Proposal for Handyman, Contractor, Trade work Business
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Proposal for Handyman, Contractor, Trade work Business

A purpose-built business operating system for your company.

April 2026 - propsal valid until July 31 2026

You are running a real business on memory and hope.

If your phone is your office, your calendar is a wall, and your back office is your head. You are getting interrupted on job sites by calls you cannot vet. You are double booking. You are forgetting appointments with people you like. You are losing money on materials you cannot track and on jobs where the scope changed and nobody signed anything new.

You are not failing. You are growing past what a one-man system can hold.

This proposal is about building the infrastructure that catches everything you are currently dropping. Not another software subscription. A system built specifically for how your business works. Three phases. Each one solves the next most painful thing. Each one builds on the last.

The problems we are solving.

Unqualified calls mid-job

Leads interrupt you while you are on tools. Most are not urgent. Your day breaks anyway.

Double booking and forgotten appointments

Your calendar lives in your head. One distraction and something slips. It costs you professionalism and clients.

No paper trail on scope changes

The work changes, the price changes, nothing gets signed. Clients push back. You eat the cost.

Scattered payments and invoicing

Zelle, checks, a billing app you do not fully trust. No single place to see what you are owed.

Materials disappearing from the books

You spend money on every job. Half of it never makes it back into what you charge. That is your margin walking out the door.

No professional client experience

You do excellent work. Your back office does not match it yet. This closes that gap completely.

Three phases. Each one changes your day.

Phase 1

Get Out of Overwhelm

$2,000

What changes immediately

Your phone stops running your day. Your calendar stops living in your head. Leads are organized before they reach you. Every job has a record and every dollar you spend gets logged. You go to work and work.

This phase installs the layer that stops the daily chaos and gives you a real back office from day one. An AI powered receptionist answers every call. Your calendar syncs everywhere. Jobs and materials are tracked from the moment work begins.

  • AI powered phone receptionist answers every call professionally when you are on a job. Leads are captured, scored, and organized before they ever reach you.
  • Dedicated business phone number completely separate from your personal cell. Your personal phone goes quiet while you work.
  • Lead scoring. Truly urgent leads get a push notification immediately. Warm leads wait in your dashboard. Cold leads sit silently until you are ready. You define what counts as urgent during our pre-build session together.
  • Smart push notifications during the work day only for what cannot wait. Everything else holds.
  • A morning briefing delivered to your phone at 4am every day. Your schedule, your open leads, your outstanding items. Ready before you pick up a tool.
  • A job pipeline dashboard. Every client, every job, every status visible at a glance.
  • Simple job tracking. Create a job, log materials and expenses against it by voice, photo, or manual entry. See a running cost total on every job from the day it opens.
  • Basic job profitability. What you quoted versus what you have spent so far. No more finishing a job and wondering if you made money.
  • Manual worker hour logging. If you have help on a job, log their hours yourself from the dashboard. Simple and immediate even before Phase 3 brings workers into the system directly.
  • A calendar inside your app synced bidirectionally with Google Calendar. Your wife, a worker, a sub, anyone you bring in later can see the schedule without needing access to your full system.
  • Take a photo of your wall calendar and the system reads it. Appointments pull in automatically. You review and confirm. You do not have to change how you work today to get started.
  • Voice dictation for scheduling. Say it into your phone after a call. The system understands it and logs it. No typing required.
  • Incoming client texts parsed automatically for reschedule requests and cancellations. Your calendar gets flagged before you miss it.
Retainer of $150 per month begins at Phase 1 launch. First month is included in the build fee. The AI powered integrations running behind this system have real monthly service costs. Those hard costs are included in and covered by your retainer. You never receive a separate bill for them. Created Systems manages everything from day one.

Phase 2

Look Like the Company You Are

$1,000

What changes immediately

Clients see a professional operation. Every quote is signed. Every scope change is documented before work continues. You get paid on site or through the client portal. Your job costs get more accurate. The Russ situation becomes impossible.

This phase installs the client-facing side of your business, every legal protection you currently do not have, and a more complete picture of what each job actually costs you.

  • Tiered quote builder inside your dashboard. Simple handyman jobs get a fast clean quote. Larger licensed contractor jobs get phased estimates with materials, labor, payment schedules, and permit lines. Every quote is versioned so the full history is always there.
  • Digital signatures on every quote and every scope change. Work does not continue until the client has signed the updated agreement. No more disputed charges.
  • Advanced job costing. Materials budgeted in the quote versus materials actually spent. Running variance so you catch overruns before the job closes. Full profitability picture including any worker hours you have logged.
  • A client portal where your customers log in, review quotes, sign agreements, see job status, submit new job requests, and pay invoices. All from their phone without calling you.
  • Every client message tied to the job record it belongs to. Timestamped. Stored permanently. Complete legal paper trail automatically.
  • Tap to Pay directly from your iPhone on site. Client taps their card. Payment recorded automatically against the correct job.
  • Remote invoice payments through the client portal. Client clicks pay. Job marked paid automatically.
  • Automatic client notifications. Quote ready for review. Scope change needs signature. Invoice ready. Payment confirmed. Appointment reminders 24 hours and one hour out.
Before we lock in your quote and scope change document templates, have a Florida contractor attorney review the language once. You supply the legally sound language. We build it in. This only needs to happen once and it protects you on every job going forward.

