Driive started in a window coverings shop.
Before Driive, Quinn ran Custom Blinds & Design — a regional window coverings business with installers driving routes across three metro areas. For a decade he watched the same problem eat his margin, burn out his dispatcher, and turn five-star jobs into one-star reviews:
You'd take a measurement call in the morning. Someone would promise a Thursday install. Nobody would check whether Thursday's installer was already booked ninety minutes across town on a blackout shade job. The truck would leave late. The customer would call. The customer would leave a review about the call.
Every field-service tool he tried treated the calendar as a grid of empty boxes to fill. None of them knew what “across town” meant to a two-van crew with a same-day blackout install in Pflugerville and a motorized shade consult in Round Rock already on the board. None of them knew that an installer certified on Hunter Douglas PowerView wasn't certified on Somfy. None of them understood that thirty-five minutes of I-35 in rain was a different number than thirty-five minutes of I-35 at 6am.
Quinn teamed up with his brother Nick — who'd been running growth at CompanyCam, watching the same pattern across thousands of trade shops — and with Corey, CompanyCam's former product lead. They set up shop in Lincoln, Nebraska and asked a new question: what if scheduling was the product, not the feature?
What they're building doesn't look like an HVAC tool or a plumbing tool. It looks like infrastructure. One scheduling brain that can take instructions from a voice agent, a sales agent, a web form, or a human dispatcher — and produce the same correct answer, for a blinds installer or a boiler tech or a roofer.
That's Driive. And because every platform needs a first real agent on it, we're building Dot — the 24/7 booking agent for the trades — as the proof.
