How it works

You do one thing. SyteNav does the next five.

Here's your job, start to finish. At every step: the one thing you actually do, then the list of what happens automatically for your office, your field crew, your site managers, and your subs. Nobody forwards anything.

Step 1

Before the first nail

Find your job in two clicks, not two apps

You're running a dozen live jobs and chasing a handful more. The first problem of your morning is simply finding the right one and seeing where it stands before the phone starts ringing.

The old way

The old way: you open a job-list spreadsheet to remember what's active, scroll a text thread for the address, then open a maps app to figure out which site to visit first. Three windows before your first coffee.

You do one thing

You click Projects and type three letters, or flip to the map view.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    Every job card shows live progress, contract value, and what's due next, pulled from the real budget and schedule

    You
  2. 2

    Your site managers see only the jobs they're assigned to, already filtered

    Site manager
  3. 3

    The office sees the same list you do, so "which address is that job again" stops being a phone call

    Office
app.sytenav.com/projects
List Map
Projects· $10.8M under contract
New project
All 18Active 12Planning 4On hold 2
Maple Street ResidencesActive

Brooklyn, NY

74% complete$1.2M
MDK
Inspection Thu
Linden Ave RemodelActive

Linden, NJ

38% complete$420K
SJ
Draw #2 due
Princeton CommercialPlanning

Princeton, NJ

12% complete$3.1M
G
3 bids in
Oak Park TownhomesActive

Newark, NJ

91% complete$880K
MAR
Punch list
Harborview LoftsActive

Jersey City, NJ

56% complete$2.4M
DT
Delivery Mon
Cedar Lane DuplexOn hold

Edison, NJ

22% complete$310K
S
Permit pending
Summit Office Fit-outActive

Summit, NJ

67% complete$640K
KJA
RFI open
Garden State Plaza Unit 4Planning

Paramus, NJ

5% complete$1.7M
GM
RFQ sent
Riverside Kitchen RenoActive

Hoboken, NJ

83% complete$190K
D
Final invoice
Bergen Point WarehouseActive

Bayonne, NJ

44% complete$2.9M
MT
Steel Tue
Palisade Ave BrownstoneActive

Weehawken, NJ

61% complete$530K
KD
Rough-in
Montclair Dental Fit-outPlanning

Montclair, NJ

8% complete$760K
GA
2 bids in
Fort Lee High-Rise 12BActive

Fort Lee, NJ

29% complete$1.1M
JR
Submittal due
Morristown Cafe Build-outOn hold

Morristown, NJ

15% complete$280K
S
CO pending
Hackensack Medical SuiteActive

Hackensack, NJ

72% complete$940K
AKT
Trim-out

Search by name, address, or client

Every job is one search away. No digging through folders or old text threads to find the right address.

Or drop into the map view

Toggle to a map and see every active job pinned by location. Handy when you're deciding which site to swing by next.

Status, progress, and value at a glance

Each card shows percent complete, contract value, and what's due next, so a five-second glance tells you what needs attention.

Step 2

Winning the work

Whip out your phone. Take the picture. Move on.

Your new job starts as a pile of PDFs: your own estimate, or three sub bids that all describe the same scope differently. Getting them into numbers you can compare used to be your evening.

The old way

The old way: you open each PDF, retype line items into an estimating spreadsheet, build a second bid-leveling sheet to compare subs, and hope you didn't fat-finger a quantity in row 40.

You do one thing

You snap a photo of the quote, or upload the PDF. That's it.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    AI reads sections, line items, quantities, unit rates, totals, and the payment schedule

    You
  2. 2

    Competing bids line up side by side, with gaps flagged: who skipped permit fees, who excluded the panel upgrade

    YouOffice
  3. 3

    A draft job is staged and waiting for your review. Nothing saves until you confirm it

    You
electrical_proposal.pdf Scanned in 14s

Extracted · Section 2 of 3

New receptacle & switch points

24 × $185

$4,440

GFCI devices, kitchen & baths

6 × $145

$870

Recessed LED rough-in

18 × $155

$2,790

Dedicated 20A circuits

3 × $575

$1,725

200A panel upgrade

1 × $3,200

$3,200
Section total$13,025
Payment schedule extracted5 stages

Deposit

10%

Rough-in

30%

Inspection

20%

Trim-out

25%

Final

15%

24 line items · 3 sections · quantities, rates & terms, ready to review
Compare bids · Electrical AI analysis

Apex Electric

 

Volt Bros

 

Current Co.

Best fit

Bid total
$48,200
$44,900
$51,750
Line items read
31
24
35
Panel upgrade
Permit fees
Payment terms
5 stages
50/50
4 stages
Volt Bros is lowest, but it excludes the panel upgrade and permit fees. True cost is roughly $6,400 higher.
Current Co. covers full scope with staged payments that match your draw schedule.

AI quote scanning

A PDF or a phone photo, either works. SyteNav extracts every line item and proposes a payment schedule you can adjust before anything saves.

Side-by-side bid comparison

Comparing three subs for the same scope? Line them up and see totals, coverage, and exactly what each one leaves out.

