Industries · Framing
Keep framing crews swinging and builders calling back
Framing lives on builder relationships and bid turnaround. Sherpa builds and runs the systems that keep both moving while your crews stay on the wall.
How Framing actually works
Framing is builder work: you bid off plans, win on price and reliability, and live inside someone else's schedule: foundations cure, packages land, inspections pass, and the builder expects your crew that week. Revenue is lumpy because it follows housing starts, and the deadliest gap is between jobs, when a crew with no wall to stand costs you either payroll or the crew itself. Extras from plan revisions rarely get billed.
The Sherpa climb, mapped to framing contractors
Four camps, in order. Each one solves the next-most-expensive problem framing contractors face. Start where your business leaks most.
Builders check out a framing sub before handing over plans, and small GCs search when their regular crew is booked. Trailhead makes you findable and credible: a site that shows your work, rankings in your market, and reviews from builders.
Trailhead for framing contractors → Level 02 · Basecamp Win more jobsYou can't take an estimator's call from the top plate. Basecamp answers it, captures the plans and bid date, and follows up with every builder you've framed for, so the next start goes to you, not the sub who happened to pick up.
Basecamp for framing contractors → Level 03 · Peak Operate like a proFraming margin disappears in revisions, weather days, and idle crews. Peak puts AI on bids, change orders, and scheduling in priority order: revised plans priced as extras, crews lined up against real pour and delivery dates, draws invoiced on time.
Peak for framing contractors → Level 04 · Stratos Scale like an enterpriseMultiple crews across multiple builders means production tracking a spreadsheet can't hold. Stratos builds custom crew boards and bidding AI trained on your own labor history per plan type, owned by you, showing cost and margin per start.
Stratos for framing contractors →Get the Framing playbook for your company
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