Back Ops — by Field Assembly
A back office for contractors who'd rather be on the job site.
Change orders, estimates, follow-ups, client emails. The operational work that quietly drains time and revenue from growing contractors. Hand it off. A trained operator turns your raw input into finished deliverables. You review, approve, and send.
Text us the mess. We send back the paperwork.
A site photo. A client text. A voice memo. An estimate that needs cleaning up before tomorrow morning. Send it over by text or email. A trained operator turns it into clean, professional documents: estimates, proposals, change orders, client emails, your to-do list. Everything organized by project and trade.
$499/month. Month-to-month. Not software. An actual person handling your paperwork during business hours. Learn more at back-ops.net →
Property intelligence, delivered.
Analysis products for property decisions. Same core model: raw material in, finished work product out, human in the loop.
Shim
Turns transaction documents into negotiating position
Most inspection reports run 50 to 100 pages and treat a loose doorknob with the same language as a failing roof. Buyers routinely either panic at the volume and ask for too little, or miss the items that actually matter and ask for the wrong things. Both outcomes cost money at closing.
Shim reads the document, identifies what's structural versus cosmetic, flags what creates leverage, and returns two things: a clear analysis of where you stand and a repair-request letter written in the register that gets taken seriously.
GroundTruth
Environmental baseline reports, delivered through Grayscale Geospatial
Flood zone status, contamination history, wildfire exposure, wetland boundaries, and protected land designations are all matters of public record, but assembling a complete picture means pulling from federal sources that don't talk to each other and interpreting what they say in combination. GroundTruth is Field Assembly's environmental analysis platform. It powers the work at Grayscale Geospatial, where a GIS analyst produces property-level briefs for buyers, investors, and land planners.
Infrastructure, not aspiration.
Field Assembly is a sole-proprietor firm based in Massachusetts. The primary product is Back Ops, a managed back-office service for home improvement contractors. Shim serves homebuyers with flat-fee transaction document analysis. GroundTruth, Field Assembly's environmental analysis platform, powers the work at Grayscale Geospatial.
The through-line across all three is the same: you hand over the raw material, a trained human processes it, and you get back finished work product you can act on. Every deliverable is reviewed by a person before it reaches anyone. The judgment is human; the speed is not.
"The contractor who's good at the work and the contractor who runs a tight office aren't always the same person. That gap is the problem, and closing it is our goal."Carrie Schluter, Founder
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