Why small shops leave enterprise platforms
Inspection software for small contractors
Most inspection platforms are priced and built for a twenty-technician operation. If you are one person, or three, almost none of that was designed for you. This one was — and it does not stop working when you are the twenty-technician operation.
Seat minimums are the first thing that rules you out
Enterprise pricing and minimum seat licences make sense at twenty-plus users and never for a one or two person operation. Start with the one seat you actually use and add a technician the day you hire one. You never pay for licences sitting empty.
The price is on the pricing page. It is the same number the next shop gets, and there is no introductory rate waiting to jump at renewal.
You need to bill this month, not next quarter
An implementation fee, then thirty, sixty, sometimes ninety days before you are allowed to work, is normal at the enterprise end. A small shop cannot carry that.
Your account opens with the catalogs already filled in: 159 equipment models, 147 device types, 11 manufacturers, the candela ratings and 95 inspection questions across all four disciplines. What is left is the part nobody could have filled in for you — your AHJs and their fees, and the systems in your own buildings.
The features you are being sold usually are not the ones you need
Big platforms sell GPS breadcrumbs, geofences and a payroll integration you have to configure before anyone is allowed to work. A small shop mostly wants to know how long an account really takes. There is a travel and on-site log here if you want one; it is three taps, it is internal, and it is not payroll.
You already have bookkeeping handled. You already have billing handled. What you need is to get inspections out the door and get paid this month. That is the whole design brief.
Designed small. Not capped small.
Being built for a one-person shop is a statement about who it was designed around, not a limit on who can run it. Add technicians as you hire them, carry as many properties, systems and devices as your book holds, and run every discipline a property has on a single visit.
Nothing in the workflow changes because the portfolio got bigger. The same property setup, the same reports, the same flat per-technician rate whether the crew is one person or a hundred.
Support is two people, not a queue
Email support reaches the fire alarm contractor who still runs his own inspections on it and the engineer who writes the code. Not an overseas call center reading from a script. The office and shop are at 1 Orchard Park Rd, Madison, Connecticut.
Common questions
- What does it cost?
- $125 a month including one user, and $25 a month for each additional technician. Add and remove them as the crew changes. Cancel any time from your own account.
- Is there a free trial?
- Shops in the current testing group get 60 days free instead of the standard 30, with no card. Places are limited and every application is read one at a time.
- What disciplines are covered?
- Fire alarm, emergency lighting, fire extinguishers and call for aid today, all in the one rate. Fire sprinkler, standpipes, water tanks, kitchen hoods and fire doors are in the works.
- Do I need to sit through a demo to get a price?
- No. Pricing is published on the site and there is no salesperson in the way.
The other disciplines
One visit can cover every discipline the property has, each with its own report plus a combined one.