Construction & Trades
Your crews shouldn't be waiting for the office — and your office shouldn't be chasing project information.
GCs and specialty contractors run eleven different apps on average, and almost none of them talk. Estimates in one tool, job costs in QuickBooks, change orders in text threads. We engineer the connections your software vendors never will.
Sound familiar?
The problems every growing contractor recognizes.
If three of these hit home, your systems — not your people — are the bottleneck.
- Nothing talks to anything. Estimating, job costing, field notes and billing live in separate tools — connected by re-keying and prayer.
- Change order leakage. Verbal T&M changes never make it onto an approved CO, so they never make it onto a pay app. Unbilled extras eat your margin quietly.
- You find out you lost money at closeout. By the time cost overruns surface against the estimate, the job is done.
- The payment paperwork grind. Pay apps, lien waivers, retainage, COIs and W-9s chased by email — GCs report ~65 hours a month just managing payments to subs and vendors.
- Field-to-office lag. Daily logs, timecards and production quantities arrive late, on paper, or not at all.
- Procore is too much, spreadsheets are too little. Enterprise platforms priced for enterprise budgets; everything else leaves gaps your admins fill by hand.
The cost of doing nothing
Fragmentation is a tax on every job.
Example systems
What we engineer for contractors.
Built around the tools you keep — QuickBooks stays, the duct tape goes.
Change-order capture
Field T&M tickets with photos → client e-signature → automatic flow into the pay app and QuickBooks. No extra goes unbilled again.
Subcontractor portal
Bid invites, COI/W-9/lien waiver collection, pay app submission and compliance status — one login instead of forty email threads.
Live job costing
Estimates, timecards and QuickBooks actuals in one WIP dashboard — margin by job while you can still do something about it.
Client portal
Selections, allowances, schedule milestones, draw requests and progress photos — without the phone tag.
Pay app & retainage automation
G702/G703-style billing generated from approved COs and your schedule of values, with lien waiver exchange built in.
Field-to-office sync
Daily logs, timecards and production quantities from the crew's phones straight into costing and payroll.
We've already engineered a construction operations platform.
Convoe is substantial construction-domain engineering — project workflows, field-to-office coordination, and the operational plumbing job sites actually need. We know this industry's data, documents and dysfunctions from the inside.
See the case studyStart with a Systems Opportunity Sprint.
Two weeks. Fixed fee. We map your bid-to-cash workflow, price the leaks, and hand you a roadmap — whether or not you build with us.