FirstLook
Live video estimates for the trades
Text your customer a link. They tap it and show you the problem through their phone camera. You point, take photos, and send the quote before you hang up.
3 video calls a month free · no card · no app for your customer
Why it pays
A two-minute look tells you most of what the drive would have. Keep the truck for jobs that are sold.
See the leak, the panel or the roofline live, ask your questions, and price it on the spot.
Photos are captured on the customer's phone in high resolution, not as blurry video stills. One trip, not two.
Send the scope and price with the photos. The customer taps Approve while it is still fresh.
How it works
Enter the customer's name and number. FirstLook writes the text for you, from your own phone, so it comes from a number they know.
Their back camera opens in the browser. Tap your screen to drop a pointer on theirs, switch on their flashlight, and take photos into the job.
Write the scope yourself or let the AI draft it from the photos and your notes. They approve online and it shows up on the job.
Why not just a video chat app
Run your own numbers
Your inputs, plain arithmetic: trips × share × time × 4.33 weeks, minus about 10 minutes per video call. Fuel and wear are not counted.
Pricing
Free
For trying it on real jobs.
Pro
For running estimates this way every week.
No contract. Cancel any time.
Questions
No. They tap the link in your text and it opens in their phone's browser. They allow the camera once and you are looking at the problem.
Current iPhones in Safari and Android phones in Chrome. On your side it runs on a phone, a tablet or a computer. The remote flashlight depends on the customer's phone and browser; where it is not available the button simply does not appear.
No. Video and sound are live only. The photos you take during the call are saved to that job, for 30 days on Free and a year on Pro, and you can delete them whenever you like.
Video quality adjusts to the connection. If the call drops, the same link reconnects, and you can reopen a finished job to call again.
We store your account details, the job details you type, the photos you capture, and quote approvals. Live video and audio pass through Cloudflare's network to connect the two of you and are not stored. A quote page is visible only to someone holding its private link. We do not sell data or show ads. Deleting a job deletes its photos. To close your account, email russ@blvkware.dev.
FirstLook is built and run by BlvkWare, a one-person software studio in Mississippi. You get a direct line: russ@blvkware.dev.
Create an account, text the link to your own phone, and walk it up to a water heater.
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