Satellite Estimating
Quote any fence from a map. Quote any fence from a satellite map in under 5 minutes. Parcel lines load automatically and the bill of materials counts every post, picket and bag of concrete.
The software without the $599 coaching ladder
You don't need a $599 ladder to get an estimator.
fenceOS is a coaching program with software attached. Groundwork ($299/mo) is the financial tools and an onboarding call. The estimator arrives at $599. Contracts, scheduling and payments at $1,199. Comms and the phone bot at $1,699. Every tier adds a one-time implementation fee, and they say most companies go live in 8–12 weeks. Fenceworks Pro puts quoting, contracts, payments, scheduling and the AI call team in one plan at $149/mo, with no setup fee, and you can use all of it before you pay for anything.
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What fenceOS does well
- Built inside a real fence company (The Fence Company, in Utah) by people who install.
- Real coaching and community: the Mr. Fence Academy library, a weekly Owner Mastermind, events, and 1:1 owner coaching with Shawn at the top tier.
- Serious financial planning. Matrix 3 builds a month-by-month revenue goal from overhead, labor and commissions, materials and target net, with crew capacity. Cash CoPilot forecasts 13, 26 or 52 weeks against a cash floor, with runway and the first week you breach it.
- Margin visibility and pricing guardrails treated as a first-class pitch, not an afterthought.
- Hands-on onboarding: a named onboarding lead, weekly syncs, and they migrate your product list and customer and job CSVs for you.
Where it stops
- A price ladder with a setup fee on every rung. Groundwork is $299/mo + $500 and has no estimator. Estimator is $599/mo + $1,000. Contracts, scheduling and payments wait for Operator at $1,199/mo + $2,000. Comms and the phone bot wait for Clarity at $1,699/mo + $2,500. The first payment is the first month plus the fee.
- 8–12 weeks to go live, by their own estimate, with 2–4 hours a week of your time.
- No self-serve. Every button is "Book a call", and their FAQ answer to "Can we sign up right away?" is "Start with a call." Their /demo page is a planning worksheet saved in your browser, not the product.
- Comms is "powered by GoHighLevel", a general-purpose marketing platform, and it starts at the $1,699 tier.
- Cash CoPilot runs on manual uploads for now. Its Integrations menu is marked "SOON".
- No satellite measuring, print kit or GPS crew clock-in listed.
Side by side
Feature by feature.
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| What you need | fenceOS | Fenceworks |
|---|---|---|
| Year one, all in | $8,188 with the estimator · $16,388 with contracts and scheduling · $22,888 with comms | $1,788 on Pro, $2,988 on Growth. No setup fee. |
| Monthly price + one-time fee | Groundwork $299 + $500 · Estimator $599 + $1,000 · Operator $1,199 + $2,000 · Clarity $1,699 + $2,500 · Command $2,999 + a fee scoped on a call | Free plan; Starter $79/mo, Pro $149/mo, Growth $249/mo. $0 setup, monthly, cancel anytime. |
| Revenue planning | Matrix 3: revenue goal from overhead, labor and commissions, materials and target net, month by month, with crew capacity. Every tier. | Goal Planner: overhead, labor, materials and commissions to a month-by-month goal, seasonality from your own history, crew capacity, and plan vs. actual tracked from your real jobs. Works back to the jobs, quotes and leads you need. |
| Cash forecast | Cash CoPilot: 13/26/52 weeks, bills, payroll and debt, cash floor, runway, first breach week, Base/Conservative/Upside. Integrations marked "SOON"; manual uploads for now. | 13, 26 or 52 weeks with bills, payroll and debt, a cash floor, runway weeks and the first week below it, in Base, Conservative and Upside. Inflows come from your real deposits and scheduled jobs; QuickBooks brings in your bank balance and open bills, or upload bills from CSV. |
| Satellite measurement | Not listed | The parcel line loads, you trace the run, and posts and gates are counted. |
| Estimating | Online Estimator and Sales Estimator with pricing and margin guardrails ($599/mo + $1,000 and up). | Priced from your own price book, with a margin-floor warning before a quote goes out. Homeowner instant-estimate widget from Starter. |
| Contracts, e-sign and payments | Quotes, contracts, invoices and payments ($1,199/mo + $2,000 and up). | Branded quote, e-signature and Stripe deposits from Starter ($79/mo). |
| Scheduling and crews | Scheduling, crews and job handoffs ($1,199/mo + $2,000 and up). | Work orders, scheduling and Crew Mode on Pro; multi-crew dispatch on Growth. |
| GPS clock-in, hours per job | Not listed | Yes |
| Job costing | Payments and job-level reporting ($1,199/mo + $2,000 and up). | A Jobs Sheet from recorded actuals: labor, materials, commission and crew efficiency, with CSV export. |
| Phone answering and follow-up | Communicator ("powered by GoHighLevel") and Mr. Fence Bot ($1,699/mo + $2,500 and up). | The AI call team answers, qualifies and books the estimate, and follow-up sequences chase open quotes, from Pro ($149/mo). |
| QuickBooks | Not listed; Cash CoPilot integrations marked "SOON" | Invoices and payments sync, and your bank balance and open bills feed the cash forecast (Pro and up). |
| Print marketing kit | Not listed | 13 print-ready pieces, branded to you |
| Getting set up | "Most companies go live in 8–12 weeks": 2–4 hours a week from you, a named onboarding lead, weekly syncs, and a $500–$2,500 implementation fee. | Same day, self-serve: import customers, jobs and your price book from CSV with column mapping, a preview and undo. Or send us the files and we'll do it for you, free. |
| Try it before you buy | Every button is "Book a call"; their /demo page is a planning worksheet, not the product. | A live sandbox of the real app. No signup, no call. |
| Coaching and community | Academy videos, a weekly Owner Mastermind, events and community, and 1:1 coaching with Shawn at Command. The core of the product. | Software, setup help and support. No coaching program, mastermind or events. |
fenceOS details reflect their public materials as of Sept 24, 2026; plans change, so check their site before deciding. fenceOS, Mr. Fence Academy, Cash CoPilot, and The Fence Company are trademarks of their owners; GoHighLevel is a trademark of HighLevel. Fenceworks prices are the live plan table.
