EDEN
How does a specialized homeowner-facing sales/proposal experience differ from both generic FSMs and Airship?
- –How much of the traditional salesperson/estimator experience can be moved directly to the homeowner?
- –What does EDEN present that a generic FSM proposal does not?
- –How does it differ from Airship, which sells to the salesperson rather than the homeowner?
- –Where does the homeowner's willingness to self-serve run out?
Establish what a trade-specific proposal experience provides that a generic FSM proposal does not — and whether Treehouse's current approach is actually better or merely different.
Treehouse's guided homeowner information collection, plus PandaDoc-based proposal generation
EDEN is the closest analogue to the homeowner-facing half of Treehouse's flow — guided collection feeding a presented offer. It is the reference point for how far the homeowner can be taken without a salesperson.Treehouse internal
Homeowner self-service proposal experiences may only work for well-defined, catalogue-like jobs. Whether that generalizes to messier electrical work is open, and is part of what the proposal comparison should settle.Hypothesis
Thesis
- User
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- JTBD
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- Wedge
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- System role
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- Monetization
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- Treehouse relevance
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Distinctive flows
Homeowner intake
0/5 collectedLens: How much is the homeowner asked to know?
Proposal experience
0/11 collectedLens: What does a specialized homeowner-facing proposal provide that a generic FSM proposal does not?
Acceptance & handoff
0/4 collectedLens: Who owns the homeowner relationship, and what does the contractor actually receive?
Business model
0/3 collectedLens: Who pays, and for what?
Business-model insight
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Conclusion: Investigate further
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Low-software-maturity fit
UnknownUnresearchedCould a contractor who works locally, runs the business from a phone, may have no website, barely uses email, and may have no FSM at all realistically adopt this?
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Treehouse system boundary
UnresearchedNot yet researched.Unresearched
Not yet established — the boundary should be derived from evidence, not assumed.