Office work used to take a bull and your profit.
Bidding, billing, payroll, the books, all on one platform with the precision an accountant expects, and AI handling the busywork behind it. The numbers reconcile, nothing slips through the cracks, and when the crew leaves, your day's done.
Native accounting + AI bidding, for a fraction of Procore. Free to start, no credit card.
Every job in one place, with contract, progress, and margin at a glance.
Built for how you build.
General contractors
Bid, build, bill, and run the books on one platform.
Learn moreCivil & infrastructure
Prevailing wage, certified payroll, and DIR eCPR XML generation built in.
Learn moreSpecialty contractors
Submit bids, track commitments, get paid faster.
Learn moreRemodelers
Selections, allowances, and a no-login client portal.
Learn moreIn the field
What contractors say
“I’m a one-man crew and Bullwork saved my marriage. I finally have time to spend with my wife and kids. Thank you.”
“I used to spend my nights and weekends trying to figure out what to charge customers, and then after the job, how much I actually made. With Bullwork the guessing is gone. It’s so easy now.”
“I had my numbers but always wondered if I was high or low. With Bullwork I can test them, then my guys use the platform and it makes my life way easier. Now my office help works with clients instead of chasing down job costs.”
Most contractors run four tools that don’t talk.
A PM app for the jobs. QuickBooks for the books. A payroll service for the crew. An estimating tool for the bids. Double entry, broken syncs, four invoices.
The back office runs itself
Drop it in. Get it back, done.
Your plans, receipts, time cards, and change orders go in. Bullwork's AI handles the bidding, the books, and California certified payroll, automatically. You review the results; it does the busywork.
One platform
Everything you need to run the job.
A real general ledger
Native double-entry accounting: P&L, balance sheet, AP commitment matching, AR aging, WIP. Not a QuickBooks sync. Export to QuickBooks anytime.
Certified payroll, built in
CA overtime, labor burden, WH-347, and one-click DIR eCPR XML generation. No separate payroll service.
AI bidding you control
Upload the plans; get a confidence-tagged takeoff and a clean bid PDF. Every line flags its plan-set page and any price is yours to edit, never a bid you can’t verify.
Bid → budget → actuals
A won bid becomes the budget in one click; job-cost variance is live, because it’s all one ledger.
Critical-path scheduling
A real Gantt with dependencies and the critical path highlighted.
Selections & allowances
Track every fixture against its allowance; overages roll to a billable change order.
No-login client & sub portals
Clients approve change orders; subs submit invoices and COIs, from a link, no account.
An AI copilot over your books
“Which jobs are over budget? How much AR is past 60 days?”, answered from your live data.
Why Bullwork
Built for contractors, because nothing else did all of it.
Every contractor we talked to was bolting a PM app onto QuickBooks onto a payroll service. So we built the one they wanted: bid to books, certified payroll and all, on a single ledger that balances to the cent.
No enterprise bloat. No “call sales for a price.” Just the straightforward tool, built for contractors, not computers.
How it stacks up.
The others are good at part of the job. Bullwork runs all of it, with the books and the bidding inside.
| Capability | Bullwork | Buildertrend | QuickBooks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native general ledger (P&L, balance sheet, WIP) | |||
| Certified payroll + DIR eCPR | |||
| AI bidding, planset → bid | |||
| One platform, no QuickBooks double-stack | |||
| No-login client + sub portals | no-login | login | |
| Transparent published pricing | ~ |
Built from the field, not a boardroom
We got tired of watching good contractors lose money in the back office.
Bullwork was built by an operator who spent years advising businesses and cleaning up their finances, watching good operators lose hours and margin to tools that don’t talk to each other. Construction has it worst: QuickBooks, a separate PM app, outsourced payroll, and spreadsheets stitching the gaps that never reconcile. So we built what contractors actually need: one platform where the bid becomes the budget, the field updates the books, and certified payroll is ready to file in a click. If you run jobs for a living, it works the way you already think.
Your data is yours
A native ledger you own. Export to QuickBooks or out entirely, anytime. No lock-in.
California-built
Prevailing wage, the WH-347, and DIR eCPR XML generation are built in, not a bolt-on.
Every number ties
Real double-entry accounting. Bid, billing, AP, and payroll all post to one ledger.
Set up personally
You talk to the people who built it, not a help-desk ticket queue.
Work directly with the people who built it. A real line for setup and support, and genuine input on the roadmap, not a ticket in a queue.
Grab your next job by the horns, free bidQuestions, answered.
Do I have to give up QuickBooks?＋
No. Bullwork has a real general ledger built in, so you don’t need QuickBooks at all. If your CPA still wants it, export a QuickBooks file anytime.
Is it really all in one tool?＋
Yes. project management, native accounting, certified payroll, AI bidding, and client/sub portals are one platform, not a PM app bolted onto QuickBooks and a payroll service.
Does it handle California certified payroll?＋
Yes. run payroll natively with CA overtime and labor burden, generate the WH-347, and produce a schema-valid, one-click DIR eCPR XML you upload to file public works.
How does the AI bidding work?＋
Upload the planset. The engine builds a quantity takeoff with a confidence score on every line, prices it, and produces a clean bid PDF. You verify on screen before it goes out.
What does it cost?＋
Transparent, published pricing. Solo is $99/mo for one seat, Crew is $249 for five, Pro is $499 for twelve, and you add seats at $40/mo each, so onboarding a whole team still costs a fraction of enterprise platforms. It’s free to start with no credit card, and we’ll build your first bid free so you see it on your own job.
How fast can we start?＋
Days, not months. We set you up personally. It installs on any phone as an app, so your crew uses it in the field.
If you can send an email, you can run a job on it.
See it run your numbers, bid to books, on your own jobs. No credit card, no lock-in.
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