FIELDAMIGO Vol. I · №1 · Tampa, FL
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A Field Manual for Service-Business Owners

Run your crew. Own your data.

A custom CRM, built to fit your shop — your workflows, your job types, your fields, your branding. No monthly software fee. No vendor lock-in. Yours to own — running whether or not you ever pay me another dollar.

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§01 The Math What you're paying now vs. what you'd pay once. Five years out, the difference is a used pickup.

"Five years from now, you'll have paid for your CRM more times than you paid for your truck — and at the end of it, you still won't own a thing."

What you're paying now 5-year cost You'd save
Jobber ($129/mo) $7,740 $4,760
HouseCall Pro ($149/mo) $8,940 $5,960
ServiceTitan ($500/mo) $30,000+ $27,000+
Fieldamigo Crew, Pioneer pricing: $2,500 build + ~$480 hosting over 5 years = $2,980 total. You own the system. Forever.

Scope: this replaces your CRM (HouseCall Pro / Jobber / ServiceTitan). Payroll (ADP, Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll) is a separate concern; your existing payroll setup is unaffected.

§02 Both Sides on the Table Anything I get out of this, you should know about. Anything you put in, I'll show you.

What you get ▼ every build

  • The full source code
  • Your VPS server (your account, your domain — crm.yourbiz.com)
  • Your branding throughout the app
  • All your customer data — yours forever
  • Daily encrypted backups, kept on your server
  • Unlimited users, customers, invoices, quotes, proposals
  • Bilingual support (EN / ES / ZH)
  • Tier-specific features (Stripe payments, customer portal, photo uploads, document signing, automation) — see §05 Pricing for what each tier includes

What I put in ▼ work

  • Years of CRM build and refinement
  • Workflows refined through running my own cleaning business every day
  • Custom setup for your shop — workflows, fields, roles, tuned to your real way of working
  • Server locked down behind Cloudflare — your VPS has zero ports open to the public internet. Visitors come in through Cloudflare's network (the same one banks and government sites use). The kinds of automated attacks that hit thousands of unprotected servers a day literally can't see yours.
  • Email through Cloudflare too — sending and receiving routes through Cloudflare's mail infrastructure, with spam, spoofing, and forgery protection built in.
  • Personal data stewardship — encrypted backups, monitoring, direct accountability. I treat your data the way I treat my own.
  • Hands-on support window — 30 / 60 / 90 days by tier
  • Training for you and your crew
  • A live walkthrough of the working system — in person or on a screen-share, same code base, real workflows, real records, ask anything

What you put in ▼ cost

  • Once, to me: the build fee (see §05 Pricing)
  • Monthly, to your hosting provider (Hetzner, DigitalOcean — your account, never mine): ~$5–15/mo for the VPS
  • Monthly, optional, to me: $99 retainer — cancel any time
  • A few hours during setup: interview, branding choices, employee onboarding, training

What I get ▼ honestly

  • The build fee — that's my income.
  • A portfolio piece — a real shop running on Fieldamigo I can point the next prospect at, with your permission.
  • A long-term relationship with another service-business owner. A referral if it goes well — worth more than any ad I could buy.
§03 No Limits Everything competitors throttle, Fieldamigo doesn't. Self-hosted has zero marginal cost — so unlimited is honest, not marketing puff.
What's metered
SaaS competitors
Fieldamigo
Employee / user accounts
Charged per seat (Jobber, HCP, ServiceTitan)
Unlimited
Customer / contact records
Capped by tier
Unlimited
Invoices per month
Throttled on lower tiers
Unlimited
Quotes / estimates
Throttled on lower tiers
Unlimited
Proposals / e-signatures
Separate paid tool (PandaDoc, Proposify)
Included
§04 How It Goes From the first call to running your shop on it. Roughly four weeks, end to end.

This isn't a SaaS sign-up where you adapt to the software. It's a custom build where the software adapts to you. Here's how it goes:

  1. Discovery

    1-hour call, free, no commitment. We talk about your shop, your workflow, what you use now, what you wish was different.

  2. Setup

    I provision your VPS, point your domain at it, deploy a fresh CRM with your branding (logo, colors, business name).

  3. Customize

    Tailored to your shop's way of working. Job types you actually use. Invoice templates with your line items and tax structure. Customer fields for the data your crew captures. Employee roles based on how your team is organized. This is where Fieldamigo stops being a template and starts being your tool.

  4. Data + Train

    Import your existing customers (CSV from any major CRM works). I sit with you and your crew until everyone can use it.

  5. Live

    You're running on it. Bugs fixed free during the support window. After that, optional retainer or hourly. Cancel the retainer any time — the system doesn't stop.

— and the system keeps running, with or without me.

§05 Pricing Three feature tiers — pick what you want to do, not how big you are. Pioneer rates apply now.
Solo
$1,500
$3,000
The basics. Customers, scheduling, invoicing, quotes.
30 days hands-on support
Crew ★ POPULAR
$2,500
$5,000
Solo + Stripe payments, customer portal, photo uploads, custom estimator.
60 days hands-on support
Shop
$3,750
$7,500
Crew + document signing, automation, advanced permissions, training.
90 days hands-on support
Pioneer Pricing Holds for the first 5 shops, or through end of 2026 — whichever hits first. After that, the work goes up to what it's worth (the eventual list shown above).
Toe in the water — $500 pilot.

Core customer + invoicing system, fully yours. Upgrade later and the $500 applies as credit. Don't upgrade and you keep what's built. Zero risk.

