TradeGOATTradeGOATThis is TradeGOAT, screen by screen — the exact tool a 20-year elevator contractor built because every app he tried made him throw away his documents, his math, and his way of working. Nothing on this page is a mockup of a promise. It's all built.
Every tool you've tried wanted you to rebuild your business inside their template. TradeGOAT reads the Word or PDF proposal you already use — your scope language, your terms and conditions, your warranty, your payment schedule — and turns it into a living template. The fill-in spots become automatic. The rest is never touched.
| Cost bucket | True cost |
|---|---|
| Labor — 2 crew × 6 days × $115/hr | $11,040 |
| Materials + parts | $18,750 |
| Travel · hotels · permits | $2,310 |
| Overhead — 6 job days × your daily rate | $1,890 |
Most estimating tools let you lie to yourself — margin on labor, markup on materials, overhead nowhere. TradeGOAT's engine is margin-first: every real cost goes in (crew, days, parts, travel, even your overhead per job day), you set one profit margin, and the price is computed the way the math actually works.
Commercial work waits — on boards, budgets, and building owners. Your dashboard holds every proposal at its real stage: sent, under review, on hold, signed, lost — with the age of every deal ticking in plain sight. Move a deal between stages right from its card.
| Billing milestone | Amount | |
|---|---|---|
| 50% — Contract signing | $107,085 | BILLED ✓ |
| 25% — Pre-ship | $53,542 | upcoming |
| 25% — Final acceptance | $53,542 | upcoming |
The moment a proposal is signed, the job exists: billing milestones are created from your own payment split, operational trackers start, and the dashboard's money picture updates. Waiting half a year for the deposit check? The paperwork doesn't wait with it.
Connect QuickBooks and the dashboard answers the owner's questions without a single report being run: the bank balance from your own books, everything billed and collected this year and lifetime, what's out awaiting payment, and the signed work you haven't billed yet.
| Service performed | Start | End | Hrs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly grounds — common areas | 8:00a | 4:00p | 7.5 (lunch out) |
Every service company has that half-page ticket: one copy to the customer, one for the tech, one back to the office. Upload yours — Word, Excel, PDF, or a photo of the paper form — and TradeGOAT rebuilds it as the digital ticket your techs fill on site. Same fields. Same labels. Your form.
Everything you service under contract — every unit, property, machine, or site — carries a service clock. Finish a ticket and it resets; miss one and it's flagged before the customer notices. Every ticket a tech marks billable lands on the office's needs-billing list, with the hours, miles, and parts already totaled, until the bill goes out.
TradeGOAT was built by an elevator man, but it doesn't make you talk like one. You tell it what you service — units, properties, machines, roofs, trees — and your word shows up everywhere: the menus, the tickets, the maintenance calendar, the reports. Your services carry your names and your rates. Your proposals keep your language. There is no vocabulary to work around.
| Category | Bid | Actual | ± |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | $11,040 | $12,400 | –$1,360 |
| Materials | $18,750 | $17,980 | +$770 |
| Travel + hotels | $2,310 | $2,310 | $0 |
Most contractors find out what a job made at tax time. Every TradeGOAT job carries a live scorecard: what you bid next to what it's actually costing, category by category, with your true margin recalculating as actuals come in. When a number slips, you tag why — under-bid, delay, scope — while there's still time to steer the job back into the green.
The analytics aren't a report you buy — they're a picture that builds. Every win and every loss freezes its economics: price, margin, size, days on site. Week one, you get a baseline. Six months in, you know your win rate by job size, what your winning margins actually look like, and which bids you were right to lose. The tool doesn't know your business on day one — it learns it, the same way you did.
Invite your people by email and they land inside your company's account with the right role. Techs get a phone-first view of their work without the company's financials. The office runs billing and customers. The owner gets the whole picture, everywhere.
TradeGOAT is live with real contractors right now. Start with 90 days of Pro on us — every feature, up to 25 users, and we load your documents with you. The first 25 companies in keep half price for as long as they stay. A company name and an email is the whole signup.
Built by Travis Evans · Evans Elevator Company · 20+ years in the trades