Impact
What Partner keeps from happening.
Every estimate sent by link, contract signed on a phone, daily log filed from the field, and timesheet that came off the clock is paper that was never printed, a trip that was never driven, and an evening that stayed an evening. We count only what the app recorded, across every business on Partner, and we show the rule behind every number.
144
pages never printed
0.7 kg of paper, about 1,440 L of water, roughly 0.02 trees.
0 mi
not driven to sign, deliver or check
0 round trips, 0 gallons of fuel, 0 kg of CO₂.
20 h
of paperwork nobody did
At the minutes each task takes on paper — re-keying a timesheet, stuffing an envelope, scanning a signature.
Counted from records as of 2026-09-06. Refreshes every hour.
How it is counted
One row in the product, one rule. Drafts never count. Nothing is estimated from traffic or averages of other companies.
| What was recorded | Count | Pages each | Minutes each | Trips each | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates sent by link | 29 | 2 | 5 | 0 | A priced estimate runs two pages; emailed, not printed and dropped off. |
| Proposals signed online | 0 | 3 | 20 | 1 | A proposal, signed from the client’s phone — no drive to collect a signature, no scan. |
| Documents signed online | 0 | 2 | 20 | 1 | Contracts and change orders signed through a link, stamped and filed — no print, sign, scan, drive. |
| Invoices sent by link | 15 | 1 | 5 | 0 | One page, one envelope and one stamp that never happened. |
| Change orders sent by link | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | One page and one envelope that never happened, same as an invoice. |
| Daily logs filed from the field | 7 | 1 | 10 | 0 | A log typed on site instead of a notebook page copied up later. |
| Weekly timesheets from the time clock | 59 | 1 | 15 | 0 | One person’s week of clock-ins is a timesheet nobody filled in or re-keyed. |
| Toolbox-talk sign-offs | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | A signed roster sheet per talk, kept as a record instead of a form in a truck. |
| Punch-list photos to the client | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | Four photo updates answer the question a walk-through would; counted as a quarter trip each. |
The factors
- 5 g per sheet — 20 lb bond letter paper.
- 8,333 sheets per tree — Conservatree’s widely used figure.
- 10 L of water per sheet — pulp and paper industry estimates.
- Round trip: measured — each business’s median there-and-back distance from its own address to its job addresses (geocoded once, straight-line ×1.25 for roads); 2 businesses measured. Businesses without addresses on file use 20 miles, a suburban service call.
- 18 mpg — a working pickup.
- 8.887 kg CO₂ per gallon — U.S. EPA figure for gasoline.
What we don’t claim
Running Partner uses servers and power of its own, and a phone in the field uses electricity. These numbers are not a net footprint, and Partner is not an environmental product. They are the paper, driving and desk time that a contractor’s own records show did not happen — which is why every business sees its own figures on its dashboard and can put them in a bid.