Meet Tom. A talking AI bust that lives on a Home Depot end cap. He sees customers coming, talks to them like a person, knows the store, recommends the right product for their actual project — and closes booked installs with a real measurement of the customer's own roof, priced on the spot, in about 24 seconds.
Not a kiosk. Not a QR code. A working AI employee that runs the full arc from "just browsing" to "booked install" — while store staff stay free.
Camera vision watches the aisle. Tom greets approaching customers, reads hesitation and confusion in body language, and knows when to offer help — and when to stay quiet.
Full natural voice conversation — not menu prompts. Customers ask real questions in plain English and get real answers back, out loud, at aisle noise levels.
Tom knows where every product lives and what it's good for. "Where's the roof sealant?" gets an aisle and bay — plus which one actually fits the customer's job.
Tom asks about the customer's actual project — the leak, the deck, the re-roof — and recommends the right product and quantity for that job, not just the nearest SKU.
This is the one nobody else has. A customer says their address, and Tom measures their real roof from the sky in about 24 seconds — squares, pitch, edges, waste. He prints a priced install proposal on the spot and books the job with Home Depot's installer program right there at the end cap. The customer walked in for a tube of sealant; they walk out with a scheduled roof install.
Home Depot already sells installs. The gap is the aisle: thousands of homeowners walk past roofing products every day with a real project in mind and nobody to close them. Tom works that aisle every hour the store is open.
Four proven components, already running in production — assembled into one end cap.
An aisle-facing camera feeds vision AI that detects approach, dwell, and engagement. Presence detection, not identity — no facial recognition, no stored footage of customers.
Speech-to-speech conversation on the Talk to Tom platform — the same voice AI stack already answering live business calls today.
Our production aerial-measurement engine: address in, CAD-grade roof measurement out in ~24 seconds, across 130M+ US building footprints.
The proposal hands off to Home Depot's existing installer-program workflow — Tom books the consult or install into the process the store already runs.
Tom lives at one end cap in the roofing aisle: greets, answers, recommends, measures, and books installs. Fixed position, zero floor-space disruption, we bring the hardware.
A mobile Tom that doesn't point customers to aisle 23 — it walks them there, talking the whole way, then hands them the right product. Same brain, wheels under it.
We bring the hardware, the AI, and the measurement engine. You pick the store. We'll measure everything — conversations started, products recommended, roofs measured, installs booked — and let the numbers make the case.