The operating system for businesses that dispatch work.

Every job is a choose-your-own-adventure — a service order dispatched in minutes, or a full project run fixed-price, cost-plus, CPFF, or GMP with savings-share. Reverse auctions, multi-level approvals, auto-invoicing, and a financial engine that tells you you're healthy before your accountant does. The live RFQ here is the tip of it.

9
modules, one
source of truth
23%
avg. cost reduction
in first 90 days
1.2k
vendors on
the network
app.vendorspoke.com / admin / work-orders / WO-2041
← Back to RFQs⎘ Save as Template

HVAC — rooftop unit not cooling

Open⏱ T&M (Rate-Based)
WO-2024-10-2041
Tenant reports warm air from vents since Monday. Roof access via east stairwell. Condenser unit accessible.
Location
Maplewood Commons · Unit 14B
Travis County
Bid Deadline
4h 18m 00s
until auto-award
Job Details
TradeHVAC
Posted12 min ago
Bids0 received
Max Budget
$1250
Current Low
$1250
Saved
−$0
0%
VendorScorecardBid
Blasted to 17 qualified vendors · waiting for first bid…
↑ Real admin view. Open RFQ with weighted auto-award; admin drops an FCFS price mid-auction, first vendor claims it. Hit ↻ to replay.

Four steps between a broken HVAC and a vendor on-site.

01

Invite your vendors

Bulk-import your roster. They create a free account, upload insurance and W-9, and you approve who sees what trades.

02

Post a work order

Write the job once. Photos, scope, location, ceiling price. Choose reverse auction, FCFS, or direct-assign per job — or let rules decide.

03

Vendors compete

Approved vendors are notified in seconds. They see the current anonymous low and undercut. You watch the number fall in real time.

04

You pick the winner

Lowest bid isn't always best. See rating, completion rate, distance, and history side-by-side. Award with one click.

Dispatch. Run projects. Keep score.

01 · Dispatch

Stop dialing vendors one by one.

You post the work order once. VendorSpoke fans it out through your network like spokes on a wheel — preferred vendors first, then widening outward until a qualified bid lands. Same second, every channel, no phone trees.

Routing by trade, geography, property, and performance tier
Configurable fallback: if no bid lands in your chosen window, the circle expands to the next tier automatically
Vendors respond on whatever channel works for them — SMS, email, push, mobile app, or web
HalcyonRidgelineBlueCopperlineIronwoodMeridianClearviewNorthpeakSummitKilnPOST
tier 1 · preferred · 0/4 notified
Lakeshore Duplex · ground-up
GMP
Guaranteed Max. Under-run? Savings split with the client at your negotiated ratio.
PhaseBudgetActualΔ
Foundation$48,500$46,800−$1,700
Framing$62,000$59,200−$2,800
Roofing$38,500$37,100−$1,400
MEP rough-in$54,000$51,900−$2,100
Interior finish$72,000
Site + punch$22,000
+$8,000 under GMP
Client (50%)
$4,000
You (50%)
$4,000
⎘ Next draw · auto-invoiced May 1$29,250
02 · Projects

Service order or full project — choose the adventure.

Run a same-day T&M service call and a six-month ground-up build on the same platform. Fixed price, cost-plus, CPFF, GMP with savings-share — VendorSpoke handles the financial model you actually sold.

Full project management: phases, schedule, change orders, client approvals, daily logs
Auto-invoicing on draw schedule, percent-complete, or cost-plus actuals
GMP under-runs split with the client at whatever ratio you negotiated — tracked line by line
Deep reporting: margin by job type, trade, crew, region — the data your CFO actually wants
03 · Control

Know which vendors are actually earning their slot.

Every interaction is measured: bid response time, award-to-complete rate, callbacks, no-shows. Flag, suspend, or promote vendors based on the data — not the last conversation you happen to remember.

Automatic suspension thresholds you configure per trade
One-tap "preferred vendor" for direct-assign work
Full audit log: who saw the job, who bid, who won, who did the work
ranked by score
01
Halcyon MechanicalPreferred
on-time 98%·re-bid 4%·last bid 2h ago
94
02
Ridgeline HVACActive
on-time 92%·re-bid 8%·last bid yesterday
88
03
Copperline ServicesWatchlist
on-time 81%·re-bid 19%·last bid 3 days ago
72
04
Ironwood ClimateSuspended
on-time 66%·re-bid 22%·last bid 8 days ago
59

Every line item, priced against your own history — before you send the quote.

Line item · HVAC · Condenser replacement · 3-ton

Know what it usually costs — before you commit to it.

VendorSpoke reads every bill, quote, and PO you've ever run — then tells you what this exact line item typically goes for in this county, for this property type. It's the difference between estimating and knowing.

