You are already operating. Here is what Contractor Lane does for you.
Most of this site is written for someone about to start. This page is not. If you already have customers, invoices, and maybe a crew, these are the tools aimed at your side of the business: find out where it is leaking, see what a job actually made, and stop losing money to deadlines you did not know about.
- Business AuditFind the gaps
- Free toolsFix one problem at a time
- OperatorRun the recurring systems
- VaultPeople, dispatch, fleet and management infrastructure
- RemindersStandalone deadline utility at any stage
Find out where the business is leaking
Free, runs in your browser, and does not ask for an email.
Start with the Business Audit. Your result points to the tools below that match the gaps you found.
Free · no account
Contractor Business Audit
Fifteen questions about how your company actually runs today: how you quote, how you follow up, how you get paid, what you track, and who else can do the work. Scored out of 100 with every gap named rather than a grade and a sales pitch.
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Job Margin Calculator
You are busy. That is not the same as profitable. Enter one job's price, materials, labour, and the overhead it should carry, and see what it actually made. Every number it prints is arithmetic on your own figures.
Free · no account
Break-Even Calculator
The number underneath every other number: what the company has to bill in a month before a dollar is yours. It names your fixed costs line by line so you do not forget six of them, takes your own gross margin, and gives you the figure per month, per week, and per job.
Free · no account
Labor Burden Calculator
What an hour of your crew's time really costs once payroll taxes, workers' compensation, insurance, benefits, the truck, and the paid hours you cannot bill are all in it. Produces a burdened hourly rate and the burden percentage the margin calculator asks you for.
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Invoice Aging Tracker
Chasing money you happen to notice is not the same as tracking money you are owed. List what is outstanding, see it sorted by how long, get broken promises flagged, and take away a follow-up sequence you can run on one fixed day a week.
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SOP Builder
A procedure that lives in your head is one only you can follow. Build one written SOP at a time — trigger, steps, owner, completion standard, records — starting from job closeout, lead response, estimate follow-up, intake, warranty, or collections. Where your state has a verified requirement that touches it, that goes in as a step with its official source and the date we read it.
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Template Pack
Twelve printable pages most contracting businesses are missing: past-customer reactivation, review and referral requests, marketing source tracking, a two-week capacity check, a hiring gate, onboarding, role sheets, personnel and subcontractor files, records separation, and a retention worksheet.
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Deposit Guardrail Checker
Several states cap what you can collect upfront, and getting it wrong on a big job is an expensive way to learn. Enter your state and the contract amount to see the limit, with the statute quoted and the official source beside the answer.
Stop losing money to things you forgot
Paid · all 50 states
Deadline Reminders
Email reminders before the state and federal filings that can suspend, penalize, or dissolve a business you have already built: annual report, state tax filings, licence and registration renewals, each with its official source. Add your own dates too, for COIs, bonds, permits, leases, and inspections.
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Google Business Profile post builder
The profile that already brings you calls goes quiet when nobody posts to it. Build a post from the work you did this week, in the format Google wants, in a couple of minutes.
Free · no account
Where your licence number has to appear
Vehicle lettering, ads, business cards, and bids each carry their own display rules, and an ad that is missing the number is its own violation in some states. Check what your state requires before the next wrap or print run.
Next, for the systems that repeat every week
Contractor Lane Operator sits between the free one-off tools and full company infrastructure: recurring job costing, follow-up, and records. It is in early access. There is nothing to buy, no price, and no ship date.
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Contractor Lane Operator
For when the work is coming in and the bottleneck is systems: estimates versus actuals, margin by service type, callback costs, and quoted versus collected across every job. It is being built and it is not open.
For companies where other people do the work
For established companies whose complexity has moved beyond owner-operated systems: people, dispatch, fleet, and management infrastructure. If what you need is recurring job costing, follow-up, and records, and not dispatch, fleet, or management infrastructure, you are the Operator customer, not the Vault customer.
Monthly membership
Contractor Vault
The playbook, script, and template library a crew can work from instead of calling you about every decision: call handling and CSR scripts, dispatch, capacity pricing, departmental profit and loss, recruiting, onboarding, skill evaluations, fleet SOPs, and safety binders. For companies where other people already do the work in your name.
The Vault may fit if:
- You run two or more crews.
- Incoming calls need dedicated handling rather than whoever picks up.
- Work needs formal dispatch, not a text message the night before.
- Multiple vehicles need maintenance schedules and stock control.
- Hiring and onboarding happen often enough to be a process.
- The company cannot run a normal week without you in it.
Expanding into another state? Licensing, bonds, insurance, taxes, and lien deadlines all change at the state line, and the credential you hold at home usually does not travel. Run the free state check for the state you are moving into before you bid work there. See how we verify requirements.
Important: Contractor Lane provides self-help business information, checklists, and source links, not legal, tax, licensing, insurance, or accounting advice, and is not a law firm or a licensing agency. Requirements, fees, and deadlines change. You are responsible for verifying every requirement with the responsible state, local, or federal agency or a qualified professional before you rely on it.