An operations system for Bittner Blacktop

Prepared for
Bittner Blacktop Co.
Anne Arundel & Calvert County, MD
Date
September 7, 2026
Pricing holds through
October 7, 2026

What this is

One system that runs the paving business end to end: the day board, the schedule, estimates with the tonnage already figured, the crew's phone view, receipts and hours logged off the truck, invoices that chase themselves, and the reports sitting underneath all of it.

Twenty screens, built for asphalt rather than adapted from something else. You have already clicked through the whole thing — that mockup is the system taking shape, not a picture of it.

What you get

Why not off-the-shelf software

The field-service platforms are built for HVAC shops and plumbers. None of them know what a ton of hot mix costs, that 1,850 square feet at two inches is 22.4 tons, that a 70% chance of rain on Friday moves four jobs and $32,050, or that a driveway you paved in 2023 is a seal-coat sale this year.

You would pay every year to bend someone else's software around your trade, and still keep the clipboard. This is built around the trade instead.

How it gets built

Day board, schedule, jobs, crew
Weeks 1–3
The part you look at every morning goes first, so you are using it while the rest is still being built.
Estimates and the material calculator
Weeks 3–5
Quotes go out of the system, with tonnage, material cost and margin figured on the way out. Leads feed into it.
Invoices, payments, clients
Weeks 5–7
Bills, pay links and customer history. This is the phase that starts paying for itself — there is $18,740 out there right now.
Expenses, time cards, trucking, reports
Weeks 7–9
Costs and hours land on the job that caused them, and the reports come alive because there is finally something underneath them.
Your data in, crews trained, go live
Weeks 9–11
Customers, open jobs and rates loaded. A morning with each crew on their own phones. Then we switch over.

Roughly eleven weeks start to finish, worked around your season. Starting in the off-season runs faster.

The system
$12,000
All twenty screens, built, loaded with your data, and running.
The barter is not in this number

This $12,000 covers the system, start to finish. The barter we discussed is a separate arrangement, still to be worked out, and is not part of this number.

Nothing in this proposal depends on it, and settling it later changes nothing here.

On signing
$4,000
Phase one starts the same week.
At the midpoint
$4,000
Due when phase three is delivered and you are invoicing out of the system.
On go-live
$4,000
Due when both crews are trained and running on it.

After go-live

$275
a month, starting the month you go live

Hosting, nightly backups, and me on the phone when something is wrong. When you add a crew, change your rates, or want a screen to work differently, that is included — it is not a change order.

No contract. Cancel any time and you leave with an export of everything in it.

What the alternative costs

The closest thing off the shelf is Jobber Plus — the tier Jobber itself recommends, and the only one that includes job costing and profitability tracking. At the 11–15 user band it is $529 a month billed annually: $6,348 a year, every year, for as long as you use it. This is $12,000, once.

This system — $12,000, paid once Jobber Plus — what you have paid by then
Year 1 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 1 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $6,348 Year 2 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 2 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $12,696 Year 3 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 3 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $19,044 Year 4 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 4 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $25,392 Year 5 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 5 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $31,740 Year 6 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 6 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $38,088 Year 7 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 7 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $44,436 Year 8 — this system, paid once: $12,000 Year 8 — Jobber Plus, paid so far: $50,784 Yr 1 $12,000 $6,348 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Yr 6 Yr 7 Yr 8 $50,784 Jobber passes $12,000 here

By year eight you would have handed Jobber $50,784 and still own nothing. The same eight years here cost $12,000, and the system is yours.

Running totalThis systemJobber Plus
Year one$12,000$6,348
Through year twoYou are ahead from here on$12,000$12,696
Through year three$12,000$19,044
Through year five$12,000$31,740
Through year eight$12,000$50,784

Jobber: $529 a month billed annually on the 11–15 user band, from getjobber.com/pricing, September 2026. The same tier billed monthly rather than annually is $699. Running costs sit alongside both and are not in this comparison — $275 a month here against Jobber's $529, so you are $254 a month better off on that side too.

You are ahead from year two, and $38,784 ahead by year eight. The difference underneath the numbers is what you are buying: a subscription is rent, and it goes up. This is built once, around how you actually pave, and the data walks out with you whenever you want it.

When it pays for itself

Three places the money comes from. All three are already sitting in your own numbers.

The build costs $12,000. Put another way, that is:

3
driveways at your $4,114 average ticket
19
seal coats at $650 apiece
½ week
of what you did in August

The recall alone covers three fifths of the build, and it does not happen once. The 2024 driveways come due behind the 2023s, and the 2025s behind those.

Running it after that is $275 a month — five seal coats a year, against the $529 a month Jobber would charge you for the same twelve months.

What is not included

Next step

Say the word and I invoice the first $4,000

Phase one starts that week. Inside three weeks you will be looking at your own jobs, your own crews and your own weather on the day board — not the sample season in the mockup.