Knock Mode
The screen you look at between two doors.
Deciding where to walk next is the tax you pay a hundred times a day. Knock Mode removes the decision: it shows you the nearest door you haven’t worked, and after you tap what happened it shows you the next one.
12 knocked
8 left
1428 Ash Hollow Dr
Callback · 34 m away
What happened?
Six buttons. That’s the whole interface.
A door-to-door app gets used standing up, in the sun, wearing a backpack, sometimes in gloves, and always in a hurry because somebody may be walking toward the door on the other side. Every decision in this screen comes from that.
- One door on screen at a time, never a list to scan
- Tap targets sized for a thumb, not a mouse
- Near-black by default, which survives direct sunlight better than white
- No confirmation dialogs; a wrong tap is fixed on the door itself
- Works with the network dead, like the rest of the app
The six dispositions, and why there are only six.
Every stat in the product is derived from these. Add a seventh and you’ve made the record harder to compare against itself; drop one and you lose a number that matters.
Sold
The one you came for. Counts as a contact and a close.
Not home
Nobody answered. A scheduling problem, not a rejection.
Callback
They talked, they didn’t buy, come back. Carries a date.
Appointment
A time is set. Shows up on your home screen as owed.
Not interested
A real no. Counts as a contact, which is the point.
Do not contact
They asked to be left alone. Permanent, and honoured.
Why “not home” is kept separate from “not interested”
Because they’re opposite problems and lumping them together hides both. A day full of not-homes means you’re knocking at the wrong hour. A day full of not-interested means the pitch needs work. Software that records them as one number will let you spend a season fixing the wrong thing.
Why close rate is measured against contacts
Sales divided by conversations, not sales divided by doors. Nobody gets better at selling by counting the houses where nobody was home. The knock-to-sale number is useful for planning a day and it’s on your record too. It’s just not the number that tells you whether you’re good at this.
Call, text and email without leaving the door.
Once a door has a contact on it, the buttons hand off to the phone: the dialler, the messages app, the mail app. Nothing is routed through us, no number is masked, and the call shows up in your own call history where you can find it later.
This is a deliberate choice rather than a missing feature. Putting a calling layer in the middle means a phone number of ours on the homeowner’s screen, a call log we hold, and a bill that scales with your activity. None of that helps you knock.
Callbacks are the reason to bother
A callback with a date is the single most valuable thing on the board and the one most often lost to a notes app. Set the date in Knock Mode and it surfaces on your home screen the day it is owed, flagged red once it’s late.
Nearest-first is computed on your phone
No routing service, no API bill, and it keeps working offline. It orders the doors by straight-line distance rather than drive time, which on a residential street is the same answer, and in a car is not. Routes are the tool for driving between clusters.