What is construction intelligence?
Construction intelligence is software that reads a contractor's own accounting, project, payroll and schedule data together and turns it into answers about the business: cost against estimate, forecast at completion, cash and WIP, and which jobs are about to go over. Constructelligence is a construction intelligence platform built on that idea — read-only, hosted in the cloud or on your own server, and working on the data while the job is still running rather than after month-end close.
Can it draft emails and create documents?
Yes. Asked the right way, it acts rather than reports: it drafts an email to the owner, a subcontractor or the PM with the figures and the attachments already in it; writes a numbered RFI with the drawing, the ASI and the sub's note attached; builds an Excel workbook — the WIP schedule, the cost to complete or the labor report, with live formulas; and builds a signed-ready pay-application PDF with the G702, the G703, the change-order log and the lien waivers. Every action is a draft that waits for your approval, and the connection to your systems stays read-only throughout.
How is construction intelligence different from BI dashboards?
A BI tool gives you a place to build reports; you still model the data, write the measures and decide what to look at. Construction intelligence arrives already knowing what a job, a cost code, a commitment and a pay application are, so it can forecast cost at completion and flag a job without anyone building the report first. Constructelligence also exposes every figure over a JSON endpoint, so Power BI or Excel can read the same numbers.
Where does our data live?
Your choice. Most teams use Constructelligence Cloud: we host and run it, it reads your ERP and project data over read-only connections, and each customer’s data is kept separate from every other’s. Firms whose financials cannot leave their own network choose the Private tier instead — Constructelligence runs on their own machine or VM, with no copy of the data outside it and no third party in the path.
Cloud or self-hosted — which should we choose?
Cloud, unless your financials cannot leave your own network. Constructelligence Cloud is hosted, run and updated by us: nothing to install or patch, new models and connectors arrive automatically, and every user is included. The Private tier is the same product self-hosted on your own server — the premium privacy option on Business and Enterprise plans, with no copy of your data outside your network.
Which ERPs and systems does it work with?
It is built to sit on whichever ERP you run. Live today: a direct, read-only connection to
Sage 300 CRE, your own SQL Server, SQLite or MongoDB databases, a QuickBooks Desktop mirror, public bid feeds,
and a JSON endpoint for every module —
so Power BI, Excel or a script of your own reads the same numbers with no connector build at all.
Built and in testing with pilot customers: Procore, Autodesk Build, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, QuickBooks Online,
Xero, Business Central, Primavera P6, Smartsheet, Fieldwire, SharePoint, Dropbox and Excel / Google Sheets.
Coming soon: SAP S/4HANA, Rhumbix, Viewpoint Vista and Spectrum, Autodesk Takeoff and Microsoft Project. The
integration list maps 41 systems in total and states what each connection
would take; the one contractors ask for most is built next.
Does it write anything back to my ERP?
No. The connection is read-only, the SQL layer refuses anything that is not a SELECT, and
nothing in the dashboard can change your accounting data. If a feature ever needs to write, it
will be a separate, explicitly-enabled connector rather than a surprise.
How is it secured?
Every connection is read-only — nothing is ever written back to your systems — and on Cloud each customer’s data is kept separate from every other’s. On the Private (self-hosted) tier the API binds to loopback only and rejects any request that does not come from the machine itself, so it is not reachable over the network by default; every data API call needs a key (X-Api-Key), keys are compared as constant-time hashes, requests are rate limited per key, and responses carry no-store caching plus clickjacking and MIME-sniffing protection.
What does onboarding look like?
A 90-minute session. On Cloud there is nothing to install: we connect your first company database and reconcile the dashboard against a report you already trust — on the call. On the Private tier we install it on your server first. From there, a monthly review with our team tunes your flags and prioritises the connectors you need next.
What does it need to run?
On Cloud, a read-only login to your ERP — and, for a database behind your firewall such as Sage 300 CRE, a small read-only connector that sends it to your account. On the Private tier, a machine that can reach your SQL Server — Windows or Linux, a VM is fine; the published build is a self-contained executable, so there is no runtime to install. Most teams are reading live data the same day.
What about document extraction?
It is off unless you turn it on, and it is the only feature that can send anything off your
machine. OCR and field extraction run locally in the browser; if you configure an external
AI model for the hard documents, that call is the one place your document text leaves your
network, and the page tells you when it is about to happen.
How much does Constructelligence cost?
Pricing is quoted per deployment rather than per seat, so every user is included. There are four
tiers — Personal for an owner-operator or a single estimator, Team for one company
database, Business for several companies on one server, and Enterprise for groups or
anyone who needs a connector we have not built yet. Request a quote with
your ERP, number of companies and the connectors you need, and we send a written figure within
two business days. Founding customers get preferred rates.
What happens if we stop paying?
The app keeps working until the licence term ends, and your data was never ours to hold. There
is nothing to export from a Constructelligence account because there is no Constructelligence account — the
dashboard reads your database, and the only files it owns are its own settings, its log, and
the leads you send us.