Built by People
Who've Been on
the Job Site.

After 20+ years in construction working as a general contractor, construction manager, owner's rep, developer, and consultant, one thing stayed consistent across every project. The drawings are the center of the job. But nothing lets you actually work from them in the field.

Construction professionals spend a massive chunk of their week not doing construction work. They're searching for information, resolving conflicts that shouldn't exist, and chasing down details that should already be in front of them. That's not a technology problem. That's a documentation and information access problem that gets worse the more software you add.

Daily reports are among the most critical project management tools on any job site. They're the contemporaneous record of what happened, who was there, what got done, and why things slowed down. When a dispute surfaces six months later, those records are often the deciding factor. But on most job sites, they're written from memory at the end of a long shift, after details have already blurred. The report that was supposed to protect you becomes vague and incomplete at exactly the wrong moment.

Information fragmentation is the other problem no one has solved at the field level. Which receptacle feeds which circuit? Which panel? The answer exists somewhere in the drawing set, but finding it means flipping through sheets, hunting through email threads, or navigating three different platforms. All for something that should take ten seconds.

Submittals, spec sections, crew logs, RFIs. None of it is tied to the drawing where the work actually happens. The information exists. It's just never where you need it.

TradePlane was built from those specific frustrations. Not from a whiteboard brainstorm about disrupting construction. From years of standing on job sites, watching information get lost between the drawing and the worker holding it, and finally deciding to build what should have existed a long time ago.