Job Mix on CraftBuildBeta Master. Streamline your project estimations with powerful, hierarchical cost code.
Our company is people and AI agents working side by side, and we'll teach yours to work the same way. You don't have to love AI. You just have to stop doing paperwork at 10 PM.
Free tiers available. Paid plans starting at $20 a month.
See plansPeople first, AI assisting. We introduce you and your whole staff to our AI agents, set up your company with you, and train your team to work with them. Your people stay in charge, and the agents help with the work.
Works inside the AI you already use
You don't need to become a tech company to keep up. You need someone who knows the trade to set it up with you and teach your people. That's us, and we work by three rules.
Nothing goes to a client and no money moves without your OK. Your data stays your company's.
One workflow at a time, built around the way you already work, not ours. Your team adds more when they're ready.
The agents work from your own numbers, past jobs and business plan. Every guess is shown for you to confirm.
You don't have to figure out AI on your own. Real people do the setup and the teaching with you and your crew, and we stay with you.
Meet your AI staff. We walk you through who each agent is, what it does, and where it fits in the way you already run jobs.
We set up your company with you: company info, past jobs, your directory of subs and suppliers, your contract and your business plan. Your agents start out knowing your company.
We teach you, your office staff and your field staff to work with the agents, hands on, on your own jobs. Everyone learns the part they'll use.
We stay with you as you grow. New staff, new kinds of work, new agents: we help you bring them in.
Residential remodel and construction companies. We start where you are and grow with you.
The agents take on the office work you've been doing at night, and you learn to hand it off.
Your office help and lead carpenters learn to work with the agents on estimates, paperwork and bills.
Your whole staff works with the agents, office and field, with you approving what goes out.
Mark and Steve run their own residential construction companies on CraftBuild. Charley builds CraftBuild. Together they'll show you and your staff how it works on real jobs.
Founder
Charley builds CraftBuild: the app, the AI agents, and the way they fit into a construction company’s day.
Founder
Mark runs his own residential construction company on CraftBuild.
Founder
Steve runs his own residential construction company on CraftBuild.
The team you and your staff will learn to work with. Each agent is trained for one job, from estimates to the books, and nothing goes out without your OK.
AI agents, pictured as people.
Your receptionist. Finds out what you need and hands you to the right agent.
Company info: name, logo, phone, address and license, from Drive, the website or a few questions.
Past jobs. Reads your old estimates and the Drive, and hands each piece to his team.
Names your project types and size tiers from your past jobs, and projects your year.
Banking and payments: which accounts to connect and whether you take cards.
The business plan: your pay, monthly bills, savings and a rate for each kind of work.
The directory of subs, suppliers and employees, plus your connected email and Drive.
Your contract template: terms, payment schedule and which optional clauses go in.
Client profiles, putting a client on a job, and the autopay setup email.
New employees and subs: contact info, W-2 or 1099, and their paperwork.
The labor datum: owner pay, office versus field time, and real crew rates.
Your mix of kinds of work, and what has to be sold each week and month.
Special markups: owner pay and fixed costs split into each job's budget.
Builds a set of cost codes for each kind of work you do.
One look at runway, revenue against plan, the job mix sold and billing.
Starts a job from the plans and writes the scope of work.
The job's one list of rooms and areas, with each scope line tied to a room.
Initial RFIs: what's clear, what's incomplete, and what needs clarity.
Tables and quantities for every cost type, from plans, photos or video.
Names the make and model of every finish item.
Puts the cost on every row of the estimate.
Initial submittals: every finish, fixture and product, room by room.
A picture and a product link for every submittal item.
Allowances for the scope that can't be pinned down yet.
Each cost type's markup, the special markups and the target margin.
Runs the line in order and builds the estimate package documents.
Final plan check of the submittals against every document.
The Estimate Editor: changes and adds lines on an estimate that isn't approved yet.
Builds RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, and files the quotes that come back.
Sends RFPs and RFQs to subs, finds more vendors and reads the replies.
Decides what the homeowner sees on the estimate.
The homeowner's risk page, from your site-visit photos.
Where a job stands in preconstruction, and what's next.
Creates the job: the project record, client, stakeholders and documents.
Builds a job's California home improvement contract and sends it to sign.
Checks that the estimate, allowances, submittals and contract agree before they go out.
Prices changed or new work on a change order, with the client-facing reason.
