How It Works
PitchPad is a porch-close PWA. The operator walks the property, talks the work into the phone, watches the price land in real time, and hands the homeowner a signed proposal and a paid deposit before the truck pulls away. The three flows below are the entire product surface for the operator. The dispatcher view, the accounting export, and the homeowner portal are downstream of these three.
1. Walk and capture
The operator talks the walk-through into the phone — square feet, linear feet, room counts, conditions, hazards. PitchPad tags each utterance to a photo, builds a structured scope, and asks one clarifying question per ambiguous line. The operator's hands stay free for the actual job: tape measure, ladder, dog management. No typing in the truck after dark.
2. Price in front of the customer
PitchPad consults the operator's own rate card — built once during onboarding, tunable per category — and prices the scope line by line in real time. The homeowner sees the proposal build as the operator walks. Price-overrides, discount codes, and add-on services are one tap each. The "we will email you a quote" delay disappears; the number lands on the porch.
3. Close at the curb
The homeowner signs on the operator's phone, taps Apple Pay or a card, and watches the calendar hold appear in their inbox. PitchPad sends the operator a confirmation, books the job into the crew calendar, and queues the QuickBooks invoice for delivery. The driveway becomes the close, not a midpoint in a forty-eight-hour quote-and-follow-up cycle.
average on-porch close rate after onboarding [1]
baseline on-porch close rate before [2]
reduction in evening paperwork time [3]
faster deposit collection vs quote-then-email [4]
[1] Founding-cohort design partner self-report, n=4, residential painting + cleaning. [2] Same cohort, pre-PitchPad baseline. [3] Self-reported time-tracking survey, founding cohort 2026-Q2. [4] Stripe Checkout median time-to-charge vs typical net-7 invoice.
"The walk-through used to take forty minutes and then I'd spend another hour at the kitchen table that night writing the proposal up. With PitchPad I'm walking out with a signed deposit before the homeowner has finished offering me coffee." Customer
"My close rate jumped from forty-two to sixty-eight percent in the first month. Same crew, same trucks, same neighborhoods — the difference is the porch." Customer
Jobber, Housecall Pro, and ServiceTitan were built office-first. Their flagship surface is the dispatcher view: a calendar, a customer list, an invoicing queue. The mobile app is a thin client over that desktop model — built to keep the technician synced with the office, not to close work on a driveway. PitchPad inverts the model. The truck is the primary surface. The dispatcher sees what closed; the office reconciles what was already collected; the homeowner gets the proposal before the operator's tailgate is up.
That inversion matters because the moment of highest customer intent is during the walk-through itself. The operator has earned trust by showing up. The homeowner has organized their day for the visit. Every minute that passes between "I will email this to you" and the homeowner actually opening the quote is intent decaying. PitchPad keeps the close in the moment of trust, not after it.
| Capability | PitchPad | Jobber / Housecall Pro | ServiceTitan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary surface | Truck / porch | Office dispatcher | Enterprise call center |
| Voice walk-through | Built-in, category-tuned | No | No |
| On-porch close | Sign + deposit + schedule | Quote-then-email | Quote-then-follow-up |
| Target operator size | 1–4 trucks, $250K–$1.5M | 1–20 trucks | 20+ trucks, enterprise |
| Setup time | Concierge — one week in the truck | Self-serve, 2–4 hours | 6–12 week implementation |
| Starting price | $79/mo founding | $49–$249/mo | Quote-based, typically $300+ |
PitchPad does not replace your accounting system, your payroll, or your CRM if you have one. It feeds them. The deposit posts to QuickBooks, the customer record syncs to whatever you already use, and the calendar lives in Google or iCloud so your crew sees jobs in the apps they already check. We are deliberately narrow: porch-close field operations, nothing more. If you are looking for a one-system replacement for ServiceTitan, this is not yet that. If you are an owner-operator losing warm leads at the curb, this is exactly that.