Construction runs on numbers that have to be right before the work starts: takeoffs, bids, job costs, change orders. Custom platforms can put all of it in one system that follows a job from the first number quoted to the last invoice paid, and AI can now read a blueprint and count what is on it.
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The exposure here is not a named compliance regime, it is margin. A takeoff that is off, a change order nobody captured, or pricing that varies with whoever built the spreadsheet each leaves money on a job you already won. In code-heavy trades the error surfaces at inspection rather than at bid, and multi-market operations compound all of it, because labor rates, material costs, and crew pay change by city. A single well-defined tool on a platform already in place fits a fast, fixed-scope configuration under Katalyst Launchpad™. A platform spanning bid, job cost, field, and billing calls for the fuller architecture of Katalyst Custom™, KitelyTech's fully engineered build process.
Their experience stands out to us.
Their team’s great and coaches us through the projects. Most of the hiccups are on our end. They’ve been patient and professional the whole time.
The team at KitelyTech became engaged immediately. The level of communication was excellent at every stage. They laid out exactly what they intended to do and explained to our team exactly the manner in which the task was to be executed.
In terms of project management, I thought they did a fantastic job. There were several times when we reached out with a wide range of requests or questions, and they got back to us with answers pretty quickly. The whole speed of the project was good.
Whatever the issue is, they have someone who can address it. I think that if I have a problem, I can reach out to them and feel confident they can take the work and get it done.
What I found to be most impressive about KitelyTech was the air of excellence that each member of the team carried themselves with.
We would not have our core business without KitelyTech creating such a wonderful product with us.
I made it clear that we needed this project done in six weeks and they were able to accomplish it in five.
Everything I wanted and more.
Excellent management and project creation.
Done a week ahead of schedule and getting ahold of team members was a breeze.
I came into this engagement as a sceptic. We had been through a failed implementation with a previous vendor and I had high standards for what evidence of competence looked like before I would trust a partner with our core systems. This team earned that trust progressively — through the quality of the discovery documentation, the rigour of the technical proposals, the consistency of the sprint deliveries, and ultimately the stability of the production system. I no longer lead with scepticism when recommending them.
A contractor running drywall and paint as two production businesses under one roof, across three markets. The trades share customers and crews and almost nothing else: different takeoffs, different material math, different labor rates, different crew pay. Commercial construction software handled the general case, and the specifics that decide whether a job makes money sat outside it.
A platform that follows a job from the first number quoted to the last invoice paid. Bid sheets built separately for each trade, with square footage calculations by sheet type and floor, material takeoffs by vendor, and labor priced with burden. A won bid converts to a stock sheet with nothing re-entered. Job and lot detail, stock and labor costing, scheme assignment, and billing splits tracked against each invoice. Repairs raised against the job, assigned, scheduled with reason codes, and invoiced or absorbed under warranty. Underneath it, more than twenty master data categories, with material, labor, and pricing defaults set at the city level, so each market prices against its own numbers across three versions of the software. Seventy-one reports ship with the platform, each a defined stored procedure rather than an export someone cleans up by hand. Five roles are controlled at page and field level, so superintendents see production detail in the field with monetary fields hidden.
Cloud construction management platform with AI blueprint takeoff
A contractor specializing in high-end residential and multi-year commercial multi-dwelling projects ran blueprint takeoff, bidding, billing, inventory, project costing, and progress management out of a legacy Microsoft Access database. One aging file carrying the whole operation, manual takeoff counts in a code-heavy environment where an error surfaces at inspection rather than at bid, change orders processed late, and no real-time view of whether a job was profitable while it was still running.
A cloud construction management platform that replaced the legacy system while preserving every workflow that worked. Blueprints, bids, billing, inventory, and project data centralized in a secure cloud environment with automatic backups. AI-assisted blueprint takeoff detects outlets, recesses, loads, and home-runs with code compliance checks, under human review rather than in place of it. Change order capture and monetization automated so revisions stop escaping the billing cycle. Real-time dashboards for profitability, inventory, and job status. An iPad app for field updates and Microsoft Teams for office-to-field collaboration, with deep QuickBooks integration for financial syncing and full auditability throughout.
