You already know how to sell a deck. You just don't have anything to show them but a legal pad and a promise. Evalation Lab puts a real 3D model of their deck on your iPad while you're standing in their backyard, then turns that design into a blueprint and an estimate before you're back in your truck.
You stood in their backyard on Saturday with a tape measure and a legal pad. You sketched the deck while they watched. You said, "I'll get you some numbers this week."
Now it's Tuesday night. You're at the kitchen table doing the math you didn't have time to do standing in their yard. Square footage. Joist spacing. Footings. Railing style they said they liked but you can't quite remember. Decking material times square feet times a price you're hoping still holds from your supplier.
You send the PDF Wednesday morning. Clean. Professional. Priced right.
They don't call back Wednesday. Or Thursday. By the time you follow up Friday, they've already got two more quotes sitting in their inbox, and all three look the same to them: a number on a page.
They don't remember what made your deck different. They never saw it. All they have is a price, and a price is the easiest thing in the world to shop.
They forget the price by Thursday. They never forget watching it get built in front of them.
Evalation is built on CORR. CORR (Company, Operations, Relations, and Revenue) is a category of business platform that runs a contractor's entire company in one system, replacing the separate CRM, estimating, project management, and accounting tools contractors traditionally stitch together. For deck builders, that starts with the Lab.
Stand in the backyard and draw the deck footprint right on the iPad: the wall line, the deck shape, the railing style, the stairs. The 3D model builds while the homeowner watches it happen. This is the moment that sells the job, not the leave-behind.
The same design becomes a blueprint automatically. No separate CAD software, no redrawing what you already built once in the yard.
Before you leave the driveway, that design is also a priced estimate. What the homeowner sees is clean and easy to read. What you send your crew is the same job, laid out for building it.
Every lead, quote, and job lives in one system. Follow-ups go out on their own instead of living in your memory. Invoices go out when the work is done. Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees.
We could drop a customer's name and a dollar figure next to a quote box and call that proof. A deck-specific, named case study isn't published on this page yet, so we're not going to fake one.
Here's what is real. Evalation Lab is built specifically for the deck workflow described above, and it isn't a rendering demo. The wall tool, the deck shape, the railing styles, the stairs, and the 3D model that builds while the homeowner watches, are the actual product running on the actual iPad. The person who built it wasn't guessing at what closes a deck job. Founder David Bassett documented a 73% close rate at double market price using this same live 3D selling approach, before he built and exited a $5.3 million residential construction company. Full story: /founder.
Run the Lab on your next estimate and let the demo make its own case, in your own backyard.
If you want to read a real result from a contractor already using Evalation, see the case study: /case-study/steve
Yes. Evalation Lab currently covers decks, pergolas, concrete pads, and fencing. If any of those are part of your business, the same live 3D workflow applies to them too. See what it looks like for concrete or fencing.
You adjust the wall line, railing style, or stair placement in the same session. The 3D model and the estimate rebuild in front of them, in real time.
No. What the homeowner sees is a clean summary, not your internal math.
The first 50 founding members pay $297 per month, locked for life. Members 51 through 550 pay $416 per month, also locked for life. The price you join at is the price you pay for life. No per-user fees, no seat tiers to figure out. Full breakdown at /pricing.
Switching takes four clicks and your website's search rankings move with you. See how Evalation compares to what you're using now at /compare/buildertrend.
That's what the Moving Truck Guarantee is for: "If it doesn't win you more jobs in 90 days, you get every dollar back and we'll move you anywhere you want to go. Free."
Evalation Lab runs on iPadOS 17 or later, and works on nearly any iPad released in the last seven years for standard design and estimating work. LiDAR site-scanning features specifically need a LiDAR-equipped iPad, such as Pro models and recent Airs.
Bring the iPad. Draw the deck. Hand over the number before you leave the driveway.