Construction & Skilled Trades
Takeoffs, bids, job costs, and change orders in one system, from the first number quoted to the last invoice paid. AI can now read a blueprint and count what’s on it.
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Built around your real risk
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.
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What We Build for Construction & Skilled Trades
- Bidding and estimating platforms with trade-specific takeoff math
- AI-assisted blueprint takeoff, quantity counts, and code compliance checks
- Job costing, progress billing, and automated change order capture
- Field-to-office applications for crews, superintendents, and foremen
- Inventory, scheduling, and production reporting
- Integration with accounting, payroll, and ERP systems
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Real results powered by KitelyTech
Specialty Trade Contractor
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.
Electrical Contractor
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.
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