Turn leads
into booked jobs
You price every job yourself, off the customer's photographs or on site. Accept or decline in one tap. Paid two business days after you send finished photos, whether or not the customer has settled with us.
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Are you tired of paying for a lead three other guys bought the same morning? Driving across town to price a job for somebody who was never going to hire anyone? Writing estimates at nine at night? Chasing an invoice three weeks after the work is finished?
None of that time gets paid for, and it comes out of the day you meant to spend working.
So we do that part. A homeowner tells us the job and sends photographs, and those come straight to you to put a number on. If the photographs are enough, nobody drives anywhere. If they are not, you say so and we book the visit. The people who were never going to hire anybody sort themselves out before you get in the truck. What reaches you is a real customer who has asked for the work and sent photographs of it, and the billing is handled.
The network is the part I wanted most. Running one of these companies is isolating. You are the estimator, the dispatcher, the bookkeeper and the man in the truck, and nobody around you has a real idea what that week looks like. Foundry is a network of operators in this city carrying the same load. You are not the only one.
What we expect, before you apply
This is the short version of the part that matters. It is not negotiable and it is the same for everybody, me included.
- Turn up when you saidInside the window. If the morning has gone wrong, you tell us before the window closes, not after. We will tell the customer for you. What we cannot do is explain a van that never came.
- Look like somebody they would let in the houseClean truck, clean clothes, you introduce yourself. For the hour you are there you are the whole company to that customer.
- AnswerWhen we ring, when they ring. Not that day, that hour. Most of what goes wrong in this trade is somebody who stopped replying.
- Say it before they find itYou cracked a paver, the job is bigger than the photos, you are going to be an hour. Told straight away, all of that is ordinary. Discovered by the customer, it is something else, and it is the one thing I will not cover for you.
- Leave it better than a competitor wouldBlow the drive, take your debris, shut the gate. The last two minutes of a job are most of what gets remembered.
I am not asking anybody to be somebody they are not. I am asking that you treat a customer the way I would want somebody treating my mother at her house. I run a crew in this city under the same rules and I am not above any of them.
If that is already how you work, you will like it here, and I will back you to the hilt when something goes wrong. If it is not, we will find out in your first month and it will have wasted a month of your time and mine. Better we both know now.
Have a look at the dashboard first, it is the same screen every member uses.
1The money
Send photos of the finished work and payment starts. You are paid the rate you accepted whether or not the customer has settled with us, so you are never waiting on a homeowner's mood or a forty five day term. Chasing them is our problem.
On the trades that need materials, you buy them and the money is with you before the job starts, so you are buying with our money rather than waiting on a reimbursement. Keep the receipt and the rest settles with your payment when the work is done.
No monthly fee, no lead fee, no charge for the network, and no rank you can buy. If you never take a job you never pay us a penny, and if you take a hundred you still never pay us a penny.
Set up direct deposit once, through Stripe, and the money arrives on its own. It takes about two minutes and we never see your bank details.
2How work is handed out
We ask for your repeat-work rate: the number you would give a builder who puts ten jobs a year your way, not the one you would give somebody who rang you once. It is not a price list we hold you to, it is how we judge which jobs are worth sending you. You still price every job yourself: we send you the photographs and the scope, you put a number on it, and if the photographs are not enough you say so and we book you a visit. We never tell you what a job pays. What you get for it: no quoting, no chasing, no invoicing, a homeowner who has asked for this job and sent photographs of it, and money two business days after you send the finished photographs, whether the customer has settled with us or not. Bring us a job outside your trade or scope and you earn a commission of what the customer pays: 5% of the first $5,000, then 3%, 2% and 1% above that, a percentage rather than a flat fee, out of our share, without doing the work. When a customer signs up for recurring work, take that account once and every visit after is yours, never offered to anyone else. A one-time job is just that one job. Either way, once you have worked at an address, any job there in your trades comes to you before anybody else sees it. Take it or leave it, and if you pass it goes to the next pro.
An offer goes to every pro covering that trade and area at once, and whoever says yes first owns it. The rest are told straight away, so nobody drives out on a job that has already gone.
The address, the scope, the photographs, and anything the customer said about the work, with their name so you know who is answering the door. Not their phone number. Every message and every reschedule runs through us, so your evening is not spent answering a homeowner who wants to move Thursday.
