Bid, build, bill, and the books — on one platform.
Stop stitching a PM tool to QuickBooks to a payroll service. Bullwork carries the whole job on a single ledger, so you know which jobs make money before the month closes.
First month free · Unlimited users · No QuickBooks required.
Your problems, our answers
You’re running three systems that don’t talk
Here’s what changes when bid, build, bill, and books live on one platform.
✕You bid in a takeoff app, build in a PM tool, bill in QuickBooks, and run payroll somewhere else.
✓One platform carries the job bid → build → bill → books. The won bid becomes the budget; everything posts to one ledger.
✕You don’t know if a job is making money until the CPA closes the month.
✓Live job-cost variance — committed and actual costs against the original bid, by cost code, in real time.
✕Chasing subs for current COIs and lien waivers eats your week.
✓Subs upload their COI in their no-login portal; you see who’s expired before they show up on site.
✕Progress billing means rebuilding a G702/G703 in a spreadsheet every month.
✓Schedule-of-values billing pulls straight from the budget — generate the application, track retainage, and post AR automatically.
✕Double entry: every invoice, every check, re-keyed into accounting.
✓Native double-entry ledger. AP, AR, billing, and payroll all post themselves. Books balance to the cent.
✕Three subscriptions, three logins, three support lines, nothing talks.
✓One subscription, unlimited users, one system of record. Export to QuickBooks anytime for your CPA.
What matters to GCs
The four things that actually move margin
The loop from won bid to closed books, with the variance and compliance that keep jobs profitable.
Bid to budget
The won bid becomes the budget
Upload a planset, get a confidence-tagged takeoff and a clean bid PDF, send it for e-signature. When you win, the estimate flows straight into the job budget — no re-keying, no broken handoff between estimating and PM.
- ✓AI takeoff with a confidence score on every line
- ✓Reusable assemblies and a regional cost library for repeat scope
- ✓Award a bid → it becomes the live budget and cost codes
Job-cost variance
Know which jobs make money — today
Commitments, change orders, and actuals roll up against the original bid by cost code. See the variance live instead of waiting for month-end. Catch the job that’s bleeding before it costs you the margin.
- ✓Bid vs. committed vs. actual, by cost code
- ✓Change orders adjust the budget and the contract
- ✓Cash-flow forecast and WIP straight off the ledger
Sub management & compliance
Subs, commitments, and COIs in one place
Issue subcontracts and purchase orders, track committed cost, and let subs work their own no-login portal — they submit invoices straight into your AP queue and upload their certificate of insurance. You see expired COIs before they’re a liability.
- ✓Commitments tracked against the budget
- ✓Subs submit invoices → land in your AP queue
- ✓COI tracking with expiration visibility
Progress billing
Bill the way owners expect to be billed
Schedule-of-values progress billing pulls from the budget, tracks stored materials and retainage, and posts the receivable automatically. Owners review and approve in a tokenized portal — no login, no friction.
- ✓Schedule-of-values applications from the budget
- ✓Retainage tracked through to release
- ✓AR aging and collections built in
Questions
What GCs ask us first
Do I still need QuickBooks?＋
No. Bullwork has a native general ledger — chart of accounts, journal entries, P&L, balance sheet, and trial balance. AP, AR, billing, and payroll all post to it automatically. You can export to QuickBooks anytime if your CPA prefers it, but you don’t need to run both.
How is this different from Procore or Buildertrend?＋
Those are project-management tools that still hand off to a separate accounting system and a separate payroll service. Bullwork is one platform: estimating, PM, accounting, and certified payroll on a single ledger. Bid becomes budget, budget becomes billing, billing becomes books — without re-keying between apps.
Can I run my whole back office on it?＋
Yes — AP with 3-way match, AR and collections, progress billing, job costing, financial statements, and CA payroll all live in one place. Unlimited users on every plan, so your PM, your bookkeeper, and your field all work the same system.
What does it cost to try it?＋
Your first month is free, with no credit card and no lock-in. We’ll migrate one of your real jobs so you see your own numbers — bid to books — not a canned demo.
Run your next job bid to books on one platform.
We’ll migrate one of your real jobs so you see your own numbers. First month free, no credit card.
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