Building in public: the founding contractor program
Construction has been sold a lot of software that demoed well and fell apart at the first month-end close. We'd rather build with contractors in the open. Here's what the founding program is, what we'll ask, and what we don't know yet.
Agents with approvals: how we think about AI in the back office
AI in construction accounting goes wrong in two ways: chatbots that know nothing about your jobs, and autopilots that post entries nobody checked. Our model is an apprentice with a supervisor. Here are the rules.
The real cost of re-keying a change order
We followed one change order from a ceiling cavity to the pay app and counted every time someone retyped the same facts. The typing is the cheap part.
Why construction needs an operating system, not another app
Most contractors don't have a software problem. They have a seams problem: the same number lives in five systems and none of them agree. The fix is a shared record, not another tool.