A homeowner fills out a contact form asking about a kitchen remodel. The GC's project manager spends 45 minutes on a discovery call to learn the budget is $25,000 and the customer wants high-end cabinets, which means they're not a fit. Multiply that by ten unqualified leads a week, and the calendar is full of meetings that go nowhere. SleekAI reads your typical project ranges, service tiers, and qualification logic from WordPress and handles the discovery step in chat.

The bot doesn't kill leads; it routes them honestly. A $25,000 kitchen budget gets framed as workable for a refresh-tier project (paint, hardware, countertop swap, appliance replacement, no cabinet replacement). A $75,000 budget opens up a mid-tier remodel with semi-custom cabinets. A $150,000-plus budget routes to your design-build conversation with the senior PM. Each tier comes from your real portfolio, so the customer hears "here's what $75,000 typically gets in a kitchen this size" backed by published case studies, not a vague "we can do anything in that budget" promise.

Consultations book against your real calendar with the project scope, budget tier, location, and timeline saved to WordPress. The PM walks into the meeting having already read the chat transcript: scope is a kitchen plus powder room, target completion before Thanksgiving, budget is mid-tier semi-custom, homeowner has Pinterest references attached. That's a productive first meeting instead of an hour of discovery questions, and the close rate goes up because the proposal turnaround drops from two weeks to one.

General contracting is a business where the consult is the cost center and the proposal is where the close happens. Every unqualified consult is two hours of project manager time, a site visit, a follow-up phone call, and a proposal that goes nowhere. Multiply that by ten leads a week and the senior PM is burning eight hours of unbillable time before the first contract gets signed.

A generic chatbot that says "we'll have someone reach out" books every one of those wasted consults, because there's no qualification step in the chat itself. Honest qualification matters because it inverts the dynamic. When the bot says "a mid-tier kitchen in our market typically runs $55,000 to $95,000" and the customer says "that works," you've got a pre-qualified lead.

When the customer says "I was thinking $20,000," the bot routes them to refresh-tier honestly, and either the lead converts at a smaller scope or self-selects out, both of which are better than a wasted consult. The PM walks into in-home meetings having already read the chat transcript, so the first 30 minutes are spent talking solutions, not running discovery. Proposal turnaround drops because the prep work happened in chat over the weekend.

Close rate goes up because the customer arrived at the consult feeling heard, not run through a sales funnel. GCs who run this stop losing weekends to bad leads, and the project managers stop burning out on discovery calls that go nowhere.