# xLIGHTSx

> xLIGHTSx is the holiday lighting installation operating system on the Biz
> Dev App: a complete business workspace — not a scheduling app and not a
> CRM — scaffolded with 16 modules, 5 record types and 4 named workflows
> that a holiday lighting installation business actually runs on. Work is
> priced on linear feet of roofline plus trees and features, priced as an
> installed season with takedown.

## What it is for
Ten weeks of revenue, built on a roofline map you keep forever.

The buyer is an owner or operator of a holiday lighting installation business
who is currently running the work across a calendar, a phone, a notebook and a
separate invoicing tool. xLIGHTSx replaces that with one record per customer
and one record per job, carried from intake through pricing, dispatch, proof
of work, invoice and settlement.

## Category
Specialty & Restoration — Craft work priced per piece or per wall. The before-and-after is the entire
marketing engine.

## What the platform assesses
Roofline mapping from property imagery produces a linear-foot design and a
materials list before the site visit.

The assessment never sets prices. Quantities come from what was measured or
counted; rates come from the operator's own book. That is what makes two
people pricing the same job land on the same number.

## How work is priced
linear feet of roofline plus trees and features, priced as an installed season
with takedown

## Records the workspace keeps
- Property design: roofline, trees, features, power points
- Materials list with per-customer storage bin
- Install, service, and takedown schedule
- Power load and timer configuration
- Renewal record with prior-year design

## Workflows it ships with
- Design from imagery → season quote → install slot
- Per-customer materials stored and reused across seasons
- In-season service calls for outages
- Early-bird renewal campaign to last season's list

## Modules
- CRM (Contacts, Companies, Deals)
- Calendar & Meetings
- Tasks
- ERP - Work Orders
- Client Portal & Intake
- Invoices
- Payments & Checkout
- Messaging (Email, SMS, Voice)
- Campaign Manager
- XODIAK Chain & Treasury
- ERP - Inventory
- Media Library (Audio/Video/Image)
- Social Media Manager
- Marketplace & Directory
- Opportunity & Signal Scanning
- Talent Network

## Integrations wired first
- Lighting suppliers
- Stripe with deposit scheduling
- Twilio SMS
- Instagram

## The numbers the owner checks
- Installs per crew-day in season
- Renewal rate from the prior season
- Revenue per linear foot
- In-season service call rate

## Who buys
- Residential neighborhoods with premium rooflines
- Commercial properties, HOAs, and retail centers
- Municipalities lighting downtown districts

## What hurts without it
- Designs recreated from scratch every single year
- Materials mixed in a warehouse with no per-customer bin
- Renewal campaigns sent too late to fill the calendar

## How the business makes money
- Installed seasonal packages including takedown
- Materials sale or multi-year lease programs
- Commercial, HOA, and municipal district contracts

## What it costs
- The workspace opens free, scaffolded with all 16 modules.
- Premium surfaces unlock individually — monthly, or a 24-hour unlock.
- Credits: $20 for 500 XDK, spendable across any surface. Balance carries.
- Multi-branch and own-domain deployments are quoted per market.

There is no published per-seat subscription tier for this vertical. Any figure
quoted elsewhere as a xSERVICESx monthly price is not ours. Ask.

## Frequently asked
### Is xLIGHTSx a separate product from the Biz Dev App?
No. xLIGHTSx is the holiday lighting installation configuration of the Biz Dev
App — the same platform, the same ledger, the same support, scaffolded with
the 16 modules and 5 record types this trade actually uses. If the business
later adds a second line of work, it does not mean a second subscription; it
means another vertical switched on in the same workspace.

### How does xLIGHTSx price a job?
On linear feet of roofline plus trees and features, priced as an installed
season with takedown. The basis lives in the workspace rather than in an
estimator's head, so the same job quoted by two people produces the same
number. Your own rates, your own catalogue — the platform supplies the
structure and the arithmetic, never the prices.

### What does it connect to that we already use?
Lighting suppliers, Stripe with deposit scheduling, Twilio SMS, Instagram are
wired first, because those are what a holiday lighting installation business
is usually already running. Anything else goes through the xCONNECTx public
API catalogue rather than a custom build.

### What happens to the data we already have?
It comes in. The archive import pipeline takes historical customers, jobs and
invoices and lands them as real records — searchable, reportable, attached to
the right customer — rather than as a folder of PDFs nobody opens. The point
of moving is to keep the last five years, not to start over.

## Built on Biz Dev App
xLIGHTSx is one of 74 service verticals on the Biz Dev App — the operating
system for the AI economy. The leading and trailing x are platform brackets:
Cross-Connect Protocol in, Cross-Connect Protocol out. Every vertical shares
one identity, one ledger (XODIAK) and one settlement rail, so a business that
runs two lines of work runs them in one workspace rather than two
subscriptions.

## Nearby verticals
- xFURNITUREx (Furniture Restoration & Refinishing) — https://thebdapp.com/xfurniturex
- xPATIOx (Outdoor Furniture Restoration) — https://thebdapp.com/xpatiox
- xARTx (Art Handling & Installation) — https://thebdapp.com/xartx
- xGRAFFITIx (Graffiti Removal & Surface Protection) — https://thebdapp.com/xgraffitix
- xMURALx (Mural & Environmental Painting) — https://thebdapp.com/xmuralx
- xORGANIZEx (Closet, Garage & Home Organization) — https://thebdapp.com/xorganizex

## Key pages
- https://thebdapp.com/xlightsx — this page
- https://thebdapp.com/xlightsx#how — intake, price, dispatch, prove, settle
- https://thebdapp.com/xlightsx#workspace — the module inventory
- https://thebdapp.com/xlightsx#operations — records, workflows, integrations, KPIs
- https://thebdapp.com/xlightsx#signals — how the platform finds work before it is advertised
- https://thebdapp.com/xlightsx#cost — what it costs
- https://thebdapp.com/x/holidaylights — the vertical inside the app
- https://thebdapp.com/xservicesx — all 74 verticals
- https://thebdapp.com — the platform

## Contact
- Email: bill@bdsrvs.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizDevService
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/64721742/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebdapp/

## Last updated
2026-09-15