I build you a system for the way your business already works — quotes, invoices, change orders, chasing people, paperwork. Then, when you want something added or changed, you say it and it gets built. Nothing to learn. It just gets handled.
That is the most common reason people never do anything about this. Cost is not what stops it, and neither is doubt that it would help. So the first step is me working it out, not you. Most people who sell you software hand you a login and wish you luck. I learn how the business actually runs, build around that, then keep it running.
One week
I map where work comes in, where it leaks, and what you end up doing by hand every evening. You get a written findings document and a list of what to fix first, with dollar figures next to it. You keep that document whatever you decide next.
Three to five weeks
Your website if you need one, and the system that runs the work: intake, quotes, change orders, invoices, payments, documents, signatures, job costs. Scoped from the findings, so you know what you're buying before you buy it.
Ongoing, month to month
Most software stops at what it shipped with. This doesn't. Want a new screen, a different invoice, a step added to how a job moves? You say it in plain English and it gets built into your system. Every month you get a note about what changed. Cancel whenever.
Pricing coming soon. Until then the first conversation and the written findings are free, so you can see what this is worth before anyone talks about money.
A family-run design-build remodeler working across San Francisco and Sacramento. The system went live in July and runs its automated jobs every day. It is going into full daily use now. The handover is happening as I write this.
A 1924 Spanish revival in San Francisco, taken back to a five-bedroom home. The work was always good — the paperwork around it was the problem.
Work came in by phone, text, email and a form on the website, and it all ended up in one person's head. Estimates were written by hand. Invoices got sent late because sending them meant sitting down at night. Insurance certificates expired without anyone noticing until a client asked for one. Paperwork for a big commercial client had a ten-point checklist that somebody had to remember.
It reads the certificates and counts down. A policy inside thirty days gets flagged before a client asks for it — not after.
See the whole system, screen by screen →
lead → quote → change order → invoice → payment → job costs → closeout
It checks the company's insurance against that ten-point list and warns before anything lapses. It keeps every document versioned, so nobody can quietly change a price after a customer has seen it. It tracks which conversations are still owed a reply. Nothing involving money or paperwork goes out without a person approving it first.
Cheaper for both of us to find that out now.
A sentence or two is plenty. I'll come back with what I'd look at first. If I don't think I can help, I'll say so.
Or call (415) 350-2256. A person answers. Or email nick@trovano.ai.
I build these systems and I run them. When you call, you get me, not a support queue.
I grew up around this work. My father is a licensed general contractor in the Bay Area, and his company is where this was built and installed. It went live in July and he's taking it over now.
I'll tell you if I don't think I can help. I'd rather turn down a job than take one I'd do badly.
Nicholas Nuraliyev