Field-service software bills you for every technician you add. Lead platforms bill you for every call. Builtstead replaces the rented layer around your business with a website, booking, customer records, and invoicing you own, then automates the follow-ups so the office runs itself while you're on a job.
A five-person shop on Housecall Pro or Jobber is paying a few hundred dollars a month before the first invoice goes out. Add a tech, the bill goes up. Add Angi or Thumbtack on top and you're paying again for leads that three competitors also bought. Then the reviews, the reminders, the "are you still coming?" texts all get handled by hand, usually from the truck.
For a one-to-ten-person crew, an owned system covers the whole workflow. For larger shops that need a dispatch board and a technician app, we keep that core and replace everything around it.
Crews across the county, from the coast to the Coachella Valley, run on the same rented stack. We've built owned systems for a landscaping company with multiple crews and small service shops that book from the truck. Discovery comes first, so we see how your day actually runs before we suggest anything.
Bring your card statement to the audit. This is where the line items come from.
Per-technician pricing, setup fees, and a customer list that lives inside a platform you don't control.
Owned scheduling, customer records, and invoicing for small crews. Larger shops keep their dispatch core and replace the rest.
A monthly site you can't move, with a booking widget that costs extra and a contact form nobody follows up on.
A mobile-first site you own, with booking built in and every inquiry landing in your customer records automatically.
Paying per lead for shared leads, and asking for reviews only when you remember to.
Review requests sent after each job, so your Google profile does the lead generation. Estimates followed up on a schedule you set.
Invoices typed twice, deposits chased by text, and a bookkeeping mess at the end of the month.
Owned invoicing with online payment and automatic reminders, tied to the job record. QuickBooks stays if your bookkeeper wants it.
Most crews are live in about 30 days. The new system runs next to the old one until you're ready to switch.
We look at what you pay for, what your office does by hand, and where the calls and leads leak. You get a written recap the same day.
One page: what stays, what gets replaced, what gets automated, and a fixed one-time build price.
Your server, your domain, your accounts. We move your customer list in, wire up the follow-ups, and train whoever answers the phone.
Updates, backups, monitoring, and support on Essentials. Growth ($399) adds automation changes each month and a priority queue. No per-user fees on any plan.
If yours isn't here, ask. You'll get a written reply the same day.
Probably not all of it, and we'll say so in the audit. A dispatch board with a technician app is a core system. What we replace is the perimeter around it: the website, booking, review requests, estimate follow-ups, invoicing, and file storage that are billed separately or per seat. That's usually where most of the waste is.
Yes. Booking, customer records, and invoicing all work on a phone. Techs can see the day's jobs, mark them done, and the follow-up sends itself.
The server, the domain, and every account are in your business's name. If you leave, we hand over the passwords and documentation within seven days and the system keeps running. Nothing is hostage to us.
You do, directly, in your own hosting account, usually a small monthly amount. That's the point: it's yours. Our fee covers the build and the management, not the rent.
Systems are monitored around the clock and restart themselves for most faults. Our written response commitment is four business hours for a system-down issue, Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM Pacific. We don't promise 24/7 coverage we can't deliver.
A 30-minute review of every subscription your business pays for: what it adds up to at list price, what you could own instead, and which admin tasks could run themselves. You get a written plan either way.
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