Every rough-in in your branch's area, before the contractor orders.
Rough-in material is ordered when the frame is closing in. BuildMapper shows each branch which builds are heading into mechanical, who the builder and contractor are, and who to call. Reps update the pipeline by text.
When your products get bought.
A permit tells you a project exists. It doesn't tell you the part that decides the deal: when the buying happens. Every build has a different right moment for what you sell, and BuildMapper flags each one when it's your time to call, not when the permit was filed.
Mechanical rough-in · Weeks 6 to 12 after the permit. Rough-in follows the frame and precedes insulation. The contractor orders once the framer gives a date. BuildMapper flags a supplier about two weeks before the stage, while that order is still open.
Three things every plumbing, hvac & electrical supply sales manager says.
These are the three problems BuildMapper was built to solve.
“The contractor buys from whoever has it on the shelf.”
So the branch waits for the counter to ring. Nobody is out ahead of the rough-in, and the builds where the contractor is still choosing go to the wholesaler who called.
“Each branch works its own list, and the region can't see any of it.”
Five branches, five spreadsheets, five versions of who owns which contractor. The regional forecast is a phone call to each manager.
“My reps won't touch the CRM.”
So the forecast is whatever they remember, and every open quote is in a truck. When a rep moves branches, the pipeline goes with them.
Every active job site. Scored for what you sell.
BuildMapper reads every permit in your area and turns it into a map a rep can plan a day around: what's being built, what the build is worth, what stage it's at, and who's behind it. Scored for plumbing, hvac & electrical supply, so the builds that need you sit on top.
Find the builders you're missing.
Upload your customer list, and BuildMapper checks it against every permit pulled in your area. Back comes the list of builders building right now who aren't on your list, ranked by how well they fit plumbing, hvac & electrical supply, with your share in dollars on each.
“You named 420 builders. There are 371 actively building in your area right now. Here are the 353 you didn't name, ranked by opportunity.”
That team had sold to 420 builders over the years, and still didn't know most of the ones active around them today. Your numbers will be different, because everything is built from your own list and your own product lines, never from a market average.
A morning with Scout on a plumbing, hvac & electrical supply team.
This is everything BuildMapper asks of a rep: read a text, tap send, reply when something happens. Same morning, every rep on the team.
Overnight, Scout read every new permit in your area and picked out the builds that will need plumbing, hvac & electrical supply, before your competitors notice.
Not a list to wade through: one builder to call, what it's worth to you, why it fits this rep, and the contact. Your newest hire gets the same quality of lead as your best rep.
Stops come back as a route, not a scatter of pins. Four worthwhile sites, in order, instead of a morning of driving past lots where nothing is happening.
Scout writes the opener in your rep's voice, mentioning the permit. The rep reads it, changes a word, and sends it from their own phone. Every message a customer sees comes from your rep, never from a bot.
Rep texts back "won it". Scout logs it, updates the pipeline, and learns what this rep wins so tomorrow's lead is better. Nobody typed into a CRM today.
Every tool on the account, for plumbing, hvac & electrical supply.
One login, one customer record. Reps get the map, their pipeline and Scout. Managers get the team view on top. Here is what each one does for what you sell.
Every build weeks from rough-in
Stage is estimated from the permit date and stretched for bigger projects. A rep filters to builds a few weeks from mechanical, sees the builder, the contractor when the permit names one, and the value, and plans the day around them.
See Permit Map
Your contractors and builders on new permits
Add the mechanical and electrical contractors you supply and the builders they work for. When one pulls a permit anywhere you deliver, the branch hears first.
See Connections
The rough-ins going in without you
Upload the branch's customer list. Back comes every builder active in the area who isn't on it, ranked by fit, with the plumbing, HVAC and electrical share of each build in dollars. Jobs you weren't on, never "lost".
See Territory Intelligence
One build a morning, before the order
Scout texts each rep the build heading into rough-in, why it fits, who to call, and a drafted intro. The rep sends it from their own phone.
See Scout on your phone
New permits, sorted by branch and rep
Each week's permits arrive grouped by the rep who should work them: the rep who already sells to that contractor, otherwise the rep who covers the area. A regional manager approves every branch's week in one view.
See Team Flow
Every branch's pipeline, one view
"Quoted the rough-in, 41k" becomes a stage and a value. A branch manager sees their reps; a regional manager sees every branch, without a phone call.
See Sales Pipeline
Spec answers from the truck
"What's our cost on the 60-gallon power-vent, and what's the venting run limit?" Answered from your own price list and the manufacturer sheets you loaded, with the file named.
See Product Brain
Fixture counts from the plans
Upload the mechanical drawings. Quotes reads fixture and device counts and drafts the material list, so your estimator checks a list instead of building one.
See QuotesYou see everything. Your reps type nothing.
Every rep's deals in one place: stages, dollar values, next steps, kept current by the texts they already send. You get the team view. Your reps never open a CRM.
And it stays current when a rep is slammed, when a rep is on vacation, and on the day a rep quits. The record belongs to your company, not to someone's phone.
Send leads to Salesforce, use the API and webhooks, or take a weekly report. ERP Connect reads your accounts and order history, read-only, so Scout knows your customers. It never writes to your ERP.
Your whole price list, answerable from a driveway.
Load your price lists and spec sheets once. Then any rep can ask a product question in plain English, in the app or by text from a job site, and get a real number with the file it came from. It only ever answers from your own documents.
Supply teams already selling with BuildMapper.
Supply yards, appliance and material dealers across BC run BuildMapper as the first call of their morning.
Do the math on your whole team.
Scout adds 20–30% more selling capacity to every rep, not by making anyone work harder, but by deleting the hours between “a project exists” and “my rep is talking to the builder.” Use the conservative 25% and your own numbers.