Steve is a residential contractor, a deck builder who also runs basement remodels, bathroom remodels, and full remodels. In his first 84 days running his business on Evalation, he closed $712,000 in sales.¹ That is the number we can put in writing today. Two things are still missing, on purpose: Steve's own words about how he got there, and his written permission to publish his name and business alongside these numbers. Until both exist, we are not writing a quote that sounds like him just to fill the space. Below is exactly what changed for him: the stack he walked away from, what it cost him every week, and what replaced it.
The clearest way to understand what changed for Steve is to hear him say it. [Asset: case study video] This slot holds a short interview or job-site walkthrough with Steve talking through the 84 days that closed at $712,000. Until that footage exists, and until Steve has given written permission to publish it alongside his name and numbers, treat this as a placeholder frame, not a stand-in script. Do not write dialogue for Steve. Record him, get his sign-off, then drop the file in.
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Steve, deck builder and remodeler, on the 84 days that closed at $712,000.
1. Reported by Steve, an Evalation customer: the $712,000 result, the 84-day window, his trade, and the before/after workflow details throughout this page. [PLACEHOLDER: attach a verifiable source before publishing, a customer interview date, a signed release, or an invoice/contract reference confirming the $712,000 figure, the 84-day window, and what it represents.]
2. Current published Evalation founding-member pricing. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm the date this price was last verified before publishing.]
Whatever Steve was paying across four disconnected tools, it did not get more expensive as his crew or his project count grew. Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees.² The next 500 members lock in at $416 per month for life once the founding 50 fill. See the full breakdown on pricing.
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Before Evalation, Steve ran his business on four tools that did not talk to each other. Houzz Pro handled design and estimates, but he reports the estimates it produced were frequently way off the actual job cost. GoHighLevel ran his CRM. QuickBooks held the books. There was no project management system of any kind. Job status, tasks, and timelines lived in his head and in scattered text threads. Invoices went out on paper. Payment meant a check or cash in hand. Nothing else.
Steve reports that stack cost him in ways that showed up every single week, not just at tax time. Marketing had no real metrics attached to it, so he could not tell which lead sources were actually working and which were wasting his money. Estimates carried no margin protection, so a job could look profitable on the page and still lose money once it was built. A single design and blueprint package ready for HOA and city permit submission took him 20-plus hours to produce by hand. And because none of these tools were connected to each other, he did not know whether a job had actually made money until roughly three months after the crew had already moved on to the next one.
Every contractor who switches to Evalation is walking away from something. For Steve, it was four separate tools doing four separate jobs badly: Houzz Pro for design and estimates, GoHighLevel for the CRM, QuickBooks for the books, paper for invoices, and no payment processing at all beyond checks and cash. [PLACEHOLDER: exact length of time Steve had been running this stack, and the specific moment or job that made him decide to switch.] If you are currently weighing your own stack the way Steve once was, you can see how Evalation compares to a platform like Jobber on the Jobber comparison page before you decide.
One piece of proof did not come from Steve at all. It came from the city. When a plans reviewer looked over the permit package Evalation Lab generated for one of his jobs, the verdict was blunt.
[PLACEHOLDER: Steve's full name/business, pending his written permission]. Steve's own account of these 84 days, in his own words, still belongs in this panel too. Needed before publishing: a verbatim quote from Steve, recorded or written by him, and his written permission to publish it alongside his name, business name, and the numbers referenced on this page. Do not publish a quote attributed to Steve until both of those exist.
Today, Steve's number is $712,000 in 84 days.¹ The change shows up in three places. Permit-ready design and blueprint packages that used to take 20-plus hours now take under an hour, generated live inside Evalation Lab while he is designing the deck in front of the homeowner. Marketing and sales metrics that used to be bad or nonexistent now run front to back, so he can see which leads turn into jobs and which do not. And every estimate now protects margin automatically, so what looks profitable on the page is what actually gets banked, instead of finding out three months later whether a job made money at all.
Because Steve's trade includes deck building, his story points straight at Evalation Lab: the module that lets a contractor design the job live in 3D, show a homeowner the model on an iPad, and hand over a permit-ready estimate before leaving the driveway. His remodel work, basements, bathrooms, and full remodels, runs on the same day-to-day CRM, estimating, and operations side of Evalation that every contractor gets, Lab-eligible trade or not. Whatever the trade, contractors running every kind of job can see what Evalation looks like for their own business on the page for general contractors.
Steve's first 84 days on Evalation closed at $712,000. Yours can start the same way: sign up, get your business into Evalation, and go to work.