Built for the paperwork, not the dashboard

Contractor software mostly gives you somewhere to type things. The typing was never the problem. Finding out which permit a job needs, what it costs and which portal it goes through, then writing the contract, then chasing the invoice: that is the problem, and it happens after a twelve-hour day.

SQM does those jobs rather than storing them. You ask, in your own words, and it finds the permit, drafts the contract, sends the invoice, sizes the framing to code. The parts a contractor still has to decide stay with the contractor.

It is small and it is honest about what it does. The permit data covers 214 jurisdictions across all 50 states, and 213 of them have been checked against the issuing department’s own page, with the date of that check stored alongside. Metro Atlanta is covered most deeply because that is where the first customers are.

Contracts are attorney-reviewed templates you fill in and sign off. SQM will not tell you whether a clause protects you, because that is legal advice and it is not a lawyer.