    “A customer compared my quote to the part price online. The calm reply: licensed and insured, the code-required items [ONLY THE ONES I LIST], my warranty, who they call when it fails at eleven at night. No discount, nothing about the competition. Under 130 words.”

  14. #29The cheaper bid
  15. #30The apples-to-apples checklist
  16. #31The financing sentence
  17. #32The revised quote
  18. #33The quote audit
  19. #34The price-hold note
  20. #35Customer-supplied fixtures
  21. #36The commercial bid letter
  22. #37Scope of work for a sub
  23. #38The change order
  24. #39The warranty paragraph
  25. #40Quote to invoice

Customer Communication & Emergencies Prompts 41–65

  1. #41The message kit

    “The twelve texts I send over and over: booking confirmation, day-before reminder, on my way with an ETA, running late, job finished, quote follow-up, reschedule, after-hours auto-reply with what counts as an emergency, warranty acknowledgment, payment received, review ask. Under 45 words each, [BRACKETS] for the variables.”

  2. #42The two-window offer
  3. #43The ten o’clock triage reply
  4. #44Where the shut-off is
  5. #45No hot water tonight
  6. #46It’s coming up through the shower
  7. #47The freeze-week kit
  8. #48The whole-street problem
  9. #49The no-show save
  10. #50The polite decline
  11. #51Prep for tomorrow
  12. #52The job-done message
  13. #53Bad news, mid-job

    “I have to tell a customer that [WHAT CHANGED — the stack is cracked above the tee]. Lead with what this means for them, give a real choice with the honest tradeoff on each side, never sound defensive. Under 100 words.”

  14. #54New problem, not a callback
  15. #55The real callback
  16. #56Waking the quiet quote
  17. #57The trip fee, explained
  18. #58Before the truck moves
  19. #59The landlord script
  20. #60Tenant coordination
  21. #61The version for an older customer
  22. #62The GC update
  23. #63The hot message
  24. #64While you’re here
  25. #65The goodbye letter

Money & Service Agreements Prompts 66–85

  1. #66The self-explaining invoice

    “Turn my job notes into invoice lines: one line per piece of work: what failed, what I did, why it mattered — the trip or diagnostic as its own line, no warranty wording I didn’t give you. Notes: [PASTE].”

  2. #67The deposit request
  3. #68The progress-payment schedule
  4. #69The receipt that does a second job
  5. #70The collection ladder
  6. #71The payment plan
  7. #72The returned payment
  8. #73Quote versus final
  9. #74The service agreement offer
  10. #75What the agreement actually promises
  11. #76The renewal batch

    “My agreement renewal letter and a short text version: the renewal price [PLUS ONE HONEST SENTENCE IF IT WENT UP], what next year covers, a one-step way to renew, a genuine thank-you. No apology for the price. Then a 30-day and a 60-day nudge for the quiet ones.”

  12. #77The supply house RFQ
  13. #78The backorder pair
  14. #79The paper-trail email
  15. #80The warranty claim
  16. #81The insurance statement
  17. #82The refusal
  18. #83The paid inspection report
  19. #84Tax-time sort
  20. #85The Friday money sweep

Reviews & Reputation Prompts 86–105

  1. #86The Sunday reply batch

    “This week’s reviews, names removed: [PASTE]. Reply to each in two or three sentences, naming the job type once. Vary the wording so nobody meets the same sentence twice. Under four stars: draft it, mark it HOLD, and I read it first.”

  2. #87The five-star that named something
  3. #88The four-star with a snag
  4. #89Three stars and no words
  5. #90The one where the facts are wrong
  6. #91Somebody else’s customer
  7. #92The one-star, written for the next reader
  8. #93The bad week
  9. #94The after-hours price review
  10. #95The review that belongs to another trade
  11. #96The ask, at three moments
  12. #97The ask after a long job
  13. #98The one follow-up, and only one
  14. #99Reviews into web copy
  15. #100The job story
  16. #101Permission for photos and footage
  17. #102The complaint-portal answer
  18. #103Twenty reviews, read as data
  19. #104The estimate-only reviewer
  20. #105The neighborhood-forum answer

On the Job Prompts 106–120

  1. #106The kitchen-table explainer

    “Explain [WHAT I FOUND — cast iron scaled down to a pencil hole] to someone with no plumbing knowledge: one everyday comparison, what we measured [I’LL INSERT READINGS], what it means for their week, the honest options including doing nothing, my recommendation once. Under 180 words.”

  2. #107The phone-triage thinker
  3. #108The manual distiller
  4. #109The rubber duck
  5. #110The pick list
  6. #111Tomorrow’s loadout
  7. #112The old-house list
  8. #113The time sanity check
  9. #114The tailgate minute
  10. #115The permanent record
  11. #116The handoff brief
  12. #117The apprentice explainer
  13. #118The camera run, written up
  14. #119The end-of-day dump
  15. #120The gut check

Marketing & Growth Prompts 121–145

  1. #121The profile overhaul

    “Write my Google Business Profile: a description under 750 characters naming what we do and [AREA], with my license number [LIC #] if my state requires it in advertising. Then two-sentence answers to what every caller asks — hours, emergencies, price of a visit, licensed and insured, warranty. Anything I haven’t told you stays [BLANK].”

  2. #122The photo shot list
  3. #123The service page
  4. #124The town page
  5. #125Four posts for the month
  6. #126The FAQ goldmine
  7. #127The twelve months
  8. #128The five-door blitz
  9. #129The realtor letter
  10. #130The property manager pitch
  11. #131The freeze-warning campaign
  12. #132The quarterly email
  13. #133The after-hours page

    “Write the emergency page for my site: what counts as a real emergency in plain terms (a burst line, sewage backing up, no water, a gas smell — call the gas company first), what to do in the four minutes before I get there (find the shutoff, kill power to the heater), my hours and after-hours rate [MY TERMS], how to reach a human. Nothing that shames anybody for calling.”

  14. #134The van
  15. #135The home page
  16. #136The ads starter
  17. #137The hiring post
  18. #138The apprentice pipeline
  19. #139The sponsorship post
  20. #140The win-back
  21. #141From review to ad
  22. #142The ‘we do that too’ note
  23. #143The honest contrast
  24. #144The agreement page
  25. #145The marketing hour

Admin & Momentum Prompts 146–150

  1. #146Monday, in one page

    “My week as a pile: [PASTE — JOBS, PROMISES, PARTS DUE IN, INSPECTIONS]. Where the schedule collides, the three things that decide whether this week makes money, permits and inspections with a date on them, and what I’m forgetting from last week.”

  2. #147The SOP
  3. #148The meeting with yourself
  4. #149The delegation test
  5. #150Prompt #151