Slatebridge was founded by Fred De Palm, a former property manager who spent years on both sides of the contractor-PM relationship — approving bids during the day and reading flat-rate "$2,000" responses at night, thinking this is ridiculous.
"I was the PM at Discovery Investments approving contractor bids — and also the one reading $2K/32hr responses thinking, this is ridiculous."
The gap was obvious: small contractors doing great work were losing jobs and waiting months for payment — not because of their skills, but because of paperwork. The best handyman in the Bay Area might never get hired because his bids look unprofessional. The most reliable vendor might wait 45 days for a check because his invoices are handwritten.
Slatebridge builds focused tools that slot into how contractors already work. No six-month implementations. No enterprise sales rigmarole. No software that requires a training session. Just tools that save hours on the stuff you hate doing.