Spend less time on permits and paperwork. More time building outside.
VERA turns a design into a priced proposal, generates the board and fastener list, watches permits and HOA approvals that have gone quiet, books footing inspections, sequences your spring backlog, and follows up on every quote - while you stay in complete control by approving every action.
No credit card required · You approve every action · Works with your existing software
- Built for deck builders
- Never acts without approval
- Works with your existing software
Design meeting was Tuesday · stairs and cable railing
Today's priorities
Powering deck builders from one crew to a full outdoor-living season
Your deck business runs on approval.
Three simple steps. Nothing happens automatically.
VERA watches your business
It stays on top of design meetings, open proposals, permits and HOA submissions, inspections, material deliveries, and your signed backlog across the software you already use.
VERA prepares the work
Priced proposals from a sketch, lineal-foot material lists, permit inquiries, inspection requests, change orders, and start-week notices, all written before you're on site.
You approve
See exactly what VERA plans to send, submit, or charge. Approve, edit, or decline. VERA executes only what you approve.
Stop letting the season run you.
You didn't learn to build decks so you could spend evenings on permit portals and spreadsheets. VERA takes the desk work off your plate.
Permits that sit in a queue
A plan review nobody chased is a start date you miss. VERA notices the silence and drafts the status inquiry for you to send.
HOA approvals nobody warned you about
Railing height, stain color, setback rules. VERA assembles the submission packet and drafts the cover note before it holds up framing.
A design meeting that never becomes a proposal
VERA prices footings, framing, decking, and railing from your rates the same day, so the homeowner sees numbers while they are still excited.
Board counts done at midnight
Lineal feet of joists, decking, and railing converted by hand for every build. VERA drafts the list with your overage applied.
A spring backlog with no order
Eight signed builds and no sequence. VERA proposes start weeks by deposit date and drafts the note to every homeowner waiting.
Finished decks nobody sees online
Your best marketing is the deck you just finished. VERA drafts the post from crew photos and holds it for your okay.
Everything a great office manager does - on your approval.
VERA proposes the work; you decide what happens. Here's what that means for a deck building business.
Turn a design meeting into a proposal today
Footings, framing, decking, fasteners, railing, and stairs priced from your own rates with the sketch attached, ready for you to send.
Never lose a build to a quiet permit
VERA counts the days a permit or HOA application has been sitting and drafts the status inquiry the moment it goes past normal.
Order the yard list once
Lineal feet of joists, beams, decking, and railing with your overage, converted to a yard order you approve and send.
Keep inspections off the critical path
Footing and final inspection requests are drafted and timed against your framing schedule, so a hold doesn't cost you a week.
Sequence the spring backlog fairly
Signed builds ordered by deposit date with proposed start weeks and a drafted note to every homeowner still waiting.
Let finished decks sell the next one
VERA builds before-and-after posts and Google Business updates from your crew photos, then waits for approval.
Tell VERA what you need, in your own words.
The kind of thing deck builders ask for every day. VERA drafts it and waits for your approval.
Quote a 16 by 20 composite deck with stairs.
VERA prices footings, framing, decking, hidden fasteners, railing, and a stair run from your rates, attaches the sketch, and holds the proposal for your review.
What's the material list for the Keller deck?
Joists, beams, boards, and railing converted to lineal feet and piece counts with your overage, drafted as a yard order waiting on your approval.
Any permits gone quiet?
Every submitted permit and HOA application with no response, ranked by days waiting, each with a follow-up already written for you to send.
Who's on the spring waitlist?
Signed builds ordered by deposit date with a proposed start week for each, plus a scheduling note drafted to every homeowner on the list.
A day with VERA.
You stay in command; VERA does the desk work.
- 6:15 AMYour briefing is ready
Open proposals, permits with no response, today's inspection window, and the builds still waiting on a start date.
- 7:00 AMApprove the morning batch
One review, everything queued for the day.
- ✓Approve the composite deck proposal
- ✓Approve the permit status inquiry
- ✓Approve the HOA submission
- ✓Approve the material delivery order
- Throughout the dayVERA keeps things moving
While you're setting posts and running joists, VERA works the desk.
