Get found
Finish one strong business profile: service area, trades, real photos, capabilities and the kind of work you actually want.
Small business toolkit
Run a real business without needing an office staff.
Built for the one-person shop first, but strong enough to grow with a crew. Price jobs, keep receipts organized, manage invoices and job costs, improve your marketing, and build a business that gets easier to run instead of harder.
Price the job
Use labor, material, equipment, overhead, contingency and target margin instead of guessing.
Open calculator ↓Receipts & expenses
Keep job receipts and direct costs attached to the work they belong to, not buried in your truck or camera roll.
Open business workspace →Estimates & invoices
Build the quote once, carry awarded work forward, and turn completed work into an invoice without retyping the whole job.
Open business workspace →Job costing
Compare estimated labor and material against actual cost so you know whether the job really made money.
Open job tools →Grow the business
A practical playbook for getting found, responding faster, building proof and turning finished jobs into the next sale.
Open growth guide ↓Get paid & keep books clean
Connect payment and accounting workflows instead of creating another pile of disconnected paperwork.
See integrations →Built to scale without leaving the little guy behind
One owner or sixty employees—the business gets the same serious foundation.
A solo contractor may wear every hat today: estimator, welder, scheduler, bookkeeper and salesman. Find Trade Help should reduce that load. When the company grows, the same jobs, estimates, receipts, customer history and cost data can be shared with the people who take over those roles.
Free tool · no membership required
Job & bid calculator.
Use your own labor, material, equipment and overhead numbers. The calculator stays free; marketplace access and the full business workspace are separate.
Build your cost
Gross margin is not the same as markup. This calculator solves the sell price from your target margin so you can see the difference before bidding.
Small business growth guide
Six things that make the next job easier to win.
No marketing degree required. Build a repeatable system around the work you already know how to do.
Respond fast
New leads go cold. A short professional response that confirms the scope and next step beats a perfect response two days later.
Quote consistently
Use the same labor, material, overhead, travel and margin logic every time so a busy week does not turn into bad pricing.
Collect proof
Save before-and-after photos, receipts, measurements, customer approvals and change notes with the job instead of across texts and your camera roll.
Ask for the review
Completed work should strengthen the next sale. Ask for a review while the customer is still happy and the finished work is fresh.
Know the number
Revenue is not profit. Track estimated cost against actual labor, material and outside services so you know which work to chase again.
Marketing that starts with real work
Every completed job can create the material for the next sale. Save a clean before photo, a process photo, the finished result, what problem you solved, and one sentence from the customer. That becomes your profile, social post, portfolio and proof when you bid similar work.
AI business help—without treating you like an accountant
The long-term assistant should understand the job data already in Find Trade Help and answer plain-English questions like “Did I make money on this job?”, “What quote should I follow up on?”, “Turn these job photos into a Facebook post,” or “What receipts am I missing?”
That AI layer is part of the product direction; the current site does not pretend those automated answers are live before the underlying data and permissions are ready.
Where the paid workspace earns its keep
Find the work, run the job, keep the proof, know the profit.
The free tools help you think through the business. The contractor workspace connects that thinking to actual customer jobs, estimates, receipts, invoices, payments, profiles and job history.
These tools and guides are for business planning and organization, not accounting, tax, engineering or legal advice. Use your real loaded costs and applicable local rules.