One place to run every job.
Estimates, change orders, expenses, invoicing, and job costing in one connected system. For residential remodelers and custom home builders running cost-plus, fixed price, or both.
Book a Demo →It shouldn't feel like this.
Your job lives in seven places that don't talk to each other. Every number gets handled twice, and the ones that matter are always a few weeks behind.
Your bookkeeper chasing you for receipts
Invoicing that eats your weekend
Finding out the job lost money once it's finished
Every builder wants one tool that does everything. Every builder who's bought one is still running the numbers that matter in a spreadsheet.
We went the other way. Instead of a hundred features that are each fine, we built the handful you touch every day and made sure they connect. Click any of these to see what it replaces.
Estimating that becomes your budget
Build it spreadsheet-style with cost-plus or fixed price formats. Send it for digital signature. The signed estimate becomes the live budget, so there's nothing to copy into a tracking sheet afterward.
Change orders that don't get forgotten
Built the same way as your estimate and sent for signature in two clicks. Once it's signed the contract value updates, so the work you agreed to in a text message is actually on the books.
Job costing that's current without you
Estimated against actual by cost group, updated as your team enters time and expenses. Filter by project, code, trade, or labor without exporting anything.
Receipts coded where they're bought
Photographed in the lumber yard parking lot, coded to the job and cost code on the spot, and against the budget before the truck moves. Then pushed clean into QuickBooks.
The only time tracker built for site teams
Every other tracker asks a carpenter to switch tasks through the day, which is why the timesheets come back blank. Ours doesn't, so you get hours by cost code from even your grumpiest field guy.
Billing packages that build themselves
Cost-plus invoice with client summary, statement, and a PDF package of receipts and trade bills. Or fixed price billing against a Schedule of Values, by percent complete, by milestone, or free form. All from what's already tracked.
Your client sees where the money went
A clean summary showing what's been billed, what's remaining by category, and what it was spent on. It goes out with every invoice, so your client is never guessing and you're never rebuilding it by hand.
Price it. Track it. Bill it. Know it.
Four stages, one continuous chain. What you priced becomes the budget, and what your team spends lands against it. On cost-plus that spending becomes the invoice too.
Estimate in a spreadsheet, without the spreadsheet.
A familiar spreadsheet-style builder with formats for both cost-plus and fixed price. Import what you already have and keep the structure you trust.
- Import straight from Excel or CSV
- Cost-plus and fixed price estimate formats
- Pick the level of transparency in the proposal
- Digital approval turns the estimate into your live budget
| Description | Cost Item | COG | Qty | Unit Cost | Cost | Mark-Up | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Requirements | $361,300 | 20% | $433,560 | ||||
| Project coordination and owner communication | 2.01 Project Manager | Labor | 1,500 | $95.00 | $142,500 | 20% | $171,000 |
| Full-time site supervision and trade coordination | 2.02 Site Supervision | Labor | 2,400 | $72.00 | $172,800 | 20% | $207,360 |
| Consumables, fasteners and small tools | 2.03 Misc. Supplies | Materials | 1 | $5,500 | $5,500 | 20% | $6,600 |
| Safety equipment, PPE and site signage | 2.04 Safety Supplies | Materials | 1 | $1,200 | $1,200 | 20% | $1,440 |
| Project Total | $1,830,973 | 20% | $2,197,168 |
Your team codes it, so you don't have to.
Hours logged from a phone. Receipts photographed in the lumber yard parking lot. Trade invoices uploaded and approved in the app. Coded by the person who spent the money, the day they spent it, so your bookkeeper isn't always waiting on you.
- The only time tracker that doesn't ask a carpenter to switch tasks mid-day, so you get hours by cost code from even your grumpiest field guy
- Receipt to coded expense in about 30 seconds, from the field
- Trade invoices uploaded and approved in the app
- Every entry hits the budget right away
The invoice builds itself.
Cost-plus or fixed price, the billing package assembles from what's already tracked. Percent complete against a Schedule of Values, milestone, free form, or a full cost-plus package with backup. Get hours back every invoicing cycle.
