A change order should be entered once.
You're past the point where spreadsheets and email can hold the commercial side of a job together, and nowhere near wanting to pay enterprise platform prices or take on the admin that comes with them. That's where most mid-size commercial general contractors are: a handful to a few dozen jobs running at once, an owner above you and trades below you, and every change having to pass between the two without being retyped four times along the way.
Illustrative screens in the style of the build
Sound familiar?
The numbers disagree with each other
The budget is one workbook, commitments are another, change orders are a third, and when they agree it's by coincidence. Nobody can say for sure what's committed on a job right now.
One change, entered four times
It starts as a question in the field, becomes an RFI, gets priced, goes down to the sub as a change order, and comes back up on the owner's pay application. Every re-entry is a chance to be wrong, and the money has usually moved before anyone notices.
Compliance lives on a side spreadsheet
Insurance certificates and their expiry dates, executed contracts, W-9s, certified payroll. It's only current if somebody updated it this week, and it tends to be out of date exactly when you need it.
Pay applications are built by hand every month
Putting together a G702 and G703 from the schedule of values, with retainage and stored materials, means a careful round of copying every month. It should take one click.
The office cannot see the field
Knowing where a job really stands means calling the superintendent, and when a dispute comes up months later, the evidence is whatever somebody can find.
What we build for construction
A cost budget that agrees with itself
Schedule of values by CSI division and cost code, tracking committed cost, actuals with retainage held back, approved changes and what's left. The budget page, the change register, the job summary and the export all use the same numbers, so they always match.
The whole change chain
From change event to potential change order, then either a subcontract change order down to the trade or a prime contract change order up to the owner. Entered once, with its history kept and the money showing on both contracts.
AIA pay applications
G702 and G703 built from the contract schedule of values, with retainage, stored materials and a PDF certificate. The schedule is locked while an application is open, so the numbers can't change underneath it.
Subcontractor compliance, per job
Contracts sent, returned and executed, W-9s, insurance certificates and expiries, safety plans, certified payroll and mobilization dates, tracked per sub per job rather than in a workbook.
RFIs, submittals and drawings at the right depth
Ball-in-court tracking, formal responses and overdue reminders that keep going until an item is closed. Owners, architects and subs get their own logins, and what each one can see depends on their role, so nobody outside your company sees your cost budget.
The field paperwork too
Daily logs with photos in about a minute, a punch list with who's responsible for each item, and a schedule imported from MS Project or Excel. Filled in from a phone, visible from the office.
Proof from your world
Two promises the software industry hates making
One monthly fee, starting at launch
Design, building, hosting and support in one monthly number you can budget like rent. No hourly billing, no change-order invoices, and no per-seat fees that grow with your team. Billing doesn't start until the first version is live and your team is using it.
See the plans →You own the custom code. All of it.
The account holding the code, the documentation and the hosting are in your name from day one. If you ever leave us, you take everything with you, and any developer can pick it up. You won't have to pay to get it back, rebuild it, or stay stuck on someone else's platform.
How we work →Questions we hear from construction
How is this different from Procore or CMiC?
Those are serious platforms built for large contractors, and they're priced and run like it. If you're running big commercial work with dozens of subs on every job, one of them may well be the right answer, and we'll tell you so. Contractors come to us when they need a fraction of those features, set up exactly the way they run jobs, and when the licensing and the admin work have stopped making sense at their size.
We do prevailing wage and publicly funded work. Is that handled?
Yes, and it's usually the paperwork generic tools push into a side spreadsheet. Certified payroll through-dates, sub-tier contractor payroll, Section 3 forms and existing employee lists can all sit in the compliance tracker alongside insurance and executed contracts. If you build multifamily, affordable housing, schools or municipal work, that's the part worth scoping carefully.
Can the owner and the architect have accounts without seeing our margin?
Yes, if the permissions are set up properly. Access is set by role for each part of the system and can be adjusted per job, so an architect answers RFIs and an owner's rep follows the contract sum and pending changes, while neither of them can see the cost budget. That makes inviting them in safer than emailing PDFs around.
Our superintendents hate software. Will they use it?
They hate software that adds work. A daily log that takes a minute and holds the photos is easier than the callback from the office asking what happened. We design for gloves, sunlight and impatience, and your crew sees the work in progress every two weeks while it's being built.
We self-perform a lot of our work. Does this still fit?
Partly, and it's worth being clear about the gap. It's built from the general contractor's seat, managing subcontracts and the money flowing through them. It doesn't track crew hours, unit production or equipment, which is the core of self-perform and heavy civil work. The commercial half still fits. The labor and equipment half is a different system, and we'd rather tell you that now.
Tell us what's slowing your business down.
In a free one-hour call we work out what the system needs to do and which plan it fits. Within two business days you have a written plan and a monthly number. No drawn-out proposals, no pressure.
One monthly fee · Built, hosted & improving · You own the custom code