App development

Software built for one business and the way it actually works.

Off-the-shelf software makes you work its way. We build the app that fits yours: the quoting tool, the customer portal, the job board your crew will actually use. Then we keep it running.

Built and run by Columbia Data Group

Eave Desk

The next era of pole barn design and sales.

Post-frame builders and dealers spend hours turning a customer's rough sketch into a quote, and the customer waits. Eave Desk puts a branded 3D designer on the builder's own website. The customer sizes the building, places the doors and picks the colors. The builder gets a saved design, a material takeoff, a reviewed quote and a CRM record, all from one model.

  • Who it is forPost-frame builders, pole barn dealers and lumber yards that sell buildings
  • DesignerA branded 3D designer customers use on the builder's site, with saved designs, sharing and quote requests
  • TakeoffMaterial list, price book pricing and a print set generated from the same model
  • CRMCustomers, projects and follow-ups in one place, tied to the design
  • StatusLive at eavedesk.com, sold as a monthly subscription
Eave Desk 3D designer showing a pole barn, wall elevation and print set downloads
DesignerThe customer builds the barn in 3D. Framing, openings and finishes update live.
Eave Desk material takeoff and estimate screen
TakeoffEvery post, truss, purlin and sheet counted from the model, priced from the builder's own price book.
Eave Desk CRM projects board
CRMThe design, the quote and the next call, on one project card the whole team can see.

What we build

The tools a service business runs on.

Eave Desk started as one builder's problem. Yours probably looks like one of these.

Customer portals and configurators

Let customers design, price and request a quote on your site, in your branding, while you are on a job.

Quoting and estimating

Your price book, your rules, your margins. A quote in minutes instead of an evening at the kitchen table.

Scheduling and job tracking

Who is where, what is next, what is waiting on a part. One board the office and the crew both read.

Internal tools that replace spreadsheets

The inventory sheet, the tracking workbook, the form someone retypes every Friday. Built once, done right.

Connections to what you already use

Your accounting, your CRM, your calendar, your text messages. We connect to them instead of replacing them.

Hosting, backups and support

We run it after launch. Updates, backups, monitoring and a phone number that gets answered.


How a project runs

Weeks, not quarters. Demos, not status reports.

1
Call

Walk us through the job as it happens today. Where it gets slow is where the app starts.

2
Scope

A written scope: screens, rules, what connects to what, cost and dates. You sign off before we build.

3
Build

Working software every week. You test it on real jobs and we adjust before anything is final.

4
Launch and run

We move your data, train your people and stay on the phone. Same people, same number.

Our promise

Three things we put in writing.

You own the code and the data.Your app, your accounts, your exports. If we part ways, it leaves with you.
Fixed scope, fixed price.What you get and what it costs are on paper before we start. Changes get a written change order, never a surprise invoice.
Built by the people you talk to.No handoff to an offshore team after the sales call. The person who scopes it builds it and answers the phone after.
Coming soon
Our next app is in private testing.

A second product for a different service industry, built the same way as Eave Desk: one business's workflow first, then opened up to the rest of the trade. If your business runs on scheduling, dispatch and invoices, ask us about it.

Start here

Tell us about the job that eats your evenings.

One call. We will tell you whether it is an app, an automation, or something you can fix with the tools you already pay for.

Or call (360) 218-5893