Groundbreak Crew / Trade contractors
The operating system for the trade business.
Groundbreak Crew brings the front office, field operation, and back office into one comprehensive trade-business operating system—from lead and estimate through schedule, job, invoice, and recorded payment status.
Proof boundaryAI-native architecture is shipped with human-approved work. Field-photo journeys remain proof-needed; autonomous payment and guaranteed margin are not claimed.
Invoices / Open
Invoice status
Separate sample trade-business recordINV-090 · QA-MARGIN-090
Mesa Kitchen Refresh
Excluded from proof: contradictory job-cost and margin values.
01 / Operating system
The complete working surface
Win the work, run the work, and know the business.
Crew is not only estimating and invoicing. It connects the customer-facing pipeline to the crew schedule, the job record, billing, cash visibility, cost history, and the systems that keep a trade company operating.
- 01
Command center
Start the day with active work, revenue signals, unpaid balances, job-cost attention, and the office queue in view.
- Crew dashboard
- Office queue
- Estimate follow-ups
- Invoice chasers
- 02
Leads + estimating
Move from lead and scope to a reviewable estimate built from editable labor and material lines.
- Lead pipeline + clients
- Trade templates
- Multi-trade estimates
- Revisions, messages + sharing
- 03
Job operations
Keep the schedule, crew, task, milestone, timeline, message, log, document, material, purchase, and expense record together.
- Jobs + schedule
- Team + timesheets
- Tasks + daily logs
- Materials + expenses
- 04
Billing + cash
Prepare professional billing records and see what is due, what is recorded as paid, and what requires follow-up.
- Invoices + milestones
- Aging + statements
- Lien waivers + reminders
- Balance + cash-flow views
- 05
Growth system
Run the public-facing business with bid opportunities, contractor relationships, a capabilities site, and lead capture.
- Find-work + submitted bids
- Connections
- Website builder
- Lead analytics + sequences
- 06
Cost intelligence
Turn logged work into reports, actual-versus-bid history, and trade-level cost context for the next estimate.
- Job costing
- Reports + PDF
- Cost library
- Historical rate hints
- 07
Team + administration
Manage the company record, people, notifications, access, billing setup, and operating preferences.
- Team access
- Company profile
- Notifications
- Settings + help
02 / How the work moves
Each chapter connects the operator decision to the record that stays in view.
- 01
Win
Turn demand into a reviewable price.
Organize leads, clients, bid opportunities, scope intake, trade templates, editable labor and material lines, revisions, and client messages.
Record signalEstimate recordAI suggestions and historical context support the contractor's judgment; pricing accuracy is not guaranteed.
- 02
Run
Give the field and office one job record.
Coordinate schedule, team, tasks, milestones, messages, daily logs, documents, materials, purchases, expenses, time, and linked billing.
Record signalActive jobThe product supports coordination without claiming autonomous dispatch, scheduling, or completed field-photo proof.
- 03
Bill
Carry accepted work into billing and cash visibility.
Prepare invoices, milestone and recurring billing, statements, aging, waivers, reminders, receipts, and payment-status history.
Record signalBalance dueRecorded amount paid is not represented as a platform-processed or autonomously collected payment.
- 04
Learn + grow
Build the operating memory of the trade business.
Review job cost, cash flow, reports, cost history, leads, bids, connections, and website performance as the company grows.
Record signalBusiness insightCost-library and network breadth stay within their labeled proof boundaries.
03 / AI-native operating rail
Context in. Reviewable work out.
An assistant built into the trade workflow.
The persistent Crew assistant can read permitted records and prepare work for review across the front office, job operation, and back office.
The assistant can read and summarize
- Jobs, schedule conflicts, and job costs
- Estimates, bids, leads, and clients
- Invoices and follow-up drafts
- Connections, insights, and estimate suggestions
The assistant can prepare
- Estimate, invoice, and follow-up drafts
- Schedule additions and changes
- Payment records, bids, and expenses
- Tasks and daily logs
Human-directedNothing runs until the user approves it. Crew does not claim autonomous office management, scheduling, bidding, ordering, payment, or execution.
Inspect the product state
An invoice view that reads like the product.
The composition uses the actual Crew information hierarchy and fixture values, with status and money separated clearly enough to review on a phone at the end of a workday.
Invoices / Open
Invoice status
Separate sample trade-business recordINV-090 · QA-MARGIN-090
Mesa Kitchen Refresh
Excluded from proof: contradictory job-cost and margin values.
Sanitized Crew invoice status for the Mesa sample. It is separate evidence from the persistent Desert Oak narrative; no cross-role transfer is implied.
Proof, with the edges left on
The strongest proof spans the office and the money record.
- Dashboard, office queue, leads, clients, estimates, and revisions
- Jobs, schedule, team, tasks, logs, materials, purchases, and expenses
- Invoices, aging, statements, waivers, balance, and payment history
- Bids, connections, website, reports, job costing, and cost history surfaces
Not claimedAutomatic payment or collection, autonomous scheduling or bidding, guaranteed pricing, margin, or outcome, completed field-photo proof, seamless GC-to-Crew transfer, or comprehensive verified network coverage.
04 / Project Spine
Standalone product. Connected context.
Crew proves execution and closes the payment-status loop.
Crew stands on its own for the trade business. On the Project Spine, it carries the trade's scope, job activity, invoice state, recorded paid amount, balance, and due status into a professional operating record.
- Product
- Trade operating system
- Spine role
- Job + billing truth
- Current proof
- Invoice status
See the whole system
Return to the Project Spine.
The homepage explains how Pro, GC, and Crew relate around one Project Spine narrative while keeping every unproven handoff clearly labeled.
Groundbreak Crew
Run the trade business from first lead to recorded payment status.
Bring the front office, field operation, billing, cash visibility, cost history, growth, and administration into one Crew workspace.