Booking, confirmations, reminders, the invoice and the follow up are ours. The pricing is yours. A job reaches you with the customer's photographs and what they asked for, and you put the number on it. Price it off the photographs when you can, and when you cannot, tell us and we book the visit. Then you turn up and do the work, and we do the chasing.
If a customer wants more doing, send it to us rather than agreeing it at the door. You price it, same as any other job, we put it to the customer and route it back to you, usually the same day. Going around us costs you your place on the list.
3What you run
One link shows every job you hold, what each pays, what you are owed and what has been paid.
The roster is capped by trade, so the work that comes in is spread across fewer people. That is the difference between this and being one of four hundred names on a list.
This is not exclusive and it never will be. Keep your own clients, run your own jobs, work for whoever else you like. We are not trying to own your business, and a week where Foundry sends you nothing is a week you owe us nothing.
General liability, and current. We do not ask for a commercial auto policy, and workers’ compensation only once Georgia requires it of you, which is at three employees. We are not going to invent requirements to look serious.
4The network
Operators in this city carrying the same load. Somebody who has already bought the machine you are thinking about, who has dealt with the customer you are dealing with, and who knows what the week actually costs. Running one of these companies is isolating, and it does not have to be.
It is not a room for setting prices. You set yours, we publish ours, and nobody compares notes on what to charge. That is not caution on our part, it is the law, and a network that ignores it is a liability rather than an asset. Everything else is fair game.
Put a man forward and it is worth something to you when he works out. It cuts the other way when he does not, and that is the point: nobody vouches for somebody who will embarrass them. The roster stays good without us policing it.
As the roster grows, standing in it will start to mean something, and it will be earned rather than bought. Rank is the one thing here money will never touch. That is for later though, and it is not what this is about.
The first contractors are being invited now. The room opens once there are enough of us to be worth walking into, and you would find that out in a week anyway.
Current liability insurance
We verify it before your first job, and it is the one thing we will not bend on.
Turn up inside the window
Or tell us before it closes. Either is fine; silence is not.
Request an invitation
Foundry is a small network of owner-operators, not an open marketplace. We cap how many pros work each trade so the ones we have get real volume, rather than spreading thin work across a crowd. Every member has a conversation with us first, and the earlier you are on the list the more of the work comes your way.
Pick as many as you like. Jobs only reach you in the areas you tick, so it pays to be generous.
Outside Savannah? Ask anyway. We're opening new markets and we'd rather know you exist.
Why we ask: so we know which jobs are worth sending you. You price every job yourself, off the customer's photographs. Your numbers tell us which work is in your range, so you are not sent jobs that waste your time. When the photographs are not enough, you say so and we book the visit.
It is not a bid and nothing is locked in. You put the number on every job yourself, and that number is what reaches your bank. Nothing is deducted from it. If a job is not worth your time, decline it. Declining costs you nothing, nobody asks why, and it goes to the next pro.
Price it like repeat work, because that is what it is. Not the number you would give somebody who rang you once. The number you would give a builder who puts ten jobs a year your way. That figure is what we match jobs against, so a padded one only means most of what we send looks low to you. You are not quoting it, not chasing it, not invoicing it, and not answering the phone at seven at night. The job arrives with the photographs, the scope and a customer waiting on your number. You are paid two business days after you send the finished photographs, whether the customer has settled with us or not.
And you get paid for work you don't do. You are in gardens and driveways every week looking at jobs outside your trade or your scope. Send them to us and you earn a commission of whatever the customer pays: 5% of the first $5,000, then 3%, 2% and 1% above that, on a job you never quoted, never did and never chased. A percentage and not a flat fee, on purpose: $360 on a ten thousand dollar job you only had to mention is worth walking a property for, and a flat fifty dollars is not. It comes out of our share, so the pro who does the work is paid exactly what he would have been anyway.
And the house stays yours. Take a recurring lawn or cleaning account once and every visit after it is yours, never offered to anyone else. And once you have worked at an address, any job there in your trades comes to you, before anybody else sees it.
Tick the work you do, up above, and the jobs we'd send you for it will appear here to price.
Not a requirement. We'd just rather see the work than read about it.
Past customers, a supplier, or a contractor you have worked alongside. We ring them before your first job, and we tell them you gave their name.
Every one of us has one. We are not looking for a clean record, we are looking for how you handled it. This is the question we read first.
If somebody already with us sent you, put their name here. If nobody sent you, say how you found us. That's fine too.
We verify this before your first job. No policy yet? Still ask. we'll talk about it.
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