DEMO
LaGrande TillBusiness Development · United States

Dashboard

Looking ahead

Expected billing and shop hours from signed work not yet handed off and weighted pipeline, on the dates the jobs would actually deliver

Pipeline by Stage

Open value and job count in each stage

Hit Rate & Win/Loss

Closed jobs — what we won, what we didn't, and why

Account Health

Top accounts by open pipeline — and who's gone quiet

Geography & Market Activity

Where the pipeline sits — and where it's thin

Estimate Accuracy

How the number moves from first glance to signed contract — the case for tightening the front end

Pipeline

Every job you are working. Drag a card between columns to move it — the stage clock, the forecast and the hit rate all follow.

Drag a card to another column — or use the ‹ › arrows on the card. The board scrolls sideways: use the bar underneath, or the wheel once a column has nothing left to scroll.

Go / No-Go Board

The scorecard gives you a read. The call is yours — and both get recorded, so you can see later whether trusting your gut paid.

At the Gate

Open jobs still waiting on a score, a decision, or both

Decision Log

Calls you have made, most recent first — and where they disagreed with the score

Does the score predict the outcome?

Win rate of closed jobs grouped by the score they got at the gate — this is how you tune the weights

Contacts

People, their firms, and where each one sits against your touch cadence.

This week

Who to call and why, drawn from the log: every follow-up date not yet marked done. Below it, everything logged, on every record.

Follow-ups

The log

Sales Team

Territories, goals, and how each person is actually doing against them.

Goal against actual

Bookings are won contract value dated inside the period — archived work still counts

Estimating resources

Who does the takeoff — and what each of them is carrying

By salesperson

Everything that matters in one row

Estimating discipline

What went forward to a budget or a bid, and what got turned away at the gate

Territory coverage

Who owns what, and where nobody does

Revenue Forecast

Where the work actually lands. Committed backlog separated from weighted pipeline — because a forecast with no dates on it is just a number.

By month

Solid is signed work. Shaded is pipeline, already discounted by probability.

By quarter

The version that goes in front of a director

Coverage

How much of the year is already committed

Job by job

Every live job, its dates, and what it contributes over the window

Archive

Closed work kept out of the working pipeline but never lost. Nothing here counts toward your live numbers — and anything here can come back.

Data & Backup

Your CRM lives in this browser. Export regularly — the file drops into your CRM folder.

Backup & Restore

Export writes a single .json file with every record. Save it in your CRM folder. Import replaces everything currently loaded, so export first if you're unsure.

Bring your own lists in — available in the full version
Brings in a list of firms or people from a spreadsheet. Adds what is new and skips anything already on file, so running it twice is safe. Import the company lists before the contact list — a person is attached to a firm by name.
Sample data is loaded. It's there so the dashboard has something to show. When you're ready to run real work through this, wipe it — the structure stays, only the records go.
Your company & branding
Sets your side of the header and the top of every printable report. The 4CAST mark is part of the software and stays where it is.
Your company logo. PNG with a transparent background looks best — it sits on a dark bar. Resized to 300px wide before it is stored, so a large file is fine to upload.
Your name and logo appear beside the 4CAST mark in the header, at the top of every printable report, and in the Go/No-Go notice. The accent color drives the whole interface.
My details
Every log entry is filed under this name, the header shows it, and the queue on the dashboard narrows to this person\u2019s work. On the platform this becomes the login; in the file it is one setting.
Our shop
Used to work out whether we can self-perform a job or need a licensed local installer. I have deliberately not pre-loaded which states require a license — that varies, it changes, and being wrong about it would be expensive.
Numbering
Estimating assigns the number, and every estimating department numbers its own way, so the format is theirs: {YYYY} or {YY} for the year, {MM} for the month, and a run of # for the sequence ({###} gives 001). Anything else prints as written. The sequence starts over each year when the format carries a year. The format shows greyed out in the field on every job, so a number typed by hand follows it. A number typed on the job itself always wins. The project number is typed at handoff; the estimating number stays on the record as the reference.
Prequalification
The expiration date on a GC record makes a to-do this far ahead, and the renewal list on the GCs page reads the same setting. Some prequal admins have the package out in a few days; others fit it in around their other duties. 30 is the default.
Shop hours
A job’s shop hours are the value it carries (budget, then bid, then the signed contract) times the share, divided by the rate. Most shops run 30 to 50 percent; 40 is the default. Leave the rate at 0 and the forecast stays in dollars only. Either figure can be typed on a job to override it. The hours land in the months the shop would be building the work, so leadership and the shop planners see next month, next quarter and the year in hours as well as dollars.
Go/No-Go thresholds
Each scorecard has its own pair. A score at or above GO recommends going ahead, a score below NO-GO recommends declining, and anything in between is REVIEW, a judgment call. A change applies at once: every score is read against the new thresholds. The Go/No-Go calls already made keep the recommendation they were made under, so their history and the override rate do not move.
Drives how the archive groups closed periods and how reports label a year.
Markets
How states group into markets, for the geography chart, the market filters and territory coverage. Change the color, rename a market, or move a state using the dropdown beside its code. Nothing on a project or company record changes — records store a state, and the market follows from it.

What's Stored

Last saved: —

How this system is meant to run

Morning, 10 minutes. Open the Dashboard. Work the four columns left to right — bid deadlines first, then follow-ups due, then anything stalled, then new leads waiting to be scored. Anything you touch gets logged; the cadence clock resets itself.

New lead comes in. Enter it as a Project at Prospect. Once you've made contact, move it to the gate and score it. A job under the No-Go line either gets declined honestly or gets a condition attached — "we'll bid it if we get the shop drawings early."

On the numbers. Every job carries up to four: first glance, budget, bid, signed contract. Fill each one when it becomes real and leave the rest empty — the pipeline reports whichever rung the job has actually reached, so a prospect never forecasts at a bid price it does not have. Keeping the early numbers on the record is what makes the Estimate Accuracy panel work, and that panel is the honest answer to "how good are your budgets?"

Moving work along. The Pipeline board is the fastest way to keep this current. Drag a card to the next column, or use the ‹ › arrows on the card if that is easier. Dropping a job on Won asks what actually got signed; dropping it on Lost asks why. Every move can be undone from the notice that appears at the bottom of the screen.

Weekly. Check stage aging. A bid sitting 45 days in Bid Review isn't a live job, it's a ghost — either call it or close it. Stale pipeline is the most common reason forecasts lie.

Quarterly. Look at the calibration chart on the Go/No-Go board. If jobs you scored 80+ aren't winning at a materially better clip than the ones you scored 55, the weights are wrong. Adjust them. That feedback loop is the whole point of scoring in the first place.