The moment you hire your second or third employee, contractor software starts punishing you. Per-seat pricing doubles your bill. Role-based access controls you never configured suddenly matter. The owner-operator workflow that worked for a solo shop falls apart the first time two people try to edit the same estimate. MY LAURA was built to make that growth stage — 2 to 10 people — feel like a promotion rather than a tax.
You hired your first helper, then your first office person, then your first project manager. Each one needs access to different things. Your helper needs the schedule but not the books. Your office person needs the client data but not the cost columns. Your project manager needs everything except your personal lead sources.
Most contractor software handles this badly. Some tools have no roles at all — everyone sees everything, which is how financial information leaks to the wrong people. Others charge per seat, which means adding a bookkeeper costs you another $40/month and adding a project manager costs you another $40, and suddenly your software bill has tripled while your team has doubled.
Every hire doubles a line item on your software bill. Growing feels like being punished.
The new hire sees things they shouldn't. Or they can't see things they need. Either way, you're training them on the tool more than the job.
Two people editing the same estimate. Someone's changes get lost. Someone sends the wrong version.
Every new hire needs a week of training to become productive. You're the trainer. Your Fridays disappear.
Who sent that invoice? Who approved that change order? When someone makes a mistake, there's no way to trace it.
Every decision routes through you. You can't take a day off. You can't grow past yourself.
MY LAURA is $199/month regardless of team size. One person or fifteen, same price. Whether you're adding a bookkeeper, a project manager, an estimator, or all three, your software bill doesn't move. Growth isn't taxed.
MY LAURA has four roles you can assign to any team member:
You assign roles at the team-member level and MY LAURA enforces the permissions both in the UI and on the server. No more accidental exposure of cost data to the wrong person. No more "please don't touch the pricing" instructions.
Every estimate, invoice, change order, and purchase order carries the user who created it and the user who last edited it. When something looks wrong, you know who to ask. It's not surveillance, it's a simple accountability trail — the kind of thing that keeps handoffs between team members honest without turning every action into a compliance event.
MY LAURA was designed so a new hire can be productive within a day. There's no configuration wizard that takes a week. There's no custom workflow engine that needs a consultant. You create their account, assign their role, and they start working. Most of the interface is self-explanatory because it was designed by someone who has onboarded real remodeling hires and felt the pain of a software that required training.
Because team members have their own roles and their own records, they can operate independently on the things they're authorized to do. Your estimator writes estimates without asking you to check them. Your bookkeeper reconciles QuickBooks without bothering you. Your project manager runs the schedule without calling you three times a day. You start being able to take a day off.
"The first sign you're running a business instead of a solo operation is when you go on vacation and the business keeps running. MY LAURA is how you get there."
The best sign you're ready: your last hire cost you $40/month extra on your current software bill, and your next hire will cost you another $40/month. That's the per-seat tax. Flat pricing fixes it.
Spin up MY LAURA, import your existing projects, and see if it fits your workflow. If not, cancel in one click.