Nicole
Voice AI that picks up the phone, qualifies the lead, checks the schedule, books the appointment, and emails everyone the confirmation — all in one call. Hands-free.
BuildCore Ai is voice-first. 80 agents answer the calls, hunt the permits, build the takeoffs, send the invoices, and move every job through your pipeline — graduating to full autonomy as soon as you trust them. Stop running your business across six apps.
Voice AI that picks up the phone, qualifies the lead, checks the schedule, books the appointment, and emails everyone the confirmation — all in one call. Hands-free.
iKingdom 9-tier swarm — intake to analytics. Every agent has a job, a checkpoint, and graduates to full autonomy as it earns it.
Every customer, lead, job, and fresh permit pinned on a real map of your service area. Pink pulses are permit signals — your next outreach push.

Every new permit filed in your service area, surfaced the moment it hits the city's online portal — sorted by jurisdiction.
Drop a plan PDF. Get back a cost-coded takeoff — line items, scope, quantities, unit prices, and trade totals — in seconds.
Every job flows from welcome → design → permits → build → wrap-up. Phase-locked, client-visible, auto-checklisted. No more sticky notes.
Built on the iKingdom 9-tier architecture. Every agent graduates from checkpoint supervision to full autonomy.
Checkpoint Graduation — every agent starts supervised. You approve its first 50 actions. After it clears your bar, it runs on its own. You can revoke autonomy any time from the Agents panel.
Table-stakes GC platform, with Nicole and the agent tiers wired into every module.
AI-assisted line-item estimates with a 30-year chief-estimator brain behind every quote.
Drag-drop Gantt, crew calendars, and permit-aware timelines for every job.
Field-first daily reports with photos, weather, and crew time rolled up automatically.
Price, sign, and bill changes without ever leaving the job record.
GPS-verified clock-in / clock-out that maps straight to job costing and payroll.
One click creates your invoice, receipt, and lien release in seconds — no copy-paste between apps, no missed signatures.
A branded space where homeowners see the same Pipeline status your PM sees.
Plans, videos, proposals, and approvals in one searchable job drive.
Close-out, punch, and warranty claims live inside the job — not in a forgotten spreadsheet.
25 features across the six platforms contractors actually shortlist. Highlighted rows are the capabilities only BuildCore ships.
| Feature | BuildCore | Buildertrend | Procore | JobTread | CoConstruct | Contractor Foreman | Houzz Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead capture / CRM | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Estimating | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Takeoff from plan PDFs | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Scheduling / Gantt | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily logs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Files / documents | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change orders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| RFIs | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | ✗ |
| GPS time clock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bill pay (AP) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Budget vs actual | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Purchase orders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subcontractor management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Client portal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Warranty tracking | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | — |
| Nicole voice AI assistant | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Autonomous agent swarm (80 agents) | ✓ | ✗ | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Permit Hunter auto-lead-gen | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | — |
| Map-first Relationships CRM | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pipeline (post-contract journey) | ✓ | — | ✗ | — | — | ✗ | — |
| Live Pulse activity stream | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Checkpoint Graduation agents | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Trade bid calculators (concrete/fence/roofing) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
✓ fully present · — partial · ✗ missing
Welcome → Design → Permits → Plan Review → Construction → Wrap-up. Your PM and your client see the same step, at the same time, with an audit log under every move.
pipeline_eventsEvery lead, opportunity, and active job plotted on the map you drive. Route a crew past three warranty calls on the way home. No other CRM leads with geography.
Every plan includes Nicole, Pipeline, Relationships, and the full ops stack. Pick a tier based on how much horsepower you want unlocked.
Solo operators & 1-crew contractors ready to stop running their business out of a notebook
The entire BuildCore operating system — Pipeline, Relationships map, Live Pulse, client portal, time clock, financials, Nicole voice assistant. No feature gates on the core product.
Built for the contractor running $500K-$2M a year who's tired of juggling QuickBooks, Google Sheets, group texts, and their memory. One login, one source of truth, one voice assistant that knows every job.
Growing teams running 5-15 projects at once who need the full 80-agent swarm to scale without hiring admin overhead
Everything in Basic PLUS all 80 iKingdom agents unlocked and working together 24/7, Permit Hunter auto-lead generation, AI Takeoff Studio, QuickBooks two-way sync, and priority support.
For the contractor scaling $2M-$10M a year. The Mid tier is the sweet spot — every agent graduated to autonomy, every integration you need for a growing crew, and the margin math stops being guesswork. Most of our customers start here.
Production builders
Add features as your business grows. Unlimited integrations, unlimited users, unlimited projects.
The 'Scale' in 'Scale-as-you-go' isn't marketing — it's literal. Every integration, every supplier connection, every new agent capability activates on demand. No contract renegotiation. Grow from 5 crews to 50 without switching software.
The 'Scale' is literal. Every integration, every supplier connection, every new agent capability activates on demand. No contract renegotiation, no forklift upgrade. Grow from 5 crews to 50 without switching software. Unlimited users, unlimited projects, unlimited Takeoff Studio AI, and plug-in integrations (Home Depot Pro, Lowe's Pro, QuickBooks, Xero, Gusto, DocuSign, Slack, Teams, and more) added quarterly.
Tier 1-3 are live today. Tier 4-6 graduate through Q2. Tier 7-9 by year-end. You get them as they graduate, no upgrade fee.
Nothing. We email you when your tier opens.
Same core ops stack they ship — estimates, scheduling, daily logs, portal — plus Nicole voice AI, an 80-agent swarm, Permit Hunter lead-gen, and Takeoff Studio AI. None of the alternatives ship those. Most also lock you into annual contracts; we don't.
You don't need it. You'll just be out-priced, out-quoted, and out-followed-up within a quarter by contractors who do. Nicole answers calls while you're on a ladder; Takeoff AI reads the plan while you sleep; the agent tiers chase leads in the background.
Mid and Scale plans include a two-way QuickBooks Online sync for invoices, bills, and the chart of accounts. Your bookkeeper keeps QuickBooks; your field keeps BuildCore.
Yes. Every paid plan includes a branded client portal. Clients see exactly the Pipeline stage your PM sees — welcome, design, permits, plan review, construction, wrap-up — with photos, approvals, and invoices attached.
Row-level security on every table, org-scoped access, audit logs on sensitive mutations, and Supabase-managed Postgres with daily backups. Single-tenant deploys are available on Scale.