Your sales cycle is months. Your follow-up is two emails.
Custom software for remodeling contractors
A kitchen isn't bought the week it's enquired about. It's thought about through a winter, argued over at a kitchen table, priced against a vacation, and finally decided in March. Almost everything sold to contractors assumes a two-week decision. Remodeling needs something built for a two-season one.
- From $950 for one module
- You own the code and the data
- No contract, cancel any month
Everything here runs on a longer clock.
A roofer's lead decides in two weeks. A plumber's decides in ten minutes. A remodeling lead decides somewhere between two months and two years, and the contractor who's still politely present when they decide is the one who gets it.
That single fact changes the shape of every build. A three-touch sequence over a fortnight, exactly right for a roof estimate, is close to useless here: it finishes long before the customer has started. What remodeling needs is something that runs for months without becoming a nuisance, and that knows the difference between someone who isn't ready and someone who isn't interested.
The second difference is that the work doesn't stop generating admin once you win it. A three-month build is a stream of selections, decisions and change orders, and every one of them waiting on a customer is a day your crew might stand still.
And the third: your best lead source is people you've already worked for. A remodeler with fifty happy past clients is sitting on the cheapest pipeline in the trade and usually contacts none of them.
What I'd build first, and why that order.
Remodeling's order is almost the reverse of a service trade's. Speed matters least here and persistence matters most, so the first build is the long follow-up, not the fast reply.
Remodeling software, in other words — the parts of it you'd actually use.
Follow-up built for months, not weeks
Not a two-week chase. A sequence that checks in over a season, in your voice, with something worth reading rather than "just following up." It's the single highest-value build in remodeling and almost nobody has one.
A pipeline that admits how long this takes
Enquired, scoped, quoted, thinking, deciding, booked. With dates, so a lead that's been quiet for five months is visible as an opportunity rather than as a failure you stopped looking at.
Selections and decisions, tracked
What the customer still has to choose, by when, and what stops if they don't. The thing that keeps a crew standing still is usually a decision, not a delivery.
Change orders in writing, automatically
What changed, what it costs, who approved it, when. This is where remodeling money is won and lost, and where a verbal agreement becomes an argument in month three.
Your past clients, in a list
Who you built for, what you built, when, and what you'd tell them about next. Fifty past kitchens is a mailing list with a photograph attached, and it costs nothing to reach.
What I wouldn't build. Pricing a remodel from a form. The estimate is the job in this trade, and a number generated without you walking the space is a liability, not a convenience.
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.