Buying the software is the easy part. Somebody still has to write the RFI, chase the submittal and build the pay app. That is what this is.
The industry average is three months to implement a construction platform and sixteen months before it pays for itself. Almost none of that is the software. It is that the paperwork still needs somebody whose job it is, and on a $5–20M contractor that person is usually the owner, at ten at night, after a full day on site.
Running one job remotely is eight to fifteen hours a week once you count writing the RFI, chasing the answer, expediting the submittal, pricing the change and building the draw. That range is why the fee is set per job rather than printed here — and on the call we show you which end of it yours lands on, and why. Everything below is a published market figure, not our framing of one.
Six to twelve months in, somebody on your team has watched the whole cycle enough times to run it themselves, and they take it over. That is the plan, not a failure — you keep the system, the history and the habits — and because the subscription was always in your own name, there is nothing to move. You stop paying us. Nothing else changes.
We say it here because it is the honest shape of the work, and because a service that needs you never to learn anything is a service with the wrong incentives.
Two minutes. If BuildControl Managed is the wrong answer for what you are describing we will say so — there is no version of this where selling you the wrong thing works out.