- Cost-plus: invoice, client summary, statement, and a PDF package of material receipts and trade bills
- Fixed price: Schedule of Values, percent complete, milestone, or free form
- Nothing falls through the cracks, so you stop eating costs you meant to bill
- Get the invoice out faster, get paid faster
Toronto, ON M6G 2W8
| Description | Qty | Rate | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | $8,540.00 | ||
| Site Superintendent | 32 | $65.00 | $2,080.00 |
| Lead Carpenter | 40 | $55.00 | $2,200.00 |
| Materials | $744.20 | ||
| Rona · gym floor slab pour | 1 | $356.16 | $356.16 |
| Trade Partners | $33,500.00 | ||
| Harry’s Plumbing | 1 | $12,500.00 | $12,500.00 |
Find the overage while it's still someone else's cost.
An overage you catch in week six is a change order. The same overage at closeout is money you ate. Estimated against actual, live, across every project, fed automatically by the first three stages.
- Drill one project or see every project on one screen
- Filter by project, cost code, trade, or labor without exporting anything
- See how much is left in every category before you commit to spending it
- Clean coded data pushes to QuickBooks without duplication
| Cost Group | Labor Est. | Labor Actual | Over/Under | Material Est. | Material Actual | Over/Under |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Requirements | $21,350 | $225 | $21,125 | $200 | $937 | -$737 |
| Site Requirements | $0 | $280 | -$280 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Demolition | $0 | $1,303 | -$1,303 | $0 | $100 | -$100 |
| Excavation & Shoring | $0 | $400 | -$400 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Footings & Foundation | $0 | $0 | $0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Framing | $28,000 | $1,085 | $26,915 | $4,000 | $500 | $3,500 |
| Roofing | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Totals | $66,350 | $3,463 | $62,887 | $30,215 | $2,226 | $27,989 |
Built properly for both.
Most platforms calculate a budget the same way no matter what your contract says. That's why one of these two groups always ends up back in Excel.
Proper cost-plus margin math
Margin calculated on cost-plus logic, not defaulted to traditional fixed cost math.
Unbillables, handled
One click to mark an expense unbillable, and one click to see exactly what you absorbed this month.
The whole billing package, one click
Invoice, client summary, statement, and a PDF package of material receipts and trade bills, generated together.
A budget your client can read
A client-friendly version of the budget showing what's been billed and what's remaining, clearly.
Category variance that behaves
Cost to completion that doesn't sum negative overages and doesn't move your margin until a category is marked complete.
True margin from your own labor
See the spread between what you pay and what you charge, instantly.
| Cost Group | Budget | Billed to Date | Remaining |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Requirements | $28,000 | $14,000 | $14,000 |
| Demolition | $50,600 | $50,600 | $0 |
| Footings & Foundation | $41,000 | $41,000 | $0 |
| Framing | $34,000 | $23,800 | $10,200 |
| Roofing | $18,500 | $9,250 | $9,250 |
| Electrical | $24,000 | $0 | $24,000 |
| Totals | $329,617 | $185,497 | $144,120 |
Schedule of Values
Built right off your estimate and flows through into invoicing.
Percent complete billing
Bill by percentage against each line, with previous applications tracked automatically.
Milestone and free form
Deposit and milestone draws, or a free form invoice when the job calls for it.
Every dollar you save is yours
On fixed price the upside belongs to you, which is exactly why you need to see where the job is drifting while there's still time to act on it.
Change orders that actually get billed
Signed change orders flow into the contract value and the next application without re-entry.
Job costing built for fixed price
The reporting follows fixed price logic, tracking committed and spent against your contract value rather than a running cost total.
| Cost Group | Contract | Prev. Billed | This Invoice | % Complete |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Requirements | $28,000 | $8,400 | $5,600 | 50.0% |
| Demolition | $50,600 | $50,600 | $0 | 100% |
| Excavation & Shoring | $27,000 | $27,000 | $0 | 100% |
| Framing | $34,000 | $13,600 | $10,200 | 70.0% |
| Roofing | $18,500 | $0 | $9,250 | 50.0% |
| Exterior Cladding | $22,824 | $0 | $6,847 | 30.0% |
| Totals | $329,617 | $140,600 | $44,897 | 56.3% |
Switching systems is the reason most builders never do.
