A remodel is a long relationship. Homeowners take weeks or months to choose a remodeler, then live with a torn-out kitchen or bath while you work. Obravetta keeps every lead warm through a long sales cycle, keeps homeowners updated during the job, and asks for the review and referral when they’re happiest. From $27/month.
Nobody picks a remodeler on the first call. They collect ideas, meet a few companies, look at budgets and wait for the right time. A lead from June might sign in October.
The remodelers who win are the ones who stay in touch the whole time without being pushy.
Then the job starts, and the homeowner is living in it. Silence during a remodel feels like trouble, even when everything is on schedule.
One kitchen or bath remodel, from first inquiry to final review. Here’s where remodelers lose the work, and what has to run on its own to stop it.
| Stage | What's happening | Where it dies | What has to run automatically |
|---|---|---|---|
| The inquiry | Homeowner fills out a form at night | No reply until next week | Instant reply and a link to book a consultation |
| The consult | You walk the space and talk budget | Notes and photos scattered | Photos and notes on the customer record |
| The proposal | Scope, price, timeline | Proposal sent, then nothing | Proposal with e-signature and deposit link |
| The wait | “We want to start next spring” | Months of silence. This is the big one. | A slow, friendly follow-up sequence that runs for months |
| The job | Demo, rough-in, finish work | “What’s going on?” calls, change orders in hallways | Weekly updates and change orders signed by text |
| After | Final walkthrough, invoice | No review, no referral | Review and referral request at the walkthrough |
Not a feature list. This is what one remodel looks like when the system handles the communication for you.
A homeowner fills out your website form about a kitchen remodel. They get an instant reply with a link to book a consultation. They pick next Tuesday.
Website forms · Online bookingYou walk the kitchen, take photos and talk budget. A few days later you send a proposal with the scope, price and deposit link.
Mobile app · Proposals with e-signatureThey’re not ready. A slow follow-up sequence keeps you in touch: a check-in, a photo of a finished kitchen, a note about scheduling for the new year.
Unlimited automated workflowsThey’re ready sooner than they thought. They sign on their phone and pay the deposit by card.
Text-to-pay · Pipeline stagesThe homeowner gets a short update: what got done, what’s next, anything you need from them. When they ask for an extra outlet, the change order goes to their phone to sign.
Scheduled messages · Proposals for change ordersThe final invoice goes out with a pay link. That evening, they get a review request and a note asking if they know anyone else planning a project.
Milestone invoicing · Automated review requestsRemodel leads take weeks or months to decide. Put in your own numbers to see what winning a few more consultations is worth each year.
The math: consultations per month × 12 × (sign rate with follow-up − sign rate today) × your average project. A year of Growth is $970 on annual billing. Change any number to see your own result.
A remodel means weeks of strangers in the house. Homeowners pick the company that seems organized, honest and easy to reach.
Will the price balloon halfway through? Will they disappear for days? How long will we be without a kitchen? Who do I call when something looks wrong?
Clear proposals, written change orders and steady updates answer most of that, which is why good communication wins remodeling referrals.
On Obravetta Growth and Obravetta Pro, a professional remodeling website is built for you as part of the plan, not quoted separately by an agency for a few thousand dollars.
A remodeling website has one job: turn a homeowner who’s dreaming into one who books a consultation. That means beautiful before-and-after photos, a clear explanation of your process, the kinds of projects you take on, real reviews, and a consultation form that’s easy to fill out at 10pm.
On Obravetta Starter at $27 you get the builder and build it yourself. On Growth and Pro we build it for you.
Obravetta isn’t a project management app with marketing bolted on. It’s the client-facing stack, and for a remodeling company it breaks into six jobs.
Published figures, sourced below.
Homeowners are spending at record levels, but the market isn’t growing much. That means more remodelers competing for the same projects. The ones who follow up and communicate best take a bigger share.
Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, month-to-month with no contract. Annual billing charges for ten months instead of twelve.
1 team member
Owner-operator. Website builder, missed-call text back, unlimited follow-up workflows, proposals, invoicing and review automation.