- ✓Drafts replies to new design inquiries
- ✓Tracks every open proposal by age
- ✓Watches permit and HOA queues
- ✓Books footing and final inspections
- ✓Files crew photos to the right build
- 6:30 PMGo home
No permit portal after dinner. The submissions and follow-ups are already drafted.
The paperwork, already written.
Every document deck builders send, set up with your business details, pricing, and branding.
Deck Proposal
Framing, decking, railing, and stairs priced with the design sketch attached, signable on a phone.
Material List
Joists, boards, hidden fasteners, and railing converted to lineal feet and piece counts for the yard.
Permit & HOA Packet
Plan set, setbacks, footing depth, and railing height gathered into what the reviewer actually asks for.
Footing Inspection Request
Holes dug, depths recorded, inspection window requested before concrete goes in.
Design Change Order
Prices an added stair run, wider landing, or upgraded railing before the crew frames it.
Deck Care & Season Check
Cleaning and staining guidance, plus a check-in when the deck is due for maintenance.
What deck builders get back.
The hours VERA takes off your week, and where they come from.
of design and permit chasing off your week
Illustrative for a two-build-at-a-time shop
permits caught when they stall
VERA flags silence, you approve the nudge
spring inquiry answered the same day
Drafted replies waiting in your queue
board and fastener list per build
Generated from your own lineal-foot layout
Illustrative outcomes based on the desk work VERA takes on. Your results depend on your business.
Built for how deck builders actually work.
“A permit sitting in review for two weeks used to blow up a whole start date. VERA counts the days and has the status inquiry written. I just approve it and send.”
“I'd leave a design meeting excited and then not get the proposal out for four days. Now it's priced and waiting for me before I'm back at the shop.”
“Counting lineal feet of joists and railing at 10pm was my life every spring. VERA drafts the yard list with my overage and I check it in two minutes.”
“HOA packets were the thing I always got wrong the first time. VERA gathers the railing height, stain color, and setbacks into one submission and I approve it before it goes.”
“Eight signed builds and no order to them is how you end up with an angry customer. VERA proposes the sequence by deposit date and drafts a note to everyone waiting.”
“Every deck we finish is a sales pitch. VERA builds the post from the crew's photos and holds it until I say go. Our finished work finally shows up where people are looking.”
Illustrative examples of how deck builders use VERA. Verified customer stories coming soon.
Built to keep you in the loop.
Actions you approve
Every external action, gated by you
To first workflow
Connect, assign, approve, done
Integrations
Sign-in connectors, no keys
Actions logged
Append-only, exportable audit trail
Silent actions
VERA never acts without a record
Faster busywork
Recurring ops, off your plate
Most popular with deck builders.
Connect your project, accounting, photo, and payment tools so VERA works from your real proposals, permits, and builds.
Sign in once, no API keys. VERA reads only what you approve. Logos indicate available integrations, not partnerships.
Plans that grow with your build season.
Every plan starts with a free trial. Below are VERA's standard plans, pick the one that fits your deck business.
Starter
For solo business owners testing VERA
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
Draft and approve everyday work in one place.
Start 7-day trialIncludes trial credits to explore VERA. Upgrade anytime to unlock your plan’s full credits and features.
Best for getting one business's everyday work drafted, approved, and out the door.
- Seats included
- 1
- Connected integrations
- 5 accounts
- Monthly AI credits
- 1,000 / mo
- Automation
- Manual approval
- 1 brand / workspace
- 25 scheduled tasks / month
- Social, email & reply drafting
- Basic research + proposal drafts
- 30-day task history
- Standard support
Growth
For active small businesses
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
Run recurring campaigns and lead workflows on autopilot, with approval.
Start 7-day trialIncludes trial credits to explore VERA. Upgrade anytime to unlock your plan’s full credits and features.
Best for businesses running weekly campaigns and lead workflows.
- Seats included
- 1
- Connected integrations
- 15 accounts
- Monthly AI credits
- 2,500 / mo
- Automation
- Auto-pilot + guardrails
- 3 brands / workspaces
- 150 scheduled / automated tasks / month
- Content calendar + scheduling
- Recurring workflows & auto-pilot rules
- Advanced approval workflow
- 6-month task history
- Priority support
Pro
For power users, agencies & multi-brand teams
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
Manage many brands and a team with roles and permissions.
