About YardQuote

The Problem We Kept Hearing

Before we wrote a single line of code, we spent months listening. We sat in on Reddit conversations on r/landscaping, read through thousands of posts on LawnSite and GopherForum, and cold-emailed solo operators and small crews across the United States. Five themes kept coming up — the same pain, told in different accents:

• "I lose jobs because I'm slow." The homeowner who calls three landscapers for quotes hires the first one to send a professional-looking number, not necessarily the cheapest one.
• "I undercharge because the math is hard." Forgetting dump fees, fuel, callbacks, and the time it takes to drive back to swap out a broken bag — that's where margin disappears.
• "The big software is built for the office, not the truck." Jobber, LMN, Aspire — great if you have a dispatcher. Overkill if you're a two-person crew that wants to text a proposal from a driveway.
• "Excel is faster than software, but it doesn't look professional." Templates from 2009 with broken formulas don't win residential jobs against a slick PDF.
• "I want to stop quoting at 10 PM." Almost everyone we talked to was building quotes at night, after the kids went to bed, after the equipment was put away.

None of this is news to anyone in the industry. What surprised us was how much of it had been left unsolved by the existing tools.

Who We Actually Are

We should be upfront: we are not landscapers. We have not mowed two hundred lawns. We did not learn this trade from our fathers. We are a small team of software people who decided to build the tool that the landscapers we talked to kept describing — usually starting with the words "I wish someone would just…"

That distance matters, and we want to be honest about it. It means we ask a lot of questions. It means we ship a feature, then watch a real crew try to use it on a Tuesday morning, then often go back and rewrite it. It means we read the BLS Occupational Outlook and state agriculture extension data instead of guessing at numbers. It also means we will never tell you we know your customers better than you do — you do.

What we do know is software. We know how to make complicated workflows disappear. We know how to design something a person can pick up at 7 AM on a job site without a tutorial. We know how to build for phones first and laptops second. That's what we bring. The expertise on the lawn? That's still you.

What We Believe

How We Research the Numbers

A lot of landscaping content on the internet is… not great. Round numbers pulled from another blog, which pulled them from another blog, none of which cite a source. We made a rule: when we publish a number on this site, the methodology is on the page.

Our state pricing pages combine four primary sources:

• Labor data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, broken out by state and metro area for grounds-maintenance occupations.
• Materials data from public Cooperative Extension programs at land-grant universities (Texas A&M AgriLife, UC ANR, Florida IFAS, Penn State Extension, and so on) for region-appropriate material pricing.
• Regulatory data from state licensing boards and departments of agriculture for licensing fees, insurance minimums, and pesticide-applicator requirements.
• Practitioner ranges from the active landscapers currently on our trial — not as quotes from named operators, but as anonymous distribution data ("here's where 80% of crews in this metro land for a 5,000 sqft mow").

We also publish what we don't know. If a state has thin data — small markets, missing BLS detail — the page says so, instead of pretending the number is precise.

Common Questions People Have Asked Us

What We Will Not Do

Some commitments are easier to make in writing than in conversation, so here they are:

• We will not sell, rent, or share your customer list, your pricing, or your job data with anyone. The data you put into YardQuote belongs to you.
• We will not silently raise your subscription price. If we ever need to change pricing, existing customers keep their original rate for at least 12 months, and we'll tell you in advance with a real human email.
• We will not bury features behind a "premium" tier you didn't sign up for. The plan you start on is the plan we keep developing.
• We will not use dark patterns to make canceling a 14-day trial hard. One click, one confirmation, done.
• We will not pretend to have expertise we don't have. When we publish a guide, we cite our sources. When we don't know, we say so.

Backed by Platinum Sky Group

YardQuote is a product of Platinum Sky Group, a Hong Kong-based technology company that builds focused vertical software for small operators in physical-world trades. Our other products and resources include guides on pricing landscaping jobs, free estimate templates, and a landscaping pricing calculator. The company exists because we believe small trade businesses shouldn't have to choose between enterprise complexity and Excel spreadsheets. They deserve software that respects their time.

Where This Is Going

We launched YardQuote in April 2026. As of this writing, we have a few hundred crews on trial and a feedback queue we read every morning. The product is going to change quickly, and the direction is going to come from those crews, not from a roadmap we draw up alone.

The next features in queue are AI-assisted line-item suggestions (so you don't forget the dump-fee line), customer-side proposal viewing with optional deposit collection (Stripe), and a measure-from-satellite tool for residential lawns. If you have a sharper idea, the inbox is hello@getyardquote.com. Real humans on this side — we read every email.