Field service software · Lawn care
Every chemical distributor and financing desk targets the same operator. That operator never left RealGreen.
RealGreen is the default back office for the established American lawn shop: recurring treatment plans, a fleet of spray rigs, and a route that runs the same yards every four to six weeks. WorkWave acquired it in June 2021; EQT Partners owns WorkWave. Two layers of private equity, and the shops are still there. Chemical distributors, consumer-financing lenders, and PE roll-up acquirers have been asking for the named contact file for years. This is it.
WorkWave acquisition year
WorkWave bought RealGreen in June 2021 from Riverside Company, which had held the asset since 2017. WorkWave is itself a portfolio company of EQT Partners, so the roadmap now reports up two layers of private equity.
starting monthly seat for Service Assistant
Quote-based modular pricing. Service Assistant is the base; Measurement Assistant, Mobile Live, Customer Assistant Website, and the marketing modules layer on, plus a one-time implementation and training fee of around $995.
average tenure on the platform
RealGreen has been the default lawn-care back office since the early 2000s. Many of the books on the platform have been there for fifteen years or more, which is part of why churn is slow and why the customer list is high-quality for renewal-cycle outreach.
Source: Orbital data team, June 2026 snapshot.
starting seat for Service Assistant
ione-time implementation and training
itrucks in the typical RealGreen shop
iTop alternatives
Top RealGreen alternatives.
The five tools below are where a RealGreen shop most often lands when it shops the market. Most evaluations come down to fleet size, route density, whether the buyer wants a lawn-native back office, and how heavy a marketing and measurement bill the operator is willing to keep underwriting.
| # | Alternative | Best fit | Positioning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Service Autopilot | Mid-market lawn | The closest lawn-native peer. Texas-built, marketing-heavy, and the most common landing spot when a RealGreen shop wants a newer interface without losing the lawn-specific routing and chemistry workflow. |
| 2 | Jobber | Small shops | Lighter, mobile-first, and the default destination for one and two-truck lawn operators who never needed RealGreen Measurement and want to stop paying the legacy stack. |
| 3 | Housecall Pro | SMB generalist | A general home-service tool that picks up lawn operators who also do irrigation, pest, or holiday lighting and want one app for the whole book rather than a vertical-specific platform. |
| 4 | FieldRoutes | Upper mid-market | ServiceTitan-owned, pest-and-lawn route-density platform. The displacement option when a 25-to-100-truck RealGreen shop wants a modern routing engine and a paid Marketing Suite in one box. |
| 5 | Yardbook | Free / starter | The free-tier landscape and lawn tool. Not a RealGreen replacement at scale, but a real option for operators who downsized, retired routes, or wanted to stop paying any software at all. |
Positioning notes reflect how the RealGreen base talks about each tool on Reddit, G2, Capterra, and the WorkWave user forum. Source: Orbital data team, June 2026 snapshot.
Who buys this data
Who sells into the RealGreen installed base.
This page is for teams selling into RealGreen operators, not the lawn shops themselves. If you ship one of the categories below, the named-owner cut by state, route density, and specialty is what your AE team has been asking for.
The long version
Detail, on demand.
RealGreen is the category-leading lawn-care back office, not a general trades tool. The customer base is concentrated in established US lawn-care operators with recurring treatment plans, multi-truck route density, and the headcount to underwrite a paid Measurement and marketing module on top of the core seat.
Primary verticals. Recurring-treatment lawn care (fertilizer, weed control, aeration, perimeter pest), full-service landscaping with a recurring maintenance book, and tree-and-shrub care. The shared trait is a subscription customer file, a fleet of spray rigs or mowers, and a route that runs the same yards every four to six weeks.
Operator profile. 5 to 75 trucks is the sweet spot. Below that, owners stay on Jobber or Yardbook. Above that, the largest national operators run their own custom stacks. The RealGreen base is the dense middle that every B2B vendor selling into lawn cares about: the operators who buy a pallet of granular fert every spring and finance the next ride-on aerator through a consumer-grade lender.
Named customers. The publicly visible RealGreen book includes A&A Lawncare, ExperiGreen, Barefoot Grass, Grass Master, Grassmaster Plus, Lawn Plus, Custom Lawn and Landscape, Daybreak Lawn Care, Arcadia Tree & Lawn Care, and Yard Dawgs. The full mapped file is what the dataset returns.
Orbital is a custom agent platform, not a scraped list. To build the named worklist of operators running RealGreen, the agents do the work in order.
How the RealGreen customer list is built
- Tech stack agent. Crawls each lawn or landscape shop’s site, reads the booking widget, the customer portal markup, and the recurring-billing flow, and confirms whether the back office is RealGreen. Runs on demand so the list is current when it is pulled.
- Owner finder. Names the decision-maker at each operator, owner, GM, or operations lead, and confirms the seat on LinkedIn before it lands on the row. Most RealGreen owners do not have a polished LinkedIn presence, which is exactly why a generalist database leaves the row blank.
- Email waterfall. Returns a verified work email for the named owner and checks deliverability before the row is shipped.