You always review first

Nothing the AI reads gets written to the job until you've confirmed it. It's a first draft, not an autopilot.

Step 3

Making it official

You click Award. The whole job assembles itself.

The moment you accept a bid, someone has to turn it into a budget, a contract, and a payment plan. That handoff is where your numbers used to get retyped for the third time, and where the first errors crept in.

The old way

The old way: you copy the winning quote into a budget spreadsheet line by line, draft a subcontract in a documents app, set payment reminders in your calendar, and email the sub the good news yourself.

You do one thing

You click Award on the winning quote. One click.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    Every scanned line item becomes a budget line, or links to one that already exists

    You
  2. 2

    A subcontract is created for the awarded company with the contract amount committed

    Sub
  3. 3

    The payment schedule is staged from the quote's terms: deposit, rough-in, inspection, final

    OfficeClient
  4. 4

    Your office sees the committed cost hit the budget instantly, no re-entry

    Office
  5. 5

    The losing bids stay on file, so next job you know who bid what

    You
app.sytenav.com/projects/linden-ave/budget
Budget · Linden Ave Remodel
Interior $45,450Exterior $31,050Total $76,500
ElectricalPanel upgrade & rough-inInterior
PlumbingRough-in, 2.5 bathsInterior
RoofingTear-off & architectural shingleExterior
ConcreteDriveway & walkway flatworkExterior
DrywallHang, tape, level 4 finishInterior
5 lines · linked to 3 subcontractsOn budget

Budgeted vs. committed vs. actual

Every line starts from the quote's numbers, then tracks what you've promised in contracts against what's actually been billed.

Link to an existing line, or create one

Awarding a quote, or logging a material receipt later, can attach to a budget line that already exists or spin up a new one on the spot.

Interior vs. exterior cost breakdown

Tag lines interior or exterior and see cost per square foot next to your grand total, if you track square footage on the job.

Step 4

Putting it on the calendar

One calendar that already knows your whole week

Scheduling trades is a puzzle where the pieces live in different boxes. Your framer's dates are in one thread, your electrician's in another, and the conflict between them is invisible until both crews show up Thursday.

The old way

The old way: you keep a scheduling app for your own jobs, a shared calendar for the office, and a text thread per sub. Nobody sees the whole week, so double-bookings surface on site, not on screen.

You do one thing

You drag the sub's dates onto the schedule, and pin tasks right on the blueprint.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    The booking is checked against every other job that crew is on. Overlaps get flagged before you save

    You
  2. 2

    The sub sees the dates on their own SyteNav calendar, across all the GCs they work for

    Sub
  3. 3

    Drop a pin on the exact spot on the drawing and it becomes a task: assignee, due date, done. The assignee gets notified

    Field crewSite manager
  4. 4

    Pinned tasks land on the same calendar automatically, and the pin links back to the spot on the plan

    Field crew
My week · all jobsJun 29 – Jul 4
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Maple St · rough-in
Harborview · panel swap
Riverside · trim-out

Overlap on Thursday

Maple St and Harborview both need your crew, 5 required, 4 available.

Suggestion: shift Harborview to start Friday. No milestones slip.

One calendar across every project

A subcontractor's week spans multiple GCs' jobs. See all of it in one view instead of five separate calendars.

Crew-overlap warnings

If the same crew is booked on two jobs the same day, SyteNav flags it before it turns into a missed rough-in.

Pin the blueprint, skip the ambiguity

Instead of "the outlet by the kitchen, you know the one," drop a pin on the exact spot on the plan. The task carries the location with it, and the crew taps the pin to see what's needed.

Step 5

Where the work actually happens

Your crew taps twice. The record writes itself.

None of this matters if your field crew won't use it. The real record of your job is created on site, in the minute the work happens, or it isn't created at all.

The old way

The old way: photos pile up in someone's camera roll, hours go on a paper timesheet the office re-enters later, and the daily log gets written from memory at 9pm. If it gets written.

You do one thing

Your crew whips out a phone: clock in with a selfie, snap the pour, file the log. Seconds each.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    The clock-in is GPS-checked against the job site. Off-site punches get flagged for review, not silently accepted

    Office
  2. 2

    Photos file to the right project the moment they're taken, searchable months later

    YouSite manager
  3. 3

    The daily log posts to the project feed, so you and the office see today's crew, weather, and work without calling anyone

    YouOffice
  4. 4

    A question from the field becomes an RFI on the job, time-stamped, with the photo attached

    Site managerOffice

Daily logs with photos

Weather, crew count, work performed, and photos filed straight to the project. Searchable months later, not lost in a camera roll.

GPS-checked time clock

Clock in and out from the job site with a selfie and location check, so payroll hours match where the crew actually was.

RFIs and tasks from the field

A question or a change doesn't wait for a call back to the office. It's logged against the job the moment it comes up.

Step 6

The part everyone actually cares about

Snap the receipt. The money math is already done.

Month end is where the tool-hopping gets expensive for you. Progress lives in one place, invoices in another, and the escrow math lives in your head. Reconciling them used to be your Sunday.

