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Software for subcontractors

Firms hired by a general contractor to perform part of the work. 30 tools list this audience, 25 with AI features.

Estimating & takeoff

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Beam AI

ibeam.ai · part of Attentive.ai

Takeoff and estimating platform for commercial work, offering self-serve and done-for-you takeoffs that combine automation with human review.

AI Says its AI reads plans and specifications to identify material quantities automatically, and can capture bid invitations from email.

  • Subcontractors
  • General contractors
  • Suppliers & manufacturers
  • Estimators
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Bluebeam

bluebeam.com · part of Nemetschek Group

PDF markup, measurement, document management and collaboration software (Revu) connecting office and field teams on construction drawings.

AI Says its Bluebeam Max tier adds AI drawing reviews and comparisons (some in preview) and connects Revu to outside AI assistants via MCP.

  • Architects & engineers
  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Estimators
  • Specialty trades
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Quotr

quotr.ai

Takeoff and estimating software plus a managed estimating service and materials procurement, for contractors and developers.

AI Says its AI reads plan sets to count symbols and measure lengths and areas, and answers questions about drawings through a chat agent.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Estimators
  • Owners & developers
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STACK

stackct.com

Cloud construction platform covering plan management, takeoff and estimating, plus field tools such as daily reports and punch lists.

AI Says its AI reads and names plan sheets, flags revisions, auto-counts symbols, suggests possibly missed scope and checks pricing before bids go out.

  • Subcontractors
  • General contractors
  • Suppliers & manufacturers
  • Owners & developers
  • Estimators
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Togal.AI

togal.ai

Cloud takeoff software that measures and compares quantities on construction drawings, with trade-specific workflows for estimators.

AI Says its AI automatically detects, measures and compares quantities on drawings, and offers a chat feature for asking questions about plans.

  • Estimators
  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
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Bid management & preconstruction

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BuildingConnected

construction.autodesk.com · part of Autodesk

Bid management network for inviting bidders, tracking bids and prequalifying subcontractors, including Bid Board Pro and TradeTapp.

AI Says it recommends bidders, pulls details from outside bid invitations, and uses AI to turn PDF financial statements into structured qualification data.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Owners & developers
  • Estimators
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Cascade

usecascade.ai

Project pursuit platform for AEC firms that finds and ranks public bid opportunities and supports proposal writing and spec review.

AI Says its AI scans government sites for RFPs and ranks them by fit, drafts proposals and reviews specifications; some signal features are marked coming soon.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Architects & engineers
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ConstructConnect

constructconnect.com

Preconstruction software and data covering project leads, takeoff and estimating products, and bid management tools such as SmartBid.

AI Says its cloud takeoff product uses AI to pull counts, lengths and areas from plans automatically.

  • Subcontractors
  • General contractors
  • Suppliers & manufacturers
  • Estimators
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Downtobid

downtobid.com

Bidding platform that helps general contractors prepare and send bid invitations to subcontractors, with a bid-tracking board for subs.

AI Says its AI reads every sheet of an uploaded plan set, identifies trade packages and drafts scope notes for bid invitations.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Estimators
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Pantera

panteratools.com · part of Hubexo

Bid and project management software with branded bid invitations, a plan room, subcontractor prequalification and job costing.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Owners & developers
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Documents, contracts & specs

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Trunk Tools

trunktools.com

AI platform that reads project documents and drawings into a connected knowledge base, with tools for submittals, RFIs, bids, change review and document search.

AI Its Cortex layer reads project documents and drawings and maps their connections, powering agents that check submittals against specs and flag changes in revisions.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Owners & developers
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Design, BIM & generative design

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Revizto

revizto.com

Collaboration platform combining 2D drawings and 3D models in one workspace for clash detection, location-based issue tracking and project dashboards.

AI Offers an MCP server that lets teams query Revizto project data through their own AI tools.

  • Architects & engineers
  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Owners & developers
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Scheduling & planning

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ALICE Technologies

alicetechnologies.com

Construction planning and scheduling software that works from existing P6 or Microsoft Project schedules and BIM models to compare alternative build sequences against time and cost.

AI Uses AI to simulate many construction scenarios, generate optimized schedule options, model risks and constraints, and lets users query a schedule through an insights agent.

  • Owners & developers
  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Infrastructure & civil
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Outbuild

outbuild.com

Cloud scheduling and field coordination platform covering master schedules, lookaheads, weekly work plans and roadblock tracking, with Autodesk, Procore and Trimble ProjectSight integrations.

AI Outbuild AI answers schedule questions and highlights schedule risk and impact; the company also offers AI agents for scheduling tasks.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Owners & developers
  • Architects & engineers
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Progress tracking & reality capture

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DroneDeploy

dronedeploy.com · part of Procore

Reality capture platform combining drone, 360-camera, ground-robot and phone imagery into measurable site records for progress, quality and safety review.

