FLOW SOURCEMEDIA

Twin Cities, Minnesota · built by a working contractor

The tools big contractors buy, priced for a small shop.

Software, training and local advertising for contractors and local businesses. Everything here was used on real jobs at our own contracting company before we offered it to anyone else.

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For owners of 1 to 20 person shops who run their own marketing and estimating.

Turtle Scope · roof & exterior SAMPLE · illustrative numbers
3D model of a two-story house, existing roof shown ridge 42 LF eave 42 LF
Roof area28.4 SQmeasured
Pitch6/12measured
Eaves + rakes164 LFmeasured
Waste factor12%standard
Ice & water shield6.2 SQestimated
Existing roof · tear-off scope $19,840

How it fits together

Start free. Go further only if it's useful.

Each step costs more and asks more of you, and you can stop at any of them. Plenty of contractors use Turtle Scope and never touch anything else.

1 Free

Guides and videos

Checklists, short trainings and videos on marketing and estimating for a contracting business.

2 From $27

Courses and community

Step-by-step courses, plus a monthly community of owners working through the same problems.

3 $100–$200 / mo

Turtle Scope

Photos and an address in, measurements, a 3D model and a priced estimate out.

4 Quoted per client

Hands-on help

Marketing, ads and CRM automation set up with you or for you.

Local business, not a contractor? Our local news sites and press releases are the place to start.

Turtle Scope

From site photos to a priced estimate in one app.

Contractors pay separately for photo documentation, measurement reports, design mockups and estimating. Turtle Scope does all four, on the web and on your phone.

  1. Add the client and address

    Property data loads from the address before you leave the office.

  2. Take photos on site

    Works offline. Photos sync to the job when you get signal back.

  3. Get measurements and a 3D model

    Show the homeowner the house as it is and as it will look, side by side.

  4. Send the estimate to your CRM

    Priced line items go straight into your own GoHighLevel account.

measuredTaken from the photos and property data for this house.
standardAn industry default you can change, such as the waste factor.
estimatedOur best figure where nothing could be measured. Request a field measurement to replace it.
Your own private accountYour jobs and customers are kept apart from every other company's.
Your data leaves with youExport everything if you ever cancel.
Checked against the tools you use nowTested against Hover and QuickMeasure reports on real jobs.
Also for agents and designersFloor plans for listings, before-and-after room models.
Ask about the pilot Planned: $100–$200 / month per company

Everything else we do

Learn it, get seen locally, or hand it off.

Education

Learn to market your own business

Built on Ads That Don't Break the Bank, our framework for contractor advertising on a small budget.

  • Guides, checklists, videosFree
  • Information products$27–$297
  • Full courses$297–$997
  • Owner community$29–$99/mo

Local media

Reach your own neighborhood

Local news sites for Twin Cities communities, with an affordable place for local businesses to advertise.

  • Press release, written and published$150–$500
  • Display advertisingMonthly
  • Sponsored storiesMonthly

Ad rates are set by each site's readership.

Consulting

Have us set it up

For owners who would rather have help than do it alone. We offer it when you ask, and we'll tell you if you don't need it yet.

  • Marketing strategyProject
  • Facebook and Google adsRetainer
  • CRM setup and follow-up automationProject

Quoted after a conversation about your numbers.

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Why we built it

We run a contracting company too.

Flow Source Media grew out of a Twin Cities general contracting business. We built marketing systems and estimating software for our own jobs because what we could buy was expensive and didn't talk to each other. Other contractors started asking for the same setup.

  • Our own crews use every tool on real jobs before we sell it.
  • Every number in a report shows where it came from.
  • If we sell to our own companies, they pay the same price you do.