- Phone intel. Adds a direct dial with a dial-or-skip read, because most of the RealGreen base picks up the cell faster than the inbox.
- ICP score. Grades each RealGreen account A to D against the vendor’s fit formula: route density, state, specialty, truck count, and revenue band.
The result is a worklist of RealGreen customers, filterable by state, route density, and specialty, with a named owner and a working number on every row. Sample first, pay second.
We believe
If a vendor sells into established lawn operators with recurring revenue, the RealGreen book is the right starting point.
The two or three nationals in lawn care run their own stacks. The brand-new one-truck operators are on Jobber or a spreadsheet. What sits on RealGreen is the durable middle: owner-run shops that have been on the same back office for ten or fifteen years, run recurring treatment plans, finance their equipment, buy chemistry by the pallet, and quietly print money in suburban markets nobody pays attention to. For chemical and equipment distributors, consumer-financing lenders, payment processors, telematics vendors, and the PE roll-up acquirers building lawn-care platforms, that is the only audience that converts at scale.
That is also why the named list matters more than a brand-tier ranking. A 14-truck lawn operator running a regional brand in two states is invisible to a generalist B2B database and invisible to a trade-press revenue ranking. Tech-stack detection on a per-site basis is how that owner shows up on the row, with a named decision-maker and a dial that connects.
Do not buy this if any of the following are true.
You only sell to the largest national lawn operators. The biggest names in residential lawn care run their own custom stacks and are not RealGreen accounts. If the motion is one annual contract with the public majors, a relationship manager will move more than a large multi-row file.
You sell to single-truck lawn startups. The long tail of one-truck operators mostly sits on Jobber, Yardbook, or a spreadsheet. The RealGreen base skews mid-market and upward, and will leave that long tail off.
You sell to homeowners, not operators. Households buying retail fert or one-off mosquito treatments are not the RealGreen audience. That is a consumer dataset, not a B2B owner dataset.
Your unit economics need above $100,000 ACV on day one. A 12-truck lawn shop rarely writes a six-figure first-year check. Save the RealGreen file for the year a mid-market overlay starts to pay for itself.
Most lists of RealGreen customers floating around the vendor market come from one of three places, and all three break in the same way. The first is a logo grab from old WorkWave press releases and case-study pages, which catches maybe two dozen operators and skips the entire middle that does not write quotes. The second is a scrape of public review sites, which mixes prospects with actual customers and brings the same handful of named logos back every quarter. The third is a generalist B2B database that tags companies by SIC code and never opens the operator’s actual booking page.
Tech-stack detection on a per-site basis is what fixes that. The booking widget, the Customer Assistant Website markup, and the recurring-billing flow each leave a fingerprint that confirms RealGreen is in the back office. The owner finder then names the actual buyer at that operator rather than the parent franchise office or a generic info@ address. The owner is the line on the contract.
The other gap is freshness. RealGreen churn moves slowly because the implementation is sticky and the muscle memory of a fifteen-year-old route book does not transfer easily. The base still shifts. Service Autopilot wins on a renewal cycle, Jobber pulls off the smallest operators on price, WorkWave cross-sells into PestPac and Real Green Lite, and the slow drift of PE roll-up acquisitions retires brand badges as the new owner standardises on a different stack. A file pulled in March 2026 against the same vendor request will not match the file pulled in June. Live detection is the only way the list stays a list and not a snapshot.
If a vendor already runs in adjacent green-industry universes, the landscaping operator map, the broader by-tech-stack email lists hub, the related market insights index, and the largest US pest-control companies map are the natural next stops.
Questions
Before you ask sales about the RealGreen dataset.
How many companies use RealGreen?
RealGreen is the category leader for established US lawn-care, landscaping, and tree-care operators. The base concentrates in owner-run shops with 5 to 75 trucks that have been on the software for a decade or more, not the long tail of one-truck startups and not the custom-stack nationals. Orbital can ship the named file with the owner contact on every row.
What are the best RealGreen alternatives?
The five most common alternatives are Service Autopilot, Jobber, Housecall Pro, FieldRoutes, and Yardbook. Which one a RealGreen shop moves to depends on fleet size, route density, whether the buyer wants a lawn-native back office, and how much the operator is willing to pay for marketing and measurement modules on top of the core seat.
Can I get a list of companies that use RealGreen?
Yes. Orbital’s tech stack agent confirms RealGreen usage on a per-site basis and returns each operator with a named owner, a verified work email, and a direct dial. The list is filterable by state, route density, and specialty (lawn treatment, mowing, tree care, landscape) so the file fits the actual buying motion.
How current is the RealGreen customer data?
Records are produced live when the list is pulled. The tech stack agent re-checks each operator on demand, so the file does not go stale in transit. WorkWave migrations, Service Autopilot displacement plays, ExperiGreen-style roll-up acquisitions, and quiet exits to Jobber all shift the picture month to month, so live detection beats a stored snapshot every time.
See the RealGreen customer dataset before you pay for it.
Tell us the states, truck-count bands, or specialties to focus on. We send a free sample of around 100 verified RealGreen-customer records you can check against an existing pipeline, no commitment, no email-list back-and-forth.
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