Meet Hank: The AI Assistant Built Into Every Part of Jobkore

We shipped the first version of Hank AI™ at the start of 2026 with a simple job: take the messy notes a contractor captures during a walkthrough and organize them into a clean estimate. That alone saved people about 30 to 45 minutes per job. A year in, we've rebuilt what Hank can do, and the original pitch now dramatically undersells it.

Hank is a full chat assistant now. Not a one-shot estimate generator, not a single-purpose button. He shows up across Jobkore — inside every draft, across the writing surfaces, and in the app's help — and he gives you one consistent partner to work with. Here's what he does today.

Edit with Hank: chat your way through a draft

Open any estimate, invoice, or change order and you'll see two tabs: Edit Manually and Edit with Hank. They read and write the same document. Flip to the Hank tab, type what you want changed, and watch him edit the form live:

• "Add a line for exterior paint, 2,400 sqft."
• "Move demo to its own section and rename the current one to Rough-in."
• "Flag the tile as an allowance."
• "Rewrite the notes in a friendlier tone and add gate access instructions."
• "Set the due date to two weeks from today."

Nothing is a preview. Every change autosaves the moment Hank makes it, and the conversation persists across sessions so you can pick up where you left off a day later. You can tap the mic and describe changes out loud, drop photos or PDFs into the chat, or pull in field notes you captured on site. Hank reads everything — transcripts, extracted text, attached files — and works from the whole picture.

Ask Hank: in-app help that knows your account

The other new surface is Ask Hank, a streaming chat that answers questions about Jobkore itself. Stuck finding where to set your tax rate? Want to know how ACH fees work? Wondering when your trial ends? Tap the Ask Hank button and ask.

This is not free-wheeling AI. Hank is grounded in Jobkore's knowledge base and has context from your own account — your plan, your settings, your usage — so answers are specific to you. If you hit a dead end, one tap emails the transcript to our support team and we take it from there. It's the end of tabbing out to search docs and copy-pasting error messages into email.

Field notes into drafts, still the core workflow

The original notes-to-estimate flow is still there, and we've widened it. Select one to ten field notes — voice, photos, PDFs, or text — and pick what to build: an estimate, an invoice, or a change order. Hank reads everything, detects the kind of project you're working on, and groups scope the way your industry does it.

For a single-room remodel, everything lives under one section named for the room — no random trade splitting. For new construction, you get phases: Site Work, Foundation, Framing, Rough-In, Finishes. For a roof replacement, you get component stages: Tear-off, Deck Prep, Install, Flashing. For insurance and restoration work, you get Xactimate-ready structure — rooms as sections with Mitigation, Demolition, and Build-back — exactly what adjusters expect. Soft costs like permits, dumpsters, and cleanup get pulled into a dedicated Site Services section at the top, so general overhead stays visible.

If a note says "client to pick" or "TBD," that line gets flagged as an allowance with a change-order disclaimer. If there are exclusions, conditions, or site notes tucked into your captures — "dog in backyard," "permit already pulled," "HOA approval first" — Hank extracts them into a clean Notes block and appends to your existing document notes without overwriting your boilerplate.

Works in every trade

Hank is trade-aware across the board — every trade Jobkore supports is covered. Pick yours on signup and Hank uses your industry's vocabulary everywhere. Transcripts load the right glossary: ridge vent and underlayment for roofing, AFCI and load calc for electrical, R-19 and vapor barrier for insulation, ridge beam and joist hanger for framing. Trade jargon comes through clean instead of mangled. When he polishes writing, he leaves that jargon alone instead of "fixing" it into something generic. When he organizes scope, he uses the structure your industry actually uses.

Same for Spanish. Every surface works in English or Spanish, switchable anytime. The scope, the writing polish, the chat, and the help all follow along.

Polish your writing, keep your meaning

Below most text fields — notes, line descriptions, line-item notes, payment terms, the email message that goes out with the document — there's an Improve button. Pick Professional, Friendly, or Formal, and Hank tightens the prose. He preserves numbers, measurements, and trade jargon exactly. He won't invent shared history — no "as we discussed" that never happened, no "per our call" with a client you've never spoken to. The point is tighter writing, not a different message.

Hank's Memory: save your rules once

Hank can remember up to 20 standing rules across everything he does. Save them once in Settings → Hank AI™ (or let Hank propose them during a chat when he notices a pattern). Examples:

• "I sub out all tile work to ABC Tile."
• "Always include a cleanup section at the end."
• "Use sqft for flooring and lf for trim."
• "Include a 10% contingency line on every estimate."

Think of it as briefing a new estimator on how you work. The longer Hank is with you, the less you revise.

You stay in the review seat

Every change Hank makes is a suggestion you can accept, redo, or back out. Tool calls update the form live, so you see exactly what changed and when. Don't like the pricing on a section? Tell him to redo it. Think a line should be an allowance instead? Say so. Want to trim three items and add two? One sentence in chat. Hank is fast enough that iterating in a conversation beats editing cells in a spreadsheet.

A seasoned contractor knows things that never show up in an algorithm: which supplier has the best prices this week, how your crew paces specific work, the permit situation in a particular city, whether a lot's soil is going to cause problems. Hank drafts the structure and puts reasonable numbers in place — you apply that knowledge on top. You ship faster because you're reviewing, not typing.

Pricing

Hank is included in Jobkore Pro at $29/month. Everything on this page — Edit with Hank, Ask Hank, voice transcription, writing polish, photo and PDF extraction, Hank's Memory, bilingual support — is part of the same plan. No per-use charges, no token limits, no AI add-on fee.

Try the Hank demo → Paste your own walkthrough notes and see what he does with them.