Partnerships & OpportunitiesHOMEFRONT COMPASS / THE PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP
A practical, free research desk for California contractors, tradespeople and small construction businesses. Useful numbers. Clearer records. Better questions.
01 / ESTIMATE 02 / DOCUMENT 03 / VERIFY
THE RESEARCH DESK / FOR THE PEOPLE DOING THE WORK
Contractors make costly decisions with incomplete information. Compass Pro starts with tools you can open quickly, use without an account, and leave without sending your project data anywhere.
These are contractor-side business planning aids, not homeowner price quotes, contractor licenses, certified calculations or substitutes for payroll, accounting, legal or safety expertise.
THE JOB FILE / THE SALES DESK
Start with a blank file or your own exported Passport. Each desk works independently; JSON carries the structured record between pages. A discussion, document reference or user-reported approval remains a report.
Use the portable file and Sales Desk for your own records. The six original contractor instruments remain available below.
THE PORTABLE FILE / BEGIN HERE IF HELPFUL
Create or import a versioned Passport, identify the recorder and source, and keep scope, selections and open questions together. No account, backend or automatic saving. Refreshing or leaving the page can discard in-page work; export deliberately.
Open Job PassportSALES / PREPARE, CLARIFY, HAND OFF
Use the desk for the task in front of you. Export JSON before moving, then import that file in the next desk. Read complete outputs before sharing; the recipient can see everything you entered.
Prepare the questions, then record the actual reports, constraints and unknown measurements.
Open Appointment Prep & DiscoveryKeep written-basis reports, discussions, selections and unanswered questions visible in an executive packet and full appendix.
Open Production HandoffCompare the reported discussion with your written scope entries and prepare a sourced clarification draft.
Open Promise-to-ScopePrepare a neutral agenda or email draft from actual questions and next actions. Nothing is sent or scheduled.
Open Follow-Up & RehashPractice explaining uncertainty without pressure, using source-grounded learning prompts and your own reflections.
Open Concern CoachInspect illustrative arithmetic from your own definitions and figures. Modeled amounts are separate from earning or payment.
Open Commission ScenariosLocate the current official role, public-record and consumer-document sources; keep the individual question open.
Open California Sales ReferenceRehearse an original record, source, question and return method with a clearly fictional portable file.
Open Sales-to-Field PlaybookNothing is submitted, synchronized or approved by this chapter. Your records, source documents and next questions remain under your control.
01 / THE WORKING INSTRUMENTS
We are publishing usable instruments one by one. Only tested and released tools appear as links here.
LABOR & CAPACITY / ACTIVE INSTRUMENT
Model employer cost per paid hour, cost per productive hour and weekly labor cost per worker from the wage, burden, insurance, support costs and productive time you enter. No preset rates.
BID COSTS & PROFITABILITY / ACTIVE INSTRUMENT
Enter your own project costs, overhead, contingency, selling price and target margin or markup. Explore your break-even revenue and a cost-overrun stress test.
PROJECT DOCUMENTS / ACTIVE INSTRUMENT
Organize contractor-written project objectives, work inclusions, material notes, exclusions, allowances, conditions and handoff questions into a clearly marked draft.
SUBCONTRACTOR SCOPES / ACTIVE INSTRUMENT
Place two or three written bids side by side. Record proposed amounts, inclusions, exclusions, substitutions, dates and unresolved coordination questions without auto-ranking contractors.
MATERIAL QUANTITIES / ACTIVE INSTRUMENT
Model flooring cartons, sheet materials, linear stock, concrete volume and paint coverage using real measurements, user-selected allowances and stated product sizes.
SCOPE CHANGES / ACTIVE INSTRUMENT
Document proposed added and removed work, separate internal cost changes from requested contract price changes, and note schedule questions and approval records in an unsigned draft.
NEXT ON THE DRAFTING TABLE
Next instruments are being developed for daily jobsite reports, closeout packages, safety briefing records and contractor coordination. We will link them here only when they work and pass review.
02 / OPEN DOOR
If you represent a supplier, trade association, educator, software team, manufacturer or construction business—and see a useful way to collaborate—we would like to hear the idea.
Bring a specific opportunity, resource or partnership proposal. This is for professional and educational collaboration, not estimates, job applications or sponsored influence over research conclusions.
Email a partnership ideaThis opens your email application. No message is sent or stored by Compass; you decide whether to send it. Please omit confidential documents.
HOMEFRONT Compass is part of HOMEFRONT Remodeling. Compass Pro has no sponsors or partners; this invitation is not an endorsement. Privacy information →
A LIBRARY OPEN TO EVERY SIDE OF THE PROJECT
Reviewed · Contractor workshop edition 01.