Home services & trades · Custom software

Custom software for home services and trades

Every trade business ends up with a spreadsheet the field software could not absorb. Crew scheduling, job costing, warranty tracking. The vendor built for an average that nobody actually is, and the difference gets managed by hand at the end of every week.

Start a buildIndustry overview
01Internal tools · Data pipelines
Custom software01
Internal toolsData pipelinesAutomation
Home services & tradesIllustrative

Custom software

Internal tools, document and data pipelines, and automation.

Custom software · Home services & tradesOne pairing of the matrix
Service
Custom software
Industry
Home services & trades
Covers
Roofing · Painting · HVAC & electrical · Auto detailing
Architecture
Unchanged from every other vertical — only the breaks differ
Engagement
A defined build, or run under management

What usually breaks

Before anything gets built.

The same failures recur across home services & trades. Strygon maps the specific system before proposing anything, but these are the ones worth checking for.

Missed calls

A missed call is a lost job. Calls, forms, and chats land in three places and no one owns the first response.

No speed-to-lead

The lead sits until someone checks the inbox. By then a competitor already booked the estimate.

Whiteboard ops

The schedule and pipeline live on a whiteboard and a phone. Nobody can say what a lead costs or what closed.

Recurring in home services & tradesObserved pattern · the specific system still gets mapped

The approach

What Strygon does about it.

Custom software, aimed at those failures specifically rather than at a generic checklist.

01Custom software
Replace the spreadsheet that runs the businessCustom software
01
Part of the scoped build

Replace the spreadsheet that runs the business

Usually the one nobody wants to touch, because everything else depends on it.

02Custom software
Job costing that matches realityCustom software
02
Part of the scoped build

Job costing that matches reality

Labor, materials, and change orders tracked against the job as they happen, rather than reconstructed at month end.

03Custom software
Connect the field to the officeCustom software
03
Part of the scoped build

Connect the field to the office

What the crew records in the driveway is what the office bills, without anyone retyping it.

The approach for this pairingScoped in writing before work starts

What gets built

Concrete deliverables.

Everything in custom software, applied to how home services & trades actually runs.

All of custom softwareIndustry overview
Internal tools and dashboards
Document and data processing pipelines
AI-assisted automation where it earns its place
API integrations between systems that don’t natively talk
In scopeScoped in writing before work starts

Also for this industry

Other parts of the same system.

CRM & automation
CRM & automation03
Pipeline architectureSpeed-to-lead
Applied hereIllustrative

CRM & automation infrastructure

A missed call in home services is a lost job. Routing has to treat a ringing phone, a form, and a message as the same event, and start the same clock on all three.

Read the crm & automation read
Acquisition
Acquisition05
Paid search & socialLanding pages
Applied hereIllustrative

Acquisition

Home-services ad accounts optimize toward form fills nobody worked. The business gets paid per booked job. Those are two different numbers and only one of them matters.

Read the acquisition read
Web & commerce
Web & commerce04
Next.js buildsCommerce
Applied hereIllustrative

Web & commerce

A contractor’s site has one job: turn someone already searching into a booked estimate. Most are brochures with a contact form at the bottom.

Read the web & commerce read
Local & private AI
Local & private AI01
Self-hosted inferenceRetrieval on private data
Applied hereIllustrative

Local & private AI models

Recorded calls, job photos, and customer addresses are all data. Running the model in-house means none of it has to leave to be useful.

Read the local & private ai read

Start

Start with what’s broken.

Send the situation in a paragraph. Strygon comes back with a read on what’s likely wrong and what it would take to fix, before anyone talks about price.

Most builds start withleads dying in an inbox., three half-finished pipelines., follow-up nobody owns., numbers that never agree., four vendors blaming each other.

Or email hello@strygon.com

What to send
A paragraph. What broke, and where it shows up.
What comes back
A read on what is likely wrong and what fixing it takes.
Price
The last conversation, not the first