One text moves your Thursday. BrightBuild writes the six messages that follow.
A sub texts that Thursday moved. BrightBuild works out what that hits, writes a message for each person affected, and waits for you to hit send. Your subs download nothing — they text you back the same way they do now. And three weeks out, it tells you which days still have nobody on them.
The chasing, and the days with nobody on them
You’re the only wire between eleven people. BrightBuild watches the work that’s coming, and the texts that blow it up.
Other software moves the trim job when you drag the bar. This moves when Dave texts you at 6am.
It does the phone-tag for you
The text comes in, gets read as schedule-affecting or routine, and gets matched to the job. You see what slides and say whether it holds or shifts. Then every message goes out written — after you’ve read it.
It finds the empty days while you can still fill them
Every day on the calendar should have a name on it. You don’t lose a job the day a sub says no. You lose it three weeks earlier, when nobody noticed there was never anybody booked — or when “yeah, probably” never turned into a yes. BrightBuild keeps that list in front of you instead of in your head.
The gaps you’d only find by scrolling
Three weeks is enough runway to actually go find someone. Two days isn’t. So the window is three weeks for work with nobody booked, and five days for confirming the people already on it.
And it stays one card, not a wall of them. A brand-new job with an empty schedule gives you one quiet line — not a hundred alerts telling you about work you haven’t booked yet.
An illustration — not a screenshot.
From Mark
I’m Mark Wilson, and I’m building BrightBuild. Right now it’s me, so I’m only taking on a handful of contractors — enough that I can actually answer the phone.
This does one thing, and it does it now: when a date moves, everybody who needs to know gets told, in your words, with your say-so. If that’s the part of your week you’re doing at 9pm on the couch, we should talk.
Before you ask
I haven't set a price, and I'm not going to guess at one before five contractors tell me what it's worth. You'll know the number before anybody asks you for a card, and founding contractors stay at their starting number for good.
No app, no login, no portal. They get one short text asking them to reply START — that's a carrier rule, not my idea — and after that it's just texting, the same as they text you now.
Every message about your jobs — a date change, a confirmation, anything to a sub or a homeowner — waits for you to read it and approve it. That’s a rule in the product, not a setting you have to go find. The only exceptions are the replies the carriers require: somebody texts STOP, or HELP, or just “quit texting me” — it answers that one on its own, because it has to.
No. When a text comes in that moves something, your phone buzzes. You open it when there's a decision to make and close it again. It's not another screen you have to remember to check.
The next few weeks of the jobs you're actively running, and who's on each piece. Rough phases for the rest is fine. You don't have to retype it either — paste in a list off whatever you keep it in now and it'll pull the dates out. It can't tell you a Thursday cancel breaks Friday's trim if it doesn't know Friday's trim exists — that's the honest trade.
Then it'll tell you that job has nobody on it, and it'll be wrong. This is the real limit of the thing and I'd rather say it out loud: it's only as right as what it knows. A phone call you log takes ten seconds; one you don't costs you a false alarm.
No, and it isn't going to be. Keep using whatever you use for money. This is about the work that's coming and the people who have to show up for it.
5 contractors, and you have my number
This is early. Things will break and I’ll fix them the same week. What you get for being early: the price you start at is the price you keep, your scheduling headaches decide what I build next, and you text me directly — not a support address.
Whatever it costs later, you stay where you started.
Text me. I’m the one who wrote it.
5 contractors decide what I build next, not a survey.
It replaces nothing. If it’s not for you, you’re back to texting and no worse off.
Four fields, under a minute
No account gets created. This just starts a conversation — I’ll text you back myself.