vs Procore

You are the general contractor, and the job needs one record that architects, owners, subs, and inspectors all work from. You issue and chase RFIs and submittals. You manage drawing revisions and need the field looking at the current sheet. You run competitive bids and prequalify subs. You track commitments, change orders, and pay applications, and someone forecasts margin across a portfolio. An owner or agency mandates a platform. You have enough people that unlimited-user pricing is an advantage rather than a rounding error.

Every one of those is a Procore strength and none of them is something we do. We are a much smaller product with a much smaller claim, and the surest way to be unhappy with us is to buy us expecting a construction management platform.

Here is the contractor we are built for. Six trucks. A dozen to forty people on the crew. Two or three live sites. The drawings and the project record are in Autodesk Build, either by choice or because the GC put them there. The books are in QuickBooks and a bookkeeper codes them. And everything in between is paper and memory: receipts in the cup holder, drive time guessed at on Friday, daily logs written from recollection or not at all, and no reliable answer to "who was at the Wickham site on Tuesday?".

That is the whole job we take. A QR sticker on each truck turns a receipt into a coded QuickBooks purchase with the photo attached, and card receipts wait to match the bank feed rather than duplicating what the card connection already posted. Jobs carry geofences from their address, so the crew's phone offers one button — I'm here, Moved, Done for the day — which also starts the punch and files the assignment. Subs get in without a login: name, phone, selfie, headcount. Fleet trips that end inside a job's fence turn into travel-pay legs for everyone who tapped in there, ledgered against the trip so a re-run never pays twice. The foreman's end-of-day log posts into Autodesk as a Daily Report with the crew prefilled from that day's check-ins. And QuickBooks spend syncs back into Autodesk so the project record carries actual cost.

Then the back office: rota and timesheets, PTO, document packets completed digitally or on wet-ink paper with a scan-back or as an uploaded file, write-ups, recurring inspections, a receipt-backlog importer that reads a scanned pile and never auto-posts anything doubtful, and a bilingual phone app the crew actually opens. That half of the product is the same engine an eight-location retail franchise runs its 32-person payroll workbook on — see workforce & store ops.

Two honest flags, because this page is not a brochure. Creating new Autodesk projects from Eco Ops needs write scope, so an Autodesk account admin reconnects the integration once — reading and importing projects works on a read-only token, creating does not. And fleet-telematics trip fields have moved between API versions, so we verify the shape against your own token during setup rather than assuming.

Detail lives on Eco Systems for construction and integrations. The closer comparison for most people reading this is vs Buildertrend; pricing conversation starts at pricing.