Stop Guessing Your Crew Size — Meet the HourlyIQ Crew Planner
Written on July 30th, 2025 at 10:00 pm
Most home service and trades businesses deal with some level of seasonality.
There’s a clear busy season and a slower one. If you want to grow year over year without overextending, getting your crew size right is critical. Too small and you’ll miss revenue. Too big and you’ll burn profit.
When I ran my own company, we’d ramp from 2 techs in February to 32 by May. Planning that was chaos. I relied on spreadsheets, notes, gut calls, and hard-won experience. Every season was a scramble, and every mistake cost us money.
So we built something better.
The Crew Planner is now live in HourlyIQ.
It connects directly to your monthly goals and tells you how many techs you’ll need — and when to add them. You’ll get real, actionable recommendations like:
“Add 1 technician by May 1st.”
These suggestions are based on your actual workload and capacity, using data pulled from Jobber or Housecall Pro.
You can also try out different growth strategies and instantly see how they’d impact your crew. Want to grow faster? Hire earlier. Want to stay lean? See how far you can stretch your team.
What used to take hours now takes seconds.
That’s nearly seven weeks from first contact to final payment — and the actual work might’ve only taken a day or two.
(Or, if you’re not using HourlyIQ yet,
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After 15 years running a home service business, I know how frustrating it is to fly blind with messy or missing numbers.
CRMs are great at collecting data—but terrible at helping you make sense of it.
That’s exactly why I built HourlyIQ.
Brandon Lazar
Founder of HourlyIQ
