How HJD Builders got commercial-grade project management without the overhead
A smaller GC wanted the project management, estimating, and accounting of a commercial builder, without the big-company overhead or the spreadsheet sprawl. We drew one platform, then built it out.
Commercial-grade needs, spreadsheet-grade tools
HJD ran a real book of work on scattered spreadsheets: estimates in one file, job tracking in another, accounting in a third, and RFIs, submittals, and change orders across text and email. Nothing shared a source of truth.
The platforms that offered commercial-grade project management came with commercial-grade overhead and cost, more than a smaller GC should carry.
One platform: manage, estimate, account
Project management and intake
One system for RFIs, submittals, and change orders, routed to the right person with the two-week lookahead attached.
Estimating in the same place
Estimates live with the jobs they feed, not in a separate spreadsheet, so a number never goes stale in a file no one opens.
Accounting tied to the work
Job costs and billing track against the actual work, so the books reflect what is happening in the field.
Commercial-grade, small-firm footprint
HJD runs like a bigger shop without the overhead. The spreadsheet sprawl is gone, everything reads from one source of truth, and RFI turnaround dropped from about three days to four hours.
HJD Builders is a venture North Forge owns and operates, not an independent client. We built and ran this system in our own operations first. More on our ventures →