Electrical contracting · nationwide · no case study on this page yet
Electrical contractors don’t lose money on the wire. They lose it on the weeks a job spends waiting.
Waiting on an inspection slot, on a utility cut-over, on one photograph of a panel nobody has taken. Every one is a job you have already sold, standing still. Your electricians are not the constraint. The stretch between visits is.
Two honest things. Under about $1M, or nobody but you sells a job, and we are not who you need yet. And there is no published Castalin result in electrical: no electrician’s name appears on this page and no figure here is pretending to be one.
What we can actually show you
No electrician has let us publish their numbers yet. So here is somebody else’s.
Neither of the companies below is an electrical contractor. One does tree care, the other residential exterior remodeling, and letting you assume otherwise would be the easiest lie on this page to tell by accident. Read them for the mechanics: a job needing several parties and several visits before anyone can invoice it, and a stretch of the process that belongs to no one. That stretch has looked the same in every operation we have taken apart, and it will look the same in yours. What sits inside it is particular to your trade. That nobody owns it is not.
Where the money is parked
Nothing in your business is watching the jobs that are standing still.
Count the jobs parked between a rough-in and a trim right now, and add up what is unbilled behind them. Then pick one and say out loud what date the inspection is; if you need a foreman on the phone to answer, the waiting has no owner.
An inspector you have never met decides your crew’s week
Now the job belongs to the city. You get a window, and when it moves everything behind it moves with it. Drywall is booked. The trim crew is booked. The homeowner has taken a day off work.
A red tag lives in a foreman’s truck
The inspector writes up three corrections. Your foreman fixes two on the spot and means to mention the third. It never reaches the office, so nothing is ordered and the re-inspection is called a week late.
The only record of what you installed is in somebody’s phone
Conduit before the backfill, the panel schedule, the lugs after they were torqued. Somebody photographed most of it on a personal phone. Two years later a buyer’s inspector asks, and work you did correctly is work you cannot prove.
Panel upgrades, chargers and solar tie-ins arrive somewhere nobody is looking
This is new demand and it does not come in on your phone. It arrives as a notification in an installer portal, a dealer referral, a rebate list. Several of them quietly reassign the job if you are slow.
One licence is the real bottleneck, and the board does not know it
Whatever your state says about ratios and who can sign a job off, your board does not know it. It treats bodies as interchangeable, so the crew that arrives is the crew that was free, and the work cannot be closed out.
What we build for electrical contractors
The schedule, the record and the follow-up, built around the work rather than bolted onto it.
We do not do electrical work, we do not make the code call and we do not hold your licence. What we build is the layer that decides what happens next, tells the customer and keeps the proof, running on top of the phone, the calendar and the software you already own, and built from the ground up wherever those cannot carry it.
Inspections live on the schedule, not in somebody’s head
Every job carries its permit and its inspection as real dependencies, with dates and an owner. When a window moves, the trim crew, the drywaller and the customer message all move with it in one action.
A red tag becomes a punch list with a date, from the field
Correction items get captured on site, with photos, so the office has them the same hour. Materials get ordered against them, the re-inspection gets requested, and the job bills as soon as it clears.
Every rough-in photographed before it disappears behind drywall
Your electricians already take most of these pictures, into a personal camera roll the office cannot reach. We prompt the capture at the points that matter and file each one against the job with the permit number.
Portal, referral and partner leads get an owner the minute they land
Charger networks, solar partners, rebate programs and dealer referrals funnel into one pipeline with an owner assigned automatically, instead of a shared inbox three people can see and none is accountable for.
Dispatch that knows which jobs need a licensed hand on them
The licence, ratio and sign-off rules you already work to, whatever they are where you operate, get modelled into the schedule, so the board cannot quietly send a crew that will not be able to close the job out.
A no-power call and a panel quote stop competing for the same phone
Your own business number, with routing that separates a customer with no power from a customer asking about a generator. A woman in a dark house has three numbers and stops dialling at whoever rings back first.
FAQ
Questions electrical contractors ask us.
Guarantees
Two of them,
and the second one costs us.
On the roadmap
If it tells you nothing you did not know
The ranked roadmap exists to surprise you. If it comes back and every gap on it was already obvious, you do not pay for that phase.
On anything we build
If a piece is not moving its number
Every piece is built against a number and measured from before it existed. One that is not moving that number gets switched off and drops out of what you pay. You will have seen it in your own weekly report before we raise it.
Neither of those is a refund of the whole build, and we are not going to imply otherwise. The map, the roadmap and every piece that is doing its job remain yours.
The next step
How many of your jobs are standing still this week?
It takes forty-five minutes. You prepare nothing, install nothing, and sit through no demo. Pick one real job, ideally a service upgrade, and we walk it with you from the first ring through the permit, the rough-in, the inspection, the utility and the final invoice, then name the three points where it stopped moving. You keep that map and you can act on it without us. Hiring us is a separate decision you make afterwards, or don’t.
On the call
- One job you know you lost, traced from the ring that started it to the invoice that never came.
- The three points where it broke down, named rather than guessed at.
- You leave with the drawing of it, whether we ever work together or not.
Forty-five minutes. David takes these himself. Nothing for you to prepare and nothing to sit through.
P.S. Two numbers decide whether this page is worth a call, and you can work both out this afternoon without us. One: last quarter’s service invoices carrying a recommendation nobody went back to, priced at what that work usually bills. Two: everything still unbilled behind the jobs sitting between a rough-in and a trim right now. Neither needs a new lead to collect. Both are work you have already sold to people who already let you into their house.
Not your trade? See how Castalin works for hvac, plumbing, or read about operations as a service for home service businesses.