Estimates ready to start

A banner on the schedule listing every fully signed contract that has no job on the board yet.

What it is

A read-only strip of cards at the top of the schedule showing counter-signed estimates with no matching project, each card carrying the project name, customer, the signing date, and an accounting sync chip. Clicking a card navigates to the estimate where Start Project lives. Dismissible for the session.

Also called: signed but not started · forgot to start the project · contracts waiting

See it
Estimates ready to start
Prepared for
Marlin Hoover
1140 Ridge Line Rd · Fair Play
Shell package$32,159
Concrete & site$9,337
Doors & windows$6,224
Trim & finish$4,150
Total
$51,870
Signature
Accent banner reading '3 estimates are ready to start' with signed-date cards — ReadyToStartSection.tsx. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Reads recent estimate links and screens for a counter-signature client-side
  2. 2Cross-references the project cache: an estimate counts as started when a cached project's design job id matches
  3. 3Re-pulls whenever the project cache changes so a started job leaves the strip immediately
  4. 4Mutates nothing — clicking only navigates
Why we built it

Creating a project is deliberately a decision somebody makes, not something that happens on its own — which means the failure mode is a signed contract sitting quietly in the system with nobody having started the work. Builders found out when the customer rang to ask when the crew was coming. Signed estimates with no job behind them are listed where the builder will see them, with the button to start the build right on them.

The problem
  • Signed contracts sitting unstarted and unnoticed
Sound familiar?
What you get
Signed-but-not-started work is impossible to miss
One click to the place that starts it

See it on your own jobs

Twenty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck. We’ll build one of your real buildings in front of you and send you the estimate link at the end — yours to keep either way.

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