For shops running more than one tool
Every vendor’s AI only sees its own slice.
Guidepost is the one place your whole shop adds up: jobs, books, ads, reviews, and cash, in one weekly note. Built for the shop running Jobber or Housecall Pro and QuickBooks and ad accounts, not just one. Connect your tools once. No setup project.
No spreadsheets. Nothing new to learn. Your data is never used to train AI.
How this was calculated
Built to read across the tools you already run, not just one
9 are live to connect today. See every integration and what’s available →
Three steps. Then it runs itself.
Connect every tool
Field service, books, ad accounts, reviews, not just one. A few minutes, then you’re done.
It adds them up
Each week, a short note on what needs you, reconciled across sources, with the next step on each.
Ask across your whole stack
Want more on something? Ask in plain words. Straight answer, every source shown.
The whole shop adds up in one place.
It reconciles, not just reports
Revenue in your field-service tool, income in your books, spend across ad accounts. Guidepost lines them up against each other and tells you where they don’t agree.
One blended number, not five tabs
True cost-per-booked-job across Google, Meta, TikTok, and every other channel you run, blended into one figure, not a separate report per platform.
Every number shows its work
Each one comes with which tools it came from and what it means. And when it can’t be sure, it says so instead of guessing.
Nothing new to learn
Connect your tools once. After that it’s short notes in plain English, and a chat whenever you want to dig in.
We won’t tell you to bet on a guess.
When the right move is obvious from a number you missed, we say it plainly. When it would mean guessing the future, like moving ad budget, we show you what changed and leave the call to you. The tool that’s honest about that line is the one worth trusting.
“But my software already has an AI analyst now too.”
It probably does, and for the data inside that one tool, it’s genuinely useful. The catch is structural, not a knock on it: it was built to analyze its own data, so it can’t see your books, your ad accounts, or your reviews, and it never will, because keeping you inside its walls is the business model. If you run one tool for everything, that’s probably all you need. If you run a field-service tool and QuickBooks and ad accounts, something has to look at all of them together. That’s the seat Guidepost sits in: neutral, not an upsell for any one vendor.
A note from the founder
“I’ve spent years reading numbers for a living: learning when a number proves something and when it only hints. Trades owners deserve the same straight read of their own business. That’s Guidepost.”
The founder, Guidepost · More about Guidepost →
Early access · building proof in the open
We’re onboarding our first shops by hand right now. Rather than invent testimonials, we’ll publish real, named results here as they come in: the actual dollars a shop found, in their words.
It’s the same honesty we hold the numbers to: nothing here until it’s true.
See how your numbers stack up against shops like yours (close rate, callback rate, revenue per truck), benchmarked privately, every week.
The stuff trades owners ask.
What is Guidepost?
Guidepost is the one place your whole shop adds up, for home-service and trades businesses (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and the like) running more than one tool. Your field-service software, your books, your ad accounts, and your reviews and lead sources each have their own AI now, but each only sees its own slice. Guidepost connects to all of them, reconciles the numbers against each other, and sends you a short note of what needs attention (overdue invoices, marketing that's slipping, jobs that don't tie to the books), with every number traced back to its source. It comes to you on a schedule, instead of waiting for you to open five dashboards or ask five different assistants.
Do I need a data person or a dashboard to build?
No. There's no dashboard to design and no setup project. You connect your tools once and Guidepost does the analysis for you, on the cadence you choose: daily, weekly, or monthly.
Which tools does Guidepost work with?
Your whole stack, not just one platform: field-service software (Jobber, Housecall Pro, and ServiceTitan today), your books (QuickBooks Online and Xero), your ad accounts (Google, Meta, TikTok, Microsoft; Local Services Ads and CallRail coming), and reviews and lead sources on the way (Google Business Profile, Yelp, Angi, Thumbtack). See exactly what's live right now on the Integrations page.
Is my business data safe?
Yes. Your data is never used to train AI models. Each business's data is isolated in its own database and encrypted in transit and at rest.
Will Guidepost tell me what to do?
Where the right move is obvious from a number you missed (overdue receivables, a tech with repeat callbacks), yes, it says so plainly. Where acting would mean guessing the future, like reallocating ad budget, it shows you what changed and leaves the call to you. It won't tell you to bet on a guess.
How much does Guidepost cost?
A simple flat monthly price for your whole shop: no per-query fees, no per-seat creep, no surprise bills. Plans are gated by truck count: Starter $149/mo (1–4 trucks), Shop $299/mo (5–12), and Crew $499/mo (13–30), billed annually. We're onboarding our first customers personally with pilot pricing. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.
Who's behind Guidepost?
Guidepost is built by a small team led by a founder with a background in data science: the discipline of knowing when a number means act and when it only means look closer. That restraint is built into the product: Guidepost is diagnostic-rich and only prescribes when the action is near-certain. The founder runs every demo and onboarding personally right now.
Guides for running a tighter shop.
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Dashboards are a pull; a shop owner in the field needs a push. Why a short, scheduled, plain-English read before Monday dispatch beats forty tabs nobody opens, and when a dashboard is still the right call.
Read →Built for your trade.
Guidepost reads the economics of your trade, not a generic dashboard: HVAC analytics, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, pest control, cleaning, and appliance repair. Already have AI in Jobber or Housecall Pro? See how Guidepost compares.
Stop finding out late.
Get your first weekly briefing from your own Jobber, Housecall Pro, and QuickBooks numbers: the money you’re owed, the ad channel that’s slipping, the tech whose jobs keep coming back.
- The founder connects your tools and sets you up personally.
- A weekly briefing of the few things that need you, with the dollars on the line.
- Straight answers: it flags what to fix, and says “not sure yet” rather than guess.
We’re onboarding the first handful of home-service & trades shops by hand. When a spot opens, the founder emails you personally.
Not ready for a call? Get on the early-access list right here:
Prefer to talk to a person? Email hello@getguidepost.ai. The founder reads every message.