Built by a Contractor,
for Contractors.
I'll be honest with you: I'm not book smart. I never have been.
I got my contracting license like most of you probably did — grinding through hundreds of pages of code books, memorizing tables I'd forget the minute I walked out of the exam room. What actually stuck wasn't the code itself. It was learning how to find things. How to index. How to navigate a massive book fast enough that it doesn't kill your whole afternoon.
And then there's permitting. Let's be real — even for experienced contractors, pulling a permit can feel like a moving target. Every jurisdiction does it differently. The fees are unclear, the process isn't always posted anywhere obvious, and half the time you're just hoping you're talking to the right person at the right office. For homeowners and newer contractors especially, it's genuinely intimidating. A lot of people avoid it altogether because they don't even know where to start. That's not good for anyone.
So I built Tacked to solve my own problems — and hopefully make that whole process a little less painful for everyone else too.
One problem at a time, for a decade's worth of problems.
Today Tacked has 25+ tools, covers 380+ cities across all 50 states, and speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese. It works offline as a full PWA, knows the difference between IRC and 780 CMR, generates a branded bid PDF from a site photo, fills permit applications automatically, and gives the homeowner a clean status link they can check anytime. It's not fancy. It's just the toolkit I wish I'd had on every project for the last ten years — built by someone who learns by doing, for everyone else who does the same.