Commercial and specialty contractors
First bid to final bill.
Leads, sales orders, estimates, budgets, crews, daily reports, purchasing, job costing and billing in one system, built around how your company already runs its jobs. General contractors, specialty trades, solar builders. If you can describe it, we can build it.
Free, no pitch deck. Just how your business runs and where the software gets in the way.
Where the software gets in the way
Spreadsheets, texts and email.
Plenty of contractors end up back there, whatever they bought. Software built for someone else's process only goes so far.
Field and office apart
Crews work from one set of information and the office from another, and the daily report gets typed in twice or not at all.
Budget here, buying there
Purchases and change orders sit in email and spreadsheets, so committed cost against budget stays hidden until the month closes.
Reports built by hand
Job status, hours and margin come from whoever has time to pull them together, usually after the moment they would have helped.
One example
A solar builder on three sites at once.
Take a company building ground mounts and parking lot canopies, with crews and equipment moving between sites and a spreadsheet for each job. Here is what a system for that company could look like. A mechanical contractor or a concrete sub would get a different one, because the system follows the work.
- Leads and follow-upEvery prospect tracked, with follow-ups that go out on their own
- Sales ordersA won job becomes a sales order, then a job, with nothing retyped
- Site recordsEvery array, canopy and site with its drawings and documents
- Crews and equipmentWho and what is on which site, this week and next
- DeliveriesRacking and modules tracked from order to the site
- Daily reportsQuantities, hours, photos and issues from the field in a few taps
- Job costBid against actual on every site, as the work happens
- Progress billingInvoices drawn from the work done, in your customer's format
This is an illustration of what we can build, not a client story.
What we build, and what it replaces
What we build for contractors.
One system built around how your company already works, replacing the separate tools you rent today. These are the layers contractors tend to need most, and we can build others.
- Layer 01 · Field
Daily reports crews will fill out
Today's job, crew, hours, quantities, photos and issues in a few taps, and the office has the report without chasing anyone.
Replaces- Paper logs
- Daily report apps
- Layer 02 · Pipeline
Lead tracking, follow-up and sales orders
Every lead tracked from first contact, follow-ups that go out on their own with consent on record, and a won job turned into a sales order without anyone typing it twice.
Replaces- Rented CRMs
- Lead spreadsheets
- Layer 04 · Paper
Estimates, contracts and change orders
Priced from your own cost book, signed inside the system, with every change order tied back to the budget line it moves.
Replaces- Estimating spreadsheets
- E-signature services
- Layer 05 · Jobs
Schedules, crews, equipment and materials
Who is on which site, what equipment is there, and what is due on the truck, on one job record that field and office both see.
Replaces- Project management apps
- Whiteboards
- Layer 08 · Money
Purchasing, job costing and billing
Purchase orders against the budget, committed and actual cost on every job, and progress billing in the format your customers require.
Replaces- Cost spreadsheets
- Add-on finance modules
- Layer 09 · Numbers
The owner's dashboard
Every job, what it was bid at, what it has cost and what has been billed, on one screen, with no one building the report by hand.
Replaces- Weekly spreadsheets
- Layer 13 · Office
Submittals, permits and paperwork
Submittals, RFIs, permits, insurance certificates and lien waivers filed on the job, with reminders before anything lapses.
Replaces- Shared drives
- Email folders
- The whole stack
TradeMade. One system.
Every layer works as one, with your data moved over for you. You pick the layers your business needs, and the full list is on the home page.
Who's building it
Hammer in hand. Hundreds of millions managed.
Chris Garner started in construction at 18 and has spent more than 30 years in home improvement since, founding and running award-winning home improvement and maintenance companies. Then he led the growth of a solar company to more than $800 million a year.
What it costs
Priced against what you pay now.
Not a cheaper copy of what you rent. One system that does far more, with the work your team does by hand today automated, priced against what you already pay.
Percentages are typical figures from our builds and proposals, not a promise for any one business. AI usage is billed at cost and depends on how much your agents do.
Tell us how your company runs.
Free, and a few quick questions. If we can't make your work easier, we'll say so.
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