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Nucase

Nucase helps homeowners price a renovation from home and get matched with a contractor

Year
2024–2026
Type
Web app
Tech stack
Next.js, DatoCMS, MongoDB, Clerk
Partner sign-up, tasks and areas, on mobile

Overview

Nucase takes the surprises out of planning a home renovation. Homeowners describe their home and the work they want done, get an instant estimate and a detailed report, and their project goes straight to vetted contractors.

SmplCo designed the product and the brand. I built the platform end to end, from the homeowner flow and the AI assistant to the contractor dashboard and the admin tools.

01 · Estimate

Choose the rooms and the work. The price updates as you go.

Homeowners start with their address and type of home, then pick the areas to renovate from illustrated cards, indoors and out. For each area they choose the work and the materials, and the estimate updates instantly, priced per item, per square meter or per meter.

Choose a project and the areas to renovate
Add the work for each area
Areas, price estimate and report, on mobile
02 · AI assistant

Describe the project. The assistant fills in the estimate.

Homeowners who’d rather explain it in their own words can chat with the Nucase assistant. It adds the right areas, tasks and materials to the estimate and asks for approval before changing anything. The Nucase team decides which tasks it can suggest.

AI assistant
03 · Contractors

Every request, sent to the right contractor.

Contractors join Nucase as partners and get their own dashboard with the jobs assigned to them, where they update each job’s status and invite their team. Homeowners who arrive through a contractor’s invite link are assigned to that contractor automatically.

Your jobs, in the contractor dashboard
Brand and illustrations by SmplCo

Behind the scenes

01

Reports that stay accurate

Each estimate becomes a PDF report emailed to the homeowner, and it still renders exactly the same after prices change.

02

An admin console

The Nucase team follows every project on a timeline, assigns contractors and exports the full task catalog.

03

A catalog the team runs

Areas, tasks, prices and illustrations live in DatoCMS, so the catalog changes without a developer.

Tech stack

FrameworkNext.js, React, TypeScript
StylingTailwind CSS, Headless UI
ContentDatoCMS, with GraphQL
Data and filesMongoDB, Vercel Blob
AccountsClerk, with Organizations for contractors
AIVercel AI SDK, OpenAI
Reports and emailsReact Email, Resend, react-print, DocRaptor
HostingVercel
Next projectIntigriti