Send a $28,000 helical pier install quote with your inspection photos and readings attached. Track which Houston Google Ads keyword paid for the $42,000 underpinning job. Log every elevation reading your structural engineer needs.
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The 5 things that decide whether you close the $28,000 helical pier install or watch the homeowner choose between three competing engineers, on-site inspection documentation, photo and elevation records, milestone billing across the 3-day install, ad-conversion tracking on $60-a-click foundation keywords, and a sales pipeline that follows the lead from inspection to closeout. All in one app. Built for the tech who's torqued 14 helical piers into Houston gumbo clay at 96° in August.
Walk the foundation with the customer. Photograph cracks, settlement, elevation deltas. Log floor-level readings (laser or zip-level) at each reference point in a custom field on the job. Build the quote from that record while you're still standing in the yard. Customer sees your documentation on the iPad. The repair quote follows immediately.
Pre-job: cracks, settlement points, elevation deltas. During install: pier depth, torque readings per pier, lift measurements, all logged as custom fields on the job. Post-install: re-leveled foundation with new elevation photos. Export the whole record as a branded photo report PDF to hand your structural engineer with the sign-off request.
20% deposit at signing. 40% at install start (day 1). 25% at lift complete (day 2-3). 15% at PE inspection sign-off. You send each milestone invoice from the job, and the customer pays it by card or ACH from the link. You stop floating $14,000 of helical piers + crew labor for 4 weeks waiting on the engineer's sign-off.
Foundation keywords cost $40-$80 per click. Claver captures the click ID and follows it through inspection → quote → signed contract → final payment. "Foundation repair Houston" generated 11 clicks, 7 inspections, 3 signed jobs worth $84,000. "Foundation contractor near me" generated 67 clicks, 1 inspection, zero signed.
Every lead tracked: inspection scheduled, report presented, quote sent, follow-up sent, signed, materials ordered, installed, lifted, PE inspection passed, paid. You see exactly where every $28,000 deal lives in the 45-day sales cycle, and which ones are about to drop.
Starter is $19/mo. Texting, AI and dispatch start on Crew at $39. The phone line and AI receptionist are on Business at $79.
Foundation repair is the highest-trust residential trade you can run. The customer is hearing "your house is sinking, you need to spend $28,000 to fix it", from you and from two competing engineers. Whoever documents the most professionally wins, because the customer's biggest fear isn't the cost, it's getting scammed by the cheap fly-by-night that uses sub-spec piers.
The shops that win two things differently: they document the inspection on-site (so the customer sees the evidence before she sees the price), and they log elevation readings and torque per pier through the install so their structural engineer has a complete record instead of a phone call and a guess.
The on-site inspection record is the engine. The install documentation is what closes the trust loop.
When you walk the foundation with the homeowner in Houston Heights, you build the inspection record in the app as you go. Photograph each visible crack (4-foot diagonal in the south-side brick veneer, 18-inch sticking on the front door, separation at the chimney chase). Log laser zip-level readings at 12 reference points around the foundation as custom fields on the job: 1.7 inches differential settlement at the south-east corner, 0.9 inches at the chimney, level at the north-west. You write up the recommended repair scope yourself (14 helical piers along the south and east elevations, lift to within 0.5" of original level) with the photos and readings attached. The customer sees your documentation on the iPad before she sees the price. That's the customer who signs the $28,000 quote because the documentation justifies the price.
On-install documentation is what turns your structural engineer's sign-off into a fast yes instead of a round of follow-up questions. Build a checklist for the install with timestamped photos and numerical readings: each pier's installation depth (typically 14-22 feet to load-bearing strata), torque readings every 6 feet of installation (verifying the soil's lateral capacity matches the engineer's design assumptions), the lift measurements at each pier location during the lift sequence, and the post-lift elevation readings showing the foundation back within 0.5" of original level. Export the completed checklist and photos as a branded PDF to send with the sign-off request.
Milestone billing is what keeps you solvent through the 45-day sales cycle and the 3-day install. 20% deposit at signing ($5,600). 40% at install start ($11,200, covers your helical piers + crew labor up front). 25% at lift complete ($7,000). 15% at PE inspection sign-off ($4,200). Each milestone goes out as its own invoice from the job, and the customer pays it by card or ACH from the link. You stop floating $14,000 of helical pier inventory + 3 days of crew labor on your line of credit while waiting for the engineer's sign-off that won't come for another 2 weeks.
Job costing tells you which Houston neighborhoods pay and which ones bleed you. Your $28,000 14-pier install in Houston Heights shows 38% margin (gumbo clay, 18-foot pier depth, 2.5-day install). Your $42,000 22-pier install in Memorial shows 31% because the 22-foot depth required two carbide-tipped extensions per pier and you ran into limestone shelves at 20 feet. Your $18,000 6-pier crawl-space install in Bellaire shows 19% because the 30-inch crawl height meant your crew was sucking 4 hours of supplied air per shift through respirators. Now you know which neighborhoods to grow, which to bump 8% in March, and which deep-pier jobs to politely refuse next quarter.
And here's where most foundation shops fly blind: marketing spend. You're paying $40-$80 per click on Google Ads for keywords like "foundation repair [city]" and "sinking foundation contractor." Some clicks become $42,000 underpinning jobs. Some become nothing. Claver captures the Google click ID when someone visits your site and tracks it through inspection → quote → signed contract → PE sign-off → final payment. "Foundation repair Houston" generated 11 clicks, 7 inspections, 3 signed jobs worth $84,000. "Foundation contractor near me" generated 67 clicks, 1 inspection, zero signed contracts. Triple the first campaign. Cut the second.
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$19/mo to start. $39/mo for growing teams. $79/mo for the full toolkit. AI summaries, app phone line, on-site inspection documentation, milestone billing, sales pipeline, photo and elevation records, Google Ads ROI. Same plans as every Claver page, no foundation upsell.
Every plan includes unlimited jobs, quotes, invoices, and Stripe payments. Texting, AI, dispatch and job costing start on Crew. The phone system and full back office are on Business.
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