Year one
What the first year costs.
Twelve months of the plan plus any one-time fee. fenceOS figures are from their public plans as of Sept 24, 2026. Fenceworks figures come from the live plan table.
| Plan | Monthly | One-time fee | Year one |
|---|---|---|---|
| fenceOS | |||
| GroundworkFinancial Matrix, Cash CoPilot, onboarding consultation | $299 | $500 | $4,088 |
| Estimator+ Online and Sales Estimator, margin guardrails, Academy videos, weekly mastermind | $599 | $1,000 | $8,188 |
| Operator+ quotes, contracts, invoices, scheduling, crews, payments | $1,199 | $2,000 | $16,388 |
| Clarity+ Communicator (GoHighLevel), Mr. Fence Bot, full Academy, events | $1,699 | $2,500 | $22,888 |
| Command+ private team training or 1:1 coaching with Shawn | $2,999 | Scoped on a call | $35,988+ the fee |
| Fenceworks | |||
| ProEstimating, e-sign, payments, work orders, scheduling, Crew Mode, AI call team, Goal Planner and cash forecast | $149 | $0 | $1,788$894 at the founder rate |
| Growth+ multi-crew dispatch, inventory and purchase orders, your website, 15 users | $249 | $0 | $2,988$1,494 at the founder rate |
Command's implementation fee is scoped on a call, so its year one is $35,988 plus that fee. The fenceOS price includes coaching and community; Fenceworks doesn't offer either. Their /compare ROI calculator assumes $1,500/mo, which isn't one of the five tiers, and leaves the implementation fee out.
Who should stay on fenceOS
You're buying the coaching and the room: the Academy, the weekly mastermind, the events, time with Shawn. The software comes with it. If that coaching is what moves your business, $1,699 or $2,999 a month is a legitimate purchase.
Who should switch
You want the software. You're already in a fence group or two for the community. You'd rather be quoting from it this week than go live in 8–12 weeks, and you'd rather pay for tools than a seat at a mastermind.
Switching
Import your customers, jobs and price book from CSV in minutes — or send us the files and we'll do it for you, free.
Try it first: the sandbox is the real app with a sample company in it. No signup, nothing to book.
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Fenceworks vs. fenceOS.
On their public plans (Sept 24, 2026), the first payment is the first month plus a one-time implementation fee. Twelve months plus the fee comes to $4,088 on Groundwork, $8,188 on Estimator, $16,388 on Operator and $22,888 on Clarity. Command is $35,988 plus a fee scoped on a call. Fenceworks Pro is {{proYear}} for the year, with no setup fee.
No. You get setup help, support, and software built by a founder who installs fence, but no coaching program, mastermind or events. If coaching is what you're after, that is what fenceOS is built around.
An afternoon, not a quarter. Import customers, jobs and your price book from CSV (map the columns, check the preview, undo if it looks wrong), or send us the files and we'll do it for you, free. fenceOS says most companies take 8–12 weeks to go live on theirs.
Their /compare calculator starts from a Freshworks benchmark that 7% of revenue is lost to complexity, uses a default fenceOS price of $1,500/mo (not one of their five tiers), and leaves out the implementation fee. Rerun it with your real tier and add the fee. Or try our Fence Ops Scorecard, which counts your hours instead of a percentage of revenue.
Yes. Kodiak Fence Co. in northeast Wisconsin runs on it. Same dogfood claim as fenceOS, which is why the demo exists: judge the software, not the story.
Yes. Fenceworks doesn't care where you get your coaching. On fenceOS's public plans the Academy comes bundled with a software tier, so ask them whether they sell it on its own.
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