Every project has a lifecycle. Ledge covers all of it.
Running two landscape design-build companies in Texas — eight to ten crews, nearly $10M a year combined — I spent years paying for HubSpot, Jobber, Zapier, CompanyCam, Trello, and six other tools that never fully talked to each other. Ledge is what I built when I ran out of patience for the workarounds.
CRM & Sales
Someone found you. Don't lose them.
A call comes in, a form gets submitted, or you meet someone at a trade show. Ledge captures it instantly — no sticky notes, no forgotten callbacks, no leads falling through the cracks.
Lead intake from web form or manual entry
CRM pipeline with drag-and-drop stages
Automatic follow-up reminders
Source and channel tracking
Design & Plan
Capture the vision before you break ground.
Visit the site, take photos, sketch the scope. Ledge keeps every design file, markup, and note attached to the project — so nothing gets lost between the site walk and the estimate.
Site photo capture with markup tools
Design file storage and versioning
Scope notes linked to the project
Client-facing design sharing
Estimate
Win jobs before they go to bid.
Build detailed, accurate estimates from your saved materials and labor rates. Present Good / Better / Best options. Know your margin before you send the number.
Line-item takeoff with saved items library
Material pricing with margin controls
Good / Better / Best variant builder
Instant cost vs. revenue summary
Proposal
Look professional. Close faster.
Turn your estimate into a branded proposal in one click. Send it digitally — the client signs right in their browser. No printing, no scanning, no waiting.
One-click branded PDF or digital proposal
E-signature built in
Client view tracking (opens, time spent)
Accepted proposals auto-convert to project
Schedule
Right crew, right job, right day.
Drag crew members onto the calendar. Ledge shows you who's available, what jobs are running, and whether you're overbooked — before your foreman figures it out the hard way.
Crew calendar with drag-and-drop
Job and crew availability view
Route optimization for multi-stop days
Automated crew day-of notifications
Execution
Track what it actually costs to build.
As work happens, log time, materials, and subcontractor costs against the project. See your actual vs. estimated margin in real time — and catch overruns before they compound.
Time tracking by crew member and phase
Material and sub cost logging
Actual vs. estimated cost comparison
Project completion percentage tracker
Billing & Payment
Get paid. On time. Without chasing.
Generate invoices directly from the project — with all costs pre-populated. Send via email or link. Sync to QuickBooks. Set up milestone billing for bigger jobs.
Invoice generated from project data
Email delivery with payment link
QuickBooks Online sync
Milestone and progress billing options
Why we built it
Built by someone who's been in your boots.
Running two landscape design-build companies in Texas — eight to ten crews, about $10 million a year combined — you'd think finding the right software would be the easy part. It wasn't.
Every month, the same ritual: open the credit card statement and run down the list. HubSpot. Jobber. CallRail. CompanyCam. Trello. Zapier. Bluebeam. Google Sheets. Each one solving a piece of the problem. None of them solving the whole thing. The time you saved in each individual tool, you lost connecting them all together. You were spending more money and getting less time back.
That's when Ledge started — not as a product idea, but as a way out of a problem that had no good solution. Generic field service tools don't understand what it means to run a project that starts with a design consultation and ends with a six-figure install. They don't track margin the way design-build tracks margin. They don't account for scope changes mid-project, multi-phase scheduling, or the gap between what you estimated and what you actually built.
Ledge was built specifically for landscape design-build firms — not adapted from something generic. The workflows map to how this business actually runs, because they were designed by someone who ran it. Most business owners know how to solve problems. What kills them is the surprises. Ledge doesn't eliminate problems — it eliminates surprises.
12h
saved per week on admin
64%
avg win rate increase
3×
faster to signed proposal