Calmora builds B.O.B., a back office brain for home service trades and small retailers who are done trading their evenings for admin. It reads your inbox, drafts the bid, watches the job cost, and hands you the one thing that actually needs you.
A heat pump install, a service call, or a second storefront. The toil looks the same: the work you're good at gets done, and everything around it piles up.
The site visit or the sale is the good part. The quote, the report, the follow-up email: that part sits for a week while the details fade.
No to-do list survives a real day. Things slip between customers, vendors, and whoever just walked in wanting an answer right now.
You know your margin by the quarter, not by the job or the store. Materials bought in bulk and hours coded loosely hide where you're actually making money.
Permits, purchase orders, restocks, equipment ETAs. One at a time, usually from a truck or a stockroom with your phone about to die.
Everything we build comes back to these. If a feature doesn't serve one of them, we don't build it.
B.O.B. takes the write-ups, the inbox noise, and the paperwork grind off your plate, so more of your day goes back to the reason you started the business.
You pay for the computer it runs on. The software underneath is open source. You shape how it works as you use it, and you're the one who names it. It answers to you, not to us.
Every correction you make teaches it your business. As it settles in, the monthly service cost comes down, and new capability keeps landing on the system you already own.
We don't hand you a platform to configure yourself. We build the foundation with you, keep it running, then add the pieces that hurt most, in the order you choose.
A back office brain on a computer you text or talk to like a person. It's wired into your inbox, your files, and your past bids or sales, and it sends you, and anyone else who runs the place, a morning brief. Documented well enough that anyone could pick it up.
We keep the foundation healthy and tune it as it learns your business. The brief gets sharper every week. Nothing drifts, and someone owns the moving parts so you don't have to.
Estimating and quotes, job costing, permits and restocking, deeper inbox replies. Each is scoped and built on its own, starting with whatever costs you the most time today.
Owner-operators and small crews who quote, install, and service, and are done doing the books at 9pm.
Two to ten storefronts where one or two people are still doing the ordering, scheduling, and bookkeeping for the whole operation by hand.
A short conversation is enough for us to sketch what your foundation would look like: what it reads, what it drafts, and what your first morning brief would say.