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Keep what you use. Add the part that watches the inbox.
Job-management apps run the job. Directories send the leads. An assistant answers the phone. Those tools are built for that work, not for watching the inbox you already have for the enquiry nobody replied to or the quote nobody chased. That is the job Revalio is built for; it also keeps the customer record from the same place.
- Notices an emailed enquiry nobody has answered1Part
- Chases a quote on a schedule, every time2PartPart
- Writes the reply in your words, from your facts3Part
- Sends from your own address, inside the customer’s thread
- Holds every message for your one-tap OK4Part
- Never quotes a price or makes a promise on its ownPart
- Reports what came back, verified kept apart from estimates5Part
- Schedules jobs, invoices and takes paymentPart
- Finds you new customers
- Answers the phone
| What you need done | Revalio Email only, you approve | Job-management app Jobber, Tradify and similar | Lead directory Checkatrade, MyBuilder and similar | General AI assistant A chat tool you paste emails into | Virtual assistant A person, during their hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notices an emailed enquiry nobody has answered1 | Partly | ||||
| Chases a quote on a schedule, every time2 | Partly | Partly | |||
| Writes the reply in your words, from your facts3 | Partly | ||||
| Sends from your own address, inside the customer’s thread | |||||
| Holds every message for your one-tap OK4 | Partly | ||||
| Never quotes a price or makes a promise on its own | Partly | ||||
| Reports what came back, verified kept apart from estimates5 | Partly | ||||
| Schedules jobs, invoices and takes payment | Partly | ||||
| Finds you new customers | |||||
| Answers the phone |
- 1 A VA notices during their hours; evenings and weekends are when most enquiries arrive.
- 2 Job apps can send a reminder about a quote they issued; they do not see quotes sent by email, and the chase is a template, not your words.
- 3 A general assistant writes well, but only when you paste the thread in and tell it the facts each time.
- 4 You can ask a VA to check first; nothing enforces it.
- 5 Job apps report invoiced revenue; none of them separates observed from verified recovery.
Categories, not named products: what each kind of tool is built to do. Revalio does not schedule, invoice, find customers or answer the phone, and is meant to sit beside the tools that do. How it sits beside Jobber, Tradify, Checkatrade or an assistant.
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Revalio and Jobber
Jobber runs the job once you have it: quotes, scheduling, invoices, payments. Revalio works earlier, in the inbox, on the enquiries and quotes that have not turned into jobs yet.
Revalio and Tradify
Tradify is built for the day: jobs, timesheets, quotes and invoices on the phone. Revalio is built for the gap before the job exists, when an enquiry or a quote is waiting on a reply.
Revalio and Checkatrade
Checkatrade sends you enquiries. Revalio makes sure each one gets answered and each quote gets chased, which is where paid leads are most often wasted.
Revalio and lead directories
Checkatrade, MyBuilder, Rated People and the rest are built to send you enquiries, for a fee per lead or per month. Revalio is built for what happens after one lands: the same-day reply, the quote, and the chase when it goes quiet. That is where paid leads are most often lost, and it is the part the firm controls.
Revalio and hiring an office administrator
An office administrator costs around £24,000 a year, plus the weeks it takes to find one, and the inbox is only part of what they do. Revalio does the inbox part now, from £149 a month: it answers the enquiry, chases the quote and keeps the customer record, so the person you do hire starts with nothing waiting.
Revalio and a virtual assistant
A good assistant answers the phone and the inbox while you work. Revalio does the inbox half, in your words, around the clock, for less than a day of their time a month, and never forgets a quote.