Stop operating. Start owning.
Run your whole shop from one place. Right now you’re the glue holding eleven software tools together. Bench is the well-oiled machine you’ve dreamed of. Bench agents do the legwork, you approve, they execute.
“You built the one.”
“This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Built for $.5M–10M contractors. $249/mo. Unlimited users. No per-seat fees.
You already know how this morning goes.
The $40,000 re-roof from last Tuesday called twice. Nobody called back. It’s gone.
Your best closer is at his desk, knee-deep in three apps instead of standing on a roof.
The default pricing in your estimating software got changed. Every estimate since has gone out wrong. You just caught it.
The office manager still won’t touch the CRM. Last month’s numbers? You’ll see them in 20 days.
It’s 7:40. You haven’t had coffee. You’re the bottleneck.
It’s not you. It’s the patchwork — eleven overlapping tools that each do a piece of the job, and you’re the one stitching it together.
Stop juggling eleven tools. Run the whole business from one workspace.
60% of leads turn into proposals. You expected 90%. What happened?
The other 30% slip through the cracks of 11 awkward softwares that aren’t made to work together. And you pay per user for each one. And when you scale your business, the software costs skyrocket.
Your Software Stack
Eleven tools. One whiteboard. You’re still the bottleneck.
- Eleven logins. Reps won’t use half of them.
- Production lives on a whiteboard.
- The schedule is a spreadsheet. One typo and the wrong crew shows up.
- 2 missed calls. That lead is dead.
- Last month’s P&L lands 27 days late. You’re flying blind.
- 82 automated triggers in the CRM. Still no way to see where the deal fell through.
- Your best rep closes at 35%. Your weakest at 17%. Nobody knows why.
- Every estimate runs through one master spreadsheet. Prices climb every month, so you re-edit it, re-send it — and half your reps are still quoting last month’s file.
- Every number you trust depends on someone remembering to log it — correctly, and on time. Did they?
One Workspace
One workspace. Seven agents. You still approve every move.
- One workspace. Every tool, every job, every lead in one place. No more eleven logins. (Except accounting, we don’t like accounting...)
- Missed calls get flagged. Cold leads get worked. Zig flags the ones going cold before they die — you approve the next move.
- Books current. Aurelius shows you the numbers today — not 27 days late.
- Production off the whiteboard and in the open. Every job, every stage. You see it all.
- Every change leaves a trail. Agents draft and flag. You approve.
- One source of truth, not a master file re-sent every month. Change a price once — new proposals and invoices pull from that source of truth. You still approve the docs that go out.
Which business would you rather own?
How did running the entire business end up on your plate?
Read these. Stop at the one that stings most.
It’s 6:40 a.m. The trucks are loaded. You’re at the kitchen table, updating the whiteboard off a spreadsheet — because the eleven tools you pay for overlap and don’t work together, and your office manager still won’t open the CRM.
You bought the software. You’re still the software.
A salesman mentions the new base price. You stop cold. “What new base price?” A base price got changed in the estimating software months ago. Nobody flagged it. No record of who, or when, or why. The margin’s been walking out the door on every job since.
A price changed. Nothing told you. Nobody could tell you.
A lead came in hot Tuesday. The rep called once. Called twice. No answer, so he moved on. That homeowner signed with the next guy who picked up. You paid for that lead. You never knew it died.
Two missed calls and the lead is gone. You never knew.
It’s the 25th. Last month’s numbers finally show up — a month you can’t change, jobs already closed, invoices with no dollar amounts and no job numbers. You’re not running the business. You’re reading its obituary.
By the time you see the month, you can’t do a thing about it.
A job’s signed and ready to build — but nothing gets ordered and no crew gets scheduled until you check the numbers and release it. That’s only you. So it sits while you’re up on a roof, and the whole job waits behind you.
You wanted to own a company. You’re running every hand-off in it.
Measurements land in one tool. You retype them into the CRM, line by line. Same numbers, keyed three times, in three windows.
One mistyped figure and the wrong order ships. Nobody catches it until the crew’s on the roof.
Another month of sold jobs. The office is still a pile. You sold enough to cover the mess, so the mess stays.
