Every job, one pipeline
Water, fire, mold, rebuild — from first call to final invoice, with estimate, budget, and margin live on every job.
For restoration contractors
Every job, crew, and referral. One portal.
NLC builds custom operations portals for independent restoration contractors — job pipeline from first call to final invoice, live margins on every job, referral sources tracked automatically, and your existing tools connected instead of replaced.
Built for independent contractorsWorks with Xactimate & QuickBooksYou own the system and the data
A real example
Modeled on a portal we built for a restoration company.
ops.tidewater-restoration.com
ProjectStatusCurrent milestoneDepartmentEstimateBudgetMargin
M. Alvarez — ReconstructionIn ProgressSubcontractor agreement sentReconstruction$1,470$1,000$470
S. Clark — WaterIn ProgressInvoice package sentWater$1,930$700$1,230
C. Smith — ReconstructionIn ProgressProcess onboarding completeReconstruction$7,332$3,200$4,132
A. Novak — WaterScheduledAdjuster review scheduledWater$2,104$465$1,639
R. Mills — BiohazardIn ProgressThird-party review processBiohazard$14,865$855$14,010
Sound familiar?
The problems we get hired to end.
- Job status lives in group texts, whiteboards, and someone's memory
- Mitigation and rebuild run on systems that don't talk to each other
- Someone rebuilds the WIP report in Excel every single week
- Referral partners send you work — and nobody tracks who sent what
- Your job software charges per seat, then charges again to get your own data out
If three of these hit home, a portal pays for itself.
What you get
Run every job like your best job.
Referral tracking built in
Know exactly which adjusters, plumbers, and agents send you work, and never miss the follow-up that keeps them sending it.
Works with what you run
Xactimate exports, QuickBooks, TPA documentation — connected to the portal so nothing gets retyped or lost.
You own it — data and all
No per-seat fees that grow with your crew. No export ransom. The portal and every record in it belong to you.
How it works
From first call to working software.
- 01
Tell us how jobs run today
A short call about your operation — where jobs stall, what gets rebuilt by hand, what falls through the cracks.
- 02
Get a concrete plan
A clear proposal: what we'd build, what it connects to, what it costs, and what improves first.
- 03
See working software fast
We ship in focused releases, so the highest-value part of your operation improves in weeks — not after a year.
Nick Chiafullo
President, NLC Consulting
"What clients actually hire me for is judgment: building the right solution, keeping it maintainable, and owning it from idea to production. If your team spends more time fighting software than running jobs, that's a fixable problem."
Free consultation
Tell us how your jobs run today.
The systems you use, the reports someone builds by hand, where jobs stall — we'll come back with a straight answer on what a portal could automate and what it would take.
Prefer direct? nick@nlc.consulting or (856) 522-4261