Can it handle progress statements and retention?

Yes, and it is usually the first scope delivered because it is what gets you out of the spreadsheet fastest. Retention is withheld automatically on each statement, its release date is carried by the system, and it appears in outstandings instead of waiting for someone to remember it a year later.

How do hours come back from site?

Captured on mobile, by the foreman for their crew or by each person for themselves depending on how you work, and offline, since a site is not an office. What is booked feeds cost price directly: that is the difference between knowing you are drifting and learning it three months later.

Can our estimating software stay in place?

Often yes. A pricing tool holding your own libraries represents years of work, and replacing it buys nothing by itself. What is usually missing sits downstream: the step from quote to site, then from site to actual. That link is what gets built, importing the quote rather than re-entering it.

Is this worth it for a ten-person firm?

Size matters less than the number of sites open at once. Two sites can be held in your head; from six or eight running in parallel, no organisation holds without one place to read progress and commitment. That threshold is what creates the need, not headcount.

Construction

Management software for construction companies

In construction, margin is not lost at signature: it is lost between the quote and handover, at a point most firms can only identify once the site is finished.

What your trade computes that others do not

A construction site is not invoiced like a service. It is invoiced through progress statements, against completion, with a percentage that must be defensible line by line. Layered on top are mechanisms the rest of the economy ignores: retention withheld from every statement and released a year after handover, indexed price revision, and variations that must be accepted before they exist in the accounts.

Subcontracting doubles the machinery. Each subcontractor has their own contract, statements, retention and reverse-charge VAT, and at any moment you must be able to state what has been invoiced to the client on a package against what has been committed to whoever performs it. It is the most useful comparison in the trade, and it is almost always the missing one.

Finally, real cost price is built during the works, not after. Hours booked, materials issued, plant hire, travel: until those four arrive as they happen, the gap between quote and actual is discovered at close-out, when no decision is possible any more. A firm that knows after three weeks that a site is drifting can act; a firm that learns it at year-end can only note it.

What most firms work around by hand

These are the symptoms of a trade that counts more finely than the tool meant to follow it.

Progress statements are built in a spreadsheet, site by site.
Retention is tracked on a separate list, and sometimes forgotten at release.
Site hours are recorded on paper and re-keyed at the end of the week.
A site's cost price is known once the site is finished.
What is committed to subcontractors cannot be compared to anything in real time.
Variations are negotiated from memory, with no record of the agreement.

What proves it

ConstructionA platform for a construction-industry networkThree spaces in a single product, web and mobile: a mapped member directory, a training platform, and management software for the building trade.Read the full case study

What this asks to be built

The building blocks involved, described in detail on their own pages.

Frequently asked questions

Can it handle progress statements and retention?: Yes, and it is usually the first scope delivered because it is what gets you out of the spreadsheet fastest. Retention is withheld automatically on each statement, its release date is carried by the system, and it appears in outstandings instead of waiting for someone to remember it a year later.
How do hours come back from site?: Captured on mobile, by the foreman for their crew or by each person for themselves depending on how you work, and offline, since a site is not an office. What is booked feeds cost price directly: that is the difference between knowing you are drifting and learning it three months later.
Can our estimating software stay in place?: Often yes. A pricing tool holding your own libraries represents years of work, and replacing it buys nothing by itself. What is usually missing sits downstream: the step from quote to site, then from site to actual. That link is what gets built, importing the quote rather than re-entering it.
Is this worth it for a ten-person firm?: Size matters less than the number of sites open at once. Two sites can be held in your head; from six or eight running in parallel, no organisation holds without one place to read progress and commitment. That threshold is what creates the need, not headcount.

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