Every deck app on the market was made by somebody who sells software, lumber, or hardware. Da Deck Boss Pro was made by a working deck contractor — Da Deck Boss LLC, Windsor, Connecticut — who pulls permits, builds the decks, and stands there for the inspections. The app runs on the same IRC R507 code tables he builds to. His inspection record on that license: zero failures. When the app sizes a beam, it’s sizing it the way the man who signs the permit set builds it.
The estimate is in their hands before you leave the yard.
Design it, price it Good/Better/Best, pull the takeoff and the permit blueprints — one visit, one app, under 15 minutes on site. The old way was measure today, draw it up at the office, call the yard, and get a number to the customer two days later — two days after somebody else already did. First professional number wins the job. This is how you bring it with you.
Blueprints drawn from the code book, not from vibes.
The drawings are generated from the 2021 IRC R507 deck tables — joist spans, beam spans, footing sizes, ledger fastening — the same tables the town inspector works from. Build to the blueprint and the inspection is a formality. That’s not a slogan; it’s the maker’s own record, exported into software.
It works in the backyard. No signal required.
Design, pricing, and takeoff run 100% on the phone, offline. Backyards have dead zones, basements have no bars, and rural lots have nothing — the app doesn’t care. No Wi-Fi in the backyard? It still opens, it still prices, it still prints the job.
Cut-optimized material lists.
The takeoff doesn’t just count boards — it cut-plans them, mapping cuts to stock lengths to squeeze the waste out of every board. Fewer boards bought, fewer offcuts hauled away, and the list matches the design you actually drew — including the picture-frame border and the stairs.
One tap sends the takeoff to the yard.
The full takeoff exports as a CSV file — lines, quantities, cut lengths — ready to hand or send to your supplier, priced from the supplier books already in the app. Not a screenshot. Not a photo of a notebook page. A file the counter can work from.
The crew build packet.
One branded printout carries the whole job: blueprints, structural specs, the takeoff, and the cut list. What you designed is what the crew builds — no translation errors between the estimate in your truck and the framing on the ground.
It frames the way you actually build.
The app designs on an inboard beam line with a 2-foot cantilever, joists sized off the real span — not the textbook edge-beam layout software defaults to because it’s easier to draw. Ledger fastening lands at the spacing the table calls for. A contractor looking at these drawings recognizes his own framing, because that’s whose framing it is.
Real colors. Real brands. Real prices.
Pick the decking color and the design view shows the boards in that color — Trex, TimberTech, Wolf, wood, the lines your customers actually cross-shop, not one brand’s catalog. Prices come pre-loaded from real supplier books (you set your own labor rate; the materials pricing is editable, never locked). Homeowners get the same honesty: design your deck in its real colors, see the real price, then build it yourself or hand a decided, budget-real plan to a contractor.
Other apps do one part of the deck job and stop. This one was built to do the whole job — because the man who built it does the whole job, every week, under his own license.
Your customers are never our product. We don’t sell leads, and your job data is yours.