AI AI agents flag schedule and safety risks; features automate progress quantification, earthworks analysis and visual defect and hazard detection.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
  • Owners & developers
  • Architects & engineers
  • Infrastructure & civil
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Project management platforms

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Contractor Foreman

contractorforeman.com

Construction management platform for small and mid-size contractors covering project management, estimates, invoicing, scheduling, time cards and a client portal.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
  • Home service trades
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Oracle Aconex

oracle.com · part of Oracle

Common data environment for construction and engineering projects, managing documents, correspondence, reviews, models, tenders and cost with an audit trail and per-organization data ownership.

  • Owners & developers
  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Architects & engineers
  • Suppliers & manufacturers
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Field operations & workforce

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Fieldwire

fieldwire.com · part of Hilti

Jobsite management software for tasks, scheduling, punch lists, inspections, RFIs, submittals, change orders, plan and BIM viewing, and reporting.

AI Field Intelligence answers questions across plans, tasks, photos and forms, supports voice-driven task updates, turns form issues into tasks and helps edit RFIs.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Owners & developers
  • Architects & engineers
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Raken

rakenapp.com

Field management app for daily progress reports, time tracking, production tracking, safety and quality, and document management, on web and mobile.

AI Says AI tags jobsite photos, helps verify worker identity at clock-in with a selfie, and summarizes daily reports to flag issues and milestones.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
  • Infrastructure & civil
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Safety & risk

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HammerTech

hammertech.com

Construction safety platform for subcontractor onboarding, orientations, JHAs, permits, pre-task plans, inspections, incidents, daily reports and site access.

AI HammerTech Intelligence autofills SDS data from labels, turns pre-task plan discussions into records, recognizes observation photos and drafts summaries for user review.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Owners & developers
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Finance, payments & back office

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Billd

billd.com

Construction financing for subcontractors, including paying suppliers upfront for materials on extended terms, advances on approved pay applications and revolving working capital.

  • Subcontractors
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Earlytrade

earlytrade.com

Early-payment platform where subcontractors can request early payment on invoices and general contractors fund those payments at an auction-set discount, invoice by invoice.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
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Handle

handle.com

Software for construction credit teams covering lien and notice management, waiver processing, online payments, job sheets and deadline tracking.

AI Handle says construction-specific AI and a unified data layer drive its lien, compliance, payment and financial-reporting automation.

  • Suppliers & manufacturers
  • Subcontractors
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Knowify

knowify.com

Project and service management software for trade contractors that combines estimates, job management, invoicing, job costing and a QuickBooks integration.

AI Lists Knowify AI, including a beta chat assistant that the company says analyzes jobs and can carry out tasks, and an AI Connector for linking outside AI tools.

  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
  • Home service trades
  • Remodelers
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Siteline

siteline.com

Billing and receivables software for commercial subcontractors that prepares and submits pay applications, manages lien waivers and compliance documents, and tracks collections and forecasts.

AI Its pricing page lists AI vendor waiver validation, which checks vendor lien waivers for incorrect forms, amounts or dates.

  • Subcontractors
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Procurement & materials

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Field Materials

fieldmaterials.com

Construction procurement and materials software covering quotes, purchase orders, delivery tracking, AP invoices, inventory, prefab and a supplier portal, with ERP and project-system integrations.

AI Says AI reads vendor quotes to create purchase orders, scans AP invoices for three-way matching, and matches uploaded delivery slips to POs.

  • General contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
  • Suppliers & manufacturers
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Kojo

usekojo.com

Materials management platform for MEP trade contractors covering field ordering, purchase orders, warehouse inventory, tool tracking, prefab workflows and accounts payable, with ERP integrations.

AI Says AI scans supplier invoices into the system and matches them to purchase orders and delivery slips to flag discrepancies.

  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
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SubBase

subbase.io

Procurement and materials software for contractors: field material requests, multi-vendor RFQs, purchase orders, delivery capture, invoice reconciliation, inventory and spend tracking, with accounting integrations.

AI Says it uses conversational AI for material requests (including photos of handwritten lists) and AI matching to flag delivery issues and reconcile invoices to POs.

  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
  • General contractors
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Residential, remodeling & trades

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Scaffold

getscaffold.com

Operations data platform for residential trade contractors that pulls job data from homebuilder portals and contractor systems, keeps them in sync, and creates jobs and purchase orders.

AI Says it uses machine learning to translate job data from different systems into one common format, syncing automatically with user approval.

  • Subcontractors
  • Specialty trades
  • Homebuilders
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ServiceTitan

servicetitan.com

Field service and contractor management software for residential and commercial trades such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing, spanning dispatch, CRM, job costing, invoicing and payments.

AI Describes itself as AI software for the trades, naming AI products such as Atlas, Titan Intelligence and an AI virtual agent.

  • Specialty trades
  • Subcontractors
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