AI features that turn a site walk into an estimate and a paper archive into a document.
Trevor Stuckless, a software builder in Dundas, Ontario, puts AI into business software where it removes one specific chore. CALIBER, inside the Blue Crane app, turns a spoken and filmed walk of a job into a priced estimate or an ordered task list. Blackbox reads paper archives into structured documents without rewriting a word. And client websites get an agent layer, so an AI assistant can look a business up and send it a real quote request.
How does CALIBER turn a site walk into an estimate?
The contractor walks the job and talks it through while the phone films. CALIBER measures by reference to objects of known size in the frame and returns a finished estimate with tax and a deposit, with the video attached as proof.
A general walk produces something different: an ordered, editable list of the job's steps, with suggested hours and crew size, that the crew can tick off and export as a PDF. CALIBER runs on Azure OpenAI and is included on every Blue Crane app plan.
How do you stop an AI from rewriting someone's records?
By splitting the work so the model that organises a document can never touch its words. In Blackbox, one model transcribes each photographed page exactly as written, spelling mistakes and faded numbers included, and flags anything illegible instead of filling it in. A page it is not confident about is handed up to a more capable model without anyone asking.
A separate step then works out the outline: where each section starts and which pages it spans. That step is only allowed to return an outline, never text, so the finished document cannot contain a sentence the paper did not. The photographs stay on file, and any line can be traced back to the picture it came from.
What is an agent layer on a website?
A small set of machine endpoints on the business's own domain: a facts card, an index of its pages, and a server that speaks the Model Context Protocol. An AI assistant connected to it can look up hours and services, search and quote the pages, and send a quote request into the enquiry inbox the business already uses.
Referral Flooring's went live in September 2026 and passes all fifteen checks of the audit Trevor wrote for it. The honest limit: an assistant uses an agent layer only when someone has connected it. It makes a business usable by AI; it does not make any assistant choose that business.
Where are these AI features running?
| Feature | Lives in | Produces | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALIBER estimates | Blue Crane app | A priced estimate with tax and deposit, video attached | Blue Crane app |
| CALIBER job tasks | Blue Crane app | An ordered task list with hours and crew size, exportable as a PDF | Blue Crane app |
| Verbatim reading | Blackbox | A structured document with every line traced to its page | Blackbox |
| Agent layer | referralflooring.com | A facts card and an MCP server that accepts quote requests | referralflooring.com |
What does an AI feature cost?
CALIBER comes with every Blue Crane app plan, from $24.99 a month. Blackbox is $59 a month for 3,000 pages. On a managed website, an AI assistant is one of the $50 a month add-ons (published terms). AI inside a custom application is scoped with the rest of the build.
What else does Trevor build?
- Websites built to be foundMulti-page sites written from the owner's own facts, checked by a deploy gate on every release.
- AI and search visibilityProving, crawler by crawler, that Google, Bing, ChatGPT and the rest can read a site, then fixing what cannot.
- Business applicationsSoftware that runs the work itself: job-site records, parts and stock, paper archives.
- Payments and billingStripe subscriptions, one-time passes, donations, and platform payouts to the people on a platform.
- Data pipelinesReading hundreds of public sources on a schedule and handing back one thing a person can act on.
- Scheduling and eventsCheck-ins, calendars, rosters and maps for gyms, a festival and a members community.
- Media and advertisingSix media titles and the ad server that sells and counts every placement directly.
Talk to Trevor about an AI feature.
Describe what the business needs and what it is doing by hand today. You will get a straight answer on whether this is the right job for it, and what it would cost.