Built for commercial specialty contractors

From the invitation to bid,
to the final check.

Estimate it, measure it, schedule it, bill it — one system carries the job the whole way. Type it once and it flows through. Nothing drifts.

app.bowtiebuild.com — Dashboard

Open estimates

14

$1.2M out

Awarded this month

$412,800

5 jobs

Crews out today

6

11 jobs

Today

MR

Lobby storefront — measure

Marcus R. · Hudson Yards

On site
DP

Level 4 partitions — install

Dana P. · 55 Water St

On site
AG

Herculite doors — punch list

Alvaro G. · Newark Medical

On site
  1. Invitation to bid
  2. Estimate
  3. Award
  4. Submittals
  5. Field measure
  6. Install
  7. Billing
  8. Closeout

Every stage feeds the next. The estimate comes from the takeoff, the field measures against the estimate, the invoice bills what actually got installed. One thread through the whole job — that's the bowtie.

The system

Everything, tied together.

Estimating & proposals

Take off the drawings and build the estimate line by line against your own catalog — your products, your materials, your labor, your markup. No rekeying, no side spreadsheet.

Explore estimating
Estimate #2041 — Midtown office build-out

Line items

Proposal sent

Storefront system — 1" IGU

6 openings · priced from your catalog

$48,200

3/8" tempered partition glass

210 sq ft · priced from your catalog

$11,760

Herculite door package

2 pair · priced from your catalog

$9,400

Client total

$69,360

Field measurement

Your crew captures every opening on a phone — dimensions to the sixteenth, photos, and marked-up drawings — and the office sees it the moment it syncs.

Explore field

Today · Tuesday

2 jobs

Measure

Lobby storefront

Hudson Yards · 8:00a

96 ¼"110 ⅝"+ photo

Install

Level 4 partitions

55 Water St · 1:00p

Offline — 3 photos will sync

Scheduling & dispatch

A day-first board of your crews: capacity, drive times, and a map. Drag a job onto a crew and it shows up on their phone.

Explore scheduling
Board — Tuesday

Tuesday, March 3

Capacity 71%

Crew A — Marcus

Measure · Hudson YardsPunch · Newark

Crew B — Dana

Install · 55 Water St

Crew C — Alvaro

Service call

Drag a job to a crew — it appears on their phone.

Billing & accounting

Progress billing against a schedule of values, change orders that never overwrite the original contract, retainage tracked to the final check — and invoices pushed to QuickBooks.

Explore billing
Project — Schedule of values

Application #3 — March

Pushed to QuickBooks
Storefront system80%
Interior partitions45%
Door packages20%

This period

$38,410

Retainage

$9,240

Change orders

+$12,600

The job record

RFIs, submittals, daily logs, punch lists, and every document — kept on the job as the job happens, with an activity trail behind it.

Explore job record
Project — Activity

Everything on the record

RFI #12 answered by the architect

Glazing spec, level 4 — 2:14 PM

Submittal approved

Storefront shop drawings — 11:02 AM

Daily log filed from the field

6 photos · Dana P. — 9:30 AM

Punch item closed

Scratched lite, entry door — Yesterday

Crews never see pricing

Role-based access enforced at the database layer — the field sees the work, the office sees the money. Not just hidden buttons.

Works where the work is

The field app is offline-first. Basements and dead zones don’t stop a measure; everything syncs when a signal comes back.

Your data stays yours

Import your price book from a spreadsheet on day one, export everything whenever you want. There is also a REST API.

Google Calendar

Connect Google Calendar and your scheduled jobs show up on it — that's the one thing we use the calendar.events permission for. We don't read your other events, and connecting is optional — you can disconnect anytime from settings or your Google account. Rather not connect Google at all? There's a read-only feed that works with any calendar app. The fine print is in our privacy policy.

See it on one of your own jobs.

We'll load your price book and run a real job through it, so you can judge it on your work instead of a demo.

Request a demo