FieldKrew Desktop is the buy-once offline contractor CRM. style="max-width:780px;margin:0 auto;padding:48px 24px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;line-height:1.55;color:#0f172a"99 during founder pricing, own your data as a SQLite file on your machine, no subscription, private by architecture. Here's why we built it and how it works.
Every contractor CRM in the field-service space is a rental. You pay Jobber, Housecall Pro, JobNimbus, or ServiceTitan somewhere between $65 and $400 per user every month — for the privilege of accessing your own customer list on their servers. If you stop paying, you lose access. If they get acquired and shut down, you lose access. If they hike prices, you either pay or migrate 5 years of history in a panic. We're launching FieldKrew Desktop today because that model is broken for solo contractors and small crews, and nobody else is fixing it. FieldKrew Desktop is the offline, buy-once contractor CRM. It installs on your Mac or Windows PC. Your entire database is a SQLite file on your disk. Only the once-a-month license activation phones home — everything else runs locally or through your own accounts at Stripe, Twilio, Google, QuickBooks, OpenAI, and Cloudflare. If we shut down tomorrow, the app on your machine still opens. That's the whole pitch. Below: why we built this, how the architecture works, and who it's for. Why "own your data" actually matters for contractors Contractors carry 5 to 15 years of relationship data. Every customer's history. Every warranty end-date. Every conversation about the roof or the water heater. That data is worth money. It's what makes a repeat-customer call in year 7 possible. It's what makes a landlord referral in year 10 possible. Now count the contractor CRMs that got acquired-and-shuttered in the last five years. There are at least three we know of by name, and probably more we don't. Every one of them left their customers to figure out how to export 5 years of relationship data from a service that stopped responding to support tickets. FieldKrew Desktop moves that risk to zero. The database is a file on your disk. Not "we send you a CSV monthly" — the actual file. You can copy it. You can back it up. You can open it in any SQLite viewer. Even if we vanished tomorrow, the app on your machine keeps opening and your data is still there, in a format anyone can read. That's what real data ownership looks like. Not the marketing word. The literal file on the literal disk. The one-time-purchase math is very simple Jobber's Grow tier is $249 per month. Over 5 years that's style="max-width:780px;margin:0 auto;padding:48px 24px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;line-height:1.55;color:#0f172a"4,940 in subscription bills. Housecall Pro Essentials is style="max-width:780px;margin:0 auto;padding:48px 24px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;line-height:1.55;color:#0f172a"51 per month — $9,060 over the same 5 years. ServiceTitan is $250-400 per user per month for a starter plan; multiply by however many crew you have. FieldKrew Desktop is style="max-width:780px;margin:0 auto;padding:48px 24px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;line-height:1.55;color:#0f172a"99 one-time during founder pricing, $299 after. Free updates for the first year. Optional $49/year renewal for continued updates.