Smart Alek

For the people who work at a customer's place

Run the whole business from the truck.

Smart Alek keeps your jobs, photos, estimates, invoices and crew on your phone. Alek, a wry mule in thick glasses, rides along and takes the paperwork you keep putting off. He drafts. You approve.

Coming soon to theApp Store Coming soon toGoogle Play

14 days free. No card.

Today

  • 8:00Water heater swap
  • 10:30Leak under the kitchen sink
  • 1:00Estimate walk-through

Two estimates run out Friday. I drafted a follow-up. Tap approve when it looks right.

An example of the idea, not a real company's day.

What is in it

The stuff you do now on paper, in texts and from memory at 9 at night.

Today

Open the app and the day is there: the jobs, who is on them, and what is waiting on you. Crew see their own work, and the door code only on the day they need it.

Estimates and invoices

Build estimates from your own prices. Your customer approves from a link. Invoices go out through the QuickBooks, Stripe or Square account you already have, and the money goes to you.

Photos and job records

Photos and video with notes and markup, filed on the right job. No signal? Keep shooting. They upload when you are back in range.

Crew and payday

People log their days or hours. On payday you see what each one is owed and, with a bank linked, what actually went out. It is a count, not payroll.

Fuel tracker

Snap the receipt. Alek reads it, the person checks it, and you close it out onto payday. Turn it on if you want it.

GPS and routes

Off until you turn it on, and only for people who agree, between Start day and End day. When a better order for the day turns up, the app asks. It never moves a stop by itself.

Parts runs

Alek turns job photos and notes into a parts list for you to confirm, then finds your vendors and stores nearby, ranked by what the trip does to your day. Stock always reads call to confirm.

Contractor network

Need a trade you do not do? Find a company nearby that opted in, send the job without your customer's details, and compare quotes. Your customer sees one company.

It sets up for your trade

Pick your trade and the app comes back with your job types, your checklists and your words. Do two trades? Pick two. Any tool can be turned on or off, from any trade. It works in English and Spanish.

  • Plumbers
  • Roofers
  • Cleaners
  • General contractors
  • Electricians
  • HVAC
  • Painters
  • Landscapers
  • Handymen
  • Pest control
  • Pressure washing
  • And a long list more
Alek, a mule in thick-framed glasses

Meet Alek

He knows your jobs, your numbers and your schedule, and he sees only what the person asking is allowed to see. Ask what is overdue or what a job is making. Have him draft a proposal, an invoice or an email.

He can be wrong, so you look before you tap. He has no way to send, pay or change anything by himself.

"I do the paperwork. You do the deciding. If I get something wrong, you catch it, because nothing leaves without your tap."

What it will not do

Better you hear it now.

It does not run payroll

It shows what each person is owed. Withholding, filing and paying stay with whatever you use today.

It does not touch your money

Your bank link is read-only. Your customers pay you through your own QuickBooks, Stripe or Square.

It will not guess at stock

Unless a result names a source and a time, a store reads call to confirm. Nobody likes a wasted trip.

Plans

Every paid plan has every feature. The difference is how many people and how much Alek.

Solo

$79 a month

  • 1 to 2 people
  • $20 of Alek a month

Crew

$199 a month

  • Up to 8 people
  • $50 of Alek a month

Company

$399 a month

  • Up to 20 people
  • $100 of Alek a month

Enterprise

From $799 a month

  • 20 or more people
  • $250 of Alek a month, plus his model for hard drafting
  • Set up with you directly
  • 14 days free with no card, for up to 5 people and $10 of Alek. Linking a bank and listing or sending on the contractor network start with a paid plan.
  • Pay yearly and get two months free. Extra people are $25 each a month.
  • You sign up and pay on the website. The app itself is a free download, with nothing to buy in it.

Get the app

Coming soon to theApp Store Coming soon toGoogle Play

14 days free. No card.