The old way

The old way: you read progress off the schedule, retype it into an invoicing app, log the client's payment in an accounting app, and keep a separate spreadsheet for what's in escrow versus what your vendors are owed.

You do one thing

You snap the material receipt at the register, and click Invoice when a stage finishes.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    AI reads the receipt: store, amount, tax, line items. You just confirm which job and whether the customer already paid

    You
  2. 2

    The cost rolls into the right budget line and into what the client owes, instantly

    Office
  3. 3

    The invoice generates from real line-item progress, not from memory

    OfficeClient
  4. 4

    Approving it moves the budget's Actual column and updates escrow, fee, and vendor balances in the same second

    YouOffice
  5. 5

    On commercial jobs, the monthly pay application builds from the schedule of values: previously billed carries forward, retainage is held, and the G702/G703 PDF is ready for the bank

    OfficeClient
Payments · Linden Ave RemodelContract $148,500
Received to date$59,400 · 40%

$29,700

Escrow balance

$8,910

Your fee earned

$12,300

Owed to vendors

Deposit$14,850Paid
Rough-in complete$44,550Paid
Inspection passed$29,700In escrow
Trim-out$37,125Upcoming
Final walkthrough$22,275Upcoming

Client payments & escrow

See what the client has paid in, what's sitting in escrow, and what's already gone out to vendors. No separate ledger to reconcile.

AIA progress billing for commercial

Jobs set to progress billing get monthly pay applications (G702/G703) with retainage and draw status from submitted to certified to funded. Built for bank-funded work.

Material receipts, tracked to the job

Snap a receipt, mark whether the customer already paid for it, and it rolls straight into what they owe versus what's been covered.

Step 7

The paperwork nobody enjoys

Store the inspection once. Everything downstream updates.

A lapsed certificate of insurance or a missed inspection window only gets noticed when it's already your problem, and usually an expensive one.

The old way

The old way: permits live in a binder or a file share, COIs sit in an email folder, and inspection dates are on whoever's calendar booked them. Expirations are discovered, not tracked.

You do one thing

Your sub taps Mark Ready for Inspection. You log the result, or request a COI. One tap each.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    The moment work is marked ready, you and the office know to book the inspector. No "are we good to schedule?" calls

    YouOffice
  2. 2

    The inspection lands on the project timeline and the schedule, pass or fail

    YouSite manager
  3. 3

    A pass can trigger the next payment stage that was waiting on it

    OfficeClient
  4. 4

    The sub gets a secure upload link for their COI. No account needed, no email chain

    Sub
  5. 5

    Expiring documents surface on your dashboard weeks ahead, not the day the auditor asks

    YouOffice

Permit #PB-22140

Approved

Rough electrical · Apex Electric

Ready for inspection

GL insurance · Apex Electric

Expires in 12 days

Framing inspection

Passed

Submittal #14 · Windows

In review

Final plumbing

Scheduled Thu

Permits & inspections

Subs mark work Ready for Inspection right from their job view; you track permit numbers, dates, and pass or fail status against the schedule.

Subcontractor compliance

Certificates of insurance and licenses live on the sub's record, with expiring documents surfaced automatically.

Submittals in the loop

Route submittals for approval and keep the paper trail with the project. Useful the day someone asks "did we ever approve that?"

Step 8

The last mile

You ask "how did we do." The answer is already there.

When the punch list clears and the final invoice goes out, you want to know what the job actually made you. If the data lived in five tools, that answer used to take you a week to assemble.

The old way

The old way: you export the accounting app, cross-reference the invoicing app, dig the change orders out of email, and rebuild the job's story in a spreadsheet one more time. After the fact.

You do one thing

You open the dashboard.

Then, on auto

  1. 1

    Margin is already computed: budgeted vs. committed vs. actual were tracked from day one

    You
  2. 2

    Every log, photo, approval, and payment is attached to the job, a time-stamped record if a dispute ever lands

    YouOffice
  3. 3

    The finished budget is one click away from becoming the template for your next similar job

    YouOffice
app.sytenav.com/dashboard

Good morning, Garry

Here's what's happening across your jobs

Active Projects

18

Under Contract

$4.2M

Open Tasks

63

Due This Week

11

Cash in vs out

In Out
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug

This week

Rough inspection · Maple StThu
Draw #2 · Linden AveFri
Steel delivery · HarborviewMon

Recent projects

Maple Street Residences
74%
Linden Ave Remodel
38%
Oak Park Townhomes
91%

Master views across every job

Roll every active project up into one dashboard: contract value, progress, and what needs attention, company-wide.

Real margin, not a guess

Budgeted, committed, and actual costs were tracked from day one, so final margin is a number you already have, not one you have to reconstruct.

A record, if it's ever needed

Every log, photo, approval, and payment stays attached to the job. A time-stamped record if a dispute ever lands.

Run your next job this way

Upload one quote and watch the budget, schedule, and paperwork build themselves.

Free to start. No credit card. Bring one job or bring them all.