studioOctober 7, 2026Issue #137

TradeWork: One app for the truck, not the office

You're out on a job site, phone in hand, trying to remember who owes what, what the crew is doing, and whether the estimate got sent. Your notes app is full of estimates. Your texts are full of crew updates. Your invoices are PDFs you emailed last Tuesday. And the check still hasn't cleared.

The big CRMs are too heavy. The trade apps are built for the office, not the truck. So you're juggling three apps and a paper clipboard, and the foreman is yelling because nobody read the job specs.

TradeWork fixes that. It's a mobile-first platform for trades crews who work out of a truck. Jobs, crews, invoices, and payments — all in one place. And it's bilingual, so the office, the foreman, and the helper can all read the same job. No more guessing who's on the job. No more chasing payments. No more losing estimates in a notes app.

This is for painters, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, and anyone who runs a trades business. Get it working on the job, not in the office.

https://tradework.work

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