Start 7-day trialIncludes trial credits to explore VERA. Upgrade anytime to unlock your plan’s full credits and features.
Best for agencies and teams running many brands with roles and approvals.
- Seats included
- 5 included
- Connected integrations
- 50 accounts
- Monthly AI credits
- 10,000 / mo
- Automation
- Advanced + roles
- 10 brands / workspaces
- 1,500 scheduled / automated tasks / month
- Client workspaces + white-label exports
- Reusable workflow templates
- Approval roles & team permissions
- 12-month task history
- Priority support
Start with trial credits for 7 days. Upgrade anytime to unlock your selected plan’s full monthly credits, automations, integrations, and team features. No commitment during your trial. How credits work
What credits get you
Real per-action costs from the product.
- Draft a post, email, or reply3 credits
- Create a full content calendar25 credits
- Research your competitors25 credits
- Analyze business data or a report20–50 credits
- Run an approved automation5–25 credits
- Heavy agent task (web + tools)50–150 credits
Your plan’s monthly credits work across all of these, mix and match drafts, research, and automations however you like.
How credits work
- What uses credits?
- AI work: drafting content, research, analysis, and running approved automations. Simple chats cost the least; heavy agent tasks cost more.
- Do unused credits roll over?
- Your monthly plan allowance resets each billing cycle. Credit packs you buy separately roll over and don't expire.
- Can I buy more credits?
- Yes, add credit packs anytime (from $10 for 500 credits), or turn on auto top-up so work never stalls.
- What are the plan limits?
- Each plan includes a set number of seats, connected integrations, and scheduled tasks (see each card). Approval and automation capabilities also step up by plan.
- What does that look like in practice?
- Using the per-action costs above, Growth's 2,500 monthly credits cover roughly 800 drafted posts, or 100 competitor research runs, or 100 full content calendars a month, mix and match however you work.
- What do I get during the 7-day trial?
- A limited pool of trial credits to explore VERA, enough to evaluate it, not the full paid allowance. Upgrade anytime and your selected plan's full monthly credits and features unlock immediately.
- What happens when I run out of credits?
- The next AI action pauses before it runs (nothing is half-charged) and VERA prompts you to buy a credit pack or upgrade your plan. Work already completed is unaffected, and your monthly credits refill at the start of the next billing cycle. Turn on auto top-up and VERA adds a pack automatically so nothing stalls.
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Your data is used only to do the work you ask.
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Frequently asked questions.
01Can VERA price a deck from my design?
It drafts the proposal from your own rates: footings, framing, decking, fasteners, railing, and stairs, with the sketch attached. It arrives as a draft you can adjust, and nothing sends until you approve it.
02Does it help with permits and HOA approvals?
Yes. VERA tracks how long each submission has been sitting, assembles the packet a reviewer usually asks for, and drafts the status inquiry when a queue goes quiet. You approve every submission and every nudge.
03Can it generate my material list?
Yes. VERA converts the layout into lineal feet and piece counts for joists, beams, decking, fasteners, and railing with your overage applied, then drafts the yard order.
04How does it handle my spring backlog?
Signed builds are ordered by deposit date, VERA proposes a start week for each, flags any that are blocked on a permit, and drafts a scheduling note to every homeowner. You approve the sequence before anyone is told.
05Will it message my homeowners without asking?
No. Proposals, start-week notices, change orders, and follow-ups are all drafted and held. You approve, edit, or decline each one.
06Does it work with Buildertrend and Jobber?
Yes. VERA connects to Buildertrend, Jobber, QuickBooks, CompanyCam, Stripe, Google Business Profile, and the other tools deck builders already run on. You connect by signing in, no API keys.
07Can I review everything before it happens?
Always. VERA is approval-first by design: propose, approve, execute. Nothing external happens without your say-so, and every action is logged.
Stop losing build weeks to a permit nobody chased.
See how VERA saves your deck business hours every week, while you approve every move.
- No credit card required
- You approve every action
- Cancel anytime
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