Specialty Trade Operations

Your crew works.
STrOp writes it up.

Specialty contractors lose a third of their day to admin — chasing pay apps, wrestling compliance, writing change orders. STrOp handles the business machinery so your team can focus on what they actually do: excellent work, delivered on time.

The problem nobody's solving

GCs have Procore. Owners have Autodesk. Specialty subs? Spreadsheets, paper, and prayer.

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33% of your time

Gone to admin work that doesn't swing a hammer or pull a wire.

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Money left on the table

Missed change orders, late pay apps, and underbilled T&M add up fast.

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Compliance landmines

DIR, CSLB, certified payroll, prevailing wage — one mistake costs thousands.

One platform. Entire project lifecycle.

From the first bid to final closeout, STrOp manages the work behind the work.

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Win Work

CRM, estimating, and proposals that don't live in your inbox.

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Run the Job

Timecards, daily reports, T&M tracking — captured in the field, not reconstructed at a desk.

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Get Paid

Pay apps, change orders, and billing generated from real project data. No re-keying.

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Stay Compliant

California compliance automation — certified payroll, prevailing wage, DIR reporting built in.

Meet the STrOp Bot

An assistant that reads your project documents — contracts, specs, submittals — and answers with the page it found it on. That's live today. Your SOPs, drafting a change order, checking a pay app against the record: that's what it grows into. Nothing you upload trains anyone's model.

Fair questions.

The ones we hear on every call. If yours isn't here, ask: hello@stropapp.com.

Who is this for?

California specialty subs, roughly $3M–$75M a year — carpentry, interior systems, flooring, millwrights, electrical, mechanical. Shops that live under a GC, carry the labor risk, and know exactly what retention does to cash flow. If that's you, you're who we build for.

Is this just Procore for subs?

No. Procore is the GC's system — what you get from it is a portal login and a list of what they need by Thursday. STrOp is your side of the table: your estimate, your SOV, your T&M, your pay apps, your certified payroll. One record that's yours, whatever portal the GC runs.

Does it do certified payroll?

That's the flagship. DIR-ready eCPR XML and Skilled & Trained Workforce reporting, generated from the timecards your crews already turn in — live now for California public work.

What migrates from American Contractor or Foundation?

Companies, contacts, projects, and cost history. Migration is part of onboarding — we map your data with you, spreadsheets included, so your history lands in one record instead of a drawer of exports. You don't re-key your own past.

What does it cost?

Three plans at commercial launch: Field at $299/mo, Operations at $699/mo, Command from $1,499/mo. Early access works differently — we set terms with each founding shop directly, and you'll know them before you commit to anything.

Where does our data live?

Encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS), isolated per company at the database row, in US data centers. No SOC 2 yet — we publish our controls and our gaps instead, and we'll certify when a customer's diligence needs it. And it's your data — not ours: full export and real deletion, self-serve.

California compliance, in full →

Security

AES-256 at rest. TLS 1.3 in transit. Row-level isolation per company. SOC 2 in progress.

Integrations — on the roadmap

QuickBooks Online · Sage Intacct · Foundation · Procore

We're building this with the trades, not for them.

STrOp is opening early access to a small group of California specialty contractors. If you're tired of tools built by people who've never set foot on a jobsite, we'd like to talk.

No spam. We'll reach out personally to schedule a conversation.