Software for people who work for themselves
Small tools that answer one question about your business.
Each of these does one thing for one trade. None of them is a scheduling app with your trade's name on it, and none of them asks you to run your whole business through it — they work out one number you have never had, from figures you already keep.
Every one is 14 days free with no card. If it has not told you something you did not know by the end of that, it was not going to.
Buy a tool
Pick your trade. Fourteen days free, no card, and it works out the number you have never had by the end of the first evening.
See the 5 tools → Built one yourself?Sell a tool
Keep 85%. Signed delivery on Windows and Mac, already built for you.
How it works →The tools
One trade each. Every price is the same whether it is you on your own or you and four others.
Chalkline
$79 a monthWages, burden and overhead, worked out into the one number you price off. It catches the things a spreadsheet gets wrong — PTO counted twice, margin confused with mark-up, billable hours guessed at.
Open Chalkline →Shop Rate
$99 a monthReads your own repair orders and works out the rate you really collected, then shows where the rest went — discounts, hours written down, diag nobody billed, comebacks.
Open Shop Rate →Milepost
$79 a monthA rate is quoted per loaded mile. The run to go and get the load is not in it. Works out what a mile really costs you, then checks a load before you say yes.
Open Milepost →Yardstick
$59 a monthYour crew is paid from the moment it leaves the yard. Puts the driving back onto the stops that caused it and sorts the whole book worst first, before renewals go out.
Open Yardstick →EZ Move
$50 a monthSize the job before you quote it — what is in the house, how long it takes, how many trucks and how many people, with the stairs and the long carry counted.
Open EZ Move →Why they work
Four things the software you are using now will not do.
One trade each, not one app for everybody.
A mowing round and a truck do not have the same problem, so they do not get the same software with the words swapped. Every one of these was built for the trade it names, and the sums inside it are that trade's sums.
The price does not go up when you hire somebody.
It is the same whether it is you on your own or you and four others. Most software in these trades charges per person and adds $40 to $50 a month every time you take somebody on, which quietly taxes you for growing.
Built and answered by one person.
Me. If something does not fit how you work, you say so and I build it into your copy — that is what the monthly buys you that shelf software cannot. There is no ticket queue and no first-line support.
Your figures stay yours.
Nothing is sold, shared, or used to build a benchmark other businesses can see. Ask and I will send you your file. Several of these also run on a computer in your own office, where nothing leaves the building at all.
For builders
Built something for your own trade?
Most of the useful software in a trade is written by somebody already in it, for themselves, and never goes any further. The plan is to let you sell it here — you upload it, this sells it and hands the buyer a download. You keep 85% of the price.
That half is not built yet, and there is nothing to sign up to today. Leave your name and I will come to you first when it opens — the early ones get a say in how it actually works.
- 85%of every sale is yours
- Signednotarised on Mac, signed on Windows
- Installs itselftheir machine, their icon, no wrestling
- $20+the floor, so card fees never eat it