The builder who texts at 9pm books the crew that answers.
Framing is a relationship trade — and the relationship runs on texts you get while running a crew of nine on somebody else’s deadline.
Your best customer communicates entirely by text you cannot answer
A framing operation lives and dies on two or three builders who fill the schedule — and builders communicate in bursts: the 9pm “can you start Monday,” the lunchtime “did you see the revised plans,” the Friday “what is your number on lot 14.” Every one of those arrives while you are on a deck with a nail gun, and every slow reply teaches the builder to keep a second framer’s number handy. The work itself is fine; it is the thread that slips.
The calls you’re missing right now
Real questions, unanswered until somebody gets to a keyboard.
- “Can your crew start Monday?”
- “What is your number on lot 14?”
- “Did you get the revised plans?”
- “How many days for a 2,400 square foot single story?”
- “Do you do pick-up framing or only full frames?”
- “Are you licensed and insured for commercial work?”
Where to start, and what to add
In order. Most framing contractors buy the first one and nothing else for a while — that is the intended way to do it, not a smaller version of it.
Start here
Business Text Line$249/mo · No OSQR plan requiredBuilt for the builder relationship: schedule questions get answered from what you have told it about your rules, plan revisions get acknowledged instead of buried, and the thread is organized and waiting when you climb down. Your builders never learn to call the other framer.
Then add
Website Chat$249/mo · No OSQR plan requiredThe smaller channel for a B2B trade, and we will say so: it earns its keep on the remodel additions and garage frames that homeowners search for, and captures the license-and-insurance question before a GC moves on.
Lot 14, priced before the tailgate closes.
Twenty-four hundred square feet, single story, ten corners, stick-framed gable, your lumber assumptions stated out loud — and the builder gets a written number the same afternoon he asked for it. The framer who bids same-day gets the next lot too.
The actual app. No customer data on this screen.
What we can show you
No framing case study exists, and inventing one would cost us every builder who checked. What exists: OSQR is written inside a working construction company, and a demo can be stood up on your own rates before any money moves.
Straight answers for framing contractors
My whole business is three builders. What is there to answer?
Exactly those three: the Business Text Line keeps every schedule question, plan revision and bid invitation answered and organized per thread, so none of them ever waits long enough to try the other framer. It answers from your rules — it never promises a start date you did not authorize.
Can it read plans and do a takeoff?
No. VoiceQuote prices what you tell it after you have read the plans — your counts, your assumptions, your rates — and drafts the written bid. The takeoff stays in your head, where builders expect it to be; the typing is what disappears.
Does it answer phone calls?
It does not — texts and website messages only. Builders mostly text anyway, which is the entire point; if a builder is a caller, the line takes nothing away, it just catches everything that arrives as a message.
Can it commit my crew to a start date?
Only as far as you allow: it answers with the scheduling rules you give it — “we book out about two weeks; I will confirm tonight” — and flags the request for you. It never invents a date, because one wrong Monday costs a builder.
What if a builder asks something it cannot answer?
It says it does not know and tells them you will follow up — then hands you the thread. An honest “Kable will text you tonight” keeps a builder; a confident wrong answer does not.
See it answer as your business.
Ask for a demo built on your own prices and services. You will know what it knows before you decide anything.
Want the whole machine — or the website handled too? See the Front Desk or the Front Office
Or reach a person: text us (623) 232-0185