Skilled and trade industries are the wedge. They're under-served by big SaaS, have repeatable workflows that can be productized, and the ROI math makes itself.
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Construction & Trades
GC · Subcontractors · Specialty Trades
Multi-site project tracking, change order chaos, certified payroll, subcontractor management. Lots of paper. Lots of phone calls.
Job costing across crews
RFI / submittal workflows
Subcontractor compliance docs
Equipment & inventory tracking
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Real Estate
Brokerages · Property Mgmt · Investment Firms
Listings scattered across MLS, CRMs, and Excel. Lease tracking via folders. Investor reporting takes a week. Data is everywhere except where it's needed.
Unified deal pipeline
Lease abstraction & renewals
Investor portal / quarterly reporting
Maintenance ticket workflow
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Retail (Multi-Location)
Specialty · Chain · Franchise
POS doesn't talk to inventory, inventory doesn't talk to ordering, and corporate has no idea what's selling at store level until end of week. Decisions made on stale data.
Real-time inventory by location
Auto-replenishment based on velocity
Loss prevention & shrink alerting
Store performance dashboards
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Route-Based Services
HVAC · Pest · Lawn · Pool · Field Service
Dispatchers juggle calls and a whiteboard. Techs file paper invoices. Customers want to text the company and pay online. Operations runs on tribal knowledge.
Route optimization & dispatch
Mobile tech app w/ photo + signature
Customer self-service portal
Recurring service agreement billing
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Financial Services
Wealth Mgmt · Lending · Insurance · CPA Firms
Compliance everywhere, KYC by spreadsheet, client onboarding takes 3 weeks. Audit trails are someone's email folder. Risk hidden in plain sight.
Client onboarding & KYC workflow
Document vault with permissions & audit log
Compliance task automation
Producer / advisor commission tracking
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Manufacturing & Distribution
Industrial · Specialty Mfg · 3PL
ERP is great at finance, terrible at the floor. Production schedule changes don't reach the shipping dock for hours. Disconnected systems = disconnected business.
Floor-to-finance visibility
Custom WMS overlay
Quality control & deviation tracking
Vendor / EDI integrations