JobNimbus is the residential contractor CRM.
Forge is the commercial operator's chest.
JobNimbus earned its place in residential roofing and home-services — a fast lead-to-job board, a clean mobile app, and a price point small crews can say yes to. Forge is built for a different operator: the commercial installation contractor running bid-build, certified payroll, change-orders, and submittals on one chest. Different work. Different chest.
Side by side. Honest about both.
Yes. AI primitives are the foundation, not bolted on. Estimating, scheduling, comms, payroll, and Hyperion share one architecture rather than relying on integrations between separate products.
Pipeline-CRM architecture with automations and add-on AI features. Strong workflow tooling built before the AI-native era.
Treasury (native module). Davis-Bacon rates per project, prevailing wage per worker per task, WH-347 ready to file, and the RMR ledger native to the project.
Not native. Operators typically export to a separate payroll or accounting service for certified-payroll workflows.
Field-initiated. A scan delta or install ticket generates the change-order, the customer signs in the field, Treasury writes the financial impact, and the PM sees it in the project log.
Estimate and CRM workflow built around the residential job lifecycle; commercial change-order trails are an awkward fit.
Documents native. Submittal packages, as-builts, and commissioning records version-controlled inside the project record.
Document and photo storage attached to jobs; engineering-stamped submittal workflows are outside its core scope.
Yes. Hyperion — iPad/iPhone LiDAR. Walk the structure, get a line-item estimate. Methodology and sample plan published at /proof/hyperion-accuracy; graduates to a measured benchmark after third-party verification.
No native LiDAR capture. Measurement typically via aerial-imagery report integrations or manual takeoff.
Native dialer, SMS, call recording, and AI call summaries that write back to the project log — federated with CRM, scheduling, and payroll.
Texting and email built into the CRM; deeper telephony (recording, AI summaries) typically via a separate phone system or integration.
One architecture. Estimating, scheduling, CRM, documents, Treasury, comms, field ops, and Hyperion share state natively — not nightly integrations.
CRM at the center with a marketplace of integrations (accounting, measurement, payment) bridging the rest of the stack.
Public list: Forge Core $499/mo flat (unlimited users, no per-seat) plus a la carte modules, packaged as Starter $299, the Working Stack about $900, and Full Platform about $1,999. Charter is the founder program by application: $27,000 prepaid for 36 months (~$750/mo equivalent), locked forever, ten seats.
Accessible per-user subscription tiers built for small-to-mid residential crews.
Where JobNimbus is the right call.
- 01.Residential roofing and home-services crews who want a fast, visual lead-to-job board with light setup and a low price point.
- 02.Operators whose core need is sales-pipeline CRM, automations, and a clean mobile app for reps and crews in the field.
- 03.Storm-chase and retail residential models with high lead volume where speed of follow-up matters more than commercial-trade compliance.
- 04.Teams already comfortable with a marketplace stack — accounting, measurement, and payments bridged by integrations rather than consolidated.
- 05.Small operators with minimal-to-no certified-payroll or commercial change-order exposure.
The honest line.
If the operator is a residential roofing or home-services crew whose work is sales-pipeline CRM with no commercial install side and no certified-payroll exposure, JobNimbus is the right tool — and meaningfully more accessible than Charter. Charter is built for the commercial installation contractor running bid-build, change-orders, engineering-stamped submittals, and prevailing-wage payroll on the same crew.
A residential CRM and a commercial operator OS are different tools for different work. Pick the chest built for yours.