Built for you

The AI stack built for small contractors and builders.

Job costing, change orders, sub tracking, and bid follow-up — without a back-office hire.

Running a small GC, specialty trade, or residential build company under 20 crew means you're the estimator, the PM, the bookkeeper, and the person chasing unsigned change orders on Friday at 6pm. Your stack is some combination of QuickBooks, Buildertrend or CoConstruct, a project folder in Dropbox, a pile of subcontractor COIs, and bids in Excel. Procore exists but it's priced for commercial shops with 50+ people. You want to know: which jobs are actually profitable after change orders, which subs have expired insurance, which bids never got a follow-up call, and whether this month's AR covers next month's payroll. Starch pulls job data from your field software via browser automation, bank and AR data from Plaid and QuickBooks, and subcontractor records from wherever they live — then builds the cost-to-complete and cash-flow reports you'd otherwise pay a controller for.
Your Starch stack
Marketing
CRM

A customizable CRM that adapts to your workflow. Describe how you work and AI designs a CRM tailored to you — or import from an existing CRM.
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Contract Lifecycle Management

Manage every contract from creation to renewal. AI-powered drafting, e-signature collection, automated approval workflows, and renewal alerts — all in one contract repository.
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Contract Fidelity

Upload contracts, extract key terms, and monitor vendor compliance against actual invoices.
Productivity
Project Management

A Linear-inspired project management tool built for early-stage teams. Kanban board, list view, priority tracking, and AI-powered task management — all without leaving Starch.
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Task Manager

Track tasks, set priorities, and stay on top of deadlines. A simple, focused task list with priority levels, due dates, and custom ordering.
Productivity
Scheduling

Share your availability and let anyone book meetings with you. Syncs with Google Calendar for real-time availability.
Productivity
Email Agent

AI that organizes your inbox and drafts replies instantly. Smart prioritization, automated follow-ups, and one-click actions help you reach inbox zero and get through email twice as fast.
Financial
Spend Insights

Analyze bank and credit card transactions with category breakdowns, spending trends, and anomaly detection from your connected accounts.
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Budgeting

Track budgets by category and compare against actual spend from your accounting system.
Financial
Scenario and Runway Analysis

Model financial futures using live revenue and expense data — compare growth, headcount, and burn scenarios side by side.
Financial
Investor Reporting

Generate board-ready investor updates on a chosen cadence combining live financial metrics, AI-powered industry research, beautiful charts, and narrative summaries — then email them to your investor list.

Workflows we cover for Construction and Contractor Founders

finance-fpa

sales-crm

ops-supply

people-hr

customer-support

marketing-growth

strategy-planning

compliance-legal

internal-comms

Frequently asked questions
Does Starch work with Buildertrend, CoConstruct, or Procore?
Procore has partial Tier 2 API access via the integration browser — Starch can query projects, budgets, and change orders live. Buildertrend and CoConstruct don't have open APIs for small accounts, so Starch uses browser automation to pull job budgets, daily logs, selections, and change-order status on a schedule. You describe the report you want — 'cost-to-complete by active job, updated every morning' — and Starch builds it on top of that data.
How does job costing and profitability tracking work?
Starch pulls job budgets from your PM software, actual labor hours from time-tracking (QuickBooks Time, Busybusy, or browser-automated exports), and bills and POs from QuickBooks. The Spend Insights app categorizes spend by job code. You get a live profitability view per job instead of waiting for month-end. Scenario Analysis lets you model what happens to cash if that change order slips another 30 days.
Can it track subcontractor insurance and lien waivers?
Yes. Contract Lifecycle Management stores sub agreements, COIs, and W-9s with renewal alerts. You describe the rule — 'no sub can be scheduled on a job if their general liability expires within 14 days' — and Starch enforces it against your scheduling app. Lien waivers flow the same way: template generated per pay app, emailed for signature, tracked in one view.
What about bid follow-up and new-lead CRM?
The CRM tracks bids from first site visit through win or loss, with notes, plans, and every email thread attached. The Email Agent drafts follow-ups on a cadence you set — 48 hours after bid submitted, 7 days, 14 days — and stops when the homeowner replies. Close rates go up simply because nothing falls through the cracks on a busy week.
Does it integrate with QuickBooks or Sage?
QuickBooks Online is a Tier 1 connection — Starch syncs invoices, bills, payments, and vendors on a schedule. Sage Intacct is reachable via the integration browser as a Tier 2 connection, queried live when a report or automation needs it. Sage 100 Contractor and Foundation are browser-automatable if you need them.
Is this overkill for a 5-person shop?
Not usually. The bottleneck for most small contractors isn't the job — it's the paper chase. The platform is free during beta; you pick the apps that apply. Most contractors start with CRM for bid tracking, Contract Lifecycle Management for subs, and a custom cost-to-complete dashboard. Individual apps will have monthly subscriptions once pricing is finalized.

The AI stack built for small contractors and builders.

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