The honest answer
Why ProJobCalc — and when you should pick something else.
Most software buying decisions get harder when the seller tries to be everything to everyone. We’d rather be clear about what we are — and aren’t.
ProJobCalc is right for you if…
- You're a solo contractor or 2–5-person shop. Not a 20-truck operation.
- Your proposal-writing eats 1–4 hours per quote. The AI generator pays for itself the first month.
- Most of your jobs finish in days to weeks, not months. (Long-build construction management isn't our wheelhouse.)
- You quote from the field — driveways, basements, customer kitchens. Voice estimator was built for you.
- You want pricing transparency: $19/mo Pro, $49/mo Agency, no salesperson, no annual contract, no 'call for pricing' upsell ladder.
- You want a focused proposal layer that can still connect to CRMs, accounting tools, spreadsheets, or custom automations when your workflow grows.
- You'd rather own the proposal layer beautifully than half-own everything badly.
Not for you if…
- You run a dispatch board. Multiple trucks moving across a map daily — that's Jobber, Housecall Pro, or ServiceTitan territory.
- You're a ground-up custom-home builder. Multi-month builds with selections, schedules, and sub-coordination need Buildertrend or CoConstruct.
- Your business is storm-restoration roofing with insurance supplements. JobNimbus or RoofSnap is built for that workflow; we'd be downgrading you.
- You run AIA progress billing on commercial jobs. Knowify handles G702/G703 cleanly; we don't.
- You need a customer-facing online-booking widget on your website. Housecall Pro is the right tool there.
- You want enterprise everything bundled — call center, marketing automation, paid-ads attribution. That's ServiceTitan's $300+/tech market.
We’d rather you pick the right tool than feel sold into the wrong one. See comparisons for honest matchups against the alternatives.
What we’re trying to do.
Do one thing well.
Proposals are the load-bearing moment between 'meet the customer' and 'do the work.' Most contractor software treats them as one feature among twenty. We make them the whole product.
Honest pricing.
$19/mo Pro. $49/mo Agency. No salesperson, no quoting games, no 'starts at' marketing. The price you see is what you pay, every month, forever.
Built for the truck.
Voice estimator + truck mode + mobile-first dashboard. The contractor's hands are on the steering wheel; the software meets you there.
Open at the edges.
The product stays focused, but the integration contract is public: JSON manifest, OpenAPI 3.1, webhook event names, and documented routes for the workflows that need to connect.
Operator, not platform.
Made by one person. No VC, no growth-at-all-costs, no acquisition pivot. The product gets better because the operator uses it himself with his family in the trades.
Try it. The free tier is real.
40+ trade calculators, unlimited estimates, up to 5 saved — no card to enter. Pro is $19/mo with a 14-day trial if the AI proposal generator + voice estimator look useful.