Phase 3

Put Your Crew in the System

$1,500

What changes immediately

You stop being the data entry point for your whole crew. Workers clock themselves in and out. Reimbursements come to you with receipts attached. Your job profit margin is accurate down to the dollar without you doing a thing.

This phase brings your workers directly into the system. They get their own simple field app. They handle their own inputs. You review and approve. Everything you have been logging manually in Phases 1 and 2 now happens automatically.

  • Worker field app with job assignments. Workers see only their assigned jobs. No access to your financials, other clients, or anything outside their work.
  • Clock in and clock out tied to GPS location confirmation. Actual hours per worker per job flow into your dashboard in real time.
  • Voice dictated field notes from workers at the end of each day. You see what happened on every job without making a single phone call.
  • Job site photo documentation attached to every record. Before, during, and after. Evidence when you need it.
  • Reimbursement requests submitted by workers with a required photo of the receipt. No receipt, no reimbursement. You approve or flag from your dashboard.
  • Receipt photo parsing via AI. The system reads the receipt and extracts the line items automatically. No manual data entry required from anyone.
  • Weekly payroll summary showing hours and reimbursements owed per worker. No reconstruction from memory before you write checks.
  • Full job profitability now includes every worker hour clocked and every reimbursed expense submitted. Your margin number is accurate down to the dollar for the first time.

What stops costing you after this is built.

Gone from your day.

  • Dropping your tools to answer a call from someone who wants a job next month
  • Double booking because you forgot to check your calendar
  • Forgetting appointments with good clients who trusted you
  • Missed reschedules and cancellations that came in while you were working
  • Losing money on scope changes because nothing was signed
  • Clients disputing charges you cannot prove because there is no paper trail
  • Buying materials for a job and never billing them back
  • Finishing a job with no idea whether you actually made money
  • Juggling Zelle, checks, and a billing app you do not trust
  • Chasing clients who have not paid because they never received a clear invoice
  • Sending quotes as PDFs through email that get lost in a thread
  • Manually reconciling who paid and who did not
  • Keeping your crew's hours and reimbursements in your head
  • Losing disputes because communications were buried in a personal text thread
  • Looking unprofessional while doing professional work

Your system is your paper trail.

What this costs and what it replaces.

Phase 1 — Get Out of Overwhelm

Lead filtering, AI receptionist, calendar, scheduling intelligence, simple job and materials tracking. First month retainer included. First year of hosting included.

$2,000

Phase 2 — Look Like the Company You Are

Quotes, signatures, client portal, payments, advanced job costing, legal paper trail. Added when you are ready.

$1,000

Phase 3 — Put Your Crew in the System

Worker field app, time tracking, reimbursements, full automated job profitability. Added when you are ready.

$1,500

Monthly Retainer

AI integrations, maintenance, monitoring, and ongoing management. Everything runs. You never touch it. First month included in Phase 1 fee. Billing begins month two.

$150/mo

Annual Hosting

First year included in Phase 1 fee. Renews on your one year launch anniversary. Rate never increases for existing clients.

$297/yr

Full three phase build

$4,500

Each phase stands alone. Start with Phase 1 and add phases when you are ready. There is no deadline and no pressure. Payment for each phase is 50% at signing and 50% at delivery. First year of hosting is included in the Phase 1 fee. Hosting renews at $297 on your one year launch anniversary and never increases for existing clients. You own the build outright. If you ever want to take it somewhere else, it is yours with 30 days notice.

Want someone to answer the phone? Someone who makes your business sound professional when you are knee deep in a job. That is exactly what the AI receptionist does. And before you wonder whether it sounds robotic or cold, here is the honest answer. Today's AI phone technology is genuinely conversational. It greets callers by your company name, asks the right questions, and handles the conversation the way a trained office person would. Callers do not feel like they hit a wall. They feel like they reached a real business. We will script it together during our pre-build session so it sounds exactly like your business. Your brand. Your tone. Your questions. Just without interrupting your work day to make it happen.

Here is what that hire actually costs compared to what this system costs.

Part time receptionist

$1,200/mo

20 hours a week at minimum wage. Does not work weekends or evenings. Cannot score leads. Needs training, management, and sick day coverage. One more thing on your plate.

Your system retainer

$150/mo

Works 24 hours a day. Answers every call in your company name. Scores and filters every lead. Never calls in sick. Never needs managing. Handled entirely by Created Systems.

What happens next.

1

You approve this proposal. We schedule a short working session before the build starts. We go through your service categories, your lead intake script, and we define your notification importance levels together. This shapes exactly how the system works for you specifically.

2

I build Phase 1. You do not manage any of the technical setup. You answer questions when I have them. Everything else is my job. Phase 1 is typically complete within two weeks.

3

We go live. I walk you through your dashboard. You photograph your wall calendar. Your existing appointments populate automatically. You will know exactly how to use the system in under 30 minutes.

4

Phases 2 and 3 follow on your timeline. When Phase 1 is working and you are ready for the next layer, we move. No rush. No pressure. Each phase is scoped, signed, and built the same clean way.

5

I stay on. The retainer covers ongoing management of every integration running in the background. Something breaks or needs updating, that is my problem not yours. You just run your business.


Reach out directly.

I would rather answer anything that feels unclear before you sign than have a question sitting between you and a decision.

Builder

Kira McCoy

Company

Created Systems