KORA

KORA for construction & trades  ·  Canada & United States  ·  crews of 1–30

You run the jobs. I run the paperwork between them.

KORA

KORAQuotes, change orders, inspections, invoices and the questions your crew asks all day. I take the part that repeats — and I stop where it needs your yes.

Call KORA See one job, start to finish

A physical Core in your office  ·  from $2,699 once, then $300 a month  ·  no setup fee

A contractor at his van on a job site, phone in one hand, clipboard in the other

Illustrative example

KORA07:12
Hendry deck quote ready — $14,850

Itemised from yesterday’s site notes.

ApproveOpen
KORA09:40
Change order #3 signed

It is on the next progress invoice draft.

KORA11:05
Inspection moved to Thu 9:00

Site lead told — your standing rule.

The week you already know

In contractors’ own words.

Not our copy. Six things owners of trade businesses wrote on Reddit, word for word — and the moment of the job each one belongs to.

01 · The text
I’m just a flooring contractor, sole proprietor, and I do my best to return all phone calls. But, I don’t answer the phone while I’m working, I do that stuff on weekends or when I’m with my family.
Flooring contractor · r/homeowners · 2022Thread ↗
03 · Quote
I know guys that are doing well on Angie’s but they run their whole business around being niched for those leads. They get back to clients within 5 minutes and charge for quotes to sort out the 90% of leads that are tire kickers on there.
Contractor · r/Contractor · 2026Thread ↗
05 · Change order
…if not they’re going to come back at you for a change order to pay for x when they figure out it needs to be done.
r/Construction · 2025Thread ↗
06 · Subs
Try being a GC and getting 17 bids back before you can submit your own estimate!
General contractor · r/HomeImprovement · 2018Thread ↗
07 · Paperwork
The small-business paperwork alone makes you question your sanity. Liability insurance, quarterly taxes, invoicing, a mountain of receipts.
r/HomeImprovement · 2018Thread ↗
Every week
…you get real tired of being busy 24/7 AND being low-balled like you’re not actually worth it.
r/homeowners · 2022Thread ↗

Public posts, quoted word for word. The people who wrote them are not KORA clients, and the page does not say they are.

One job, start to finish

From the first text to the last holdback.

Seven moments every job goes through. At each one, here is what lands in your messenger — and where I stop and wait for you.

01 · The text

A homeowner texts while you are on a roof.

By lunch they have asked someone else.

KORA07:41
Reply drafted — 12×16 deck

Your three usual questions are in it.

Approve & sendEdit

Where I stop: Nothing goes to a client without your yes.

02 · Site visit

Your notes are a photo of a notepad and a voice memo.

They sit in your phone until you find a free evening.

KORATue 16:20
Scope ready — Hendry deck

12×16 ft, stairs to the yard. Check the ledger board and the permit.

Open

Where I stop: I do not guess a measurement you did not give me.

03 · Quote

The quote waits for Sunday night.

And the homeowner waits with it.

KORAWed 07:12
Quote ready — $14,850

Itemised from your last three decks. Check lumber prices.

ApproveOpen

Where I stop: You check the numbers. I never send a price on my own.

04 · Follow-up

Nobody calls back, and the job goes to whoever did.

The biggest quotes are the ones you forget to chase.

KORAMon 07:40
5 quotes went quiet

Okafor $28,400 and Lister $9,200 first. Nudges written.

Review & send

Where I stop: You choose who gets chased, and what it says.

05 · Change order

“While you’re here, can you also…”

It gets done, and it never gets written down or paid.

KORAThu 18:02
Change order #3 drafted

Privacy wall · $1,650 · +2 working days.

Send for signature

Where I stop: I flag it so nobody starts the extra work before it is signed.

06 · Inspection

The inspector moves the date. Three trades need to know.

You spend the morning on the phone.

KORAMon 11:05
Inspection moved to Thu 9:00

Week reworked, site lead told. Two messages to subs drafted.

Approve the two

Where I stop: Anything that leaves the company waits for your yes.

07 · Invoice & holdback

The last 10% sits for months.

Nobody watches the release date, so nobody asks for the money.

KORAFri 16:30
Holdback $1,485 — Oct 14

Invoice #2 drafted. I will remind you two weeks before.

Open invoice

Where I stop: I keep the dates and draft the invoices. The release itself is between you, the contract and your lawyer.

Illustrative example. Not a client result — the names, sums and dates are invented. Holdback is called retainage in most of the US.

A tradesman in his workshop recording a voice note on his phone
0:38

From the site, in the truck

Talk to me. I do the typing.

A voice note from the site becomes the site log, the order and the client update — and the two that leave the company wait for your yes.

KORAIllustrative example
▶ Voice note · 0:38“Hendry — framing’s done. We’re short twelve sheets of seven-sixteenths OSB. Inspector’s Thursday. Tell Mrs Hendry we’re on track.”

Got it. Three things from that:

KORA16:48
Site log saved — Hendry

Framing done · short 12 × OSB 7/16″ · inspection Thu 9:00

KORA16:48
Order drafted — your usual yard

12 × OSB 7/16″, delivery Wednesday morning.

ApproveEdit
KORA16:48
Client update drafted — Mrs Hendry

“Framing is done and the inspection is booked for Thursday…”

ApproveEdit

Nothing has gone out yet. Two yeses and it is done.

