Find your stage
Contractor Lane covers everything from "I have not filed anything yet" to "I have four trucks and a crew." Those are not the same problem, and they do not have the same first step. Pick the one below that sounds like you.
Find your stage
Where is your contracting business right now?
Four different starting points, because a contractor with a crew and a contractor with an idea do not need the same thing. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Stage 1
I have not started yet
No entity, no license, no first job. You are figuring out what it takes in your state before you spend anything.
Start with the free state check. Your state's own page, its official agency links, and the free roadmap builder on it.
Stage 2
I am starting my company
You have decided to do it. Now it is name, entity, registrations, insurance, and the order to do them in without doubling back.
The Startup Roadmap is the paid, step-by-step version of that path, built per state. Pick your state first, then open the roadmap section on that page.
Stage 3
I have customers but need systems
Work is coming in. Estimates go unanswered, follow-up depends on you remembering, and you cannot see what a job really made.
Contractor Lane Operator is being built for exactly this. It is not open yet, so there is nothing to buy today.
Stage 4
I have employees and crews
Other people do the work in your name. The problem is not leads, it is that the answer to every question is still you.
Contractor Vault is the playbook, script, and template library your crew can work from instead of calling you.
Already running a business and not sure which of these you are? Take the free contractor business audit — fifteen questions about how your company runs today, scored out of 100, with the gaps named.
Why we ask instead of guessing
Most contractor sites funnel everyone into the same offer. That wastes the time of a licensed operator with a crew, and it buries a first-timer in tools built for a business that does not exist yet. Choosing your own stage takes ten seconds and skips all of that.
If you are between two of them
- Filed your entity but have not taken a job yet? Stage 2.
- Taking jobs but still working alone? Stage 3.
- Have a helper but you are still on every job? Stage 3, not Stage 4.
- Not sure at all? Take the contractor business audit and let your own answers place you.