Your Billing page on the free plan
Work won this month, the statement so far, AI credits used — and the comparison against every flat plan, updated daily.
No subscription · no card · no monthly minimum
Start for free.
We make money when you make money.
Every feature in Partner, from today, for nothing. When a customer approves an estimate in Partner we earn 2% of it — the same whether they pay by card, check or cash. Carriers pay 0.75% of each delivered load instead. Win nothing in a month, pay nothing that month.
Takes about two minutes. No payment details are asked for.
Why we’re doing this
Software should pay for itself before it asks you to pay for it.
A subscription bills you the same in the month you land a $40,000 job and the month the phone doesn’t ring. It is priced for the vendor’s convenience, not for how your business actually works. We built Partner for contractors and carriers who live on won work, so we decided to live on it too.
The arrangement is simple: you use everything — estimates, scheduling, payroll, the client portal, the dispatch board, Kowalski — and we take a small percentage of the work you win through it. Not of your revenue, not of your payments, not of anything you have to report to us: of the estimate your customer approved on the page we drew, or the load you marked delivered on the board we run. If Partner isn’t helping you win and deliver work, we earn nothing. That is the deal we want to be held to.
We measured our own cost before we picked the number. Running a business on Partner for a month — the AI, the storage, the email, the servers — costs us under twenty dollars, and a quiet month costs a few. One ordinary approval covers it. So there is no floor and no minimum: the plan makes money when you do, and the page you are reading is the whole contract.
And because the fee is a real cost of the job, Partner counts it as one: it appears in every estimate’s “where the money goes”, in your profit & loss, and on a Billing page that compares what you paid us against every flat plan and tells you the day a flat plan would be cheaper. A plan that hides its own break-even is a trap. Ours is the opposite.
The whole plan, in numbers
- Monthly subscription
- $0
- Monthly minimum
- $0
- Card required to start
- No
- Fee on an approved estimate (pre-tax)
- 2%
- Fee on a delivered load (carriers)
- 0.75%
- Fee when a customer pays by check or cash
- same
- AI credits included each month
- 750
- AI credits past the allowance
- 5¢ each
- Statement
- monthly · due in 14 days
- Switch to a flat plan
- any time
How it works
Four steps, and only the third one costs anything.
Step 1
Sign up and pick Start for free
Two minutes. Name the business, choose the free plan. No card, no trial clock, nothing to cancel later.
Step 2
Run the business on Partner
Estimates, proposals your customers sign on their phone, scheduling, time clock, payroll, invoicing, the client portal, dispatch, the driver app, Kowalski. All of it, from day one.
Step 3
Win work — that is the moment we earn
When your customer approves an estimate, 2% of its pre-tax value goes on your ledger. When a load is marked delivered, 0.75% of its rate does. Change orders count; a job that is reversed is credited back.
Step 4
One statement a month
On the 1st, the month's ledger becomes a statement, due in 14 days, paid by card from your Billing page. A month with nothing won produces no statement at all.
What it costs, worked out
Every figure below is computed from the plan’s live defaults, not typed in — it cannot say one thing here and bill another.
- A $4,600 door replacement the customer approves
- $92.00
- …paid by check three weeks latersame fee — how they pay changes nothing
- $92.00
- A $24,300 duplex renovation
- $485.95
- A month with $30,000 of work wonvs $999/mo on Growth
- $600.00
- A $1,148 Portage → Louisville load, delivereda carrier month is billed load by load — see the statement below
- $8.61
- A month with nothing won
- $0.00
For scale: card processing alone runs about 2.9%. On a $30,000 month the flat Growth plan is $999; Partner is $600.
Why carriers pay a different percentage
A remodeler’s gross margin on an approved estimate is typically 25–35%. A carrier’s operating margin on a delivered load is a fraction of that — the fuel, the driver and the truck eat most of the rate. The same 2% that is a rounding error on a renovation would be a real slice of a load, so carriers pay 0.75% of the delivered rate (linehaul, fuel surcharge and accessorials). On a four-truck carrier’s month that works out to roughly $72 a truck — inside what a dispatch system charges per truck, with the difference that it is only owed for loads that actually delivered.
Our own cost per load — routing, tracking texts to the shipper, the rate-con import — is a few cents, so cost is not what sets the number. What a carrier can bear is.
- Recorded when the load is marked delivered — by the driver from the road or by dispatch.
- Quotes and rate cons cost nothing; a load that is cancelled or deleted is credited back.
- Detention and accessorials you add to the invoice later are yours; the fee is on the rate the load delivered at.
- Settlements, IFTA, DVIR, the carrier packet and the tracking link are all included — no per-truck fee, no per-driver seat.
A real month, from our demo businesses
Two invented companies we keep seeded so every screen has something on it. These are their statements for August 2026, computed from their records with the same functions that bill a real one.
Partner plan statement · August 2026
Brightpath Builders
a residential remodeler, our contractor demo tenant · 2% of approved value
| Work approved | Value | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| EST-0201 · Sunset Grove duplex renovation | $24,297.60 | $485.95 |
| CO-0201 · Subfloor replacement — unit B kitchen | $1,735.85 | $34.72 |
- Work won
- $26,033.45
- Approved estimates (1)
- $485.95
- Approved change orders (1)
- $34.72
- Due to Partner
- $520.67
Raised on the 1st, due in 14 days. A month with nothing approved would show $0.00 — and no statement at all.
