Profit Intelligence · built only for licensed trade contractors

See where your profit is leaking.

MarginSmith gives trade contractors Profit Intelligence — starting with a free Profit Check that shows what your jobs are really earning, where margin may be slipping, and the one move to make next.

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The problem

You can be busy all year and still lose the profit.

The work is coming in. The trucks are rolling. But job pricing hides where the money actually goes — and a few points of margin, quietly given away on every job, is the difference between a good year and a scary one.

The leak is inside the quote.
Materials, labor, drive time, warranty, the callbacks — by the time the job's done, the margin you thought you had isn't the margin you kept. And you rarely see it, because the next job already started.
Non-billable time eats it quietly.
Estimates, driving, waiting on the supply house, the callback you didn't charge for. None of it shows up on the invoice — but all of it comes straight out of your margin.
"Profitable" and "busy" aren't the same thing.
Revenue looks fine. The bank account is tighter than it should be. Without a clear read on margin per job, it's almost impossible to say which work is actually paying you.
Accounting tells you last year. You need this quote.
Your books close the month after the money's already spent. What you need is a read on the job in front of you — before you send the number.
Profit Intelligence

What MarginSmith helps you see.

Not another dashboard to babysit. Profit Intelligence is a clear read on the money — three things, in plain numbers you can trust.

1
Where the profit really is
What a job is actually earning after the costs that don't make it onto the invoice — so "busy" and "profitable" stop being the same word.
2
Where it's leaking
The biggest driver pulling your margin below a healthy reference for your trade — underpricing, non-billable time, or costs creeping past what the quote assumed.
3
The one move to make next
Not a wall of twenty recommendations. The single highest-leverage change for this job — the one worth doing before you send another quote.
The free Profit Check

Run a Profit Check on a real job — free.

No card. No sales call. You see your result before you sign up or pay. A free account is only needed to save it, refine it, and unlock the exact annual dollar figure.

~ a few minutes
What you enter
A few honest numbers from a recent job — what you charged and what it cost you. Your trade. That's it: no signup, no billing, no CRM to set up.
Instant
What you learn
Your margin position on that job against a healthy reference for your trade, the biggest driver moving it, and the one next move — shown right there, before any account.
Free account
What you unlock
Create a free account — no card — to save your result, put in your real numbers, and see the exact annual dollar opportunity the Profit Check sized for you.
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Show the math

Numbers you can trust — not a black box.

01

A reference for your trade

Your margin is read against a healthy reference for your trade — electrical, HVAC, plumbing, roofing, and more — not a vague claim about what the contractor down the road is charging. Same inputs, same result, every time.

02

Transparent inputs

The result is built from the numbers you enter — no invented data, no LLM guessing your business. If a figure shaped your result, you put it in and you can see it.

03

Honest when there's no leak

If your margin is already healthy, the Profit Check says so — it doesn't invent a fake $0 problem or manufacture urgency. An honest read is the whole point.

If your margin is healthy
Then the job is to protect it.
A healthy margin isn't a reason to stop looking — it's a reason to defend it. MarginSmith helps you hold the line job by job, so the margin you've earned doesn't slip away one quote at a time as costs move.
One next move
One move beats twenty tips.
A list of twenty "growth hacks" never gets done. The Profit Check names the single highest-leverage move for the job in front of you — so there's exactly one thing to act on, not a homework pile.
From one check to every quote

Quote Pro protects your margin on every quote.

The free Profit Check reveals the leak once. Quote Pro is the recurring engine that keeps it closed — grading every quote against regional benchmarks for your trade before it goes out, so underpricing and non-billable time get caught before they compound across jobs. That's the bridge from a one-time revelation to software that pays for itself every week.

See how Quote Pro works
The broader system

Once your margin is clear, the rest of the system executes.

Profit is the wedge. Around it, MarginSmith gives licensed trades the engines to actually run the growth — each one real, each one built for the trades. Supporting depth, not the headline.

Daily tool
Margin Engine
The engine behind your Profit Check. Margin Audit finds today's leaks; Quote Pro grades every quote against regional benchmarks before it goes out — so you catch underpricing and non-billable time before they compound.
Explore Quote Pro →
First impression
Web Engine
A conversion-focused landing page grounded in your real credentials, services, and verified reviews — one-click publish to a live URL you can run ads to. A dedicated feature page is on the way.
See the Web Engine →
Customer acquisition
Creative Factory
Ad scripts, video hooks, and outreach copy written for a homeowner hiring a licensed trade — grounded in your real business, not generic templates. A dedicated feature page is on the way.
See Creative Factory →
Compound growth
Mission Engine
One focused marketing mission a day — small, doable actions that compound week over week — plus a dashboard that shows what's actually moving revenue. A dedicated feature page is on the way.
See Mission Engine →
Compound reputation
Reputation Engine
Draft a professional reply to every Google review in your voice in seconds. Your Impact Score compounds as the streak grows — the reputation moat competitors can't copy. Live inside the MarginSmith app.
See it in the app →
The foundation
Business Profile & Smart Audit
Your durable business facts — credentials, services, warranty, real reviews — feed a diagnostic that reads your growth readiness. Nothing invented: everything is what you provide or verify.
See it in the app →
Pricing & access

Start free. Plans are being set with our founding contractors.

The Profit Check is free — and it's the right place to start.

MarginSmith is in active Beta, building alongside a founding cohort of licensed trade contractors. You can run the free Profit Check today with no credit card and see your result before you ever sign up.

Full plans and pricing are being finalized with those founding contractors — so we're not publishing tiers until they're locked and real. No surprise pricing, no stale numbers.

✓ Free Profit Check ✓ No credit card to start ✓ Built only for the trades

Founding cohort forming now — we're building with a small group of licensed trade contractors and want partners, not testers. Reach out at hello@marginsmith.ai.

Straight answers

The questions contractors actually ask.

Is the Profit Check really free?

Yes. Run it with no credit card and see your result before you sign up. A free account is only needed to save it, refine it with your real numbers, and unlock the exact annual dollar figure.

Do I have to pay before I see anything?

No. Value comes first. You see where your margin stands and the one next move before any account, and before any payment.

Is this accounting software?

No. Your books tell you about last month. The Profit Check reads the job in front of you — the one you're about to quote — in minutes, in plain numbers.

Is it comparing me to other contractors?

Your margin is read against a healthy reference for your trade, not a guess about a competitor's price. Same inputs always produce the same result.

What if my margin is already healthy?

Then the Profit Check tells you that honestly — no invented problem — and MarginSmith helps you protect that margin job by job, so it doesn't slip as your costs move.

Is my data used to train AI or shared?

The numbers you enter build your result and nothing more. No fabricated data, no invented reviews, and your business facts are yours.

See where your profit is leaking — free, before you sign up.

Run a free Profit Check on a real job: what it's really earning, where the margin is slipping, and the one move to make next. No card. Create a free account only when you want to save it and see your exact annual number.

Free Profit Check · no credit card · built only for licensed trade contractors.