# xPLUMBx

> xPLUMBx is the plumbing service operating system on the Biz Dev App: a
> complete business workspace — not a scheduling app and not a CRM —
> scaffolded with 15 modules, 5 record types and 4 named workflows that a
> plumbing service business actually runs on. Work is priced on flat-rate
> task book with good/better/best options per repair.

## What it is for
Emergency in, options presented, job closed on the first visit.

The buyer is an owner or operator of a plumbing service business who is
currently running the work across a calendar, a phone, a notebook and a
separate invoicing tool. xPLUMBx 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
Maintenance & Repair — Diagnosis before labor. Margin lives in the truck stock and in how fast a
first visit becomes a closed job.

## What the platform assesses
Camera-inspection frames and fixture photos classify the failure and pull the
matching flat-rate task set.

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
flat-rate task book with good/better/best options per repair

## Records the workspace keeps
- Property plumbing profile: fixtures, water heater, main line
- Flat-rate task book with option tiers
- Camera inspection footage tied to the job
- Permit and inspection record
- Truck stock by van with reorder points

## Workflows it ships with
- After-hours intake → priority dispatch → on-site options
- Camera inspection attached to the repair recommendation
- Permit pull and inspection scheduling for code work
- Water heater replacement quoted from the existing record

## 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
- ERP - Vendors & Purchasing
- Voice & Telephony
- Talent Network
- Media Library (Audio/Video/Image)

## Integrations wired first
- Supply house catalogs
- Municipal permit portals
- Stripe
- QuickBooks

## The numbers the owner checks
- First-visit close rate
- Average ticket by call type
- Emergency response time
- Permit cycle time

## Who buys
- Homeowners in emergency failure
- Property managers with repeat unit calls
- General contractors needing a licensed sub

## What hurts without it
- Time-and-materials pricing that punishes fast technicians
- Repeat calls to the same unit with no service history
- Permits tracked on a whiteboard

## How the business makes money
- Emergency and scheduled service calls
- Water heater, repipe, and sewer replacement
- Annual whole-home inspection memberships

## What it costs
- The workspace opens free, scaffolded with all 15 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 xPLUMBx a separate product from the Biz Dev App?
No. xPLUMBx is the plumbing service configuration of the Biz Dev App — the
same platform, the same ledger, the same support, scaffolded with the 15
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 xPLUMBx price a job?
On flat-rate task book with good/better/best options per repair. 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?
Supply house catalogs, Municipal permit portals, Stripe, QuickBooks are wired
first, because those are what a plumbing service 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
xPLUMBx 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
- xHVACx (HVAC Service & Installation) — https://thebdapp.com/xhvacx
- xELECTRICx (Electrical Contracting) — https://thebdapp.com/xelectricx
- xAPPLIANCEx (Appliance Repair) — https://thebdapp.com/xappliancex
- xHANDYMANx (Handyman & Small Works) — https://thebdapp.com/xhandymanx

## Key pages
- https://thebdapp.com/xplumbx — this page
- https://thebdapp.com/xplumbx#how — intake, price, dispatch, prove, settle
- https://thebdapp.com/xplumbx#workspace — the module inventory
- https://thebdapp.com/xplumbx#operations — records, workflows, integrations, KPIs
- https://thebdapp.com/xplumbx#signals — how the platform finds work before it is advertised
- https://thebdapp.com/xplumbx#cost — what it costs
- https://thebdapp.com/x/plumbing — 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