90 days
Average construction payment time — double the 45-day threshold considered healthy for cash flow.
For Construction Pros, 2025
From proposal to payment — built for general contractorsBuild proposals fast.
Build proposals fast.
Get paid faster.
Polished, defensible proposals in minutes. AI handles the tedious parts of building scope and pricing — you keep complete control of every edit. ESIGN-Act-compliant customer signatures and Stripe-collected deposits release directly to your bank account.
Industry research — why this matters
2×
Win twice as often when you send proposals within 24 hours
Proposify (2.6M proposals analyzed)
3×
Personalized proposals win three times as often as templates
Proposify, State of Proposals
41%
Cut time-to-signed-contract by 41% with e-signature
DocuSign
130 hrs
Hours per year the average contractor loses chasing payment
BACS Payment Services / NFB
The cost of doing nothingYou already know this story.
You already know this story.
Here's the math behind it.
Construction is the slowest-paid industry in America. Every contractor loses time and working capital to it. Sharp & Hired is built to collapse the gap between handshake and money-in-the-bank.
82%
of contractors face payment waits over 30 days — up from 49% just two years ago.
2024 Construction Payments Report (PBMares)
$1.37M
freed up by ONE construction company by getting paid 10 days sooner. Faster payment means working capital for the next job, not stuck waiting on the last one.
K38 Consulting
Sharp & Hired
Deposits ride with the signature
Stripe collects the deposit the moment your customer signs — no separate deposit invoice to chase. Funds clear weeks before they would on a manual process.
Sharp & Hired
Audit-trailed agreements pay faster
Every signed proposal includes a full ESIGN audit trail — IP, timestamp, browser fingerprint, exact document version. When the agreement is undisputed, payment doesn't get stuck in "what did we say again?" delays.
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Funds released to your bank automatically
Once the federal 3-day right-to-cancel window closes, Stripe transfers the deposit directly to your bank. No reconciliation, no chasing, no surprise reversals.
Own your customer relationshipsStop paying for leads.
Stop paying for leads.
Close the ones you already have.
Lead-gen platforms sell your contact info to several contractors at once. You end up competing on price and response speed, not on quality. Industry estimates suggest third-party platform leads close at roughly 10–20%, while quotes you generate yourself close at 50–70%.
Figures are industry estimates and vary by trade and market. Sources: LevelCFO; LeadTruffle; UpMotion Media; Hook Agency (2026).
Third-party lead platforms
Your own quotes via Sharp & Hired
Close rate
10–20%
50–70%
Lead exclusivity
Shared with 3–8 contractors
Yours alone
Cost per booked job
~$250
~$160
Customer data ownership
Platform owns it
You own it
Sharp & Hired makes every quote you generate feel as polished as anything Angi sends — without the per-lead fee, the shared-lead bidding war, or the data ownership trap. Your customers, your reputation, your margin.
Own your next quoteWhere your time goesLess time on the paperwork.
Less time on the paperwork.
More time on the work that pays.
Less time on
- Building proposals by hand
- Chasing signatures over email and text
- Chasing deposit checks
- Explaining what was agreed to
- Following up on late payments
- Manually creating invoices from scratch
- Paying lead-platform monthly fees
More time on
The work that
actually generates
revenue.
Build proposals fast. Get paid faster.
Sharp & Hired is the proposal & estimating platform for general contractors and remodelers who want to close more deals — and protect themselves on every one.
- Build polished proposals in minutes
AI scope parsing, regional sales tax, branded PDFs. Cut hours of nights-and-weekends paperwork into a couple of minutes.
- ESIGN-Act-defensible signatures
Customer signs through a tokenized link. We capture IP address, timestamp, browser fingerprint, and the exact document version signed — a full audit trail that holds up in court if a customer ever disputes the agreement.
- Deposit collected at signing
Stripe collects the deposit the moment the customer signs. Funds are held during the federal 3-day right-to-cancel window. No more chasing checks or trips to the bank.
- Deposits paid directly to your bank
Federal law gives the customer a 3-day right to cancel after signing. Once that window closes, Stripe transfers the deposit directly to your bank account — and the customer cannot reverse the payment without your approval. The most underrated source of dispute protection you'll get on a job.
How it works
From scope to signed deposit in the same call.
Three steps. No more nights and weekends building proposals by hand, no more chasing checks, no more wondering whether the deposit will get clawed back after the work starts.
- 01
Build the scope with AI
Type or paste project details and Sharp & Hired parses scope into categories, line items, and pricing. Regional sales tax auto-calculates. Markup and detail level are yours to set.
- 02
Send for signature
Generate a branded PDF and a tokenized signing link. Customer reviews and signs on any device. The audit trail captures IP, timestamp, browser fingerprint, and the exact document version signed — ESIGN-Act-defensible.
- 03
Deposit clears to your bank
Stripe collects the deposit at signing and holds it during the federal 3-day right-to-cancel window. After the window closes, funds transfer directly to your bank account — the customer cannot reverse the payment without your approval.
Get started
Your next proposal starts now.
Free to start. Pro tier with white-label branding from $179/mo. Stripe transaction fees apply on collected deposits — as low as 0.5% when your customer pays by bank transfer (ACH). See all rates.
No credit card required to start. Stripe registration required before sending proposals for signature.