Backbone · for contractors who run their business from the field
Run the whole job from your phone.
Bid, schedule, get paid, and see what you actually made — all from one app. Built for HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and general contractors.
No credit card. 14 days.
Built for HVAC · Electrical · Plumbing · General Contracting
In progress
AC condenser replacement
Estimate · approved
No contracts. No credit card to start. Cancel anytime.
HVAC · Electrical · Plumbing · General Contracting
The problem
Other apps were built for a back office you don't have.
The big field-service platforms grew up serving 50-truck companies with full-time dispatchers. You're not them. You're three guys, a couple of vans, and a phone in every truck.
Built for the truck, not the desk
Every workflow has to work with one hand, in bad light, with gloves on. If you need a desktop to run your day, the tool failed.
Pay for what you use
Starts at $39/month. The big guys lock AI, GPS, and recurring plans behind $189+ tiers. We just include them.
No 6-month implementation
Sign up. Add your price book. Run a job. You can be invoicing customers in an afternoon.
AI estimates
Turn a photo into a quote in 90 seconds.
Snap the panel, the unit, the leak. AI reads the photo, pulls items from your price book, and drafts a clean estimate. You edit, you send. The customer signs from their phone.
- Photo → line items, drafted
- Pulls from YOUR price book and margins
- E-signature + deposit collection built in
Jobs & scheduling
Dispatch a crew the way you actually do it.
Drag a job onto a tech. Send the address. Track OMW, on-site, and finish. When the customer asks for an ETA you have a real one — not a guess.
- Day, week, and map views
- Customer SMS arrival notifications
- GPS check-in / check-out without a separate app
Furnace check · Lopez
Marcus
AC install · Reyes
Marcus + Joel
Repipe · Carter
Tom
Estimate · Singh
You
Get paid on-site
Card, ACH, deposit — paid before you leave the driveway.
Tap to invoice. Tap to charge. Instant payout to your bank with Stripe under the hood. No more 30-day waits and no more chasing a check.
- Card + ACH + Apple Pay
- Per-transaction pricing, not per month
- Auto-reconciled into job costing
Collected today
$2,655
.00 USD · Stripe
Card
$1,940
ACH
$520
Apple Pay
$195
Payout next business day · no monthly fees
Real margin
Know what you actually made.
Materials, labor, fuel — Backbone tracks projected vs. actual for every job. The number you wanted is right next to the number you got.
- Per-job profit and loss
- Labor cost from real clock-in time
- Material cost from receipts you photograph
Projected
$612
margin · 28%
Actual
$1,030
margin · 39%
Why Backbone
AI that does the paperwork.
We built Backbone for the way you already run jobs — and put the boring parts on autopilot. Voice-to-job-notes. Estimates from a photo. Auto-generated invoices that match the work. The other guys charge $79/month extra for this and call it an add-on.
90s
Average time to draft an estimate from a photo.
$0
Per-job cost. AI is included in every plan.
1 app
No bolting GPS / payments / forms on the side.
From the field
Built with contractors, not pitched at them.
Real quotes from the field will live here once early customers are off NDA.
Quote slot — owner-operator, HVAC
Quote slot — small crew, electrical
Quote slot — general contractor
Pricing
Simple pricing. Undercut the rest.
Three tiers. Pick one. Payments billed per transaction — not per month.
Pro
Most popular$89/mo
Everything in Starter, plus SMS, QuickBooks, GPS, AI estimates, voice notes, and reporting.
Compared to incumbents at $79–$189/mo before add-ons. Card processing fees apply per transaction.
Full pricing detailsFAQ
Common questions, plainly answered.
Starter is $39/mo, Pro is $89/mo, and additional users beyond the first three are $15/user/mo. Payments are billed per transaction (not per month). No contracts.
No. Backbone is month-to-month and you can cancel any time from inside the app. Your data exports to CSV whenever you want it.
Both. Backbone is built mobile-first; iOS and Android are first-class. A web build is available at app.backboneapp.tech for back-office work on a laptop.
Yes — tap-to-pay on iPhone and Android, plus ACH and Apple Pay. Funds settle to your bank via Stripe, usually next business day.
Three things: it's mobile-first instead of desktop-with-an-app, AI estimating and voice notes are included in Pro instead of paid add-ons, and the base plan is roughly half the price of comparable tiers.
Yes, 14 days, no credit card required. Bring in your customers and price book, run a few real jobs, decide if it fits.
Start free in two minutes.
No credit card. No demo call. Just download the app and start a job.