Stop operating. Start owning.
Run your whole shop from one place. Right now you’re the glue holding eleven software tools together. Bench is the well-oiled machine you’ve dreamed of. Bench agents do the legwork, you approve, they execute.
“You built the one.”
Built for $.5M–10M contractors. $199/mo. Unlimited users. No per-seat fees.
You already know how this morning goes.
The $40,000 re-roof from last Tuesday called twice. Nobody called back. It’s gone.
Your best closer is at his desk, knee-deep in three apps instead of standing on a roof.
The default pricing in your estimating software got changed. Every estimate since has gone out wrong. You just caught it.
The office manager still won’t touch the CRM. Last month’s numbers? You’ll see them in 20 days.
It’s 7:40. You haven’t had coffee. You’re the bottleneck.
It’s not you. It’s the patchwork — eleven overlapping tools that each do a piece of the job, and you’re the one stitching it together.
Stop juggling eleven tools. Run the whole business from one workspace.
60% of leads turn into proposals. You expected 90%. What happened?
The other 30% slip through the cracks of 11 awkward softwares that aren’t made to work together. And you pay per user for each one. And when you scale your business, the software costs skyrocket.
Your Software Stack
Eleven tools. One whiteboard. You’re still the bottleneck.
- Eleven logins. Reps won’t use half of them.
- Production lives on a whiteboard.
- The schedule is a spreadsheet. One typo and the wrong crew shows up.
- 2 missed calls. That lead is dead.
- Last month’s P&L lands 27 days late. You’re flying blind.
- 82 automated triggers in the CRM. Still no way to see where the deal fell through.
- Your best rep closes at 35%. Your weakest at 17%. Nobody knows why.
One Workspace
One workspace. Seven agents. You still approve every move.
- One workspace. Every tool, every job, every lead in one place. No more eleven logins. (Except accounting, we don’t like accounting...)
- Every missed call caught. Every lead worked. Zig flags the ones going cold before they die.
- Books current. Aurelius shows you the numbers today — not 27 days late.
- Production off the whiteboard and in the open. Every job, every stage. You see it all.
- Every change leaves a trail. Agents draft and flag. You approve.
Which business would you rather own?
How did running the entire business end up on your plate?
Read these four. Stop at the one that stings most.
It’s 6:40 a.m. The trucks are loaded. You’re at the kitchen table, updating the whiteboard off a spreadsheet — because the eleven tools you pay for overlap and don’t work together, and your office manager still won’t open the CRM.
You bought the software. You’re still the software.
A salesman mentions the new base price. You stop cold. “What new base price?” A base price got changed in the estimating software months ago. Nobody flagged it. No record of who, or when, or why. The margin’s been walking out the door on every job since.
A price changed. Nothing told you. Nobody could tell you.
A lead came in hot Tuesday. The rep called once. Called twice. No answer, so he moved on. That homeowner signed with the next guy who picked up. You paid for that lead. You never knew it died.
Two missed calls and the lead is gone. You never knew.
It’s the 25th. Last month’s numbers finally show up — a month you can’t change, jobs already closed, invoices with no dollar amounts and no job numbers. You’re not running the business. You’re reading its obituary.
By the time you see the month, you can’t do a thing about it.
Your people aren’t the problem. The patchwork is. Your GM interrogating every job — ordered? permit? — isn’t a control freak. He’s the only audit trail you’ve got. Your reps aren’t lazy. They’re buried in eleven tools instead of standing in front of customers. Fix the patchwork, and you get to step out of the way. Software should bend around the people who use it — not the other way around. The only question that matters: am I an operator, or am I an owner?
Stop wearing so many hats. Start being an owner.
Bench is the team expansion you could never afford — until now. Seven AI agents to work your business.
Each agent guards a different part of your business. You still call every shot. Hire the agents you need to get you out of the middle of your own business.
You approve everything.
Nothing happens without an audit trail. The agents watch, flag, and draft. Nothing changes until you say go. And nobody gets replaced — the agents take the busywork, so your next hires swing hammers and close deals.
“I want them all. I want those people to run my company.”
It’s 6:47 pm and you’re the only one chasing a missed call.
Real numbers from real contractors. The before is the patchwork. The after is the same week on Bench.
The phone rang twice. Nobody picked up.
Before
That lead is dead. 1–2 missed calls is all it takes.
With Bench
Zig catches the missed call, tees up the callback, and works the lead until you call it.
You quoted ten jobs. You wrote six proposals.
Before
Four proposals never went out. Nobody could see which ones.
With Bench
A drafted proposal for every quote, teed up the same day. You hit approve.
It’s the 25th. You still don’t know what last month made.
Before
20–30 days to close the books. You steer looking backward.
With Bench
Aurelius keeps the books current. You see the month while you can still steer it.
No new hire. No per-seat invoice. Add your whole team.
- Unlimited users.
- Zero per-seat fees.
