COMPARE · CHECKED OCTOBER 19, 2026
JobTread vs Peak
JobTread is budget-first job management for builders and remodelers, with an AI connector at no extra fee. Peak's tools are free, and its assistant asks before it sends and can undo a change.
TL;DR
Pick JobTread if you run budget-heavy remodels or builds and want deep job costing today. Pick Peak if you want estimates, invoices and jobs free, and an assistant with approval rules and undo.
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SIDE BY SIDE
JobTread and Peak, row by row.
What JobTread's own pages said on October 19, 2026, next to what Peak does today.
| JobTread | Peak |
|---|---|
| What it covers | |
| Budgets, proposals, change orders, bid requests, purchase orders, invoices, schedules and portals for customers and vendors. | Leads and customers, estimates with e-sign and change orders, invoices, projects, crews, a dispatch board, a time clock, job photos and daily logs, plus Sherpa. |
| Pricing model | |
| One plan at $199 a month with the first user, plus $20 a month per extra internal user. 20% off yearly. | The software is free. No per-user fee and no contract. You pay your own texting, email, AI and payment providers directly. |
| AI | |
| Built-in AI for budgets, forms, daily-log summaries, receipts and reports, plus an AI connector for Claude and ChatGPT with no extra JobTread fee. | Sherpa looks things up and makes changes in every Peak tool, from chat or from your own AI assistant. Anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for your OK. It runs on your own AI key. |
| Phone app | |
| No app store app. You add it to your phone's home screen from the browser. | Installs from your phone's browser to your home screen. The crew app works offline. No App Store or Google Play app yet. |
| Your data | |
| A public API on its one plan, and an official AI connector with read, write or delete access. We didn't find a help article on exporting customers. | When sign-up opens, your customer data lives in a database you own, not ours. Export contacts as a spreadsheet or download the whole database any time. |
| Getting started | |
| Sign up on your own or book a demo. Implementation, training and a customer success manager are included free. | Sign in and start. Bring contacts and your price book over from spreadsheets. Texting, email, AI and payments start when you connect your own accounts, or we connect them for you (Get set up, $997 one-time). |
WHAT IT COSTS
Their published price, and ours.
JobTread
- One plan with every feature: $199/mo, including the first internal user
- Extra internal users: $20/mo each (less per user as you add more)
- Save 20% with yearly billing
- The AI connector has no extra JobTread fee; you pay for your own Claude or ChatGPT plan
From JobTread's pricing page. Customer, vendor and sub portal users are free. No contract and no setup fees. There's no free trial; monthly plans have a 30-day money-back guarantee.
From jobtread.com, checked October 19, 2026. Prices change, so confirm on their site.
Peak tools
$0
Free when sign-up opens (soon). You bring your own accounts for AI, texting, email and payments. Today the tools come with every Peak service plan.
Want our team to run your marketing or lead follow-up? That's a paid service, and the tools come with it. See service pricing.
WHERE JOBTREAD IS STRONG
Credit where it's due.
- One budget that every proposal, change order, bid and invoice is built from
- Clear rules for editing a signed order: it goes back to draft and the signatures clear
- A payment schedule on the proposal: when the customer approves, the first invoice can go out on its own and the rest are saved as drafts
- Bid requests to subs and vendors, with the chosen bid pushed into the budget
- An official AI connector for Claude and ChatGPT, with a sign-in and read, write or delete access levels
WHERE JOBTREAD IS AHEAD
What Peak doesn't do yet.
If one of these is a must-have, take it seriously.
- Budget-first job costing, bid requests and takeoff that Peak doesn't have yet
- A simple connect flow for Claude and ChatGPT with read, write and delete access levels
- Supplier catalogs
Everything not in the Peak tools yet
- iPhone and Android apps in the app stores (the tools install from your phone's browser today)
- QuickBooks and Xero sync
- Full job costing, estimate vs actual on every line
- Payroll
- A built-in AI phone receptionist
- AI takeoff from plans
WHERE PEAK IS DIFFERENT
What you get with Peak that JobTread doesn't do.
- The Peak tools are free. JobTread is $199 a month plus $20 for each extra internal user.
- Sherpa has a rule for every action. Anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for your approval, and you can undo a change within 10 minutes. JobTread's own AI guide says its connector has no automatic undo.
- You can text Sherpa from the job site once your texting number is connected. JobTread's connector works inside a chat you start in Claude or ChatGPT.
The software is free
No per-user fee and no contract for the tools. You bring your own accounts for AI, texting, email and payments, and pay those companies directly at their prices. We don't mark them up.
Your data, your accounts
When sign-up opens, your customer data lives in a database you own, not ours. Export it any time. If you leave, you take everything with you.
