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For owner-run contractors and trades businesses

Know what your business can afford. Before you commit.

1271 connects your QuickBooks books, your jobs and your crew's hours into one honest forecast: cash for the next 13 weeks, the year ahead, and the few questions that change both.

Works with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Time today. Houzz Pro is next. No change to how you keep your books.

Overview · demo company · synthetic data
Cash falls below the $30,000 reserve on Oct 31 and reaches −$8,900 on Dec 11.
Expected scenario · known subtotal · incomplete · as of Oct 2 · 1 missing cost input
Cash at cutoff
$72,000
Accounting balance · Oct 2
Lowest point
−$8,900
Dec 11 · incomplete
Signed backlog
$275,000
Remaining earned work
Reserve $30,000
Below the reserve in 7 of 13 weeks. The overdue receipt and one unscheduled job decide it.
What it answers

Four questions, one set of numbers.

Most tools show you what happened. 1271 is built around what you need to decide next, and it says plainly when something is still unknown instead of pretending it is zero.

Cash

What can we afford, and when does it get tight?

Jobs

Which jobs are making money, and which one needs a decision?

Next

What should we do this week that changes the next quarter?

Honesty

What does the forecast not know yet, and who can answer it?

In the app today

Built on your books, not beside them.

Everything marked Live is in the app today. Items marked Coming soon are being built now.

Live

Your QuickBooks books, as they are

Upload the Account List and General Ledger exports from QuickBooks Online. 1271 keeps the original evidence, reconciles its results to your reports and shows every transaction behind a number.

Live

13-week cash and 12-month forecast

Weekly cash against your reserve, a twelve-month operating view, and committed, expected, upside and custom scenarios. Every figure carries its as-of date and says when inputs are incomplete.

Live

Jobs and pipeline

Signed work, remaining earned work, budgets, projected final margin, and opportunities weighted by one win probability. Converted bids are never counted twice.

Live

Crew hours and payroll

Import QuickBooks Time, map job codes and people, see unassigned hours and wages owed. Pay details stay restricted to the people allowed to see them.

Live

Open Items for your team

"Which job was this for?" goes to the person who knows, on their phone, with no financials attached. Their answer updates the forecast.

Live

CFO Brief and Data Health

A plain-language brief of what changed and what to review, generated from the numbers, not by an AI. Data Health lists what is missing, stale or unassigned, with the fix beside it.

Coming soon

Live QuickBooks Online connection

Read-only, approved by Intuit: your chart and ledger refresh on a schedule instead of by export. Overtime and bonuses, billing-basis revenue and work-in-progress land in the same release.

Coming soon

Houzz Pro

Leads, projects and schedules read from Houzz Pro into the same pipeline and forecast. Nothing is written back.

Coming soon

Tax packet for your accountant

Comparative P&L, balance sheet and general ledger as PDF and Excel, pinned so the same download gives the same files. Every unknown is listed on the cover.

Who it's for

Owners who run the work and want the numbers to keep up.

Remodelers, carpenters, tree care, concrete, flooring, handyman companies: businesses with crews, payroll, equipment and signed work ahead, where the books are in QuickBooks and the real information is in the field.

  • You do not need to understand journal entries, WIP or allocation policy. 1271 asks practical questions and shows its work.
  • Your accountant and bookkeeper stay. 1271 reads your books; it never changes them.
  • An advisor is optional. Founder Marcus Roesler, EA, still works with a small number of owners directly.

Unknown is not zero

A missing cost never produces a healthy-looking profit. You see the known subtotal and what is missing.

Every number has a source

As-of date, basis and the records behind it are one click away, on every screen.

Your data stays yours

Company-owned accounts, read-only connections, export on request. Pay details are restricted by role.

No black box

Forecasts are deterministic and reproducible. Snapshots are kept so you can compare what you expected with what happened.

Get started

Pilot onboarding is open.

Tell us about your company and the systems you use. Pricing is shared in that first conversation and is being set during the pilot.

  1. A short call about your business and what you want to decide.
  2. You export two reports from QuickBooks Online; 1271 does the rest.
  3. Your first forecast, brief and open questions.

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