About Calco
Built by
the trades.
Calco started because we got tired of watching tradespeople spend hours writing quotes in Word and Excel. We thought: what if this just took 2 minutes?
01 / Mission
Our mission.
We make it simple for trade businesses to build and send professional quotes straight from their phone - without having to learn new software, and without double entry into systems they already use.
Calco is not another CRM. It's the tool you open when you're standing with the customer and need to send a quote before you drive home. We build for that moment.
02 / The story
Where does
Calco come from?
We built Calco together with Danish tradespeople who were tired of sitting up until 11 pm writing quotes after a long workday. Calco is our attempt to give those hours back.
We started with plumbing - where regulations are strictest and quoting is hardest. Today Calco calculates quotes for 8 trades, from carpentry and electrical to bricklaying, drainage and refrigeration. Built for trade businesses tired of doing the same work twice - whether they use Ordrestyring, Apacta, Minuba, e-conomic or just email.
We call our paying customers Calco Partners - because that's what they are. Every correction, every quote and every price file sharpens the brain for the whole trade. We're not just building a tool for tradespeople; we're building it with them.
03 / The people behind
By tradespeople,
for tradespeople.
Calco was founded by a plumber and a technology builder. One is on site, testing every quote on real jobs - the other builds the system that calculates them.
Lasse Christensen
Co-Founder & CEO
Builds the product and the business - the technology behind Calco, the wholesaler integrations and everything that makes a quote add up.
Alexander Palne
Co-Founder · Plumber
Owner of Palne Klima & VVS. Every quote, price file and trade standard in Calco is tested on his real jobs before it reaches yours.
04 / Values
A trade done properly
starts with the quote.
We want to move the industry. A proper, professional quote should be the standard for every tradesperson - not the exception. And nobody should lose an evening or a job to a quote.
01
The trade first
Calco is built on the trade's own rules: building regulations, authorisation requirements and standards. We learn from tradespeople, not the other way around.
02
Honest numbers
Calco calculates, it doesn't guess. Every quantity has a calculation you can see, and if a number is missing, Calco asks before it carries on.
03
Your numbers are yours
Your price files, discounts and customers never leave your account - not to other tradespeople, and not to the wholesalers.
04
Done properly, all the way
A professional quote is transparent, correctly calculated and trustworthy. That means fewer surprises for the customer and a better reputation for the whole trade.