Best software for general contractors, honestly compared.
GCs need budget-spine bidding, sub leveling, critical-path scheduling, and progress billing. Here is how the options compare, BuildX first.
Start freeWhat a GC should demand from software
One budget that estimates, proposals, change orders, and invoices all read from. If the numbers live in four places, the margin leaks between them.
Sub bid leveling against identical scope lines, with gaps and exclusions visible before you award.
Critical-path scheduling with labor gates, so promised dates survive contact with reality.
How BuildX compares
BuildX was built around the budget spine: takeoff to budget to proposal to schedule to invoice, with the customer portal cutting calls throughout.
ID at $20 a month covers profile, portal, and jobs. Studio at $200 a month adds the AI takeoff workspace with review gate, cross-sheet refs, and grouped export.
Questions shops ask
We already run something else. Why switch?
If your estimate, schedule, and invoices share one budget without retyping, stay. If they do not, that retyping is the cost BuildX removes.
Does it handle commercial and residential?
Yes. Schedule-of-values draws and retainage for commercial, Good/Better/Best proposals for residential.
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