The truck quote pad

First giveaway from the trades-temperature shortlist: line items in, a professional quote out, on a phone, in a truck, free. This plan records how it gets built and why it starts where it starts.

The prior art, and what it taught

Brad pointed at Nominate-AI/cbapex: a thirteen-app family with a vendored kit (auth, mesh, health, feedback, PWA plumbing), one fleet-credential holder (server/mesh.ts), per-app theming with measured color separation, a components zoo, and a documented app-spawner (cbtemplates/create.sh apex ...). Two of its lessons govern this build:

1. The incubator doctrine, followed to the letter. The family's own APP-PROMOTION doc says surfaces start INSIDE an existing app and graduate to their own repo, port, and host when they earn it, and the promotion doc's first line of real work is "carry the surface, it moves essentially verbatim." So the pad starts as a surface on housecalls.bradley.io (public repo, public build, zero new infra), and graduation is a later, documented, one-evening move.
2. Operator decisions come first, so they are parked, not guessed. Promotion needs a name (the cb* convention would suggest something like cbquote, but naming names the brand) and a host (housecalls-flavored vs campaignbrain.dev family). Both queued on Brad's board; neither blocks the surface.

Fleet leverage map (what the mesh adds, when)

v1 deliberately calls NOTHING at runtime: the giveaway differentiator from the temperature report is no account, no lead capture, offline, data stays on the phone. The fleet earns its way in at v2+, each behind the same seam thinking as the harvest:

Fleet piece	What it would add	When
cbfiles	"send a link" quotes (shareable hosted copy)	v2, opt-in per quote
cbapex kit frame	the family shell, if/when promoted	at graduation
cbauth/cbonboard	only if a pro ever WANTS sync across devices	v3, never required
mesh services	template/price-book sync for House Calls network operators	franchise-era

v1 scope (this build)

Route: /housecalls/tools/quote on the existing site (PWA already: installable, service worker, offline). One client component, localStorage only, kit styling.

The shop block (saved once, on the phone): business name, phone, email, city, license number, insured line, default deposit percent, default valid-for days, standard terms line. Research says license numbers are legally required on bids in AZ/FL/OR and expected everywhere.

The quote: customer, job address, scope, line items (description, qty, unit price, auto-extended), exclusions, notes, deposit percent, valid-until (defaults today + 14). Totals compute live.

Out the door: print (browser print = PDF, print CSS hides the site chrome), copy-as-text for texting it, Web Share where the phone offers it.

The promise, printed on the page: free, no account, no signup, nothing leaves your phone. From the people at housecalls.bradley.io, where the prices are public.

Not in v1

Saved quote history (v1.1, still local), share links (v2, cbfiles), any server anything, any AI anything (the material-list voice pad is the AI candidate, deliberately a different app).

Verification

Selftests for the money math (module-level pure functions), Playwright at 390px, print output eyeballed, em-dash zeroes, and the standing rule: deploy and check the live page.