The Curbsight Blog
Buying guides and field notes for contractors — written by Sol Zendejas-Smith, founder, curbsight, who knocked the doors before he built the software. No filler, real numbers, dated so you know they're current.
You hired well. They work hard. The ceiling did not move. The cost is not lost jobs. It is what your best people quietly absorb — and what that costs you.
Read →Seven structural tests for comparing roofing software, each checkable on a demo call. Curbsight passes six. The one it fails is named up front.
Read →Sales Hub Professional is $90 a seat and onboarding is $1,500 one-time. Those are the two easy ones. The other four, priced — including the one nobody quotes.
Read →Appointment setting software books the slot. The appointment still reaches your closer missing the seven facts your setter learned at the door.
Read →At five jobs a month paper works, and anyone selling you software is selling you software. The break point isn't monthly volume. It's how many are open at once.
Read →Referrals cap at your install base: 300 roofs at 8-10% is 24-30 jobs a year, however hard you work. Four owned channels beat it, ranked by cost per closed job.
Read →Why door-to-door teams leave Sales Rabbit: seat minimums, setup fees, multi-year terms, a blank map. Four replacements worth switching to, and what each costs.
Read →Curbsight, AccuLynx, JobNimbus, Roofr, RoofLink, QuoteIQ, Projul, Jobber — on what each actually costs, and which stack layer each still leaves you paying for.
Read →Six line items, five reps, and a bill most owners have never added up. The itemized math on published pricing — plus the cost that appears on no invoice at all.
Read →The industry pays per measurement report, per roof, forever. How self-drafting estimates from aerial data work — and the accuracy trade-off nobody advertises.
Read →Yes — editable pipeline, self-drafting estimates, invoicing with QuickBooks sync, photo docs, material ordering. The full tour, plus the gap we name out loud.
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