Introducing Barker
Tree service companies run on fast-moving operational context. A customer calls. A site visit gets scheduled. Photos and notes come in. An estimate is revised. A crew needs a clean schedule. Equipment has to be ready. A customer needs a payment link. The office and the field both need to know what changed.
Barker is built for that loop.
Why we built it
Tree-service work is visual, mobile, and schedule-sensitive. The software should match that reality instead of forcing companies to stitch together whiteboards, spreadsheets, text threads, inboxes, payment dashboards, and disconnected document folders.
The goal is not to make field work feel like software. The goal is to make the software understand the work.
Who Barker is for
Barker is built for connected tree-service teams:
- Owners and admins who need company controls, billing, settings, users, integrations, documents, payments, and reporting.
- Sales users who manage customers, leads, site visits, opportunities, estimates, follow-ups, insurance claim details, and secure customer links.
- Dispatchers and crew leads who need a visual board for jobs, crews, workers, equipment, and exceptions.
- Workers who need mobile access to assigned jobs, field notes, time entries, safety reports, and equipment inspections.
- Customers who need simple secure links for estimates, document packets, and payment requests without creating a reusable portal account.
What it does
Barker brings the core operating loop into one company workspace:
- Track customers, leads, opportunities, estimates, and jobs.
- Send secure estimate, document, and payment links.
- Schedule jobs and crews from a visual dispatch workspace.
- Scope workers to assigned work and mobile field actions.
- Track insurance claims, supplements, documents, payments, and job profitability.
- Keep audit evidence and tenant boundaries close to the workflow.
What makes it different
Barker starts with the tree-service domain: storm work, insurance claims, crews, equipment, worker SMS login, secure customer links, and field documentation. Customer-facing access uses purpose-specific links in the first version, not customer accounts or a general customer portal.
We also care about the less glamorous parts: security checks, audit logs, provider setup, payment state, email delivery, role boundaries, and production smoke tests. Those are what make software reliable after the first demo.
How to try it
Start with the Barker demo flow:
Review the current package:
Barker will keep improving from here. The launch is not the finish line. It is the point where the product starts being shaped by real crews, real jobs, real customers, and real operational pressure.