Set your rates once. Never fumble another quote.
The pocket tool for field quoting
Works on any phone · Adds to your home screen
No app store
Built to get it right when you can't.
The name comes from an old fail-safe idea: a system built to respond correctly on its own, at the exact moment the people who'd normally make the call aren't able to. No hesitating, no second-guessing — it just does what it's set up to do.
Your version of that moment is the kitchen table.
You're tired, you're moving fast, the customer's waiting, and the number you say in the next thirty seconds is the one you're honoring tomorrow. That's exactly when a good tradesman talks himself into a price that's too low.
Dead Hand takes that off your shoulders.
Your rates, your margin, your overhead — set once, then applied automatically to every job after. The right number comes out even when you're too slammed to work it out in your head.
It gets the number right,
so you don't have to be perfect on your worst day.
The kitchen table is where jobs get lost.
Quote too high, they call the next guy. Quote too low, you eat the difference all week. Scratch it on a pad and half the time you've forgotten the margin by the time you write the invoice.
You've done this in your head for years and you're good at it. But the customer wants to see the breakdown — a document, not a guess. And you'd rather be the one who hands them something clean than the one digging through the truck for a clipboard.
Four taps from walking in to quote delivered.
Enter Hours
How long is the job. That's it. Your rates are already set from the first time you opened it. No dropdown, no "which labor type," no picker.
Add Materials
Tap, type the cost. Tap again for the next one. Your margin's already applied and the total updates as you go. Reorder or remove with a swipe.
Present to the Customer
Flip the phone around. Presenter mode shows the number big and clean — subtotal, tax, total. Settled right in front of them. No loading screen, no ads.
Send the PDF
One button. Their email, from your phone's share sheet. No login for them, and the only thing that ever leaves your phone is the quote you chose to send.
Your screen, then their screen.
The same job from both sides of the counter — a fifty-gallon gas water heater, three hours, hauled the old one away.
That exact job is open at dead-hand.app/demo — change the hours or a cost and watch both screens move. No sign-up, and nothing you do there is saved.
This isn't a CRM. It's a tape measure.
Dead Hand does one thing: quote fast, quote right, send clean. It won't turn into a dispatch board or a customer database you have to feed. If you ever need those, that's a different product — this one stays sharp.
What you skip
- Customer database
- Dispatch and scheduling
- A store account to manage
- Ads and upsells
- A setup that takes a weekend
What you get
- A clean price in front of the customer
- A PDF in their inbox
- Your rates saved and applied every time
- Works on the spot, basement or not
- The same simple screen every job
I built this because I'm the guy standing in the kitchen. Years in the trades, quoting in my head, losing jobs to guys who wrote a cleaner estimate faster.
I don't need a CRM — I already know my customers. I need to look sharp in front of the one across the counter, get the number right the first time, and hand over something that looks like I take my own work seriously. Because I do.
Every feature in here earned its place on a real job. Anything that would slow me down never made it in. If it doesn't help me quote in under a minute, it's not in the app.
— The Founder · Tom Falk Plumbing & Heating, Inc.
Pay monthly, or save with the year.
No free tier. No ads. Cancel anytime, right in the app.
Prices in USD, sales tax where it applies. You'll set your rates the first time you open it — takes about thirty seconds.
The Book, for the jobs you already know.
The calculator prices the job you're working out at the table. The Book is the other kind — the changeouts and service calls you've done four hundred times. You build one once with your own numbers and pull it in a tap after that. It’s its own product, priced flat by the size of your shop instead of by the tech — $30 a month for one truck, $80 for two to five.
No app store. No download you forget you're paying for.
Pay on the site and you're in — no store account, no waiting on a review, no buried subscription.
Add it to your home screen. One tap and Dead Hand sits right next to your other apps and opens the same way. Works on any phone.
Stop whenever you want. The cancel button is inside the app, in plain sight. You'll never dig through a store account to get out — you know exactly where it is because that's where you signed up.
Four things Dead Hand will always hold to.
Your Customers Stay Yours
We don't sell your data or mine your quotes. The only thing that leaves your phone is the PDF you choose to send.
Never Show Ads
You pay for the tool, so the tool works for you. That's the whole arrangement. No ads, no upsells mid-job.
Easy In, Easy Out
You sign up on the site and cancel in the app. No phone call, no retention maze, no hunting through a store account.
Stays Sharp
It's a quoting tool and it stays one. Fast, focused, and finished — it won't bloat into something you have to manage.
Set your rates once.
Never fumble another quote.
Works on any phone · No app store