My name is David Bassett. I spent about 12 years as a residential contractor and grew my company to $5.3 million a year in revenue. I did it on a CRM that didn't talk to my estimating spreadsheet, a project tool that didn't talk to either one, and invoicing bolted on top. Evalation is the system I wish I'd had: the design, the estimate, the job and the books in one place, so every contractor can show a homeowner exactly what they're buying before they sign.
I did not start as a software person. I started as a contractor, bidding jobs, framing decks, standing in backyards trying to explain to a homeowner what their yard was going to look like once the crew was done. For a long time I ran my business the way most residential contractors run theirs: a CRM that did not talk to the estimating spreadsheet, a project management tool that did not talk to either one, and an invoicing system bolted on top of all of it. If you have ever compared platforms trying to find one that actually fits how a construction business runs day to day, you already know that patchwork.
I lived inside that patchwork for years while I built my own construction company. I hired crews, took on bigger jobs, and grew the business past what any one person could run out of a truck. Eventually the company reached $5.3 million a year in revenue. That track record is the credential behind everything else on this site. It came from running a real construction business, not from a career in software.
What I learned building that company is the reason Evalation exists. The tools were never the real problem. The real problem was that a homeowner had to imagine what they were paying for, and imagination is a hard thing to close a deal on.
When I ran my company, I described decks with a tape measure and a hand-drawn sketch, and the homeowner had to imagine the rest. Evalation Lab changes that. You build the design in front of the homeowner, live, so they see the finished structure before they commit to anything, and the estimate and blueprints come out of the same model.
Steve and his brother run VisionWorks Remodeling in Ohio. In January 2026 they had no jobs in the pipeline. Selling with Evalation, Steve closes 73% of his bids, and VisionWorks closed $736,000 in signed work by August 2026. Those numbers come from his own Evalation dashboard and his own words on camera. Read his story.
The moment a homeowner can see the finished deck instead of imagining it, the conversation about price is already over.
I wanted every contractor to be able to show a homeowner the finished job before they sign, and to run the rest of the business from the same place. That is the direct reason Evalation Lab exists inside Evalation: it lets you design a deck, pergola, concrete pad, or fence live in front of the homeowner, show them a 3D model of the finished result, and hand them an estimate on the first visit. Today, that live 3D design piece covers those four trades. If you work in a different trade, Evalation still runs your estimating in minutes and handles the CRM, operations, and invoicing side of the business, even where the 3D design piece is not built for your trade yet.
Evalation itself is what is called a CORR platform. 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. Read the full breakdown of what that means.
I priced it the way I wished software had been priced back when I was running my own crew: visible up front instead of hidden behind a sales call, and locked at whatever rate you join at instead of climbing every year you stay. Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees. The price you join at is the price you pay for life. You can see exactly what that includes, including what happens once the founding 50 spots are gone, on the pricing page.
If you have ever watched a homeowner say they need to think it over, you already know the moment I am describing. Evalation Lab is how you get in front of that moment instead of losing to it.
Free 14-day trial, then the Founding Member rate.