ContractorBI Gives Contractors Data-Driven Insights Needed For Growth

The drywall’s done. Windows go in tomorrow. You’re on schedule… until you check the budget. You’re $30,000 over.

The culprit? A missed change order and two truckloads of custom windows already en route. Too late to cancel. Too expensive to ignore.

In construction, small mistakes become big money fast, especially when you don’t catch them in time. Data driven insights give you the ability to make the right call at the right time, which can make or break a project or your bottom line.

In fact, contractors lost an estimated $1.8 trillion in 2020 due to bad data, reports the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA). Disconnected systems and messy reporting only make it worse.

ContractorBI™ puts your project data, financials, and sales metrics in one place so you can see what’s coming, not just what happened. You’ll spot issues earlier, fix them faster, and make smarter decisions across the board.

Let’s look at how better business intelligence helps you build a more profitable, more predictable business.

Real-Time Dashboards Built for Construction

Every number. Every role. All in one place.

Construction moves fast, and every team needs different info to keep up. Labor costs. Material deliveries. Change orders. The list goes on, but no one has time to dig through spreadsheets.

That’s why ContractorBI delivers custom dashboards tailored to every role.

• Executives see company-wide performance.
• Project managers track daily logs and change orders.
• Sales teams monitor pipelines and win/loss rates.
• Finance follows billing and receivables.

Your teams will have access to the data that matters right when they need it. ContractorBI is built for builders, not analysts. Dashboards combine point-and-click simplicity with customizable filters so your team can zero in on exactly what they need without IT help.

Dashboards give you real-time clarity, but to really drive smarter decisions, you need full visibility.

Visibility Across Your Business

Collecting data is easy. Using it to make smart calls is the challenge. As the CFMA puts it, data integration ends siloes, so every “area of your business can be educated by past experiences.”

That’s exactly what ContractorBI does. It connects your jobs, costs, and crews in a unified view so you can spot issues early, understand the root cause, and make better decisions faster.

On the front end, ContractorBI gives you a live look at your entire sales pipeline. Let’s say your pipeline shows only five open bids instead of the usual 15. That’s not just a slow week; it’s a warning. ContractorBI gives you that visibility before a slowdown hits your bottom line.

ContractorBI helps you catch trends early, so you can stay proactive, not reactive.

Choosing which bids to chase is always a tough call, but it doesn’t have to be guesswork. ContractorBI shows which jobs, clients, and teams drive the most profit. You’ll win more of the right work and skip the time-wasters.

On the finance side, ContractorBI keeps you ahead of the curve with real-time job cost tracking. You’ll:

• Get alerts for unexpected overtime
• Catch unpaid invoices
• Get alerts on unbilled change orders

When profit is tight, that kind of visibility keeps you in control.

Smarter Forecasting With Predictive Analytics

Good data shows you where you are. Predictive analytics shows where you’re headed.

ContractorBI connects the dots across your business so you can act before problems hit. Let’s say it’s April, and you’ve got a big job lined up for August. ContractorBI shows you’ll be four framers short. Now you’ve got time to recruit or shift resources before the schedule slips.

And it doesn’t stop there. ContractorBI’s AI-powered predictive analytics dashboard forecasts everything from sales revenue to labor demand based on real market trends, not guesswork.

With better forecasting, you can budget for expected costs, hire for anticipated gaps in the workforce, and spot bottlenecks like slow subs, change order delays, or long close-out times.

The benefits here are huge. When you know what’s coming, you can tighten budgets before things slow down, hire smart before the labor shortage hits, and avoid overbuying materials or double-booking crews.

Bottom line: you stay lean, profitable, and on schedule.

Empower Every Team Member With Better Insights

When your team sees the same data, they stop guessing and start solving.

Take sales, for example. Maybe your rep sees that school projects take twice as long to close and lead to more rework. Now they’re shifting focus to retail jobs for less hassle and more margin.

As for project management? Maybe your PM sees framing hours are 20% over by week three. ContractorBI flags the issue and it turns out to be a delivery delay. The team adjusts schedules and avoids further overrun.

Finance gets the visibility they need, too. If they spot a revenue dip coming, they can delay a lease renewal or fast-track billing on active jobs. That’s way better than scrambling mid-quarter.

Leadership benefits with visibility into upcoming wins and current workload. Based on the data, they can hit pause on two bids and sub out the third, avoiding burnout and keeping timelines on track.

Getting every department aligned isn’t easy, but with the right tools, it’s possible. Check out our Dashboard Guide to see how ContractorBI gives every team the insights they need, right when they need them.