Build the tools your trade business actually needs.
Modus is the operator-built software layer for the trades. Operators, coaches, agencies, and vendors turn the systems trapped in spreadsheets and their heads into software, on top of the tools they already run.
Read the manifesto →01The belief
You're already a builder. You deserve a place to build.
You build processes, scripts, checklists, and dashboards every day, and that knowledge is software-shaped. It just lives in spreadsheets and a notebook in the truck. Modus is where it becomes real, usable software.
The enemy
The enemy isn’t the platform you run on. It’s trapped knowledge: the best system stuck in one person’s head, a spreadsheet, a doc nobody runs. Keep your core system. Build the missing layer yourself.
02What it is
Your best system already exists. It’s just trapped.
It lives in a spreadsheet, a script, the way you run the day. The form is already in the stone. Modus turns it into software.
01
Pick
Browse field-tested toolpacks built by operators who do the work.
02
Install
Drop it onto your stack. It maps to your customers, jobs, and calls instantly.
03
Run
Remix it to fit your shop. Tinker, ship, and watch the numbers move.
03The operating layer
More than integrations. An operating layer for the trades.
Modus sits on the systems you already run, unifies them into one ontology of trade objects, then lets you build and trade tools on top.
More than integrations. An operating layer for the trades.
Modus sits on the systems you already run, unifies them into one ontology of trade objects, then lets you build and trade tools on top.
- Trade
- Marketplace. Install, share, and sell toolpacks.
- Build
- No-code builder and AI agents, built on the objects.
- Unify
- The trades ontology. Every object, link, and action.
- Connect
- On top of the systems you already run.
Unify
The trades ontology. Every object, link, and action.
04Build
Describe it. Modus builds it.
An app, a dashboard, a one-screen tool over your core system, an automation. Describe what you need in plain language and Modus builds it on your objects, ready to install or publish.
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05Who it's for
Built by the trades, for the trades.
Operators
Turn how you run the shop into software.
- Build the parts tracker, CSR script, or dashboard you run in spreadsheets today
- Sits on top of the software you already run
- Field-tested by you, installed across every truck
Coaches
Ship your system, don't just teach it.
- Turn your method into software your clients actually run
- Push it to every shop you coach in one click
- Earn when it's installed, not just when you talk
Agencies & vendors
Build into the workflow, not the inbox.
- Package your service as installable toolpacks, not slide decks
- Deploy across every client account at once
- Become part of the daily workflow, with your name on it
06Raise the tide
The best builders don't just win. They raise the whole trade.
When you publish what you built, every shop that installs it gets better. You're not here to hoard an edge. You're here to make the trade more capable. A rising tide lifts every boat. We build for the people who raise it.
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$0k recovered across the trade · and counting
The founding ask
We're building this with 10 operators. Want to be one?
- →Co-build with us. Your real workflows become toolpacks first.
- →Lifetime founder pricing and a seat shaping the roadmap.
- →The first members of a new class: the trade operator-builder.
07 / The bigger picture
The next generation of trade software will be built by the people closest to the work.
The physical world was always the point; the digital exists to serve it. Today, founding toolpacks. Tomorrow, a marketplace where the best systems in the trades travel, and the whole trade learns to run itself better.
Get early access.
Not ready to co-build? Drop your email and we'll reach out when the first toolpacks open up.