Business plan: SnowSheet 0.1.0 beta
Buyer
Solo and two-person snow-removal operators in US snow-belt states who run residential routes from a pickup truck. They already own the truck and plow; their pain is storm-day paperwork, not equipment.
Offer
A free storm-day operating sheet: the operator enters the day's route once and receives a printable route card with per-stop time windows, a service-log CSV, a day invoice CSV, and a close note. The operator keeps every record; SnowSheet never sees their client list.
Why it beats a generic chatbot or a blank spreadsheet
- Time windows are computed from per-service minutes, so the route card tells the operator when they should be at each stop.
- The service log and invoice CSV are generated from the same data, so the day's billing matches the day's work — the record that settles "you never came" disputes.
- Privacy rules are enforced in the tool: emails, phone numbers, and card numbers are rejected; only a first name and stop labels are kept.
Fulfilment
The operator runs the browser demo (or the OPEN-ME file), prints or saves the route card, works the route, and files one invoice CSV per storm day. No accounts, no integrations, no onboarding.
Revenue mechanism (hypothesis)
The kit is free. A future operator could sell seasonal residential plans ($200–$600/season per home is the published range) — the kit itself takes no cut and processes no payments.
Kill tests
- Three free storm days with a real operator: they must reuse the sheet for a second storm, or the wedge is wrong.
- The tool must not be presented as dispatch, GPS tracking, or automatic invoicing.
Limits
Weather decides revenue. A snowless winter produces no route days. Pricing in the economics page is assumptions-only; the operator sets their own prices.