Built inside a landscaping company
Yard Dog Landscapes runs on it. Every route, every quote, every invoice, every day. It was not adapted from generic field service software. It was built on the truck, by the people driving it.
No demo gauntlet. No sales call to see a price.
One end of the market hands you a generic tool that treats a mowing route the same as a plumbing call. The other end quotes you enterprise money, then charges you again to get set up, and still looks like a spreadsheet wearing a suit.
Neither was built by a company that has to make payroll off the schedule it is looking at.
| What the market charges | Per month |
|---|---|
| Jobber | $39 to $349 |
| Housecall Pro | $59 to $79 to start |
| SingleOps | $220, most operators $385 to $550 |
| LMN | $297 to $598, plus about $847 to implement |
| Aspire | $300 to $500 and up, per user |
Published 2026 pricing. Most of the upper half will not show you a price without a demo call first.
Owner, Yard Dog Landscapes
Runs the crews, the routes and the book of business that Platy OS was built around. Every feature exists because a real day of work demanded it, and gets thrown out when it does not survive contact with the field.
Operator and systems architect
Twenty years of building and running operations across the trades and beyond. The method is simple: find what is already earned wisdom in one industry, and bring it to one that has never seen it.
We are not shipping a demo of something we hope works. We are shipping the thing our own company depends on, and we are off our old software by September. If it breaks, it breaks for us first.
Software for this industry usually gets built to be sold, and you can feel it. The roadmap serves the exit, not the crew. We would rather still be improving this in twenty years than optimize it for a payday, because the companies running on it have their whole operation riding on the schedule loading every morning.
Simple to use is the hard part. That is where the work goes.
We are taking a small number of landscaping companies first, so we can do it properly rather than quickly.