You've heard it before. Weeks of setup, a rep reading from a script, and a half-configured system you quietly stop opening. That's why most builders stay on the spreadsheet they hate.
Field mapping, configuration calls, and a long ramp before anything works. At the end you have the same process you had before, in a nicer interface.
Bring in a cost code set and your rates and you're working the same day. Switching from another platform with project data to move? A few days.
Not a script read by someone who's never swung a hammer.
Most onboarding is a support rep walking you through menus. Yours is a working session with a builder who has run the business you're running, and we go after the things that actually decide whether you make money.
Review and Remodel Your Cost Codes
Most builders use a list they inherited and never looked at again. If your categories are too broad, your job costing can't tell you anything useful. We go through what you're using and rebuild it with you.
Calculate Your True Labor Burden
Not the percentage your bookkeeper guessed at. The real number, built from wage, taxes, insurance, benefits, truck, phone, and the hours nobody bills for. Then what you should actually be charging for labor.
Review Your Estimating Model
Content, structure, and approach, not just how the proposal looks. What you include, how you break it down, and what the client sees. We go through your last estimate and show you what's costing you profit.
Look at Your QuickBooks Account
A financial review from a coach who has been inside more than 500 construction QuickBooks files. You'll find out what your numbers are actually telling you, and what they're hiding.
Deep where it counts.
Simple everywhere else.
Not two hundred modules you'll never open. The financial core done properly, plus project tools you use daily and more on the way.
Estimating
Spreadsheet-style with cost-plus and fixed price formats. Import from Excel or CSV.
Change Orders
Built like your estimate, signed digitally, and reflected in the contract value.
Expenses
Receipts and trade invoices captured from the field, coded at the source, approved in app.
Time Tracking & Reporting
Matches how a carpenter thinks, so your crew actually fills it out daily.
Budgets
Calculated differently for cost-plus and fixed price. Track by group or by item.
Invoicing
Cost-plus packages, Schedule of Values, percent complete, milestone, and free form.
Job Costing
Estimated vs actual by cost group, live, with filtering that removes the need to export.
Cost-Plus Client Reporting
Automated client summaries and statements sent alongside every invoice.
QuickBooks Sync
Pushes what QB needs, skips what it doesn't. Built with an accounting background.
Scheduling
Plan the job, set the dates, and keep the whole team working from the same one.
Job Logs
Daily site logs with photos that document the build and send to clients from mobile or web.
Documents, Tasks, Photos & POs Coming
Document storage, task management, a project photo library, and purchase orders are on the roadmap.
Coming from something heavier?
The all-in-one pitch is real until you use it. Then you find every feature is built to be adequate for everyone, and the financial side is the one that had to be excellent.
Shutting down, and the exit is expensive.
No new projects after April 2027, migrations starting June 2027. The default path moves you onto Annual Project Volume pricing, where your bill scales with how much you build.
Built for the same builder you already were.
CoConstruct worked because it was made for custom builders and remodelers, not commercial crews. You get that focus back, with cost-plus done properly and a price that doesn't climb when you have a good year.
Everything, and the bill to match.
Broad surface area, heavy implementation, and pricing that scales with project volume. Most residential builders use a fraction of what they pay for.
Fewer features, better numbers.
You're not paying for thirty modules to use six. You're paying for the financial side to be right, built by someone who ran cost-plus jobs for a decade.
Flexible, but you're the admin.
Highly configurable and well liked, which also means the setup work is yours. Builders often spend weeks defining structure before it starts paying off.
Set up by a builder, not by you.
The structure is already there and it was decided by someone who has run these jobs. You don't spend your evenings configuring a blank system.
Well funded, broad, and new.
Founded in 2022 and backed by an $8.75M round in early 2026, pushing hard on AI and an all-in-one story. Founded by a former consultant and an enterprise software operator.
Narrower, and run by a builder.