- Agents priced one at a time. Hire the agents you need.
“It was basically a smarter version of me — by far.”
Her first ask: she handed the agents 49,000 QuickBooks records — five years of books. It came back with a five-year P&L, a page per year, executive summary included.
PS. The agents built the website you’re reading. In 2 days.
Stop guessing in 11 tabs and apps. Start running it from one workspace.
Yeah. You have bought software before.
You bought the whole platform. You used a third of it. Six weeks later the guys were back at the whiteboard with a marker.
“We bought a whole platform, used a third of it, and the guys went right back to the whiteboard.”
“Every tool promised to talk to the others. None of them do.”
“I do not have time to learn another system.”
Stop buying tools. Start running an operating system.
A contractor we demoed was turning fewer than 60% of their leads into proposals. They expected 90%. That gap is jobs you already paid to find, walking out the door. Every month on the patchwork, it compounds — and the other guys are already hiring agents.
Ask the real questions you’d ask before you swipe the card.
- Can it run my pipeline so a missed call does not kill the lead?
- Can it catch a base price that changed and ran wrong for months, with a trail I can actually see?
- Can it keep my reps in front of customers instead of buried in screens?
- Can it close my books before they are 30 days stale?
- Can it work even if my office manager refuses to learn one more thing?
All those questions have the same answer.
Yes.
Bench is the operating system contractors actually run on. Seven agents on the job. Zig works the pipeline. Aurelius keeps the books current. Ember runs the field. They watch, they flag, they draft, they recommend. You approve. Nothing moves without your say-so.
No retraining your people, no whiteboard funeral. Read the Bench covenant below before you spend a dollar.
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“I didn’t inherit a trade. I inherited what it means to run a small shop.”
Why we built Bench — a letter from our founderWritten by a founder who ran a roofing company — and paid the tuition.
The Operator-to-Owner Plan
Three steps. That’s the whole thing. Built for $.5M–10M contractors who were tired of being the bottleneck.
- 01
Stop chasing it. Start seeing it.
It's 6:40am. You're answering the question nobody else can: did that job get ordered? Is the permit pulled? You're the only one who knows, because the answer lives in your head, a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, and a text thread.
Put your jobs, your leads, and your money in one place. No more 11 tools. No more CRM your office manager won’t touch. No more invoices with no dollar amount. One workspace your whole team actually uses.
- 02
Stop doing the busywork. Start approving it.
It's the end of the day. A lead from Tuesday never got a callback. It's dead now — gone to the next guy. And the invoice that just hit your desk? No dollar amount. No job number. You go find out. Again.
Your agents watch the pipeline, draft the follow-ups, flag the invoice with no number, catch the price that’s been running wrong for months. They don’t decide. They tee it up. You tap approve. You stay the boss. You stop being the typist.
- 03
Stop being the bottleneck. Start being the owner.
It's month-end plus 25 days. You finally see last month's numbers — too late to do anything about them. Every big call still routes through you. The shop runs as fast as you can answer your phone.
Numbers when you need them, not 30 days late. Decisions teed up, not stuck on your desk. The shop runs whether you’re on the roof, in the truck, or off the clock. And when the day comes — a business clean enough to hand to your kids.
Start where you want. Set it up yourself for $0, or have us on-site with your team for five days. Either way, you’re running on Bench in days — not quarters. You don’t have to do this alone.
The Bench covenant
- You approve everything.
- Your data is yours — even if you leave. The agents even help you pack.
- No per-seat fees. Ever.
- If your people won’t run it, you won’t pay to keep it.
Onboarding from self-serve $0 to a 5-day on-site at $9,549.
One price. Every seat. No surprise.
$199 a month for the workspace. Unlimited users. Zero per-seat fees. Hire the agents you actually need.
Most software charges you per head. Add an office manager, pay again. Add a rep, pay again. You get punished for hiring. And the photo app, the proposal builder, the e-sign tool, the call tracker become one thing here.
Bench charges for the workspace. You add your whole office for free.
- Stop being the bottleneck. Start approving the work.
- Stop chasing dead leads. Start watching every one.
- Stop guessing at the numbers. Start seeing them now.
- Stop logging into eleven tools. Start logging into one.
- Stop building a job. Start building something to hand down.
- $199/mo — the workspace. Unlimited users. No per-seat fees, ever.
- Hire agents one at a time. Pay per agent based on your needs.
- Bailey rides along — your personal assistant, in from day one.
- Zig runs your pipeline so no lead dies on a missed call.
- Sage keeps every homeowner answered and every promise tracked.
- Sully tracks every marketing dollar in, every lead out.
- Ember runs your canvassers and field reps.
- Epic coaches the owner. Aurelius keeps the books current and the plan on track.
They watch, they flag, they draft. You say go. Nothing moves without you.
A new lead is going cold while you read this. Hire Bench agents to keep watch.
You approve every move the agents make. The machine runs. You own it.
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