Optional retainer: $99/mo — monitoring, updates, support. Cancel any time. Your system keeps running.

What the retainer covers (and doesn't)
  • Automated 24/7 uptime monitoring — alerts come to me, I respond.
  • Encrypted off-site backup retention — your data kept on storage I personally control, retained ~30 days, restorable on request.
  • I personally verify the restoration process, so when you actually need it, it works.
  • Security patches and dependency updates as they're released.
  • Bug fixes and minor feature tweaks.
  • Response within 1 business day on email or text.
  • Quarterly check-in call to review usage and plan ahead.

What it doesn't cover: major new feature builds (quoted separately), VPS-provider issues at the hosting layer (their domain, not mine), staff training beyond initial onboarding.

§06 Note from the Maker A short letter on how I make a living and why early customers matter more to me than the dollar.

I'm not pretending this is charity. Here's my side, plainly — because the whole pitch falls apart if I'm not as honest about what I get out of this as I am about what you do.

The build fee is my livelihood. After I cover hosting, tools, and my own time during discovery, build, training, and the support window, I clear a real but modest cut of each project. If you ever want the breakdown for the build I quote you, I'll show you the spreadsheet.

Each shop I deliver is a portfolio piece. Early customers are worth more to me than the dollar amount because they're proof this works in the real world, not just on mine. I'd ask permission to reference you when I talk to the next prospect. You can always say no, and you can revoke it any time.

And if we work together and it goes well, a referral to one other service-business owner is worth more than any ad I could buy.

One more thing — and to me, it's the most important part. I treat your data the way I treat my own. The CRM I built was for my own cleaning company first, and I still run my business on it every day. Same data, same care, same instinct that says this isn't anyone else's business. I personally back yours up, keep it somewhere safe, and keep it out of reach of predators — data brokers, ransomware, the careless mishandling that turns into news stories.

I'm one person, not a team of fifty in a data center. No help desk to escalate through, no anonymous engineer with access to your tables, no analytics group quietly mining your patterns. When something goes wrong, it goes wrong on my watch — and I'm the one fixing it.

"Nothing on my side is hidden. Ask anything."

— Charles, in Tampa

§07 If I Get Hit by a Bus The honest question every owner should ask before signing with anyone like me — and the five-layer answer.

I'm one person. One person can get hit by a bus. So here's the actual plan — five layers, roughly in the order of how quickly each one kicks in. Any one alone is meaningful. All five together, your shop doesn't notice I'm gone.

  1. You own the server

    From day one, your VPS lives in your Hetzner / DigitalOcean / etc. account, on your card, with your domain pointing at it. The CRM is installed there. If I disappear tomorrow, the system keeps running — you just stop getting updates from me. There's no vendor that can pull the plug, because there's no vendor holding the plug.

  2. Anytime export, from inside the CRM

    An Import / Export page in your settings — same place you imported your starting data — lets you download your full database any moment you want it. Two formats: a .db file (the live SQLite database, byte-for-byte) and a .csv bundle (every table, zipped). Both are open formats. Any developer can read them. You're never holding a file you can only open with my software.

  3. Monthly export, automatically emailed to you

    Once a month the same .db + .csv bundle is generated and emailed to your business email — no clicks required from you. Worst case, your only copy of your customer list lives in your inbox where you can already find anything. Best case, you never need it. Either way, you have it.

  4. The retainer is optional, always

    The $99/mo retainer covers monitoring, off-site backups, and patches. It is never the thing keeping your software alive. Cancel it on a Tuesday and on Wednesday your CRM is still running, your data is still yours, your shop doesn't notice. The retainer buys you me — not your software.

  5. Source code, with a dead-man's switch

    The Fieldamigo source code lives in a private repository and a dead-man's switch: if I don't check in for 90 days, the repo automatically publishes itself as a public mirror. Any developer in the world — your nephew, a freelance contractor, the next person you trust — can pick it up and keep your shop running. The code outlives me on purpose.

I'd rather over-build for this and never need it than wave my hands at it. The whole pitch of Fieldamigo is that you own the thing. Ownership has to mean ownership in the worst case too — otherwise it's just a longer leash on the same collar.

"If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, your shop runs Wednesday."

Status, May 2026: Layers 1 and 4 are how every Fieldamigo build ships today. Layers 2, 3, and 5 are in active build through the rest of 2026 — until each one is live, I cover the same ground manually for retainer customers. This page updates as each layer ships.

§08 Built by Charles Owner-operator. Built it for his own crew first.
Charles Husted, owner-operator, Tampa, Florida

From the Workbench

I run a cleaning business in Tampa. I built this CRM to run mine — customer management, Stripe payments, digital document signing, automated invoicing — because every off-the-shelf tool was either too expensive, too generic, or both. It runs my business every day.

The workflows are refined through running my own cleaning business every day — the kind of details SaaS templates skip. The same patterns fit any service operation that runs on jobs, photos, quotes, and recurring customers.

What you'd see on a screen-share is real working software, not slides — the same code base in actual daily use, with real workflows and real records. When you and I get on a call, that's what I walk you through, line by line.

Tampa, FL · English · Español · 中文 · EST. 2026

§09 Talk to Charles A 30-minute screen-share, or a coffee if you're local. No pitch deck, no commitment — just the working software.

Want to see it running?

I show you the live system. You ask anything you want. If it fits your shop, we talk numbers. If it doesn't, you've still seen what owning your own CRM can look like — that's worth thirty minutes either way.

Email Charles → See Pricing

Email: [email protected] · I'll show you the live system on our call