Sales covers a multitude of sins.
You paid to find them. They’re in the CRM. Somebody put them in the wrong bucket. Approvals sitting. Closings waiting. One shop found a hundred of them in a single pass.
The jobs were already yours. Nobody was looking.
Your people aren’t the problem. The patchwork is. Your GM interrogating every job — ordered? permit? — isn’t a control freak. He’s the only audit trail you’ve got. Your reps aren’t lazy. They’re buried in eleven tools instead of standing in front of customers. Fix the patchwork, and you get to step out of the way. Software should bend around the people who use it — not the other way around. The only question that matters: am I an operator, or am I an owner?
“I wasn’t leading that company, I was the search engine for that company.”
Stop wearing so many hats. Start being an owner.
Bench is the team expansion you could never afford — until now. Seven AI agents to work your business.
Each agent guards a different part of your business. You still call every shot. Hire the agents you need to get you out of the middle of your own business.
You approve everything.
Nothing happens without an audit trail. The agents watch, flag, and draft. Nothing changes until you say go. And nobody gets replaced — the agents take the busywork, so your next hires swing hammers and close deals.
“I want them all. I want those people to run my company.”
It’s 6:47 pm and you’re the only one chasing a missed call.
What shops fix when agents watch the pipeline. The before is the patchwork. The after is capability on Bench — flag missed calls, surface deals sitting in the wrong stage, keep the books where you can still steer.
Illustrative scenarios — not a guarantee of your results.
The phone rang twice. Nobody picked up.
Before
That lead is dead. 1–2 missed calls is all it takes.
With Bench
Zig flags the missed call, drafts the callback, and keeps the lead warm until you call it. You approve. You own the close.
One shop found a hundred deals in the wrong status.
Before
Approvals waiting. Closings sitting. Nobody looking.
With Bench
Agents flag deals sitting in the wrong stage so the pile you already paid for gets worked. You approve the next move.
It’s the 25th. You still don’t know what last month made.
Before
20–30 days to close the books. You steer looking backward.
With Bench
Aurelius is built to keep numbers current — so you’re not waiting 20–30 days. You see the month while you can still steer it. Your accounting software stays the ledger.
No new hire. No per-seat invoice. Add your whole team.
- Unlimited users.
- Zero per-seat fees.
- Agents priced one at a time. Hire the agents you need.
“It was basically a smarter version of me — by far.”
Her first ask: she handed the agents 49,000 QuickBooks records — five years of books. It came back with a five-year P&L, a page per year, executive summary included.
“Watching Aurelius learn and do yesterday was one of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life.”
Stop guessing in 11 tabs and apps. Start running it from one workspace.
Yeah. You have bought software before.
You bought the whole platform. You used a third of it. Six weeks later the guys were back at the whiteboard with a marker.
“We bought a whole platform, used a third of it, and the guys went right back to the whiteboard.”
“Every tool promised to talk to the others. None of them do.”
“I do not have time to learn another system.”
“It’s not a CRM — it’s the central operating hub my shop runs on. That’s hard to wrap my head around.”
“We beta’d a platform sold as “AI.” It wasn’t AI. It was a spreadsheet with extra steps.”
Stop buying tools. Start running an operating system.
A contractor we demoed was turning fewer than 60% of their leads into proposals. They expected 90%. That gap is jobs you already paid to find, walking out the door. Every month on the patchwork, it compounds — and the other guys are already hiring agents.
Ask the real questions you’d ask before you swipe the card.
Here’s how each one works — and what you still approve.
Can it run my pipeline so a missed call does not kill the lead?
Zig flags missed calls and cold leads so you can catch them — you approve the next move.
Can it catch a base price that changed and ran wrong for months, with a trail I can actually see?
Agents flag price drift with a trail you can see — you decide what to do.
Can it keep my reps in front of customers instead of buried in screens?
Agents take the busywork so reps stay in front of customers — you approve what ships.
Can it close my books before they are 30 days stale?
Aurelius is built to keep numbers current — your accounting software stays the ledger; you steer.
