Built for the jobsite, not the officePass inspection the first time. Every time.
One failed inspection costs you a return trip, a reinspection fee, and a day of schedule. Ask ProTradesman in plain English, or snap a photo of the panel and ask “is this right?” You get the code-backed answer before the inspector ever shows up.
9 trades, each with its own code book. Jurisdiction notes for your state.
of building inspections are reinspections of failed work. Don't be in that half.
of contract value is what rework eats. Most of it traces to bad info at install time.
Five pros retire for every two who enter. The guy you used to ask isn't on the jobsite anymore. We are.
Ask it, or show it.
Snap a photo of the panel, the rough-in, the roof, and ask “is this right?” You get a code-cited answer and a real reference photo back. When something’s unclear, it asks before it answers, the way a good foreman would.
Your trade, your code book, your jurisdiction notes. Plans start at $9/mo. Cancel anytime.
Get startedThree taps between you and the right answer.
No menus to dig through. No forum threads to wade through. Question to code-cited answer in seconds.
Pick your trade
Your code book, your parts vocabulary, your context. Nothing generic.
Ask it, or show it
Type it like you'd say it: "Can I land two grounds under one lug?" Or snap a photo of the panel, the rough-in, the roof, and ask "is this right?" Plain English or a field photo in, straight answer out.
Get the answer plus the picture
A code-cited answer streams in. A real reference photo lands under it. Show the inspector. Show the homeowner. Move on.
What that's worth on a real job.
The math is not subtle. One avoided mistake covers the cost many times over.
Never eat another reinspection fee.
Red tags cost $57 to $225 a trip depending on your jurisdiction, plus the drive, plus the day you lose rescheduling. Check the code call before you close the wall. One avoided red tag pays for more than a year of ProTradesman.
Kill callbacks before they happen.
Rework runs 2 to 20 percent of contract value, and about half of it comes from bad information at the moment of install. The answer that prevents the callback costs you ten seconds, not a truck roll.
Get journeyman-smart years faster.
The gap between apprentice pay and journeyman pay is $25K or more a year. Every question you get answered on the job, with the code section to back it up, closes that gap faster. Stop waiting for someone to have time to teach you.
The 30-year master in your pocket.
The trades are losing experience faster than they can replace it. Five pros retire for every two who start. The foreman who knew every code section, every part number, every inspector’s pet peeve, he’s retiring, and nobody downloaded his brain. ProTradesman is the closest thing: tight, technical, code-first answers, on demand, on the jobsite, for less than the cost of one coffee a week.
Put it in your pocket, $9/mo
A pro in your pocket doesn’t stop at code.
Quick Professional Bid turns a job into a proposal. Snap a few photos, add whatever details you want, and it builds the materials list, prices it from a researched national catalog, drops in your hourly rate, and hands you a clean, itemized bid ready to send. The takeoff and write-up that used to eat your whole evening now take minutes.
- 10 to 20 hrs/wk
- what independent contractors lose to estimating and bidding, hours nobody pays them for
- Minutes
- from a pile of photos to a priced, itemized, branded proposal
- $30,000+ a year
- win back just 8 of those hours a week and, at a $75 rate, that is what you stop giving away
The contractor who bids first and looks the most professional wins the job.
9 trades. Every one with its own code book.
Each trade has its own code-book context, parts vocabulary, and reference image library.
Electrician
Panel fill, box fill, conductor sizing, grounds and bonds. Pass rough-in the first time.
Plumber
Slope, venting, trap arms, gas sizing, water heaters. No more red tags on top-out.
HVAC / Mechanical
Refrigerant, duct sizing, combustion air, clearances. Right the first time, every changeout.
Roofer
Flashings, fastener schedules, ventilation math, underlayment rules. No tear-off twice.
Solar Installer
Rapid shutdown, conductor sizing, OCPD, grounding, racking. Pass the AHJ's pickiest inspector.
Framer / Carpenter
Spans, headers, connectors, stairs, decks. Build it once.
Mechanic
Torque specs, fault codes, brake and A/C service, emissions. Fix it right, pass inspection, no comebacks.
Welder
Process, joint prep, preheat, positions, WPS and PQR. Lay a bead that passes the inspector's first look.
General Contractor
Cross-trade code, sequencing, scheduling. Catch your subs' mistakes before the inspector does.
From first day to final inspection.
One plan grows with you, from the apprentice closing the wage gap to the GC protecting a whole crew’s margin.
Apprentice
$9/moLearn faster than the guy next to you. Close the wage gap years early.
Journeyman and Master tiers
$29 to $49/moGreen tags, zero callbacks, and the code section to back you up when the inspector pushes back.
General Contractor
$99/moProtect your margin. Rework eats up to 20 percent of contract value. Your whole crew, answer-checked.
Common questions
- Will this actually help me pass inspections?
- That's the whole point. Answers are code-first and cite the section, so you can verify before the inspector arrives and show your work if he pushes back. When the model isn't sure, it says so up front instead of guessing.
- Is this for licensed pros only?
- Anyone can ask, but answers are written for working tradespeople: tight, technical, code-first. Apprentices use it to get journeyman-smart faster. Homeowners may find the hand-holding they expect missing.
- Where do the answers come from?
- Every question routes through the strongest frontier reasoning model available at the time, locked to your trade and required to know NEC, IPC, UPC, IFGC, IRC, IBC, IMC, and IECC. Reference images come from a curated library of 1,500+ trade photos, or get generated on demand when no match exists. As the frontier moves, we move with it.
- Can I trust the code citations?
- The model only cites sections it's confident about. When it's not sure, it tells you, so you never stake an inspection on a guess.
- What about local amendments?
- We surface state and jurisdiction notes when they'd materially change the answer. Local amendments override base code in a lot of places, and that's exactly where red tags come from.
- How much does it cost?
- Less than one reinspection fee. Plans start at $9 a month for Apprentice. Annual saves 15 percent. Cancel anytime.