Partner plan statement · August 2026
Great Lakes Freight
a four-truck regional carrier, our logistics demo tenant · 0.75% of delivered value
| Load | Value | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| LD-967 Lansing → Maumee | $560.00 | $4.20 |
| LD-968 Lansing → Maumee | $538.00 | $4.04 |
| LD-970 Portage → Louisville | $1,148.00 | $8.61 |
| LD-972 Portage → Indianapolis | $898.00 | $6.74 |
| LD-974 Lansing → Chicago | $830.00 | $6.23 |
| LD-969 Battle Creek → Minneapolis | $2,163.00 | $16.22 |
| …and 29 more loads that month | ||
- 35 loads delivered
- $38,141.00
- Delivered loads (35)
- $286.13
- Due to Partner
- $286.13
Raised on the 1st, due in 14 days. A month with nothing delivered would show $0.00 — and no statement at all.
The monthly statement
One line per approved estimate, change order or delivered load. Raised on the 1st, due in 14 days, paid by card from the same page.
Everything, from day one
What you get for free
The free plan is not a starter tier with the good parts held back. It is every feature in Growth, with 750 AI credits a month, unlimited client and subcontractor viewers, and no seat count to watch. Real screens and real walkthroughs below; the complete list is on its own page.
Estimates that price the way you price
Line by line from your own catalog, or drafted by Kowalski from a description — your markups, your waste factors, every total to the cent.
80-second walkthrough
Estimate to invoice without retyping
An approved estimate becomes the invoice, the payment link and the receipt. Customers pay by card, check or cash — the fee is the same either way.
60-second walkthrough
Kowalski, the assistant that works inside your books
Ask in plain words. He drafts the estimate, chases the invoice, writes the daily log, and stages every change for you to apply.
65-second walkthrough
Schedule, crews and the day
Who is where, what is due, and what the customer has been told.
Clock in, clock out, payroll that adds up
Time from the phone, geofenced, straight into pay runs and job costs.
45-second walkthrough
Follow-ups that chase for you
Estimates that went quiet and invoices that went unpaid get a reminder — written for you, sent when you say.
60-second walkthrough
A portal your customers actually open
One link: the proposal to sign, the schedule, the photos, the invoice to pay.
95-second walkthrough
Reports that tell you the margin you keep
Profit & loss with the Partner fee as its own line, job costing, and the Billing page that says when a flat plan would be cheaper.
The whole business on one screen
Cash coming, work due, who is on site — the morning glance.
For carriers
The same deal on the logistics side
Switch the workspace to the logistics preset and Partner speaks dispatch: loads, shippers, rate cons, the driver app, settlements, IFTA, DVIR, the carrier packet. The fee follows the delivered load instead of the approved estimate, at 0.75%. Nothing else about the plan changes.
The dispatch board
Every load with its truck and driver, conflicts flagged before they roll, the rate con and BOL on the load.
The driver app
Pick up, in transit, delivered — with the POD photo from the road. Delivered plus POD drafts the invoice by itself.
Cost per mile and the quote floor
Fuel, driver pay and fixed costs over the miles you actually ran — and the floor a new lane has to clear.
The fine print, in plain words
Nothing here that isn’t in the Terms
Questions people ask
- Is it really free?
- Yes. There is no subscription, no card on file and no monthly minimum. The only thing you ever pay is 2% of an estimate's pre-tax value when your customer approves it in Partner (0.75% of a load's rate when it is marked delivered, on the logistics preset). A month in which nothing is won costs nothing.
- What if my customer pays by check or cash?
- The fee is the same. It is measured on the approval, not the payment, so how or when the money arrives never changes what you owe — and you never have to report anything to us.
- What counts as "approved"?
- Your customer approving the estimate on the proposal link, or you marking it approved in Partner. Change orders your customer approves count the same way. Quotes that are declined, expired or still open cost nothing, and an approved estimate you delete is credited back.
- How is that different from the flat plans?
- A flat plan costs the same every month whatever happens. Start for free costs nothing until you win work, then a small percentage of it. Your Billing page compares the two from your real numbers over the last three months and names the month a flat plan would have been cheaper; you can switch at any time, effective at the next billing period.
- Is anything held back on the free plan?
- No. It is every feature in Growth — estimates, proposals, scheduling, time clock, payroll, invoicing, the client portal, dispatch and the driver app, reports, and Kowalski with 750 AI credits a month. Past the allowance, credits are 5¢ each on the same statement.
- How do I pay the statement?
- By card, from your Billing page, once a month. Statements are raised on the 1st and due in 14 days. One left unpaid two weeks past its due date pauses the workspace until it is paid — nothing is deleted, and it reopens the moment it clears.
- Why would a company do this?
- Because it aligns us with you. A subscription is paid whether the software helps or not; this one is paid only when it demonstrably did. We measured our cost per business before setting the percentage, and one ordinary job covers it — so we can afford to be paid this way, and we would rather be.
- Can I still be invited or comped?
- Yes. Businesses we invite can be given their own percentage and allowance. The published defaults are what everyone who starts for free gets.
Start for free. Pay when you win.
No card, no clock, no minimum. If Partner doesn’t help you win work, it never costs you a dollar.