For owner-run tree crews
Steady work in your slow months. Your rate. Your name on the truck.
Groundkept brings property-manager tree jobs to small crews, so you can climb instead of selling. You quote at your own rate, get paid every week, and keep your own brand. Compete with the big guys. Stay your own boss.
3 crews for our January–April 2027 pilot.
Sound familiar?
When the schedule has more gaps than jobs
- January comes, and the phone goes quiet.
- You spend evenings bidding jobs you don't win.
- You did the work weeks ago and you're still chasing the check.
- A lead app charged you for a customer who never picked up.
What changes
Work that comes to you, pay that shows up
Steady pilot work
Property-manager tree jobs through the pilot, at your own rate. No bidding against ten other crews.
Paid every week
Jobs that pass QA by Friday are paid on Monday. Faster payouts are free during the pilot.
Still your business
You're your own company, in partnership with Groundkept. Not a gig worker.
How it works
How a job reaches you
- STEP 01
You get the job
The address and what's needed. Take it or pass.
- STEP 02
Measure and quote
Quote from your phone with our app: clean line items a manager can approve.
- STEP 03
Do the work
On the date you committed to. Close it out with photos.
- STEP 04
Get paid
Pass QA by Friday, get paid Monday.
The founding terms
What a founding crew gets, and what we ask
What you get
- Steady pilot work at your own rate
- Our quote app, free
- Weekly pay: QA passed by Friday, paid Monday
- Faster payouts free during the pilot
- A small pilot bonus on each job for your feedback
- You keep your brand
- Founding status, earned after a trial
What we ask
- Three days a week through the pilot
- Proof of insurance
- A few trial jobs
Is it a fit?
Who the founding crew seats are for
A good fit
- Owner-run crews with 1–5 trucks, where the owner still works the jobs
- Real tree work: climbing or a bucket truck
- An ISA-certified arborist on the crew, or a clear rule for when to hand a job off
- Insured, with a smartphone, and you answer texts the same day
Probably not, yet
- No insurance
- Looking for gig work, or not wanting to keep your own brand
- Already booked solid all year
Questions
What crews ask us
- Does it cost anything to join?
- No. The quote app is free, and so are faster payouts during the pilot.
- Who sets the price?
- You do. You quote at your own rate, line by line.
- Where are you working?
- We're choosing the pilot area now. Tell us where you work, and we'll tell you honestly whether the pilot covers it.
- Do I have to wear your shirt?
- No. It's your company and your truck, in partnership with Groundkept.