Every detail.
One connected build.

BuildTether helps do the preparation behind a well-run job: reading the plans, researching the product models, gathering manufacturer documents and organizing the details into the rooms where people need them. It combines that AI-assisted preparation with field records, a working schedule and controlled sharing in one construction workspace.

Built around the realities of construction, BuildTether grew out of firsthand experience with the work behind “can you send me the specs?” Finding the exact model, tracking down its installation manual, checking which room it belongs in, then sending it again to the next trade. The software helps take that repeated searching, sorting and typing off your plate, while leaving the decisions with you.

• AI reads the plans and prepares the room structure. Upload your approved plan set and appliance, fixture or finish schedules. It identifies rooms, suggests readable sheet names while preserving the original references, and proposes the relevant plan pages and listed products for each room. You can correct the assignments before creating the organized project.
• It researches exact model numbers and brings the documents back to the room. AI works from the models in your uploaded schedules or the ones you enter. It searches for official manufacturer product pages, specs and installation instructions, then proposes where to file them. A kitchen appliance’s information can stay together for the cabinetmaker, plumber and electrician. Unclear model matches or missing manuals are flagged, so you can resolve them before publishing.
• Your walkthrough becomes organized photo notes. Speak while taking pictures and say the room name as you move. Field Camera matches the timing of your words to each photo and drafts its note, caption, room, trade and priority. Smart Field Notes handles a single spoken or typed instruction. Review the drafts instead of writing up the entire visit afterward.
• Capture what will be hidden before drywall goes up. The Guided Behind-the-Wall Record uses selected plans to suggest a room capture guide for you to verify. Videos become reviewable stills with optional AI captions and quality warnings. Keep originals, selected images, notes and a coverage checklist in the room’s private record. General job photos and videos have their own monthly project archive with controlled sharing.
• Keep existing 3D scans with the room record. Already using a separate LiDAR or 3D scanning app? Attach its shared scan link or an exported 3D file alongside the room’s photos and notes. Shared links open in the original provider’s viewer; uploaded files are saved for download. BuildTether organizes the scan record without requiring you to replace your scanning tool.
• An estimate becomes the starting point for a living schedule. AI uses the estimate’s work scope and your start date to propose activities and dependencies. Edit the Gantt chart, see the critical path, and describe later changes by voice or text to get a proposed revision. Daily logs preserve weather, deliveries, workforce, work completed and delays alongside schedule impacts.
• Supplier orders get a check against your project’s plans. The window and exterior-door checker compares an uploaded order with your selected plan revision, flags possible differences in size, quantity, opening direction or missing items, and provides source references for your review.
• The approved information reaches the people doing the work. A permanent room QR code opens the organized plans, product documents, photos and notes you choose to share. Changes appear behind that same code. Separate team and client access lets people contribute questions, files and proposed updates without publishing them before your review.
• Keep employee time records connected to the jobsite. Employees clock in and out from their phones using a shared jobsite QR code with their name and private PIN, or a saved personal clock link. BuildTether requests a location reading at each punch, so the time record includes where it was submitted, without tracking movement between punches or off duty. Managers can correct a missed punch using the actual time and a reason, with an audit trail that preserves the correction history.
• Everyday job controls stay with the project. Save plan and photo markups separately from originals, and customize a private operating manual of jobsite rules, quality standards and inspection-readiness procedures. These tools keep the field record and your expectations in one place.
• Track follow-through and take the records with you. Create project checklists with a responsible team member, completion status and daily notes or weekly reports. Print or save PDFs, share secure links, or export Excel-compatible spreadsheets. Daily logs and employee time records also have print and spreadsheet export options for review outside BuildTether.
• People have somewhere to turn for help. FAQs, tutorials and an app-specific Help Assistant explain how to use the tools. The assistant can record a reported fault and alert the owner, or direct the user to customer service when more help is needed.

Coming soon: Bid Desk, estimating & job costing.

The next step is to connect the business side of the build—from finding the right vendors and getting comparable bids to preparing an estimate and understanding what the job actually costs. Bid Desk is in private testing. The capabilities below are planned for the expanded workspace and are not yet available on customer plans.

• Your vendor and subcontractor directory. Keep contacts organized by trade, service area and the work they provide, with pricing history and notes, so you can build on the relationships you already trust.
• One bid package, sent to multiple selected vendors. Prepare the scope, relevant plan links and a response deadline once. Choose the vendors, review the recipients and details, then send requests in a batch from your connected business email. Share links to plans and supporting documents instead of repeatedly attaching large files.
• Bids you can compare and follow up. Bring requested prices, received quotes, inclusions, exclusions and follow-up dates into one view. Review what each vendor has actually allowed for, then carry the selected quote into your estimate without retyping it.
• AI-assisted estimates with regional cost references. Use project scope and room quantities to prepare an editable estimate draft. Planned regional material and labor benchmarks would help you check allowances against the job’s location, with sources and dates shown for review. Adjust quantities, apply your own pricing and markup, and confirm costs against current supplier and subcontractor quotes.
• Job costing that connects the estimate to the work. Compare the original budget, committed costs and actual spending by job and trade. Track cost changes as the build progresses so you can see where allowances are being used, where overruns are developing and how they affect the expected margin.
• Your worksheets, connected to the process. Keep reviewed quotes and estimate details in private worksheets, preserve familiar workbook layouts, and export records for review and sharing. The aim is less duplicate entry between the bid, the estimate and the job-cost record.

You’re paying for the work behind an organized jobsite: help turning a stack of plans, product lists and field updates into information your team can actually use. AI prepares and proposes; you review, correct and approve. That means less time rebuilding the same answer—and more time building the job.