Hive Five Labs
Independent software studio

Five companies.
One job each,
done well.

Hive Five Labs builds focused vertical software for underserved trades — one job done well, at a tenth the price of the giants.

01 · THE FIVE

Five verticals the giants priced out.

Each is its own company with its own product, brand and customers. What they share is a thesis: pick one expensive headache in an underserved trade and solve it properly, for a fraction of what the incumbents charge.

Footing

Know your margins.

QuickBooks-connected WIP schedules and gross-margin tracking for construction accountants and GCs.

$49–249/mo
Live

Stamp

Your whole signing business in one app.

Appointments, state-compliant journal, GPS mileage, invoicing and 1099 export for mobile notaries and signing agents.

$19/mo
Private beta

Cubby

Run your whole facility from one screen.

Tenant ledgers, autopay, lien automation and gate-code control for sub-100-unit self-storage operators.

$49/mo
Coming soon

Truck

Enterprise software, minus the BS.

Flat-rate price book, mobile quoting and simple dispatch for solo and 1–3 truck HVAC shops.

$59/truck/mo
Coming soon

Shingle

Photograph the damage. Drive off with the report.

AI-drafted, insurance-ready roof inspection reports — captured and exported on-site, before climbing back in the truck.

$79/rep/mo
Coming soon

More to come

Same playbook, new trade.

Every company starts the same way — find ten people paying to make a real problem go away, then build.

02 · APPROACH

How we pick what to build.

Software for the bottom 70% of a market the incumbents only serve at the top. Three rules keep us honest.

01

Pain first, features second.

We only build where there's a specific, expensive headache — not a feature wish list. If it doesn't save real time or recover real money, it doesn't ship.

02

For operators, not investors.

Built by people who'd actually use the tool, in the customer's own vocabulary — facilities, trucks, signings, reps, WIP — and priced for a single operator.

03

One-tenth the price — on purpose.

ServiceTitan, Storable, CompanyCam, Notary Gadget — great for the top 30%. We're the small thing that does one job well for the rest.