Stop chasing paperwork. Get back to the job.
Frederick & Sons Trades is the operations layer for paint, HVAC, electric, plumb, landscape, and handyman shops. Estimates from a photo. Proposals that get signed. Inbox sorted automatically. Drive + on-site hours tracked from your phone. Invoices out the door before you’re home. Built by a working painter who got tired of the paperwork.
I run a paint shop out of Murphy, NC. Frederick & Sons Trades is the toolkit I built for myself first — geofence-tracked drive hours, AI-sorted inbox, photo-to-estimate, the works. I’m onboarding contractors one at a time so I can build what you actually need. If you’re early, you set the roadmap.
Snap a photo. Get an estimate.
Point your phone at the job. Tap once. Frederick & Sons reads the surfaces, the prep, the access — pulls your labor rate, your local materials cost — and spits out an estimate ready to send. Edit anything you want before it goes.
- Power wash · prep · mask trim 1 $420.00
- Prime + 2 coats · siding (1,200 sqft) 1,200 $3,360.00
- Trim · soffit · fascia (cut-in) 1 $820.00
- Replace 3 rotten boards · south wall 3 $390.00
- Materials · Sherwin-Williams Resilience 12 gal $540.00
Real estimate, generated from a real job photo. Edit before sending. Customer accepts on their phone. No PDF round-trip, no "we’ll get back to you." Done.
One system. Six tools.
Each tool replaces a thing you’re already paying for or doing by hand. The wedge isn’t any single feature — it’s the seam between them. Your estimate becomes your proposal becomes your invoice becomes your timesheet record. No double-entry.
Estimates in 30 seconds, not 3 hours.
Snap photos on-site. Frederick & Sons reads dimensions, surface conditions, prep work, scope. Pulls your local materials pricing + your labor rates. Spits out a numbered estimate ready to send. You edit, the customer signs. Tuned for paint first; HVAC, electric, plumb, landscape, and handyman cards coming in priority order.
Available nowEstimate becomes proposal.
Same numbers, prettier wrapper. Cover page, scope, line items, signature block. Customer signs in the browser. PDF lands in their inbox.
Available nowAI sorts leads from spam.
Connects to your Gmail/Outlook. Tags Lead, Supplier, Customer, Junk. Optionally drafts replies for the easy ones. Built from the Frederick & Sons email categorizer running on the platform today.
Available nowDrive + on-site hours, automatic.
Your phone geofence knows when you arrive + leave. Frederick & Sons builds the daily billable summary, you approve in one tap from Telegram or SMS. Same engine that’s been running on the founder’s phone for months.
Available nowOne-tap quote-to-invoice.
The signed proposal becomes the invoice when the job’s done. Customer pays you direct — Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, or whichever rails you prefer.
Available nowCustomers see the estimate, sign, pay.
Each customer gets a private link. They see the proposal, sign, and pay — no app, no account, no friction. Mobile-first; works in their text-message preview.
Available nowLive now. Onboarding one at a time.
Frederick & Sons Trades is running today. The founder — a working paint contractor — uses it on his own jobs and onboards new contractors personally. You get the founder’s direct number, real check-ins, and a say in what gets built next.
Simple, flat pricing.
No per-seat surprises. Cancel in one click. Your data exports free, forever. Prices never go up on you after you join.
Everyone starts free today. Paid tiers open when card payments land — sign up now and your founding price below is locked in.
- 3 active proposals a month
- E-signature acceptance
- Customer accept/decline links
- Automatic day-3 / day-7 follow-ups
- Unlimited customers · free data export
- 3 AI photo-estimates to try
- Unlimited proposals & invoices
- 30 AI photo-estimates a month
- Your logo — no badge
- Review requests after you're paid
- Deposit collection (when payments open)
- Everything in Pro, unlimited AI estimates
- Crew: 5 seats included, flat
- Job-site timesheets & daily logs
- White-glove onboarding with the founder
- Every new feature, as we roll it out
Get on the list.
Drop your email + trade and we’ll reach out when we open the next slot. If you’re in Western NC / North GA / East TN we can probably get you on a same-week call.
Built by a working painter. Eats his own dog food.
If you’ve ever finished a 12-hour job and then opened your laptop to start invoicing — you’re who this is for.
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