GroundCut vs DeepLawn: A Lawn-Care-First Alternative

DeepLawn is a quoting-and-booking layer that sits in front of your existing field-service platform. GroundCut is the field-service platform — quoting, booking, recurring billing, dispatch via the crew mobile app, customer hub, and accounting export are all in one place. If you already run Service Autopilot, RealGreen, or ServiceCEO and you’re happy there, DeepLawn fits as an add-on. If you don’t want to run two systems and pay both, GroundCut is one $99/mo bill that does both.

Parcel data tells you the total lot size — including the house, driveway, garden beds, patio, shed, and pool. Mowable area is what you actually price on. When the customer outlines their lawn on Mapbox satellite, you get a number that matches what you’d quote on a walkthrough. It also makes the customer pause and look at their own yard, which keeps abandoned-mid-flow rates lower. We deliberately don’t bolt parcel data onto the drawing — the drawing IS the model. Read more on our /polygon-quoting page about the protections that prevent customers from gaming it low.

They can try. Eight protections stop it from costing you money: a minimum price floor (the floor wins, not the drawing), a maximum price cap (caps absurd drawings), a target-hourly-rate warning that flags below-target quotes before they’re sent, complexity surcharge flags for overgrown / large / complex lots, the lawn outline being locked at booking and visible to the crew on arrival, on-site price adjustment with a customer signature for increases, charge-on-book (the original quote is paid in full at booking — no unpaid-invoice tail to chase), and per-zone minimum job values. See /polygon-quoting for details on each.

Not really — they overlap on the booking page, which is the most visible piece. GroundCut wants to own the customer’s booking experience because it drives the full payment at booking, the recurring schedule, and the notification timeline. Stacking DeepLawn on top would mean two booking flows, two customer records, and two places to manage pricing rules. If you’re evaluating between them, evaluate as alternatives.

Migration depends on which underlying field-service platform DeepLawn is sitting on. Export customers and recurring schedules from your host platform (Service Autopilot, RealGreen, etc.) to CSV, import into GroundCut at /admin/import, configure your services with the price-per-quarter-acre rules you want, and point new traffic at your GroundCut booking URL. The booking page is the visible thing customers see; behind it, GroundCut replaces both DeepLawn and your host platform with one stack.

It’s the core flow every booking goes through — the live-quote panel runs server-side on every drawing update, applying your pricing rules and surfacing the below-target-rate warning when a quote falls under your target hourly rate. The data model (lawn_polygon stored as GeoJSON on every job, mowable_area_sqft computed via Turf.js) is the same on every booking, so the lawn outline you see in the operator queue is exactly what the customer drew. No gaming surface.