Can it work even if my office manager refuses to learn one more thing?
Agents meet people where they already work — no new system to force on the shop.
Bench is the operating system contractors actually run on. Seven agents on the job. Zig works the pipeline. Aurelius keeps the books current. Ember runs the field. They watch, they flag, they draft, they recommend. You approve. Nothing moves without your say-so.
No retraining your people, no whiteboard funeral. Read the Bench covenant below before you spend a dollar.
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“I didn’t inherit a trade. I inherited what it means to run a small shop.”
Why we built Bench — a letter from our founderWritten by a founder who ran a roofing company — and paid the tuition.
The Operator-to-Owner Plan
Three steps. That’s the whole thing. Built for $.5M–10M contractors who were tired of being the bottleneck.
- 01
Stop chasing it. Start seeing it.
It's 6:40am. You're answering the question nobody else can: did that job get ordered? Is the permit pulled? You're the only one who knows, because the answer lives in your head, a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, and a text thread.
Put your jobs, your leads, and your money in one place. No more 11 tools. No more CRM your office manager won’t touch. No more invoices with mistakes. One workspace your whole team actually uses — the agents meet your people where they already work, so there’s no new system to learn.
- 02
Stop doing the busywork. Start approving it.
It's the end of the day. A lead from Tuesday never got a callback. It's dead now — gone to the next guy. And the invoice that just hit your desk? No dollar amount. No job number. You go find out. Again.
Your agents watch the pipeline, draft the follow-ups, flag the invoice with no number, catch the price that’s been running wrong for months. They don’t decide. They tee it up. You tap approve. You stay the boss. You stop being the typist.
- 03
Stop being the bottleneck. Start being the owner.
It's month-end plus 25 days. You finally see last month's numbers — too late to do anything about them. Every big call still routes through you. The shop runs as fast as you can answer your phone.
Numbers when you need them, not 30 days late. Decisions teed up, not stuck on your desk. The shop runs whether you’re on the roof, in the truck, or off the clock. And when the day comes — a business clean enough to hand to your kids.
Four ways on. Pick how much help you want — from doing it yourself to us sitting with your team. You don’t have to do this alone.
Self-serve
You run the setup.
Single
One hour with us.
Guided
Four sessions.
Intensive
Ten hours with us.
The Bench covenant
- You approve everything.
- Your data is yours — even if you leave. The agents even help you pack.
- No per-seat fees…EVER. Add your entire team for one price. You pay per agent — never per user.
- Adoption is our problem too — we design onboarding so the shop actually runs it.
- We fit the names and channels you already use.
“I’ve been telling everyone that I’m not allowed to be in it.”
One price. Every seat. No surprise.
$249 a month for the workspace. Unlimited users. Zero per-seat fees. Hire the agents you actually need.
Most software charges you per head. Add an office manager, pay again. Add a rep, pay again. You get punished for hiring. And the photo app, the proposal builder, the e-sign tool, the call tracker become one thing here.
Bench charges for the workspace. You add your whole office for free.
- Stop being the bottleneck. Start approving the work.
- Stop chasing dead leads. Start watching every one.
- Stop guessing at the numbers. Start seeing them now.
- Stop logging into eleven tools. Start logging into one.
- Stop building a job. Start building something to hand down.
- $249/mo — the workspace. Unlimited users. No per-seat fees, ever.
- Hire agents one at a time. Pay per agent based on your needs.
- Bailey rides along — your personal assistant, in from day one.
- Zig runs your pipeline so missed calls don’t silently kill leads. Flags cold leads before they’re gone — you approve the work.
- Sage keeps every homeowner answered and every promise tracked.
- Sully tracks every marketing dollar in, every lead out.
- Ember runs your canvassers and field reps.
- Epic coaches the owner. Aurelius keeps the books current and the plan on track.
They watch, they flag, they draft. You say go. Nothing moves without you.
No contract. Add an agent when you need them, drop one anytime. You set the pace. Agents are meant to work together, but you decide which agents you need.
A new lead is going cold while you read this. Hire Bench agents to keep watch.
You approve every move the agents make. The machine runs. You own it.
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