Lawn Love, a California-based startup founded in 2014, partners with small businesses and allows customers to schedule, review and pay for yard work on a mobile app or website.

BEAVER — A mobile app and website similar to Uber but for professional landscaping services has launched in the Beaver area.

Lawn Love, a California-based startup founded in 2014, partners with small businesses and allows customers to schedule, review and pay for yard work. The platform is powered by satellite imaging software that reviews a property and generates a quote in less than two minutes.

“Instead of calling a bunch of folks on Craigslist or Yelp and having them physically drive out to your property to get a quote, you could go to our website, punch in your home address and we give you an accurate personalized estimate without ever setting foot on your property,” said said founder and CEO Jeremy Yamaguchi. “We use satellite imagery to measure lawn areas, driveway length and roof perimeter.”

Lawn Love has partnered with hundreds of small lawn-care businesses across the state, including five in Beaver, providing each with scheduling, job routing and payment software. Each independent contractor goes through a screening process to assess level of experience before work can begin. Users can schedule a range of services, including lawn mowing, weeding, aeration and gutter clearing.

“It brings lawn-care providers a new pipeline of customer demand,” Yamaguchi said. “It’s this idea that we can support and elevate small-business owners across the country and help them better compete against the big guys like TruGreen or Brightview.”

While many small providers are responsible for customer support, accounting, taxes and bargaining, in addition to physical landscaping, Lawn Love aims to help these companies streamline operations.

“Small-business creation has been on the decline for 30 years,” Yamaguchi said. “I think that's in large part due to the Amazons, Walmarts and Starbucks of the world rolling over smaller, independent players. We not only give them software and do the customer acquisition work, but we have this large back-office team that handles all the customer support when issues do arise.”

The average lawn-care company in Beaver has only two employees and lacks the resources to modernize business models, he added. Lawn Love has partnered with more than 20,000 independentcontractors throughout the country, with demand increasing in the Pittsburgh area.

“With the gig economy being what it is right now, I’m surprised something like this wasn’t already an option here,” said Beaver resident and homeowner Jordan Ansley. “As long as employees are earning a fair share and customer service is decent, it’s something I think a lot of us would be interested in.”

The company is still looking for local partners; those interested may visit www.lawnlove.com.