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Construction

The estimate is the product. Everything is built around not losing it.

What This Is

The Stack, and Why

Contracting businesses leak at the bid. The expensive part — the site visit, the takeoff, the pricing — is already spent by the time the estimate goes out, and the follow-up that would recover it lives in somebody's memory. The stack exists to make the estimate a tracked object with a state and a next action.

System of record
FieldPulse or Builder Prime
Jobs, estimates, scheduling and job costing. Selected against requirements, not by preference.
Estimating
Builder Prime / Contractor+
Templates with option pricing so good, better and best are three prices on one quote.
Documents
PandaDoc
Proposal assembled from templates, with sent, viewed and signed as states the system knows.
Phone
OpenPhone or Aircall
One tracked business number with missed-call text-back, replacing personal cells.
Payments
Stripe
Bank transfer default above a threshold, card kept one click away.
Books
QuickBooks
Jobs, items and classes mapped so a completed job lands attached to the job it belongs to.
Automation
Make or Pipedream
Estimate sent creates the follow-up. Job closed triggers the review request.
Visibility
Google Business Profile + project galleries
Job photos filed against the job record and published as real work.

Install Order

Sequence Matters

  1. Get one tracked number ringing every owner, with missed-call text-back.
  2. Choose the system of record against written requirements and three live demos.
  3. Build the estimate templates with option pricing.
  4. Attach a scheduled follow-up to every estimate at the moment it goes out.
  5. Set bank transfer as the invoice default above your threshold.
  6. Map job costing into the books.
  7. Publish the project galleries from photos already being taken.

What It Replaces

Before This

Personal cell numbers as the only conversion path, bids that go cold with nobody noticing, and margin that is only knowable after the year ends.

Construction is one of two verticals where this rests on delivered work rather than inference.

On CRM selection. The stack above is the outcome of a selection, not an assumption. Where the industry platform already holds the customer properly, it is the CRM and we configure it. HubSpot comes in for what the platform does not do, starting free, and becomes the system of record only where there is no industry platform at all. Every engagement interviews the platforms that could plausibly fit against written requirements, with live demos and a back-end review, before anything is chosen.

Platform licenses are billed by the vendor, not by us. We configure what you already pay for before recommending anything new, and we hold no partnership or reseller relationship with any platform named here.

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