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Jobber handles scheduling. Buildertrend handles client communication. CoConstruct handles selections and change orders. Your permit runner pulls filings. Your payment chaser chases the aging buckets. Five subscriptions, five logins, five places to re-key the same job — and the glue between them is your afternoon.
Spanwrightfolds those five roles into a single AI desk: every lead, every walkthrough, every permit, every sub slot, every change order, every chase email lives on the same page — one subscription, one source of truth, and the back-office tax on your crew drops to almost nothing.
Feature matrix
Side-by-side, in the order a contractor actually meets them on a job. The right column is the one job to rule them all.
Lead capture 24/7
Your current stack
Separate CRM + missed calls after hours
24/7 intake + the moment the form submits, scored
Qualification
Your current stack
Sales rep gut-checks, slow or made after the call
Project type, budget, timeline scored at submit
Scheduling
Your current stack
Phone tag with the homeowner + a separate calendar app
Month grid + per-day count dots, slot books in one click
Permits
Your current stack
Permit runner subcontractor — or you are the runner
Per-jurisdiction filings, Drafting → Submitted → Issued
Sub coordination
Your current stack
Group texts + a whiteboard in the shop
Subs slotted by trade: today / this week / upcoming / past
Daily photo updates
Your current stack
Crew texts you, you text the homeowner back
Status note + up to 20 photos auto-emails the homeowner
Job costing
Your current stack
Spreadsheet pinned above the desk, rekeyed weekly
Estimate + change orders roll into the live project budget
Change orders
Your current stack
Written up on paper, lost between site visits
Draft → Sent → Approved ladder with a priced delta
Payment chase
Your current stack
Payment chaser service — or your own reminder email
Aging-bucket cron chase sweep, idempotent per invoice
Your day with Spanwright
Same contractor, same jobs, same phone — what shifts is how much of the back-office tax the desk absorbs. Four beats across the day, each one framed as time reclaimed rather than a stat.
07:30 — first site visit
The daily photo update lands in the desk from the truck — up to 20 photos and a status note auto-email the homeowner on Save. Change orders drafted out at the site auto-roll the priced delta into the live project budget, so there is no rekeying back at the desk tonight.
12:00 — between sites
Subs slot in by trade — today, this week, upcoming, past. Status flips inline and the schedule view re-buckets on save, so the whiteboard in the shop and the crew in the field are reading from the same critical-path line.
15:00 — back at the desk
Line items roll up the approved change orders; the invoice emails with a Stripe-hosted checkout link. Aging buckets live on the row — current, 1_to_30, 31_to_60, 61_to_90, 90_plus — so there is no separate bookkeeping tab to babysit.
19:00 — closing the laptop
Not because the leads stopped coming — because the desk has scored them, sent the easy replies, and queued the rest onto tomorrow’s walkthrough grid with the verdict and notes already attached. Nothing waits for you in the morning except the day itself.
The cost of staying fragmented
The hard cost (five subscriptions) and the soft cost (the hours your team re-keys the same job between tools). Both shrink to one when the desk replaces the stack.
That buys five logins, five re-keys of the same job, and a stack that doesn’t talk to itself. Spanwrightships the same workflow on one subscription priced to your tier — see the tiers.
6–9 hrs / week
Across the typical residential remodel of 3–8 active jobs, the average operations owner spends roughly an hour a day re-entering the same scope, address, contacts, permits, change orders, and invoice totals into five disconnected systems.
Industry estimate — based on the same ROI math behind the slider on /pricing.
See your number on the ROI slider →One desk
Sign up and the desk opens in under a minute — the same screens the workflow page describes, live from the first lead. Walk the loop on your own jobs before you commit to a tier; no charge until onboarding day.
Onboarding is tiered — pick the plan that fits your shop when you’re ready, and billing kicks in the day you do.