Up to 3 team members
Adds AI voice answering, a professional website built for you, and 5,000 contacts. Most small remodeling companies land here.
Unlimited team members
Unlimited contacts, done-for-you setup, custom automations and job booking campaigns. Where companies with designers and project managers end up.
Honest note on seats: Starter is one user and Growth covers up to three. A remodeling company with a salesperson, a designer, a project manager and crews will want Pro at $297, where seats are unlimited.
It depends what you need most. If you run large projects that need Gantt schedules, budget-versus-actual job costing, selections portals and trade-partner management, a construction management platform such as Buildertrend or JobTread goes further than we do. If your problem is leads that go cold over a long sales cycle, homeowners who feel in the dark during the job, and too few reviews and referrals, that's what Obravetta is built for, with the website and marketing included. Plenty of remodelers run both.
With a slow, friendly sequence instead of one phone call. After a consultation, send the proposal, then a check-in a week later, a photo of a similar finished project the week after, and a short note every few weeks after that. It runs on its own, so a lead that's 'thinking about next spring' still hears from you in March.
Tell them what's happening before they ask. A short weekly update by text or email, covering what got done, what's next and anything you need from them, heads off most stressed calls. Homeowners living with a torn-out kitchen mostly want to know the job is moving.
In writing, before the work. Send the change with its price as a proposal they can sign on their phone, so nothing is agreed in a hallway and forgotten. It protects you and the homeowner, and the signed change sits on the customer record with everything else.
It's a fair question to answer honestly. In Zonda's 2025 Cost vs. Value Report, a midrange minor kitchen remodel averaged $28,458 and recouped about 113% of its cost at resale nationally, while larger upscale remodels recouped much less. Sharing real numbers like that builds trust, and the rest of the value is how much the family enjoys the space.
Not in depth, and it's worth being straight about. We don't do Gantt charts, budget-versus-actual by cost code, selections portals or trade-partner management. Construction management platforms are built for that. Obravetta handles the client-facing side: leads, proposals, updates, change-order sign-off, payments and reviews.
Ask at the right moment. Right after the final walkthrough, when the homeowner is showing the new kitchen to everyone, send a review request and a short note asking if they know anyone else planning a project. Remodeling runs on word of mouth, and the ask works best when the excitement is fresh.
Importing your customer list from a CSV takes an afternoon, and missed-call text back plus lead follow-up can be live the same day. The part with a real wait is 10DLC registration, the carrier approval required to send business texts in the US, which takes a few business days on any platform. A built-for-you website takes longer because we need your project photos, service area and services.
That's who Obravetta Starter at $27/month is for. Long-cycle follow-up pays off hardest for a small team where the owner is also selling and running jobs. Starter is a single seat and doesn't include AI voice answering or the built-for-you website; both start on Growth at $97. Once you have a project manager, a designer and crews, Pro at $297 has unlimited seats.
Fourteen days is long enough to import your past leads, get texting approved, and start a follow-up sequence for every consultation that never signed. It doesn’t need a demo call.
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Projected homeowner improvement and repair spending and growth: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA). Minor kitchen remodel (midrange) job cost and percent of cost recouped: Zonda, 2025 Cost vs. Value Report, national averages. Local ranking factors and the statement that more reviews and positive ratings can help local ranking: Google Business Profile Help. All verified November 2026. Obravetta pricing from our own pricing page.
Nothing on this page is legal, financial or construction advice. Licensing, permit, contract and deposit rules for remodeling vary by state and city, so check your local requirements. Job stages are illustrative of how remodeling projects typically flow, not guarantees of results. Resale figures are national averages and vary by market. Calculator results are estimates based only on the numbers you enter, not a prediction or guarantee of results. Google does not disclose how heavily any individual ranking factor is weighted, and no platform can promise a ranking outcome. Google, Zonda, Buildertrend and JobTread are trademarks of their respective owners; Obravetta is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. Figures change, so verify current details at the sources above.