01
Typical range. Not an average — the range most jobs actually fall into, based on your real history.
02
Geo fallback. Thin data in the county? Automatically broadens to metro, then state — and tells you which scope it used.
03
Vendor bench depth. Shows how many qualified vendors cover this trade + geo, so you know whether to shop it harder.
04
Year-over-year drift. Trade costs don't hold still. See which line items are creeping up quietly.
Cost Intelligence
Travis County · Multifamily · 34 jobs
high confidence
typical $1045
$720typical range $920–$1240$1450
YoY change
4.2%
vs. 2025
Vendor bench
22 qualified
HVAC · Travis County
Your last quote
$1,250
above typical range
Recent comparablesPaid
Mar 28Multifamily · 18B$1,180
Apr 02Multifamily · 14B$945
Apr 04SFR · Oak Crest$1,020
Apr 09Multifamily · 22A$1,110
Apr 12SFR · Lakeshore$875

Post a QR code. Your network fills itself.

Building a vendor network the old way means a spreadsheet, a hundred phone calls, and data entry for every sub. VendorSpoke flips the model — subs scan a QR code at a trade show or from a postcard, pick the trades and geography they cover, and land in your approval queue. You review. You approve. Your network scales without a hiring bottleneck.

01
Scan
Tent card, postcard, email, trade-show banner — any QR routes to your branded onboarding page.
02
Self-describe
Multi-select trades, tick the counties you cover, upload W-9 + insurance. No one has to memorize zip codes.
03
Queue for review
You see new applications the second they hit, approve one-by-one or in bulk, and they're live on the network immediately.
Join Cedar Ridge's vendor network
5 min · free for vendors
vendorspoke.com / join / cedar-ridge
Step 1 · Vendor scans your QR

Know your number before your accountant does.

Most software tells you what already happened. Heartbeat tells you what's about to. It tracks your revenue and profit tempo in real time — against last year, against your stated targets — and gives you the one number every owner actually wants to know.

SAFE TO POCKET · TODAY
$117k.00
what you can draw today without risking payroll, committed costs, or reserves
Cash received+$428,300
Committed costs$186,400
Reserves held$42,000
Overhead due (30d)$58,200
Upcoming bills (30d)$24,700
Safe to pocket$117,000
YTD Revenue
$2.41M
↑ 18.4% vs prior year
YTD Profit
$487k
↑ 22.1% vs prior year
Pace vs Target
+17%
ahead of pace
Payroll Ready
42 days
runway if all inflow stops
Current markup 22%
You're ahead of target. Hold markups at 22% — no need to chase margin. Revisit if tempo slows below target for 30 days.
HOLD
Actual vs target vs year-end forecast. Pace is calculated daily — not monthly.
ActualTargetForecast
$0k$205k$410kJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTODAY
Cash timeline

Your cash position on any future date. Which bills hit when. Which invoices are about to come in based on client payment history.

Year-over-year

Revenue, profit, and margin against every prior year of your data. Find the quarters and trades that are quietly slipping.

Payment prediction

Per-client confidence scores on when invoices will actually be paid. Not when they're due — when the money lands.

Proactive alerts

Safe-to-Pocket goes negative. Tempo falls below pace. Overhead creeps up. You hear about it before the quarterly review.

Nine modules. One source of truth.

Dispatch, projects, intelligence, finance, approvals, portals. Every module stands on its own — together, they're the operating system for your business. Click any module to drill in.

Everything they have. Plus everything they don't.

Legacy construction-management platforms record what happened. VendorSpoke runs the thing — and handles same-day service work on the same rails.

FeatureVendorSpokeLegacy platforms
Reverse auction & competitive vendor bidding
FCFS work-order claiming
Vendor self-onboarding with trade + geo coverage
Cost intelligence with historical comparables
Safe-to-Pocket & tempo tracking
Dynamic markup recommendations
Multi-level approval chain for money commitments
Same-day service orders on the same platform
GMP with savings-share tracking
Cost-plus, CPFF, fixed-price project accounting
Scheduling & daily logs
Client portal with e-sign
Auto-invoicing on draw schedule
Comparison based on publicly documented feature sets of major construction-management platforms as of 2026.

Anyone who dispatches work to more than one vendor.

Property managementSingle-family rentalsHOA operatorsFacilities teamsInsurance adjustersWarranty companiesField service dispatchGeneral contractorsFranchise ops

“We cut our HVAC maintenance costs by 31% in the first quarter. The reverse auction alone paid for a year of the platform.”

Mike R. · Director of Facilities, Lakewood Property Group

“I used to spend half my Monday morning calling vendors for quotes. Now I post a job and have three bids before lunch.”

Sarah T. · Operations Manager, Ridgeline HOA Services

“The Heartbeat dashboard is the thing I didn't know I needed. I finally know my real number without waiting for month-end.”

James K. · Owner, Cornerstone General Contractors
$2.1M
Saved for customers
in the last 12 months
14min
Median time from
post to first bid
63%
Of work orders
awarded same day
1,200+
Vendors active
on the network

Pick the tier. Pay monthly. Cancel whenever.

Simple, transparent pricing. Cancel anytime.

Loading plans…

Answers, with receipts.

Still have questions? Email us — a real person writes back within a day.

A standard auction drives the price up; a reverse auction drives it down. You set a ceiling, vendors see only the current anonymous low, and they undercut each other to win. You pick the winner — not necessarily the cheapest.

Your next work order.
Your next build.

Take a 20-minute walkthrough. Bring a real job — service order or ground-up. We'll run it through the platform in front of you.

Month-to-month · Cancel anytime · Vendors are always free