Funding buys speed and they'll ship fast. It doesn't buy 21 years in the field with 10 of those focused on cost-plus, which is what the financial side of this actually requires.
Broad platform, shallow on the money.
Founded by a software leader whose contracting experience was primarily a tile installation business, with a short stretch in remodeling. Job costing sits on higher tiers.
Financial depth, not breadth.
Job costing and cost-plus invoicing aren't upgrades here. They're the reason the product exists.
Estimating-led, and strong at it.
Excellent takeoff with dealer price feeds, and real cost tracking behind it. The catch is that the costing depends on purchase orders and work orders. Their own documentation notes that manual entries to the actuals screen don’t flow into the cost tracking dashboard.
Costs coded where they happen.
No purchase order discipline required. Your crew logs hours and photographs receipts from the field, coded to the job on the spot, and it lands against the budget the same day.
Broad platform, priced by the seat.
Estimating, scheduling, budgets, portals and accounting sync, with plans starting around $250 a month for two seats. Mobile apps and accounting integrations sit on the higher tier.
Everyone on the job, one price.
Your whole crew needs to be in the app for the cost data to be worth anything, so we don’t charge by the seat and we don’t put mobile behind an upgrade.
One job, six spreadsheets.
An estimate file. A proposal. A change order log. A receipt tracker. Trade invoices. Timesheets. None of them talk to each other, and you're the only one who knows how any of it works.
The same numbers, in one place.
Bring your estimate spreadsheet in as the starting point. Everything after it lives in one system that your team feeds instead of you.
Every other platform in this space was built by someone who wasn't a builder.
Consultants, finance people, software founders, and a specialty trade business owner. Good operators who spotted a market. It's also why the money side never quite fits, and why you're still in a spreadsheet.
If the software doesn't fit how you work, we'll change the software.
Every builder runs their business a little differently. Most platforms tell you to adapt. We're small enough, and independent enough, to do the opposite, and we do it regularly.
Tell us what's missing
Bring it up on a call. It goes straight to the person who decides what gets built, not into a feature request portal.
It ships for everyone
If it's a good idea, it usually turns out other builders need it too. Those go into the product in weeks, not quarters.
Or we build it just for you
Specific workflow, specific report, specific integration? We take on custom development work. Nobody else in this category will.
You're not just buying software.
Every subscription comes with the platform, the full business system, and access to the person who built both.
Buildwise · The Platform
Everything above. Estimating through job costing, unlimited users, unlimited projects, on web and mobile.
The Classroom
The complete business system, not a help centre.
- The Build and Profit System
- The Team Development Program
- Community access and direct support
Coaching on Tap
Book one-on-one time with Bryan. Your numbers, your pricing, your team, your next hire, from someone who's run the business you're running.
What builders say after the switch.
“The way we plan and run projects is completely different now. Our numbers are dependable, our clients can see exactly where things stand, and invoicing takes a fraction of the time it used to. Any construction company trying to get a real grip on their finances should be looking at this.”
“Buildwise has transformed our business. The financial information is reliable, we can be transparent with clients, and reporting and invoicing are fast. It even accounts for federal and provincial taxes in Canada. I’d recommend it to any construction company looking to get a handle on their numbers.”
“Picking it up was far easier than I expected. There was no steep learning curve, and Bryan knows this industry cold, so any time I had a question the answer came from someone who has actually run jobs.”
Not a software tour.
A profit leak audit.
Here's what actually happens on the call.
No pressure. No hype. Just answers.
Book a Demo →Builders who know their numbers win.
Thirty minutes. One honest conversation about your jobs.
Book a Demo →Common questions.
Is Buildwise an all-in-one platform?
Do you handle fixed price, or only cost-plus?
How fast can I actually be live?
I'm leaving CoConstruct. Can you help?
Can I bring my existing estimate spreadsheet?
Will my team actually use it?
Can you build something specific for my business?
Does it replace QuickBooks?
Bring them to the demo.
Thirty minutes on a real call beats an hour on a feature page. Ask anything about your business, your numbers, or your team.
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