Fifteen surfaces. One source of truth.
Estimates flow into budgets. Budgets fund schedules. Schedules drive dailies. Dailies feed billing. Equipment usage burns into cost. Overhead allocates across the jobs that earned it. Sage watches it all and flags what's drifting. No exports, no re-keying.
The same work a $70k
coordinator would do—
without the headcount.
Sage drafts COs, surfaces budget burn, answers in plain English — and cites the exact records every time. No hallucinated numbers.
142 tasks. 10 jobs. One screen.
Every job in the business, on one Gantt. Color-coded by project, forecast by week or month. Not a project tool — a business one.
Estimate to business margin—
not just estimate to invoice.
Price every job back to the catalogue. Track overhead, equipment, and labor — the whole margin, not just the line items. Send a proper proposal in an hour, not a weekend.
Kitchen + DR
The client sees a clean proposal. You keep full margin detail.
Send a professional PDF with your brand, the scope, the price, and a digital signature line — without exposing your cost breakdown. The client signs from their phone; the CO or acceptance lands in the job record automatically.
Wrist to truck dashboard. Every device, one account.
iOS, Android, macOS, Apple Watch, CarPlay. Same data, same auth, same shortcuts. Glance at what's next from your wrist. Ask Sage in the truck without taking your hands off the wheel. Clock in from the wheel without touching your phone.
Know what needs
you before the
coffee’s gone.
One important thing. Today’s tasks. RFIs waiting on you. Open the app, see the day, get on the truck.
From site photo
to signed CO—
in one thread.
Foreman snaps a photo. Sage drafts the scope and the dollar impact. Client signs in-app. Budget updates. No re-keying.
A foreman files one in 90 seconds.
- Photo first, voice-to-text description
- Weather pulled by location, roster prefilled from yesterday
- Sage prompts for missing trades: “Drywall wasn’t logged — were they here?”
Know where the job stands before the invoice hits.
- Estimated vs actual per cost code, live as bills land
- Committed cost from POs and subcontracts tracked separately
- Sage flags drift in plain English — “Cedar Grove is $8,400 over on framing labor”
Send a proper invoice in under a minute.
- AIA G702/G703 format out of the box
- One-tap QuickBooks sync
- Open and overdue aging tracked on a single screen
Visibility for your client. Control for you.
- Custom branded URL, no client account required to sign a CO
- Selections, COs, and approvals — nothing else
- Every client action logged with a timestamp, exports as PDF
Measure from the PDF, price from the catalogue.
- Count, area, and linear measurement tools on the canvas
- Quantities push directly to estimate line items — no clipboard
- iPad + Apple Pencil native, version alongside the estimate
Price anything, once.
- Per-trade rate cards, assembly bundles — framing, rough-in, kitchen finish
- Every estimate line traces back to a catalogue source
- Sage suggests catalogue items from a scope description
Never miss an inspection window.
- Per-project permit register with status tracking
- Inspection scheduling and authority sign-off log
- Sage alerts before expiries and follow-ups
Questions answered. Decisions on record.
- Raise from the field or from a plan markup, route to the right person
- Response and resolution tracked in the job record
- Sage drafts the RFI from a one-line description
Payroll data from the jobsite, not the office.
- GPS clock-in and clock-out from any phone
- Foreman approves the crew at end-of-shift
- Sage flags missing punches before payroll runs
Ask your whole company from Claude.ai.
- 176 tools covering every surface, role-scoped
- Query, draft, and act from Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, any MCP client
- Unique to Tenon — no other construction platform offers this
Tenon vs Buildertrend vs Procore vs BuildBook
The full feature set, side by side. Tenon is the only platform built AI-native, with a live MCP connector to Claude.ai.
| Feature | Tenon | Buildertrend | Procore | BuildBook |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates + Proposals | ||||
| Schedule (Gantt + critical path) | ||||
| Daily Logs | ||||
| Sage AI (native, not bolt-on) | — | — | — | |
| Mobile + Desktop + Watch (native apps) | ||||
| Change Orders | ||||
| Budget + Cost tracking | ||||
| Invoicing + billing | ||||
| Client Portal | ||||
| Takeoffs (PDF canvas) | — | — | ||
| Permits + Inspections | — | |||
| RFIs | — | |||
| Timesheets + Clock-in | ||||
| Cost Catalogue + Assemblies | — | |||
| MCP / Claude.ai integration | — | — | — |
◐ = available with limitations or as a paid add-on. Sources: buildertrend.com/features, procore.com/en/product, buildbook.co. Last reviewed May 2026.
The whole thing in your hand in five minutes.
Card on signup. We charge on day 31.