The Manas Group
Contractors and trades
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Half your company is in a truck.
The drawing somebody needs at seven in the morning is usually back at the office.
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How it works
Free
Ninety minutes
The report is yours either way
Ten to five, on a roof
The work goes to whoever answers.
The request that comes in while you’re up a ladder, the extra somebody agreed to in the driveway, and the license number a homeowner looks for before they call anybody.
Example of a form headed “Estimate request”, arrived 8:14 pm
Frederick County:
- Where — Frederick
- map pin attached
- What — Water in the basement after Sunday’s storm
- Access — Gate code, dog in the yard
- Best time — Weekday mornings
Photos
- front
- downspout
- basement
“Call me back.” No name, no address.” struck out and replaced with enough to quote without a second visit.
A request you can actually price
The address, the photographs and the gate code arrive together, so the first visit is the one that wins it.
Example of a change order on a phone, headed “Change order 2”, Job 214
rear addition:
- Added — Replace rotted subfloor, two sheets
- Extra time — One day
- Asked for by — Owner, on site
Signature
- signed
Tue 3:40 pm
“Agreed in the driveway. Nobody wrote it down.” struck out and replaced with in writing before the crew left
The extra work, signed on the tailgate
What somebody agreed to in the driveway is a change order with a date on it before the crew drives off.
Example of the top of a contractor’s own website at yourcompany.com, headed “Roofing in Frederick County”, with
- Licensed home improvement contractor
- Maryland Home Improvement Commission
- license number
- Certificate of insurance
- ready to send
- Request an estimate
“On the About page, three clicks down” struck out and replaced with name and number on every page
The two things a homeowner checks first
Maryland asks for the contractor’s name and license number in every home improvement advertisement. Most sites we open have theirs three clicks down.
Example of an incoming call at 4:52 pm, with “went to voicemail” struck out and replaced with answered
estimate booked.
The call at ten to five
Somebody picks up while you’re on a roof, takes the address and puts the visit in the book.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Example of one morning: 9:05 break-in reported; 9:50 locked from the office — the week goes on.
A truck gets broken into
We lock the machine from the office the same hour, and the job files were never only on it.
Example search for “tear-off, last spring”, returning “Estimate
March job 188
one search, not three calls
Last spring’s job in a minute
Whoever is pricing the next one finds it instead of asking three people.
Example of a drawing sheet’s title block: Sheet A-2
Second floor plan, with Rev C struck out and replaced by D current.
Nobody builds off an old sheet
One place holds the live set, so the revision in the truck is the revision in the trailer.
The request that lands has the address and the photographs already on it. The extra work is signed before the crew pulls off the drive. And the license number is on the page a homeowner is actually reading — holding the license stays yours, but nobody has to go hunting for the number.
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Ninety minutes at the office or the trailer. You keep the report either way.
We also build
We don’t only keep it running. We build it, too.
Websites, customer portals, booking pages and small tools that take a job off somebody’s desk — designed and built for contractors and trades by the same people who look after your systems.
One firm, one number. Nobody says “that’s the web company, not us.”
A quote form that takes photos
The address, the pictures and the gate code arrive together, so you can price it.
A license and insurance block
The license number Maryland asks for, and the insurance certificate a homeowner asks for.
An estimate booking page
Homeowners pick a slot at nine at night instead of trading voicemails for a week.
A day sheet the crew can read
Today’s stops, the addresses and yesterday’s photographs, on a phone, in a parking lot.
Talk about building something
Bring it to the same ninety minutes. We’ll tell you whether it is worth building before we quote it.
Your people need the drawing, the change order and yesterday’s photos on a phone, in a parking lot, in the rain, with one bar of signal.
Somebody spends an hour hunting for the current version of a drawing. That hour comes off a job you already committed to.
90 min
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9–9
every day, including Sunday
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- A foreman called at 6:40 because the sheet he had was not current.
- Your estimator has the only copy of every quote the company ever sent.
- Three years of site photos live on one phone, and he is leaving.
- The job files sit on a machine nobody is sure was ever copied.
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If you hire us
How the handover goes.
01 First weeks
We look and listen
Whatever you have now stays until the new arrangement is proven.
02 The quiet work
We set it right
Open doors closed, copies sorted, small irritations cleared. Mostly out of hours.
03 After that
One number to call
Your people notice one thing: the number they call changes.
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Ninety minutes on site. You keep the report either way.
What we handle
What we take off your plate.
The same steady work underneath, pointed at your week.
The current drawing, on the phone
One place holds the live set, so nobody frames a morning off a superseded sheet.
A truck gets broken into
We lock the machine from the office the same hour, and the files never lived only there.
Their own phones, your files
We keep company files separate from personal ones, so a lost phone does not take job records.
Last year’s job in a minute
Whoever is putting the next bid together finds it instead of asking three people.
Site photos, dated and findable
An argument about what went in behind that wall is settled by a dated photograph.
Someone leaves and takes nothing
On a leaving day the access goes the same afternoon — mail, job folders, quotes.
Other firms we look after
- Law firms — Deadlines that do not move.
- Accounting practices — Busy season, and no room for downtime.
- Medical and dental — A front desk that cannot stop.
- Nonprofits — A lot done by very few people.
- Schools — Student records, and a summer of change.
- Automotive — Credit applications, and one system the store runs on.
Start with the review. Ninety minutes.
Start with a review: ninety minutes at the office or the trailer, a written report a few days later, and no obligation either way.
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Or ten minutes on the phone first
About half the reports say you’re in decent shape. If that’s you, we say so and leave.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
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