Sherpa does the work, inside rules
Tell Sherpa "add a note to Susan Park: gate goes on the north side." It finds her and adds it, or asks you to reply YES first when the rules say so. Anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for your approval. You can see every rule, and you can only make them stricter.
A team if you want one
You can run the tools on your own. If you'd rather have help, our team runs the marketing, lead follow-up and AI setup for you on a paid plan.
Read every Sherpa rule on what Sherpa will and won't do.
SWITCHING
Moving from JobTread to Peak.
Most of it is two spreadsheets. Run both side by side for a week if you like.
Step 1
Export from JobTread
We didn't find a JobTread help article on exporting your customers. Ask JobTread support for a spreadsheet of your customers and cost items before you cancel.
Step 2
Import your customers
In Peak, open Contacts and choose Import. Upload the spreadsheet and match the columns. Rows with the same email or phone merge instead of making duplicates.
Step 3
Bring your price book
The Estimator imports your items and prices from a spreadsheet. There's a template to fill in if your old export doesn't line up.
Step 4
Connect your own accounts
Hook up your texting number, email, AI key and Stripe when you're ready to send and get paid. Nothing goes out until you do.
Step 5
Finish open jobs, then switch
Let jobs already in progress finish where they are, and start new ones in Peak. Rather not do the move yourself? Our team can help.
WHAT YOU SET UP
What works the day you sign in.
The tools are free. Texting, email, AI and payments run on accounts you own, so you pay those companies directly.
Works when you sign in
- Customers, deals, notes and tasks
- Estimates with options, change orders and invoices, shared by link
- Projects, phases, crew schedules, photos and daily logs
- A customer page for each job
Needs your own account
- Texting
- Two-way texts, missed-call text-back, text review requests and texting Sherpa. Connect your own texting account (such as Twilio), with your number registered with the carriers. Nothing sends or charges until you do.
- Sending estimates, invoices and messages by email. Connect your own email sending account. Nothing sends or charges until you do.
- AI
- Sherpa and AI drafts. Connect your own AI key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or a compatible provider). Nothing sends or charges until you do.
- Payments
- Card and bank payments on invoices. Connect your own Stripe account. Nothing sends or charges until you do.
Rather not do it yourself? Get set up: we connect all four and import your contacts and price book, $997 one-time.
Pick JobTread if
You run budget-heavy remodels or builds and want deep job costing today.
Pick Peak if
You want estimates, invoices and jobs free, and an assistant with approval rules and undo.
JOBTREAD VS PEAK
Common questions.
Both let an AI work in your data. Sherpa adds a rule for every action: look-ups run right away, changes can ask you first, and anything that reaches a customer or moves money waits for approval. You can undo a change within 10 minutes. JobTread's own AI guide, when we checked on October 19, 2026, said its connector has no automatic undo.
The Peak tools are free when sign-up opens. You pay your own AI, texting, email and payment providers. JobTread was $199 a month plus $20 per extra internal user when we checked on October 19, 2026.
Not yet. Full estimate vs actual job costing isn't in the Peak tools today. Peak handles estimates, change orders, invoices, payments, schedules and photos.
Yes. Get a spreadsheet of your customers from JobTread, then import it in Peak's Contacts and bring your price book into the Estimator. Let open jobs finish in JobTread and start new ones in Peak.
MORE BUILDER AND REMODELER SOFTWARE
Sources for this page (6)
- One plan, $199/mo, $20 per extra user, 20% off yearly, free portal users, no contract or setup fees, no free trial, 30-day money-back, free implementation: www.jobtread.com/pricing (read October 19, 2026)
- Built-in AI features and the AI connector: www.jobtread.com/features/ai (read October 19, 2026)
- Connector: no extra JobTread fee, access levels, no automatic undo, works inside a chat you start: app.jobtread.com/tutorials/ai-faq.md (read October 19, 2026)
- No app store app; add to home screen: www.jobtread.com/features/mobile-app (read October 19, 2026)
- Public API tutorials; no export-customers tutorial found: app.jobtread.com/tutorials/index.json (read October 19, 2026)
- Budget-first documents, edit-after-approval rules, payment schedule, bid requests, takeoff, supplier catalogs (tutorials): app.jobtread.com/llms.txt (read October 16, 2026)
How we checked: we read JobTread's public pages, pricing and help center on October 19, 2026, without signing up or logging in. JobTread is a trademark of its owner, used here only to identify the product. Peak Engine isn't affiliated with or endorsed by JobTread. Spot a mistake? Email hello@peak-engine.com and we'll fix it.
Try Peak next to JobTread.
Leads, estimates, invoices, jobs and photos, with Sherpa doing the office work.
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