The Proposal Gap

Your proposal is a price sheet and the one they signed came with a dust protocol.

Two bids on the kitchen table, yours a list of line items and theirs a promise about dust, schedule and daily updates, and the homeowner picks the one that makes the chaos feel managed.
A wireframe of the business on a blueprint grid, with one element flagged in gold as the revenue leak
THE LEAK

The homeowner is buying a survivable eight weeks and your proposal only prices the cabinets.

You send materials, labor, timeline and a total. The competitor sends twelve pages with a dust-barrier photo, a daily update commitment and a penalty clause on the schedule. The homeowner goes quiet without ever saying the price was wrong, because the price was never the question.

THE SIGNS

How you can tell you have it

Things you can check yourself this week, with nothing to connect.

01

Homeowners go quiet after receiving your proposal, and the ones who do reply ask about timing and cleanup before price.

02

Your proposal has no section on dust control, daily communication or what happens when the schedule slips.

03

You lose bids to a competitor whose price you know was higher.

04

The reviews across your market complain about the process far more than the craftsmanship.

WHAT IT COSTS

What this leak costs every month

Every Truth Card prices a gap in dollars a month, on your own unit economics.

$22,800/mo

Modeled monthly gap for a design-build remodeler whose proposals list price and leave out process commitments.

Modeled from scan patterns in this category. Company profiles are anonymized composites drawn from real scan patterns. No figure on this page is a measured customer result.

The figure is the bids lost after the proposal each month, multiplied by your average job margin, and it does not count the referral a happy client would have made.

HOW ONTEVO FINDS IT

The public signals that give it away

The 50-point diagnostic reads you and up to 10 closest competitors the same way, on the same day.

SIGNALS

The scan reads the process language on your competitors' sites, the fears homeowners write about in remodeling reviews across your market, and what your own site promises about the build.

Reputation

The Reputation pillar reads which process failures homeowners write about, and Website shows which competitors already answer them on the page.

A TRUTH CARD FOR THIS LEAK

What the card would say, in words

An illustrative example. Company profiles are anonymized composites drawn from real scan patterns.

SAMPLE

FINDING

Homeowners are choosing the remodeler whose proposal explains the process, and your proposal explains the price.

EVIDENCE

Your proposal has no dust, schedule or communication section, and the reviews in your market cite those three more than any craftsmanship complaint.

DOLLAR (MODELED)

$22,800/mo, modeled as bids lost after the proposal each month times average job margin.

FIX

Product Architect drafts the process proposal template, and you approve it before it goes to a homeowner.
COMPARE

Where this sits next to what you already run

Two tools you may already pay for, and what the diagnostic adds on top of each one.

Ontevo vs. ServiceTitan

ServiceTitan manages the job once it is sold. Ontevo shows why the proposal is losing and drafts the one that wins.

See the Full Comparison

Ontevo vs. Podium

Podium collects reviews. Ontevo turns what they say about process into the proposal section you are missing.

See the Full Comparison

NEXT STEP

Find out what the winning proposal in your market says that yours does not.

Plans start at $245/mo per entity, and if the first 30 days do not surface a gap worth more than your plan, your second month is free.

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