A dead outlet and a panel upgrade arrive the same way.
Custom software for electricians
One is ninety minutes. The other is a day and several thousand dollars. Electrical is the trade where the gap between the smallest job and the biggest is widest, and where guessing wrong about which one you're driving to costs you the afternoon.
- From $950 for one module
- You own the code and the data
- No contract, cancel any month
The qualification problem is bigger here than anywhere.
A roofer's leads are mostly roofs. A plumber's are mostly water. An electrician's range from a switch that stopped working to a service upgrade, an EV charger, a panel replacement, a whole-house rewire and a commercial fit-out. Same form, twenty times the value spread.
That makes the qualifying questions unusually valuable, and unusually specific. For an EV charger you need the panel's amperage, the spare breaker space, the distance from panel to parking, and whether the service can even carry it. Ask those before you drive out and you can quote properly. Skip them and you've spent an hour finding out the service needs upgrading first.
The other thing electrical carries more than any other trade is paperwork that's legally required. Permits, inspection scheduling, and the coordination around them. It's unglamorous, it's per-job, it's highly repetitive, and it's exactly the shape of work that software handles well.
So the priority here isn't speed of response, though that helps. It's knowing what the job actually is before you commit a van to it.
What I'd build first, and why that order.
Electrical is the one trade where I'd put qualification ahead of raw speed. Replying in ten seconds is worth less than knowing, before you drive, which kind of job this is.
Electrical contractor software, in other words — the parts of it you'd actually use.
A form that branches by job type
What stopped working, how old is the panel, has anything tripped repeatedly, is this a repair or an addition, is it residential or commercial. Different answers ask different follow-ups. Your day gets planned around real information instead of a guess.
EV charger and panel questions, asked up front
Amperage, spare breaker space, distance from panel to parking, meter location, photos of the panel. The specific list, every time, so the first visit is a quote rather than a survey.
Permit and inspection tracking
Which jobs need one, which are filed, which are scheduled, which passed. Per job, with the dates, visible on one screen. This is the most repetitive admin in the trade and the one most often kept in somebody's head.
Job records with the photos attached
Panel photos, before and after, what was installed, what the inspector said. Against the job, findable a year later when the customer calls about something else.
Quote follow-up on the big ones
A service upgrade or a rewire is compared against two other bids over a couple of weeks. A scheduled, written follow-up recovers work you've already done the survey for.
What I wouldn't build. Anything that produces a price for electrical work without you having seen the panel, and anything that tells a customer a situation is safe to leave. Software collects the facts. You make the call.
Start with one module.
One thing, built properly, for $950. Two or three that only make sense together, $1,950. Everything connected, from $2,995. Each step is a decision you make once the one before it has earned it, and stopping at the first is a normal outcome.
Half up front to book, half on launch, agreed in writing before anything starts. If you want me keeping it running afterwards that's $150/month and it cancels any month with no fee. If you don't, you still own it.
Judge it on what I've built.
The software I run my own businesses on. Every card says what it is, so you can see the standard rather than take my word for it.
The software
A lead tracker, an SEO tool that writes branded PDF reports, a desktop file organizer, a Discord bot, a plugin storefront. All mine, all working, none of them a contractor's.
No contractor example yet
I would rather say that than show you somebody else's work or a mock-up dressed as a job. What is on the work page is real and labeled, and the free homepage is there so you can see the standard applied to your own business before you pay for anything.
Different trade, different order.
The build order isn't the same across trades, and the pages say why rather than swapping a noun.
Tell me what you're paying for.
Send me your monthly software list and I'll write back with what each tool does, what's worth replacing, and the one thing I'd build first with a fixed price on it.