Stormy

Stormy is an AI employee for businesses that run on jobs, set up and trained by its team and run on an ongoing basis. The page describes it answering office and after-hours calls and texts, booking vendors or crews, texting tenants and customers with arrival times, logging repairs, sending owner approval requests, moving jobs when the day changes, handling back-office tasks such as invoices, parts reordering and rent reminders, and building custom screens for a business's work. It says it works inside existing tools such as AppFolio, Buildium, Yardi, Rent Manager, Entrata, DoorLoop, Rentvine, Gmail, Google Calendar, QuickBooks, Trello and Slack, and that it asks for approval before sending trucks or spending money. Pricing is usage based: $0 today, $50 of credit when a card is added, then 30 cents per minute on calls and per text, with a Production tier starting at $300 a month prepaid. The page lists target industries including construction and property management, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, auto repair, forklift and heavy equipment, cleaning, roofing, and logistics. It also states the company has raised $1.7M, led by Kaya.vc, with Y Combinator and SMOK Ventures, and that it is backed by Y Combinator.

Key features

• Answers office and after-hours calls and texts, including booking jobs during the call
• Texts tenants, crews and customers with arrival times, addresses and job details
• Books vendors and technicians and confirms with owners by email
• Learns business processes by interviewing team members on calls and writing down steps and approval limits
• Moves jobs between technicians when schedules change and notifies customers
• Handles back-office tasks such as invoices from job notes, parts reordering and rent reminders, with user approval
• Asks for approval before sending trucks or spending money
• Builds custom desks and screens such as service desk, dispatch board and quotes desk based on a description of the work
• Connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, QuickBooks and Trello, and works with property management platforms such as AppFolio and Buildium
• Supports English and Spanish manual uploads
• Provides a mobile app for iPhone and Android, described as coming soon

Best suited for

• Property managers handling tenant maintenance calls and rent collection
• Service businesses such as HVAC, plumbing and electrical firms with dispatch needs
• Auto repair, forklift and heavy equipment shops that need after-hours call answering
• Cleaning, facilities, roofing and logistics companies that run on jobs
• Teams that want to capture knowledge from staff who do not use laptops

Pricing

Usage based: $0 today, $50 of credit when you add a card, then 30¢ a minute on calls and per text. No seats, retainer or contract. Production starts at $300 a month prepaid.