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Case Study · Residential construction / tiny homes

Configure. Price. Propose. Sign. Deposit. One session. No human after submit.

A specialty cabin manufacturer selling $4K to $30K+ structures across nine models, by phone and in-person, with manual re-entry at every step. We automated the entire path from configurator to signed contract to ACH deposit.

The situation

Nine models. Manual proposals. A disconnected handoff at every step.

The manufacturer sells custom-configured cabins priced from $4,000 to well above $30,000 across nine models, through direct sales and a multi-dealer channel. Deals happened on the phone and in person. After a customer configured their structure, the proposal process ran through their general-purpose client-management tool at 1.5% per transaction, disconnected from whatever the customer had configured. A salesperson would take the verbal spec, rebuild it in that tool, export a PDF, email it, follow up for a signature, and then handle the deposit separately. Every step was manual re-entry.

Field salespeople had no mobile proposal tool and no way to close at a customer's property without going back to a desk. Content and model pricing edits required a developer, so marketing was bottlenecked on engineering availability. The gap between "customer shows interest" and "deposit collected" was measured in days and depended entirely on who followed up.

The pattern to fix it was Data Change → Generate Document → Collect Signature + Payment. The question was how many handoffs could be eliminated inside a single session. The answer turned out to be all of them.

What we architected

Foundation: the configurator. Autonomous workflow: the pipeline.

Two phases. Phase 1 is the configurator itself, the foundation the entire sales process sits on. Phase 2 is Proposal Mode: the automated pipeline from draft to signature to deposit that runs without a human after the salesperson hits submit.

Phase 1: Configurator Foundation

Nine models, live pricing, dealer mode, and no-code admin control.

01

9-model configurator

Exterior visualization with live pricing across all nine cabin models. Customers select model, size, options, and add-ons. The price updates in real time. No phone call required to get a number.
02

Dealer mode

A dealer-specific view with separate pricing logic, so the direct-to-consumer and dealer channels run off the same configurator without polluting each other's pricing.
03

Admin panel for no-code pricing

Marketing can update model pricing, option costs, and availability from an admin panel with no developer required. The bottleneck on content and pricing changes is eliminated.
04

ACH deposit

A deposit via ACH payments at 0.8% capped at $5, replacing the client-management tool's 1.5% with no cap. Collected at configuration time, before a proposal is even generated. Infrastructure cost: ~$20/mo.

Phase 2: Proposal Pipeline

Draft→review→submit→sign→deposit in one session. Mobile for field sales.

01

Proposal Mode

Salesperson looks up a customer, toggles a discount if applicable, and reviews the configuration. One button generates a branded HTML + PDF proposal and sends it via transactional email with no re-entry of spec, no copy-paste from a config into a template.
02

E-signature

Embedded e-signature at ~$5/mo, a fraction of the legacy document-generation platform cost. The proposal includes a signature block; signature triggers automatic ACH deposit. Customer signs; deposit collects. No follow-up required.
03

Proposals dashboard

Full lifecycle view: draft, sent, signed, deposited, lapsed. Every proposal's status in one screen. A managed data layer with operations-visibility sync for the team.
04

Mobile-responsive for field sales

The full Proposal Mode runs in a mobile browser. A field salesperson at a customer's property can configure, generate the proposal, get the signature, and collect the deposit without leaving the conversation.
05

Headless CMS for content ownership

Marketing edits model descriptions, copy, and images through a headless CMS with no code, no developer dependency, no two-day turnaround on a price update.

Outcomes

Infrastructure costs real. Time savings labeled.

Phase 1 is live. Phase 2 architecture is locked. Infrastructure costs and structural outcomes are real. Manual time estimates are labeled.

Zero-touch
Configure → propose → sign → deposit in a single session. No manual re-entry after the salesperson hits submit.
Real, architecture
9 models
All nine cabin models live in the configurator with exterior visualization and live pricing
Real, from the build
$1,125→~$75/yr
Annual transaction fees eliminated. Client-management tool at 1.5% (uncapped) replaced by ACH payments at 0.8% capped at $5.
Real, based on $75K annual deposit volume
~$25/mo
Total Phase 2 infrastructure cost: payment processing, transactional email, e-signature, data layer, and headless CMS combined
Real, from the build
20 to 45 min
Manual proposal time eliminated per deal: spec re-entry, PDF generation, email, follow-up
Estimate based on prior process
Illustrative
Field-close
A salesperson can configure, propose, sign, and collect deposit at a customer's property, from a phone
Real, mobile-responsive architecture

"A cabin is configured, priced, proposed, signed, and deposited in the same session, without a salesperson touching a spreadsheet or a PDF."

Krastor engagement lead

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