One rule. One quote. Same day.
Every field service company on earth loses money in the gap between “the tech noticed something” and “the customer got a quote.” Here is that gap closed with a rule instead of a phone call.
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A PM comes due
A recurring commitment — quarterly rooftop inspection — generates the work on its own, inside a window: earliest, target, due-by. Not a fixed date, because when a heat wave lands, PM work is what moves. The system knows what may move and how far, and it records it when a commitment gets breached — which is what an argument with a customer turns on a year later.
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The tech runs “Found on PM” on their phone
Photos of the failed part, readings off the nameplate, the condition of the unit. The checklist is contextually aware: it renders one way for a CBRE site and another for a restaurant chain, because the difference between two customers is data, not a different version of the app.
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A rule fires
The finding raises an event. No dispatcher decides to route it, nobody remembers to, and it does not depend on the tech texting somebody. An admin bound a workflow to that event once, as data, and it has fired every time since.
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The estimator’s column lights up
The job transfers to the estimator on the board with the field evidence already attached — the photos, the notes, the equipment, the whole story of the visit. A board column is a queue with a person’s name on it, and arriving in that queue starts that person’s checklist.
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A review flow walks the estimator through the quote In build
Madlib screens, prior-art pricing, and the checks that stop things being missed.
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The quote goes out the same day In build
Instead of dying in somebody’s inbox.
Beat two starts here: the tech’s day, with the job on it.
Beat four. The board is columned by assignee — the unassigned inbox on the left is where brokered and API-created work lands on its own.
How rules and events work →