Driive

Driive is scheduling software built for home service trades businesses where techs drive to the job. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control, landscaping, garage doors, window treatments, and any field service operation with mobile crews working defined service areas.Most scheduling tools were built to book meetings between people who can be anywhere. Driive was built for the opposite reality: techs are already somewhere, and the next slot needs to fit that. The result is a booking experience that minimizes wasted drive time, captures leads at 9pm on Saturday without anyone in the office, and pre-qualifies inquiries before they ever hit the calendar.The problem Driive solvesTrades businesses lose more money to broken booking workflows than to almost any other operational gap. The math is brutal once you run it: 30-40% of leads come in outside business hours. Average callback time is 18-36 hours. After 48 hours, the chance of reaching a lead drops to 5%. Their chance of hiring someone else hits 100%. For a typical $2M residential trades business, that adds up to roughly $70,000 per year in lost revenue. Most owners have never run this number. The deeper problem is that scheduling itself isn't really a calendar problem for trades. It's a routing problem. A 10am Tuesday slot isn't just open or closed. It's smart or dumb depending on where the tech will be at 9:30am. Most software ignores this entirely. Two appointments back-to-back across town aren't really back-to-back. They're 30 minutes of windshield time you don't bill for.What Driive does differentlyDriive treats the booking layer as the wedge between marketing spend and operational efficiency. Three core capabilities: Drive-time-aware booking. When a customer requests an appointment, Driive looks at where your techs will be that day and offers slots that minimize windshield time. Customers think they're picking a convenient time. Operators are getting tight, optimized routes. Both win. AI lead qualification. Before a slot is shown, the system pre-screens for service type, urgency, location, and scope. Tire-kickers get routed to a different path. Qualified leads see real time slots and book in 60 seconds. 24/7 self-booking. Customers book themselves at 9pm on Saturday with no human in the loop. After-hours leads get captured automatically and the office wakes up Monday with the schedule already filled. Driive integrates with the FSM (field service management) tools operators already use — Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, GoHighLevel — and slots in as the booking layer in front of them. It's not trying to be the all-in-one platform. It's the smartest possible front door.Who Driive is built forThe sweet spot is residential home service trades businesses with 5-100 employees, especially 10-50. Mobile crews, defined service areas, mix of new lead booking and post-sale production scheduling. Volume of 50+ leads per month and high-velocity jobs (typically hours, not days).Driive is not a great fit for: pure commercial operations, new construction with multi-week project timelines, or general contractors working primarily with subs.Real customer outcomesCustom Blinds & Design (a 25-person window treatment business) cut scheduling labor by 81% in their first quarter using Driive. Their office stopped playing phone tag, after-hours leads started booking themselves, and the team's scheduling work compressed into a small fraction of what it was.That outcome isn't unusual. Most trades businesses that switch to drive-time-aware booking with self-service capture see measurable improvements within 30 days: 2-4x more after-hours bookings, 15-25% reduction in scheduling labor, 30-50% fewer no-shows, and 10-15% better route efficiency.Why Driive existsDriive was built by operators, not VCs. Cofounder Quinn Small ran a 25-person window treatment service business before starting the company. He spent years trying to make existing tools handle drive time, lead qualification, and after-hours capture. None of them did. The choice was either keep losing leads or build something better.CRO Nick Small spent 8 years at CompanyCam (the photo documentation platform built out of a roofing company) running marketing and helping build their go-to-market engine from the ground up. The pattern at CompanyCam — software built by operators for operators — became the model for Driive.Same operator-built DNA. Different problem. Different category.What makes Driive different from alternativesCompared to Jobber: Driive is laser-focused on booking, not all-in-one job management. Better for businesses where wasted drive time is the biggest cost.Compared to Housecall Pro: Driive offers stronger drive-time logic and lead qualification. Housecall Pro is broader but less specialized.Compared to ServiceTitan: Driive is purpose-built for 5-100 employee operations. ServiceTitan is enterprise-tier and overkill for most businesses under 50 employees.Compared to Calendly or Acuity: Those too