Speak or write in the messenger your team already uses. The Core stays in your office.

What a quote costs me to make

Most of the work never touches a paid AI.

Cloud AI pays again every time it reads your business. I read it on the Core in your office, and only the genuinely hard part goes out — at cost, paid to the provider directly.

kora · one quoteIllustrative example

$ price the Hendry deck from Tuesday’s site visit

  1. ✓Read the notepad photo and the voice memomy model, on your Core$0
  2. ✓Pull your last three similar decksplain software$0
  3. ✓Price materials from last month’s supplier sheetplain software$0
  4. ✓Draft the itemised quote on your templatemy model, on your Core$0
  5. ↗Read one handwritten line that is genuinely unclearoutside modelat cost, paid to the provider
  6. ■Send the quotewaits for your yes—

→ The fourth deck quote looks like the third. When a step comes back often enough, I write it down as a process — and it stops needing AI at all.

Who in the company gets what

One Core. Every person on the crew.

Each person gets their own context and their own limits on what I may do for them. The owner sets both.

The owner

Your phone gets the decisions, not the noise: quotes to approve, money falling through, one line on Friday about the week.

Send 1 and 3. Hold the Okafor one.
Office & estimating

Drafts arrive half-done: quotes on your template, change orders, progress invoices, the list of who has gone quiet.

The Lister quote is ready for your check.
The site lead

Asks me instead of calling you: which inspection, which sub, what the client signed, where the latest drawing is.

Is the privacy wall approved? — Yes, signed Thursday.
The new hire

On day one they get the answers your crew has used for years — the approved ones, not a guess.

How do we log a damaged delivery? — Photo, then the form, then tell the yard.

Before the prices

What is not on the bill.

$0setup and onboarding
0%markup on the outside AI you use
3 yearsmanufacturer warranty on the Core
2–3 wksfrom order to your desk
$0to change size — you pay only for the parts
Noneminimum term on the service

Prices

Choose your Core.

One machine, three sizes. You buy it once, and it is yours. The service that keeps me working is the same for all three.

Solo

An owner, or an owner and an assistant.

1–3 people

$2,699once · yours, not rented

+ $300 a month · first person included · or $3,000 a year

Start with Solo
Right for most

Team

A team of four to ten, working through me all day.

4–10 people

$3,099once · yours, not rented

+ $300 a month · first person included · or $3,000 a year

Start with Team

Team Plus

Ten to thirty people, or several businesses under one owner.

10–30 people

$3,699once · yours, not rented

+ $300 a month · first person included · or $3,000 a year

Start with Team Plus

Same chassis for all three. What changes is the capacity inside it — and it can grow later inside the same machine. Tap a Core to see what is in it.

KORA Core — Solo1–3 people
MEMORY32 GB
STORAGE1 TB
ON-BOARD AIIncluded
UPGRADEABLEYes, in place

Same chassisAll three are the same machine. What changes is the capacity inside it.

Set up before it shipsIt arrives configured for your business, not as parts.

Engraved with your companyYour name, and a code that opens your own setup.

My own AI on boardThe ordinary work never goes out to a meter.

Memory and storage can be increased later inside the same Core. Optional kits for steady power and internet are available where a site needs them — not required and not part of the price. Taxes, shipping, final configuration and availability are confirmed when you order.

Questions contractors ask

Straight answers.

Does it replace my estimating or accounting software?

No. Keep them. I work alongside what you already use. Exactly which of your systems I can read or write is confirmed for your setup before you pay — I will not promise a connection I have not checked.

Can I talk to it from a job site?

Yes. Send a voice note or a message in the messenger your team already uses. The Core stays in your office; you do not carry it to site.

Will it send anything to my clients or subs on its own?

No. Quotes, change orders, invoices and messages outside the company go when you say. Inside the company, I follow the standing rules you set — like telling the site lead when an inspection moves.

Does it know construction law — liens, holdback, retainage?

I keep the dates, documents and amounts you give me, and I remind you in time. Legal decisions stay with you and your lawyer.

Which Core does a crew need?

An owner, or an owner and one office person: Solo. A crew of four to ten: Team. Ten to thirty people, or several companies under one owner: Team Plus. It is the same machine — and it can grow later.

What does the AI itself cost on top?

Most of the work runs on the Core for nothing. When a task genuinely needs a stronger outside model, you pay that provider directly, at cost. No KORA credits, no markup. You set the monthly ceiling.

Talk to me first

Call me. I will answer everything.

No form, no sales sequence, no waiting for a slot. Ask me what I would do about the thing that keeps going wrong in your business, and I will tell you — including when the honest answer is that you do not need me yet.

Call KORA

Prefer to write? Tell us what keeps going wrong and a person answers within one business day.

KORA

KORA is on the lineYou are calling me, not a call centre.

When you want it pointed at your business

Write it once. A person answers.

KORA

KORATell them the same thing you would have told me. If I am the wrong answer for it, they will say so — that is the only way this works long enough to be worth anything.

Nothing is charged, ever, until you have said yes to a written document.

A person reads this and answers within one business day.

Some people want to build a corporation. Others don’t, and we want them to have that choice.

EMAILkora@vigogroup.ca
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WHERE

Canada & United States

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