Solutions · General contractors
Run the whole job without a third system.
Estimates, budgets, RFIs, submittals, QA/QC, change orders and full job costing on one connected graph — with an executive dashboard that shows every project's true position.
For a 25-person GC the disconnects are the risk: RFIs lost in email, change orders that move the budget invisibly, and job costing that reconciles at month-end — when the month is already gone.
01 — The operating loop
The loop, tuned for general contractors.
Six stages, one connected graph. The filled stages are where Trestle does the heavy lifting for this firm — 4 of the six; the open stages are shared by every customer.
01
Estimate
Bid from takeoff and a cost database that already knows your numbers.
02
Budget
The won bid becomes the working budget. Change orders stay attached to the lines they move.
03
Purchase
POs post committed cost against budget lines the moment they're approved.
04
Field
RFIs, submittals, QA/QC and snagging in one thread — office to site.
05
Bill
Progress billing with retention, generated from verified progress.
06
Profit
Executive dashboard: committed vs. actual on every project, same week.
02 — What they run today
The current stack, and where it leaks.
Most firms don't have a system problem. They have five systems that don't talk to each other. This is what general contractors run today, and what each tool actually costs.
01Estimates in Excel
The estimate and the budget are two files that never agree. Numbers get retyped — and that's where the 3–8% permanent error rate comes from.
02RFIs and submittals over email
Threads die and approvals go stale. The record of who approved what is whatever someone remembers.
03A big platform for documents
It stores the paperwork, but the budget and the schedule live elsewhere — so it can't tell you your true position.
04Month-end reconciliation
Job costing lands weeks late, when a variance is a fact instead of a decision. That's 11.5 hours a week of hunting and reconciling data.
3–8%
permanent error rate from disconnected software
11.5h
a week hunting and reconciling data per team
35%
of work hours lost to rework, searching and conflicts
Source: PH Construction OS master blueprint, problem section
03 — Before / after
What changes for the people doing the work.
Before
An RFI answered in email, filed nowhere, forgotten.
After
Every RFI carries its full thread, submittal status and decision — searchable from any project.
Before
A change order approved on Viber, never wired into the budget.
After
A change order posts to its budget lines the moment it's approved — the impact is visible before the work starts.
Before
Job costs reconciled at month-end, too late to act.
After
Committed vs. actual on every project, visible the same week it happens.
Before
Portfolio exposure hidden across six spreadsheets.
After
One executive dashboard shows every project's true position and the whole portfolio at a glance.
04 — Capabilities by phase
Capabilities, placed where they work.
Not a flat feature list — each capability lives in the phase of the job where it does the work.
01 · Bid & estimate
- Takeoff and cost database
- BOQ and estimate build-ups
02 · Budget & procure
- Change orders and cost codes
- POs and committed cost
03 · Field & QA
- RFIs, submittals and specs
- QA/QC and snagging
- Scheduling and critical path
04 · Bill & report
- Executive dashboard
- Custom reports and workflows
- BIR e-invoicing (V2)
05 — Who uses it
Four seats on the same graph.
Estimator
01Wins the job
Builds takeoff and BOQ from the cost database. The won estimate becomes the budget — nothing is retyped.
Project manager
02Runs the job between office and site
Tracks RFIs, submittals, schedule and QA/QC in one place, with the change orders that move the budget.
Foreman
03On site, offline
Logs snags, daily progress and deliveries on a phone that works without signal — synced when it reconnects.
Operations / finance
04Owns the numbers
Reads committed vs. actual from the executive dashboard instead of reconciling spreadsheets at month-end.
06 — Plans & alternatives
Start on Professional. Scale around it.
Most firms like yours start on Professional. Step down if you're smaller; step up when the work outgrows it.
Growth
The plan most firms land on.
$646 /mo
Billed annually · 10 Pro seats
- 25 active projects
- 500 GB
- 5,000 AI credits
Professional
For general contractors running real complexity.
$1,562 /mo
Billed annually · 25 Pro seats
- 100 active projects
- 2 TB
- 20,000 AI credits
Enterprise
The full platform, configured for large GCs.
Custom
Scoped to your firm
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited storage
- 75,000 AI credits
Not sure which plan fits?
Compare all four, or talk to someone in Manila.
“For the first time I can see committed vs. actual on every project the same week it happens.”
Operations manager, 25-person GC — pilot cohort