For contractors across the U.S.
Everything you need to run the day
Guided Path is a free app for contractors: schedule the crew, write estimates, get paid, prepare payroll and keep the books, all in one place, with free ChatGPT, Claude and Zapier connections, plus local homeowner leads in Mid-Michigan. Everything below is on every plan, including the free one, unless it says otherwise.
Schedule and dispatch
- Month, week and day calendar, color-coded by person, with drag to reschedule
- Multi-day jobs that skip weekends and holidays, and recurring jobs
- Two-way Google Calendar sync, plus Apple and Outlook calendar subscribe
- Team coverage: open workdays, time off and holidays at a glance
- Bring in a Buildertrend schedule, with a heads-up before a double-booking
- Job map with one-tap directions, and the shortest driving order for each person's day, opened in Google Maps
- Printable day sheet
- Plan my week with AI: the app drafts the next few days for the crew; you look it over and book it in one tap
- "Just say it": type or say what you want ("move the Miller job to Thursday") and the app does it
- Each person's own start time, work hours and on-call rotation
- Builders schedule their subcontractors in the app, with a whole-project schedule
- The week's weather on the calendar, and a full weather page: hour by hour, wind and gusts, radar, warnings, sunrise and sunset, and the weather at each job site; search any U.S. town or ZIP
Job cards
- When, status and money at the top; tap to call, text or get directions
- Job notes the whole crew sees right away, with voice typing
- Unlimited photos, files, checklists and a shopping list
- One-tap status: On the way (with an arrival time and a "who's coming" page), Running late, Arrived, Done for today, Mark complete
- Customer sign-off and a printable job summary
- Job profit: billed, minus clocked labor at each person's cost, minus expenses and receipt photos
- Change orders the customer signs on their phone
- Permits and inspections tracked on the job
- Callbacks and warranty work linked to the original job
- "Update the customer": a progress note drafted by AI, sent by you
- Remind me: a phone notification at a time you pick, or the moment you clock out
Estimates and invoices
- Describe the job by typing or talking and AI drafts the estimate or invoice from your prices (15 a month on the free plan, unlimited on paid plans)
- Good / better / best options and add-ons the customer picks and approves from their phone
- Deposits paid online, payment schedules and e-signatures
- Your logo and colors on every estimate, invoice and email
- Price book of your saved items
- Automatic estimate follow-ups and payment reminders by email (you switch them on)
- Customer statements, and a one-link customer page with their estimates, invoices, receipts and visits
- Bill big jobs in stages (progress billing), hold back retainage, and let customers pick allowance selections with photos
- Batch invoicing: bill many finished jobs at once
- For Michigan businesses: the 3-day right to cancel built in (notice, cancellation form, signature and automatic refunds), the lien-rights statement on every estimate (MCL 570.1114) and Michigan's own lien waiver forms
Getting paid
- Card and bank payments straight to your account; Guided Path takes 0% of your invoices
- Card 2.9% + 30¢ and bank 0.8% (never more than $5), Stripe's standard fees
- Optional tips, saved cards and autopay when your customer chooses
- Maintenance plans with automatic card billing (Network Pro and Elite)
- QuickBooks Online sync of paid invoices
Your crew
- Owner, admin, dispatcher and technician roles; technicians see their own day, calendar and map
- Two or more people on one job
- Time clock with lunch breaks; location saved only at each punch, never tracked in between; optional QR-code clock-in
- Who's on the clock right now, and timesheets to download for payroll
- Each person picks which phone notifications they get
- A heads-up to the person and the office when someone hasn't clocked in for a scheduled job (you set the wait)
- Approve each person's week and lock it; regular and overtime hours split
- Payroll prep: hours, federal overtime, paid time off, tips, commissions and reimbursements for each pay period, with files for Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll or ADP (Guided Path doesn't pay wages or file taxes)
- Commission, mileage and expense tracking per person
- Technicians can use the app in English or Spanish
Customers
- Customer profiles with every job, estimate, invoice, plan, equipment record and note
- Import your customer list, or paste it from your phone's notes
- Optional online booking from your real open times
- Google review requests (you switch it on): every customer gets the same honest ask
- Each customer can choose texts, email or both
Your books
- Reports: money in by month, estimate close rate, where paying customers come from, hours by person
- Year-end package for your accountant
- Download all your data as spreadsheets anytime
- Email campaigns to your own past customers, with unsubscribe built in
Connect other apps
- Connect ChatGPT or Claude and ask your own AI about your schedule, customers, jobs, estimates, invoices and weather (read-only unless you allow it to add customers, to-dos and notes)
- Zapier, Make, n8n and your own code: an API key and webhooks for jobs, estimates, invoices, payments and customers
- Two-way Google Calendar sync and QuickBooks Online
Homeowner leads
- Riley, our AI assistant, answers homeowners 24/7 in Bay, Midland, Saginaw, Tuscola, Genesee and Shiawassee counties
- Only the first contractor to claim a request is connected with the homeowner
- Pay only for the leads you claim, and ask for a fee back under the Fair Lead Guarantee if a lead is bad
Easy to use
- Works on any phone, tablet or computer; Android app on Google Play, or add it to your home screen
- Big buttons, plain words, and one + button to add a job, estimate, invoice or customer
- A built-in assistant and step-by-step setup guide
- A Feedback button that goes straight to the founders
Who we are
Guided Path Home Services LLC is a technology and referral company in Freeland, Michigan, not a licensed contractor.
It's run by its two founders, brothers Jake and Joe Zazo. They also own Zazo Electric, a working electrical contractor that uses the app on its own jobs.
It's a Christian, family-run company: honest work, fair pricing, and treating every customer like family. Everyone is served the same, whatever they believe.
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