Section 3 and certified payroll shouldn't live in a spreadsheet.
Publicly funded housing comes with a second job nobody quotes for. Prevailing wage means weekly certified payroll, and chasing it down through sub-tier contractors. Section 3 brings its own forms and its own reporting. Every generic project management platform we've seen pushes all of it into a separate spreadsheet kept next to the software, and that spreadsheet is only current if somebody updated it this week.
Sound familiar?
Compliance sits in a workbook next to the platform
You bought project management software and you still keep a workbook for certified payroll through-dates, Section 3 forms, insurance expiries and executed contracts. That's two systems, and nobody really owns one of them.
Certified payroll means chasing other people's paperwork
It's weekly, it covers sub-tier contractors as well as your own subs, and you often don't see the gap until someone asks for the file. By then it's months wide.
Every draw is assembled by hand
Building the pay application from the schedule of values, with retainage and stored materials, then reconciling it against what the lender and the syndicator each want to see. Every month, carefully, by copying.
An audit means reconstructing a year
Nobody doubts the work was done. What they ask is whether you can show the paperwork for it, and whether the change orders still add up to the final contract sum.
Too many people need to see part of it
The lender, the syndicator, the owner's representative and the architect all want visibility. None of them should be looking at your cost budget.
What we build for multifamily & affordable
Compliance tracked per sub, per job
Section 3 forms, certified payroll through-dates, sub-tier contractor payroll, existing employee lists, insurance certificates and their expiries, executed contracts and W-9s. In the system, next to the money, rather than in a workbook beside it.
Overdue paperwork gets chased for you
A payroll week that hasn't come in or a certificate about to expire shows up as a task assigned to someone, with reminders that keep going until it's closed, instead of being noticed at draw time.
Draw packages off the schedule of values
AIA G702 and G703 built from the contract schedule of values, with retainage and stored materials. The schedule is locked while an application is open, so the numbers can't change underneath it.
Cost control that reconciles
Budget by CSI division and cost code, tracking committed, actual, approved changes and remaining from the same numbers, so the figure on the draw matches the figure on the budget page.
A change order chain that holds up in review
From change event to potential change order, then the subcontract change order down and the prime contract change order up, each keeping its own money, status and history back to where it started.
Outside parties at the depth you choose
Lenders, syndicators, owner's reps and architects get their own logins, with access set by role and adjustable per job, so they see progress and pending changes without ever seeing your margin.
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 multifamily & affordable
Does it really handle Section 3 and certified payroll, or just mention them?
They're fields in the compliance tracker, per subcontractor and per job, alongside insurance, executed contracts and W-9s. Certified payroll carries a through-date so you can see at a glance who's current and who's three weeks behind, and sub-tier contractor payroll is tracked rather than assumed. Most platforms leave you to keep that paperwork separately.
Our state agency and our lender each want their own forms. Can you match them?
Usually, and it's worth scoping early because it varies more than anything else on these jobs. Standard AIA output is already built. Agency and lender formats are built for your jobs, and we'd rather see your real templates during discovery than find them in month four.
Does this make us compliant?
No, and be wary of anyone who says their software does. It tracks the paperwork, shows you what's missing and keeps gaps from going unnoticed until a draw or an audit. Whether a given project is subject to Davis-Bacon or Section 3, and what your obligations are, is a question for your compliance people and your funder, not for a piece of software.
Can the lender and the syndicator see progress without seeing our margin?
Yes. Permissions are set by role for each part of the system, instead of handing out logins and hoping. An owner's representative can follow the contract sum, the pending change orders and the pay applications without being able to see the cost budget.
How is this different from your construction page?
Same system, different emphasis. Our construction page covers the commercial side for any mid-size general contractor. This page is about the paperwork that only comes with publicly funded housing, which decides whether the software fits the way you work or leaves you running a spreadsheet next to it.
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.
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