# AI for Plumbing Pros — 150 copy-paste prompts | AI on the Job https://www.ai-on-the-job.com/books/017-ai-on-the-job-plumbing-pros-edition 017 of 025 · Trades & Main Street Plumbing Pros The water is already on the floor, and the smart shutoff cannot mop it up. This is the quoting, the explaining and the invoicing that fills your evenings. eleven hoursevery week. That’s eleven hours in a normal week — and more in the weeks that aren’t normal, which in this trade means a hard freeze or a holiday weekend. Your first week will be slower, because you’re learning a tool. By week three the numbers above are realistic, and they hold whether you run one van or six. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there. Where the hours come from Chapter 4Writing quotes and explaining the repair~3 hours Chapter 5Customer texts, dispatch messages, follow-ups~2 hours Chapter 6Invoices, service agreements, payment chasing~1.5 hours Chapter 7Review responses and complaint letters~1 hour Chapter 8Job write-ups, parts lists, homeowner explanations~1.5 hours Chapter 9The marketing you keep putting off~2 hours Twelve chapters. Twelve chapters, 150 copy-paste prompts, a glossary that assumes nothing, and a thirty-day plan to get there. 01 Your Head Start 02 The 30-Minute Setup 03 How to Talk to It 04 The Quote That Gets Approved 05 The Phone That Never Stops 06 Money Paperwork — and the Service-Agreement Engine 07 Reviews, Complaints, and Your Name 08 On the Job — Your Second Brain in the Van 09 Getting Calls Booked 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break 11 Tools of the Trade 12 Your First 30 Days Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition. Read the opening before you decide. Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade. Prompt #1. Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one. COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I run a [SIZE]-person plumbing company in [CITY, STATE] called [BUSINESS NAME]. We do [residential service and repair / drain cleaning / water heaters / repipes / remodel / new construction]. Typical jobs: [YOUR TOP 5 JOB TYPES]. When you write anything a customer will read, keep it plain, professional and short — no hype, no exclamation points, no scare tactics, eighth-grade reading level. Leave every price as a blank for me to fill in unless I give you the number. Never state a pipe size, a fixture unit count, a venting rule, a permit requirement or any code requirement as fact — mark anything like that VERIFY so I check it against my adopted code and my local amendments.” One of 150 in AI for Plumbing Pros. Start reading here. Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. Read the opening → Try the free prompts → The questions people actually ask. Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book? Not yet. The free tiers carry you through every TRY IT NOW box in this book and your first few weeks of real use. You will know it is time to pay when you hit the daily limit in the middle of an ordinary workday, which is the tool telling you it has earned about $20 a month. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys. Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job? No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, The Water Is Already on the Floor, free: 2,007 words, no sign-up. What is actually in the 150 prompts? Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Quotes & Estimates (16–40), Customer Communication & Emergencies (41–65), Money & Service Agreements (66–85), Reviews & Reputation (86–105), On the Job (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full. I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced? It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses. How long is it? It is about 31,006 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 23m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them. Can I order the book here? Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where. AI on the Job: Plumbing Pros Edition · page one Somebody you work with needs one of these.