Run a locksmith business from ChatGPT or Claude

Lockouts are short, priced fast, and often after dinner. Rekeys and new hardware can wait for a quote. Doing Work can do both from ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok once the assistant is connected at https://doingwork.work/mcp. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off.

The lockout

Book the visit and mark it emergency. You get a ranked list of who is free, not a silent assignment. If you have on-the-way notices on, the customer gets a text and an email when you say you are on the way, with an arrival time you entered. Nothing in that message is a live truck location. Doing Work does not look up a drive time.

A trip charge can be an invoice with no quote, sent only after a person whose role may send invoices says send, or a fixed fee your voice agent is allowed to say if you set phone answering up. Phone answering is your Twilio account and your voice agent. Skip it and the rest of the shop still runs. The voice agent must not invent a lock price on the call. Phone setup.

Rekey, new lock, the part

A rekey and a new lockset are options on one quote, at prices from your book. Extra cylinders can be an optional line. They sign on the link and can pay a deposit. Photos of the existing hardware stay on the job. A summary can include stamped numbers you want to search later. Notes about a master-key scheme stay internal. Do not put that in a recap.

Order a lockset on a purchase order for the job if you do not have it. There is no bin to put it in. A count on hand is only a number plus a low point, for items you choose to track. Receive the order and the cost hits the job. Then book the return visit, or do it on the same visit if the part was already in the van, which the software will not know unless you recorded the material used.

Say it

  • "Lockout on 4th. Emergency. Who is closest to free? Do not assign, and do not promise a price."
  • "Draft a rekey option and a new-lock option from the price book. Hold the send."
  • "Purchase order for the lockset. Receive it when I say it is in hand."
  • "They paid cash for the trip. Mark that invoice paid outside."

The first line says closest because that is how people talk. The software ranks who is free and who has the lighter day. It does not rank by miles. Quickstart. /ai/.

Price

The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. Pricing. Workiz, Jobber, and Housecall Pro are the comparisons locksmiths usually get sent.

Questions owners ask

Locksmiths ask about the after-dinner lockout and whether the assistant will invent a price. It should not.

Can I run a locksmith business from ChatGPT or Claude, including lockouts?

Yes, after you connect the assistant. Mark the lockout emergency, see who is free, and assign them yourself. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off. The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription.

Can the price be a rekey versus a new lock on one text?

Put both on one quote as options. They open a link and pick. You can add an optional line for extra cylinders. The invoice follows the option they signed.

What about a lockset I have to order?

Draft a purchase order on the job and receive it when you have it. That is when it becomes job cost. If you keep a count of a common lock, track it on the price book material with a low point. The count has no location.

Will a voice agent quote a lockout price?

Only a fixed visit fee you already saved. It will not make up a price. Emergency calls can transfer to the on-call person, text them, or book into times you opened, and only if you connected your own Twilio number and your own voice agent. Otherwise this is email, the assistant, and the visits you book.

Can I take a card in the driveway and cash the rest of the week?

Card and bank use a pay link into your Stripe account. Cash and check are marked paid outside, and those carry no Doing Work fee. The customer does not need an account to pay or to sign.