Full-service remodeling means anything from a whole-home refresh to a second-story addition to a studs-out renovation. Projects run three to six months, involve every trade in the book, and carry six-figure budgets. MY LAURA was built for exactly this scale — big enough to need real operations software, not big enough to justify enterprise platforms with six-week onboarding.
A whole-home remodel isn't five small projects — it's one long project with dependencies, permits, selections, change orders, and a client relationship that lasts a quarter of a year. The tools that work for a $15k bathroom flip don't scale to a $250k whole-home renovation. Neither do the tools built for new construction.
Deposit, demolition draw, rough-in draw, drywall draw, finish draw, final. Each one has to pull the right line items.
Demo, framing, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, drywall, cabinets, tile, countertop, flooring, paint, trim, punch list.
Rough inspection has to happen before drywall. Drywall before paint. One missed inspection and the job stalls.
On a four-month project, you'll have 15–30 change orders. Tracking which ones are approved, applied, and paid is a job in itself.
Four months of near-daily communication. Selections to approve. Decisions to make. Progress to report.
A six-figure job feels profitable until month three when material overruns and unpaid change orders eat the margin.
A MY LAURA project has its own dashboard, activity timeline, document storage, project sheet PDF, and status lifecycle. You don't manage a whole-home renovation as a collection of estimates and invoices — you manage it as a project, with all the associated records hanging off of it.
When the estimate is approved, you build a draw schedule by converting specific line items into draws. Each draw is its own invoice with a link back to the source estimate. The "Partially Invoiced" status on the estimate tracks the cumulative billing. When you add a change order, it applies to the next draw automatically.
Twelve trades on one project isn't a problem — it's expected. Each trade has their own portal with their own iCal feed. When you reschedule framing because a permit delay pushes everything right, every downstream trade's calendar updates automatically.
The profitability report tracks revenue, material cost (from POs), trade partner cost (from payments), labor cost, and net profit per project. On a four-month job, checking profitability weekly means you spot leaks before they become disasters.
Every change order is signed digitally and timestamped. Scope adjustments live on the estimate that got signed. When a client in month four questions a $1,200 line item from month two, you have a signed digital document from that conversation — not a memory, not a text thread, an actual record.
"Whole-home projects break the tools built for single rooms. MY LAURA was designed around the assumption that your work lasts months, not hours."
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