PipeStitchAssistants & tools
The AI and the software owners ask about
One fact sheet per product: what it does, what it costs, and where your data goes, with the date we checked it.
Assistants
Phone answering and AI you hand a job to, like writing replies: what each one does, what it costs, and where your data goes.
Answers your phone
Dialzara
An AI receptionist from $29 a month that answers, takes messages, and books new appointments on your calendar.
Checked on September 27, 2026Goodcall
An AI phone agent that answers calls and takes messages, billed by how many different people call you.
Checked on September 27, 2026Rosie
An AI that answers your business phone day and night, takes messages, and books jobs on the middle plan and up.
Checked on September 27, 2026Ruby
Live receptionists, real people, who answer your calls, take messages, and book appointments, billed by the minute.
Checked on September 27, 2026Smith.ai
An AI receptionist that can hand hard calls to a live person, or live receptionists on their own, billed per call.
Checked on September 27, 2026
Built into your job software
They run on shop software that has its own page under Tools: Housecall Pro and Jobber.
Housecall Pro CSR AI
Housecall Pro’s AI that answers your calls and website chat day and night, and books jobs from your price book.
Checked on September 27, 2026Receptionist by Jobber
Answers your business line’s calls and texts when you can’t, and books jobs straight into Jobber.
Checked on September 27, 2026
Writes and replies for you
Lindy
An AI helper that lives in your team’s Slack and inbox: sorts and drafts email, books meetings, and takes notes.
Checked on September 27, 2026Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft’s assistant inside Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams, which works from your own email and files.
Checked on September 27, 2026Siri AI
Apple’s rebuilt Siri, which finds things in your messages, email, and photos, and drafts email.
Checked on September 27, 2026
Does a whole job you hand it
Genspark
An AI workspace that makes slides, sheets, and documents, and can place real phone calls for you.
Checked on September 27, 2026Grok Bot
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) helpers with their own computer that work while your laptop is closed. Needs a Cursor account.
Checked on September 27, 2026Manus
An AI helper you give a task in plain words, which works on it by itself on a cloud computer and hands back the result.
Checked on September 27, 2026Muse
Meta’s personal assistant that does errands for you, like sending an email or booking travel, on its own computer.
Checked on September 27, 2026Vellum
A personal assistant for email, calendar, and busywork, rented in Vellum’s cloud or run free on your own Mac.
Checked on September 27, 2026
General chat
ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chat assistant for writing, questions, and files, with a helper called Work for longer jobs.
Checked on September 27, 2026Claude
Anthropic’s chat assistant for writing and files, which can also take on bigger jobs while you’re away.
Checked on September 27, 2026Gemini
Google’s chat assistant, which also works inside Gmail and Docs on paid plans.
Checked on September 27, 2026Grok
SpaceXAI’s chat assistant, with live web and X search, image making, and voice.
Checked on September 27, 2026Perplexity
A search-style assistant that answers with links to its sources, plus a helper that does tasks and a web browser.
Checked on September 27, 2026
For shops with someone who looks after their software
Hermes Agent
A free assistant you install on your own computer and message from Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, or email.
Checked on September 27, 2026OpenClaw
A free assistant that runs on your own computer and does email, calendar, and errands from WhatsApp or Telegram.
Checked on September 27, 2026Relevance AI
A kit for building your own AI helpers for sales, support, and admin, including ones that make phone calls.
Checked on September 27, 2026
Tools
The software you already run the shop on, the apps that move work between them, and any AI already built into that software.
Job software you run the shop on
Some have an AI add-on with its own page under Assistants: Housecall Pro CSR AI and Receptionist by Jobber.
Housecall Pro
Job software for home service businesses: booking, dispatch, estimates, invoices, payments, and reviews.
Checked on September 27, 2026Jobber
Job software for home service businesses: booking, quotes, scheduling, invoices, and payments in one place.
Checked on September 27, 2026ServiceTitan
Job software for larger trades shops: dispatch, booking, estimates, invoices, payroll, and memberships, priced per technician.
Checked on September 27, 2026
Texting, reviews, and phones
Connects your apps
Make
A visual way to connect your apps step by step, paid for in credits that each step uses up.
Checked on September 27, 2026Zapier
Connects the apps you already use, so something that happens in one does the next steps in the others.
Checked on September 27, 2026n8n
Connects apps and runs AI jobs, rented from n8n or run on a computer you (or someone you pay) look after, and priced per run.
Checked on September 27, 2026