TRADES AGENTA Fountain Investment Group company.

AI for contractors, built by people who've run the jobs.

We find where your offices are losing hours, then build the AI systems that give them back. Fixed fee. You own everything we build.

YOUR SYSTEMSJobTreadHousecall ProAspireQuickBooksField notes & callsWHAT YOU GETFaster estimatesKnow your job marginssoonerCapture change ordersbefore they’re missedGet answers without diggingthrough softwareTRADES AGENTAI on your data.

$500K+

in overhead taken out for trades businesses

Speaker

JobTread user conference

Works inside

JobTread, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Buildertrend, ServiceTitan, and Aspire

The problem

Your offices are doing the work twice.

Estimates get rebuilt from scratch. Change orders live in text threads. Job status lives in one PM's head. And the owner finds out what a job really made at closeout, when it's too late to fix.

More software isn't the answer. Most shops already pay for tools they use at 30% capacity. The fix is getting the system you have to do the work, and putting AI on top of your own data.

What we do

The Jobwalk (AI Operations Audit)

Two to four weeks, fixed fee. We interview the people who run your estimating, ops and office, dig into your software and your data, and show you exactly where the time and margin are going. You get a written findings report, a health check on the software you already pay for, and a ranked plan with cost and payback for each fix.

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AI Implementation

We build what the audit found. Estimating assistants trained on your past jobs. Budget-to-actual tracking. Change order capture. Owner and account manager dashboards. Claude connected straight into your job management system so your team can ask questions and get answers from your own data. Field and sales notes that land in the CRM without anyone typing them.

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JobTread Implementation

New to JobTread or stuck with a half-built setup? We run JobTread in our own company. We set up cost codes, build budget templates from your real job actuals, map your workflows, and train your team so it actually gets used.

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How it works

  1. 1

    Intro call

    Twenty minutes. We figure out if there's a real problem worth solving. If there isn't, we'll tell you.

  2. 2

    The Jobwalk

    Interviews with your key people, a look under the hood of your systems and data, then a findings sit-down with the owners.

  3. 3

    Build

    A fixed scope pulled straight from the audit. Weekly check-ins, working software early, no surprises on price.

  4. 4

    Handoff

    Training, documentation, and the keys. The accounts and the code are yours. We're not trying to lock you into another monthly subscription.

Why us

We didn't learn construction from a slide deck.

We've spent 10+ years in construction tech, real estate and construction, and now own and have sold multiple service-based businesses in the trades vertical.

Everything we build for clients, we built and ran in our own companies first. When we tell you an AI estimating tool will save your team ten hours a week, it's because we've watched it happen in our own office.

"We were adding office people every time revenue grew. Derrick built AI into how we estimate, budget, and track jobs inside JobTread, and we've taken over $500,000 out of overhead. That's not a projection. It's gone from the P&L."
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Steven Ross, Owner, Renovating KC

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Who we work with

Owner-led trades companies that have outgrown spreadsheets and the owner's memory.

  • ■Remodelers and general contractors
  • ■Landscape and design-build
  • ■Plumbing, HVAC, and electrical
  • ■Specialty trades running JobTread, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Buildertrend, ServiceTitan, or Aspire

FAQ

Find out where the hours are going.

Book a 20-minute call. If there's nothing worth fixing, you'll hear that from us.