Operating system · Trades & Home Services

Turn a truck and a toolbox into a multi-technician home-repair company — reliability at scale is the product.

A complete operating system for a handyman & home-repair service that competes on the one thing the fragmented solo market structurally can't deliver: it answers the phone, arrives on time in a marked van, prices transparently, guarantees the work, and calls back for the next job. Most operators in this space are "one person with a truck" who win on price and lose on reliability, insurance, and follow-up — leaving the professional, repeatable lane wide open.

What's inside

The regulatory spine done the RIGHT way for a 50-state product. The plan keeps every job inside the non-permit, non-specialty envelope — deliberately below the threshold where a specialty-trade or general-contractor license is required — holds a Home Improvement Contractor (HIC) registration + bond where the state requires it, carries the correct insurance stack (GL, commercial auto, workers' comp, tools floater), and holds an EPA Lead-Safe firm cert with RRP-certified renovators for pre-1978 paint-disturbing work. Scope discipline is treated as a legal, quality, AND margin decision, with a verify-locally discipline built in.

An editable financial model built for a labor-driven service. The multi-tech economics that actually pencil: a ~$390 blended invoice at ~108 jobs/month → ~$42K/mo, a 45% gross margin (technician wages + payroll burden + job materials + vehicle in COGS), time-and-materials billing ($75–$110/hr labor over a $22–$32/hr wage, materials marked up 20–35%) plus flat-rate menus and a trip-charge minimum. Change a wage or the invoice mix and Year-1 → Year-3 re-reads.

Playbooks written for dispatch, not theory. Technician recruiting/screening/retention (the real binding constraint — a trusted stranger in a customer's home); the day-one intake-and-scope screen that keeps jobs in the envelope; the maintenance-plan program that turns one-off calls into recurring revenue and priority scheduling; and the institutional referral channels (realtors, inspectors, property managers, aging-in-place) that reward insurance and reliability.

Who it's for

Built for the owner-operator building a real, insured, systematized home-repair company — not a cash-only side hustle. Instant download, yours to edit, single-buyer license.

Choose your edition

Edition	What's included	Price
Starter	Business plan + financial model + essential playbooks	$149	Buy Starter
StandardMost popular	Plan + model + all 12 core operations playbooks	$299	Buy Standard
Premium	Plan + model + all 17 playbooks (core + growth & scale)	$499	Buy Premium

Please read before purchasing.This product is an informational and educational operating system — a research-grounded business plan, operations playbooks, and an editable financial model. It is not legal, tax, accounting, financial, or investment advice, and using it does not create a professional-client relationship. Bytell Press does not guarantee any specific business, funding, or financial outcome. You are responsible for your own decisions and for consulting a qualified professional licensed in your jurisdiction before acting.