Updates every project document a change order touches, one by one.
The four preliminary schedules, plus the live job schedule.
The homeowner's official timeline, and how far the job has drifted from it.
The field PM's working schedule: dates, status and what really happened.
Design Selection: what product goes where, and who signed off.
Retypes, renames, splits or merges a cost code on a live job.
Invoicing: writes a client invoice against approved work.
Material receipts one at a time, coded to a job.
Bulk material costs from the office: a pile of receipts or a statement.
Labor dollars on a job after the fact.
Daily hours, sent to payroll and job-costed.
The bills inbox: supplier statements and sub invoices, matched and paid.
Supplier charge slips matched to a job and cost code.
Overhead that isn't for any job.
Repeating bills kept on schedule and matched to the bank.
"I need $X." Checks the plan and the profit balance first.
The audit: is the job actually making money?
Job costing manager. Watches every job's budget against what it really costs, code by code.
Expenses manager. Keeps card charges, receipts and company overhead sorted.
Bills and bill pay. Lines up what's due and gets each payment ready for your OK.
Profitability manager. Shows which jobs and kinds of work really make money.
Payroll manager. Gets crew hours ready for payroll. You run it.
Tax prep and reserves. Keeps tax money set aside and the paperwork ready for your preparer.
The controller. Runs the weekly look-ahead and the month-end close.
One line for owners, PMs and crew, by text or in the app: hours, receipts, questions, change orders and invoices.
What's picked and what's still open.
What's in the job, with no prices.
Everything in the job, prices included, read only.
The owner's own agent for Siskiyou County, by text or in the app.
Your team hands this work to the agents day to day. Every number, document and payment comes back to you before it goes anywhere.
Send the plans or a walkthrough video. The agents build the estimate in your own cost codes, with every number marked measured, counted or assumed, and put the bid package together for your subs.
Contracts, change orders, RFIs, allowances, schedules and client selections, kept current while the job runs. Your clients get clear, professional documents under your name.
Every receipt and crew hour lands on the right job and cost code, so you always know what each job costs. Supplier bills and statements, client invoices and payments, payroll prep, monthly bills, and owner draws with profit set aside in envelopes. Cash flow and profitability reports, with your books kept in step with QuickBooks. Every payment and transfer waits for your OK.
What you need to take home, what the business costs to run, and what to charge for each kind of work. Then it's tracked against your real numbers.
More money managers are on the way. You'll see them marked Coming soon on the Financial Management team above.
We talk about your company, how you work now, and where the agents can help first.
We set up your company info, past jobs, directory, contract and business plan, and bring in the jobs you have going.
Hands-on sessions for you, your office and your field staff, one workflow at a time.
Your staff hands work to the agents day to day. You check it, change it, or send it back.
Nothing goes to your clients or moves money without your OK.
One Bay Area general contractor ran two and a half years of books through it and found his real margins.
Preliminary budgets in under four hours, instead of days.
We share client results without names.
Ask about your estimates, change orders and invoices, and talk to the agents, right from the chat you already use. Takes about a minute.
Normally $2,500. We're giving 30 residential general contractors full custom onboarding free.
30 free slots
Your company info, past jobs, subs and suppliers, contract and business plan, set up with you.
How to work with the agents, hands on, on your own jobs.
What to hand to the agents, what to check, and how nothing goes out without your OK.
We stay with you until your company runs right on it.
A person reviews every request. The counter shows the slots we've accepted.
Free tiers available. Paid plans starting at $20 a month. All plans are billed monthly.
Built for owner-operators doing under $200K a year.
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Get startedBuilt for companies doing $200K to $400K a year.
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Get startedBuilt for companies doing $400K to $750K a year.
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Get startedBuilt for companies doing $750K a year and up.
From $100 /mo
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Get startedOne credit covers about 10 cents of AI work. An agent message is under a credit; a full quick estimate is about 30. Your first automatic company setup is free and doesn't use credits.
Pick one on any plan. It's a one-time charge, added to Due today.
Full custom is free for 30 residential general contractors. Claim your free slot
A real account manager onboards your company, trains your whole crew, and meets with you regularly.
Log in to see your jobs, review what is waiting for your OK, and talk to your team.
Log inTell us about your company and your crew. We'll show you where the agents fit, and how we'd onboard your company and train your team.
Free tiers available. Paid plans starting at $20 a month.