Tue · 4:10 PM · Site visitReyes deckBudget ~$30k

Distra for contractors

Walk the job. Send the proposal tonight.

Snap photos and talk it through like you already do. Distra files every photo and every number you say, prices the work from your own price book, and drafts the proposal before you’re back in the truck.

The job is won by whoever sends the proposal first.

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Site visit · Reyes deck ▾

Posts are sitting on blocks, about thirty inches up. Footings?

Proposed · new line item

Poured footings for 6 posts — $1,710 from your price book

Proposed

Yeah, those are on loose blocks, not footings. I added Footings to the walkthrough with your three checks and priced six at your $285. Grab me one shot of the corner post so the client sees why it's on the proposal.

Live voice session

Proposals written at the kitchen table at 10 PM?

Talk through the walkthrough on site. The draft is waiting before you get home.

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Pricing from memory, job after job?

It learns your price book from the proposals you already sent, and uses it on every line.

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Driving back out to measure what you forgot?

Every photo and every number you said, filed under the job and there when you need it.

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It walks the job with you — filing, pricing, writing the proposal while you talk.

Under the deck · One tap to go live

[ Not a chatbot. A call ]

A second set of eyes — on every site visit.

Go live and Distra watches what your camera sees while you crawl under the deck. You talk, it takes the notes, and nothing needs typing until you’re back in the truck.

Hands-free when you need it. Talk while you work; chat and tap when you don’t.

Your camera, shared live. Point at the post; it reads what’s holding it up.

Your steps, your checks. It walks the job the way your company walks a job.

CLIP · 0:06 · Under the deckPost · 4×430 in. · heard

On a block · no footing

Not in the plan · your call

Add Footings? Your 3 checks, $285 each

Add to walkthrough · note under Framing · not now

Proposed

Tue · 4:22 PM · Under the deckProposal3 line items

[ Hold the shutter, say it ]

Say what you see. It fills in the numbers.

Tap for a photo. Hold the shutter for a short clip and just talk: “posts on blocks, about thirty inches up.” Distra files the photo under the right part of the job and fills in what it heard.

When something new turns up, it asks before it changes the plan. One tap to add it from your own steps, note it, or skip it.

Before your first job · 12 minutes

[ It learns your company ]

Your prices, your steps, your wording.

Drop in what you already have. A few past proposals, your price sheet, your website. Distra reads them first, so it only asks about what’s missing.

Type it or tap it. Short questions with answers to tap: how you price stairs, your service area, what you refer out. Talking is optional.

Every proposal sounds like you. Your company name, your scope wording, your warranty, on every proposal it drafts.

Harbor Deck Co. · Setup12 minutes · typed

PDFReyes deck proposal, 202514 line items read · scope wording

XLSXPrice sheet, spring 202641 prices · footings $285 each

PDFHarbor Deck Co. warrantykept for every proposal

WEBharbordeck.comdecks, rails, stairs · no electrical

CHAT6 questions answeredservice area, crew, refer-outs

Your steps, your prices, your wording. Kept to your company.

Tue · 6:40 PM · Back in the truckProposalReady to send

[ The paperwork, done ]

Distra writes the proposal.

The visit ends as the documents your client, your crew and your supplier need. Scope in your words, line items from your price book, and the photos that back them up.

After the visit · for your client

Proposal · No. 2026-118

Reyes deck replacement

Walked Tue 4:10 PM · drafted 6:40 PM

Deck280 sq ftLines9Total$29,000

Found on the walk

Poured footings for 6 posts, rim joist at the east corner. 📷 4

Not included

Outlet for string lights. Refer to a licensed electrician.

Once it's signed · for your crew

Build sheet

Reyes deck · 14 × 20 ft

From the walkthrough · every item with its photo

Day 1

Demo and haul away. Side gate is 36 in. — stage at the driveway. 📷 2

Watch for

Soft rim joist, east corner, by the hose bib. 📷 1

Same night · for your supplier

Materials list

Reyes deck

Counted from the plan · checked against your price book

Framing

2×10 joists at 12 in. on center, composite needs the tighter spacing.

Decking and rail

Composite boards, 280 sq ft, black metal rail, 6 ft stair kit.

Nothing goes to a client until you've read it, changed what you want, and sent it under your name.

Thu → Week 2 · After the visitProposalSigned

[ From proposal to build ]

It remembers the job, so you don't drive back out.

The walkthrough doesn't end when you send the proposal. Options, orders and change orders all start from what you saw and said on site.

Thu · Client calls back

Judy wants to know what cedar would cost instead of composite.

Swapping the decking and rail to cedar brings the total from $29,000 to $24,600 at your prices. Joists can go back to 16 in. on center, so framing drops too. I've made it a second option on the same proposal so they can pick.

Option B added · $24,600 · same scope

Options without a rewrite.

Clients always ask "what if." The proposal is built from the walkthrough and your price book, so a second option is a question, not an evening.

Fri · Signed

They signed option A. What do I order first?

Footing materials and the joists. Concrete for six footings and 2×10s at 12 in. on center. The decking can come the week after. I put both orders on the materials list with the dates.

Build sheet and materials list updated

Signed is the start, not the end.

The same walkthrough becomes the build sheet your crew works from, with every item and its photo, so nobody drives back out to look again.

Week 2 · On site

Found more rot on the ledger than we thought. Change order?

Drafted it: replace 8 more feet of ledger with flashing, $1,120 at your rate, with today's photo next to the one from the site visit. It goes to Tom and Judy when you send it.

Change order drafted · photo-backed

Change orders with proof.

Surprises on site turn into a change order with before-and-after photos, so the client sees why, and you get paid for it.

[ Side by side ]

Same site visit. A different Tuesday night.

Most of what this job costs you is after hours: the proposal written late, the price looked up again, the measurement nobody wrote down. This is the difference.

How it goes today

With Distra

Notes on a scrap of lumber, photos in the camera roll

One file per job: every photo filed under the part of the deck it shows

Typing the proposal at 10 PM from memory

A draft in your words, priced from your book, before you get home

"What did I charge for footings last time?"

Your price, from your own past proposals

A change order that turns into an argument

Before-and-after photos on every change, so the client sees why

[ Built for your business ]

Your name is on the proposal.

A proposal is a promise about money. These rules are how Distra behaves, not settings you can forget.

Your prices. Never made up.

Every line comes from your price book or your past proposals. If a price is missing, it asks you instead of guessing.

Your sign-off, always.

Nothing reaches a client because the AI wrote it. Every proposal and change order goes out after your read-through, under your name.

You stay in charge of the plan.

When something new turns up on site, it asks before it adds it. What you build and what you refer out stays your call.

[ Under your name ]

Nothing reaches your client that you didn’t approve.

Distra drafts the proposal from your walkthrough and your prices. You read it, change what you want, and send it. Work you don’t do stays an exclusion with a referral.

Get early accessBring one site visit. That’s the whole ask.

Tuesday, 6:40 PM. Proposal sent.

Friday, it was signed.

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