AI for Construction & Trades in Montana

AI for Montana contractors, builders, and skilled trades.

Bids, change orders, scheduling, subcontractor coordination, and crew comms — handled by AI built around your truck, your job sites, and your accounting software.

Montana is in the middle of a building boom that isn't slowing down. Bozeman, Kalispell, Whitefish, Big Sky, Missoula, and increasingly Billings are pulling in residential and commercial work faster than crews can keep up with the paperwork.

We build AI for general contractors, custom home builders, mechanical and electrical trades, excavation, framing, roofing, and the specialty trades. The goal is the same across all of them: get bids out faster, keep change orders documented, coordinate subs without 300 daily phone calls, and finish the day with the office actually done.

Most of our trades clients are between $1M and $25M in annual revenue with 8 to 80 employees. We work on top of QuickBooks, Buildertrend, JobTread, ServiceTitan, Jobber, and plain spreadsheets — whatever you're already using.

What's eating your time

  • Bids taking 2-3 weeks to put together
  • Change orders documented after the fact, if at all
  • Subcontractor coordination by 50 text messages a day
  • Daily logs nobody fills out until Friday
  • Material take-offs done manually from plans
  • Customer calls about job status interrupting actual work

How AI actually helps

Bid drafter

Upload the plans and a verbal scope; AI drafts the bid with line items, labor hours, and material lists from your historical pricing. You review and adjust before sending.

Change order documenter

PM voice-notes the change from the truck; AI generates the signed change order, updates the contract, and notifies accounting. No more 'verbal change orders' fights.

Daily log auto-generator

Crew foreman texts a quick summary or sends a photo; AI generates the formal daily log with weather, crew count, work completed, and delays. OSHA-ready.

Subcontractor scheduler

AI maintains the running schedule across all your subs, sends automatic 48-hour confirmations, and flags conflicts before they cost you a day.

Material take-off assistant

Upload PDF plans; AI extracts quantities for lumber, drywall, concrete, fixtures — whatever you train it on. You spot-check, not hand-count.

Customer status updater

Homeowners and developers get automatic weekly progress emails with photos and what's coming next. Calls to the office drop by 70%.


Tools we use

  • OpenAI GPT-4o for document drafting and reasoning
  • Claude for long-document reading (contracts, specs, plans)
  • Whisper for voice-to-text from the job site
  • n8n or Zapier for QuickBooks / Buildertrend / JobTread integration
  • Twilio SMS for crew and customer comms

Starter project

GC Office Starter

$3,500

Bid drafter + change order documenter + daily log auto-generator. Live in three weeks, paid back in two months on bid speed alone.

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Questions we get

Will my crew actually use this?

Yes — because we design it around how they already work. Most of our trades tools run off voice notes and photos sent from the truck. If your foreman can text, he can use the system. No new app, no new login.

Does it work with QuickBooks?

Yes. We integrate with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Buildertrend, JobTread, ServiceTitan, Jobber, and most other construction-specific software. If it has an API or even a CSV export, we can wire it up.

What if we lose internet on the job site?

Everything queues locally on phones and tablets and uploads when you hit cell or WiFi. We've built around dead zones from Lincoln to Ekalaka.

Can it handle commercial as well as residential?

Yes. We've set up systems for residential remodelers, custom home builders doing $5M trophy homes, and commercial GCs running multiple $10M+ projects at once.

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