Procore, Sage, HCSS, ServiceTitan — the bill climbs while the fit gets worse. We build custom, owned software for mid-market construction firms across the Midwest.
PMs re-key the same data into Procore, Raken, and a spreadsheet because none of them fit how your crews actually work.
Hours per PM per week, lost. Reporting that's always a day behind reality. Decisions made on the wrong number.
OUR ANSWER
We build and run custom operational software for mid-market construction firms: the systems your PMs, estimators, superintendents, and accounting team actually live in every day. You own the code, the data, and the workflow.
A monthly retainer, sized to your business, puts an embedded team of developers, designers, and product strategists behind your roadmap. It runs roughly the all-in cost of hiring one senior developer in Cincinnati or Indianapolis — for the capacity of a full team.
You don't rip everything out on day one. You pick the highest-impact pain point — usually the one with the most expensive SaaS bill attached — and we build the replacement, integrated with the systems you're keeping. Then the next one, and the next.
The spend doesn't change much. Where it goes does. Redirected, the same budget builds software you own outright: an asset on your balance sheet, and a workflow no competitor can buy off a shelf.
Five high-impact replacement targets where custom-owned software usually outperforms the SaaS incumbent.
Many GCs pay for far more Procore than they use. A custom PM hub — RFIs, submittals, daily reports, drawings, change orders — built around your workflows instead of a vendor's roadmap, integrated with the design tools (Revit, Bluebeam) and accounting systems you're keeping.
Estimating is the most company-specific workflow in construction, which is why it ends up as a sprawl of Excel files, ProEst, HCSS, and tribal knowledge. Custom estimating tools turn your historical bid data into a structural advantage no competitor can buy off a shelf.
The most expensive pain in mid-market construction isn't any single tool — it's the duct tape between them. Custom middleware connecting accounting to PM, field, payroll, and reporting is consistently our fastest-payback engagement, and usually the wedge into everything else.
Many firms pay for Procore plus Raken plus a homegrown form, and crews resent all of them. A single field app built for your trades, your safety requirements, and your reporting cadence collapses the stack — and gets used because it actually helps the people on the jobsite.
For heavy civil, site work, and self-perform contractors, equipment and crew utilization dashboards built on your telematics, dispatch, and job-cost data drive margin more directly than almost any other software investment. HCSS and Tenna are fine. Owning the equivalent is better.
We're a Cincinnati-based engineering firm working with mid-market companies across the Ohio Valley: Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Lexington. Our developers think in business outcomes, not just code. In construction, that means understanding job-cost reporting, retainage, schedule of values, AIA billing, T&M versus lump sum, and why your superintendent doesn't trust the project manager's percent-complete number.
A senior software engineer in the Midwest runs $120K–$180K in base salary. Add benefits, taxes, equipment, recruiting fees, ramp time, and the risk of a wrong hire, and the all-in cost is well north of $200K in year one — for one person who can’t replace your SaaS stack alone.
Our retainer engagements start in that same range and put a full team behind your roadmap: senior engineers, a product strategist, designers, and a delivery lead. The output is software you own, replacing software you rent.
Procore (volume-based) — $50K – $250K
Sage 300 CRE + bolt-ons — $30K – $90K
HCSS suite (heavy civil) — $40K – $120K
Estimating tools + add-ons — $15K – $60K
Field / daily report apps — $20K – $80K
Total recurring SaaS — $155K – $600K
You don't replace all of it. You replace the parts where custom fits your business better — which, in our experience, is most of it.
HOW WE START
Most engagements start with an Operations & Workflow Assessment: a 2 to 4 week engagement that maps your current stack, identifies the highest-impact replacement target, and produces a prototype, a realistic budget, and an honest answer about whether we’re the right team. No code written, no long-term commitment, just a clear plan you can take to your board.
Tell us what your current SaaS bill looks like, what's working, and what isn't. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team — and if we are, we'll have a plan before the first line of code.
