NEW

AI now flags scope changes in SMS, voice memos, and email threads - automatically.

Change Orders · Money RecaptureNEW

Every scope change.
Caught in the thread,
billed by lunch.

Most builders eat $30-80K a year in unbilled changes. AI reads the thread, drafts the change order, sends for e-sign, pushes the billable to QuickBooks. No more napkin math. No more “oh yeah, that.”

78% capture rateQuickBooks sync91-sec avg turnaround
SMS · Sarah Hanssen · homeowner
SCANNING
Sarah · 9:32pm
btw can we move the bar stools to charcoal?
PM · 9:35pm
Yep on it
DETECTEDSarah · 9:47pm
Also - can we swap the cabinet hinges to soft-close throughout? Saw it at the model home.
PM · 9:51pm
on it tomorrow

FLAGGED

1 scope change

Drafting CO
EXTRACTING · 5 of 6
CO-024

TITLE

Soft-close hinge upgrade - 32 doors

COST CODE · CO TYPE

06.20 Finish CarpentryOWNER

COST DELTA

+$4,200

SCHEDULE DELTA

+1 day

READING LINE ITEMS · 5 OF 6

Blum 110° soft-close hinges · 32 doors

STATUS

Awaiting homeowner e-sign...

$47K+

RECAPTURED PER BUILDER · YEAR ONE

- Recapture, not ROI estimates

Measured across 8,400+ change orders our customers signed last year - texts, voice memos, sketches on photos, hallway conversations.

8,412

change orders signed · 2026

1,247

active builds

91

sec avg time-to-send

- From text message to billable, no human in the middle

Watch one change make the trip.

From the moment a homeowner asks to the moment QuickBooks shows the billable amendment - under two minutes, every time, with you doing nothing.

SMS THREAD

Can we keep the walnut vanity?
Tile delivery moved to Friday.
Swap cabinet hinges to soft-close throughout?FLAG
I'll approve the trim detail tomorrow.

CO DRAFTER

Change Order

CO #024

Scope

Soft-close hinges throughout cabinet package

Line item match

Blum 110° · 32 doors · 4 drawer fronts

Markup

22%

Total

$4,200

QUICKBOOKS · BILLABLE

QuickBooksLIVE

GoldenLeaf

CHG-022 · Signed May 18 · Paint color swap

Synced$1,480

GoldenLeaf

CHG-024 · Signed May 21 · Soft-close hinges

Synced$4,200

GoldenLeaf

CHG-025 · Sent May 22 · Awaiting signature

Pending$2,150

01 · CATCH

AI flags in thread

02 · PRICE

catalog + markup applied

03 · BILL

e-signed, synced ≤ 2s

- What AI catches today8,412 change orders signed in 2026
CaptureAny inputSMS, voice memo, sketch on photo, email, hallway recap - AI extracts scope from all of them.
PricingAutoPulls from your assemblies + cost book, applies your standard markup rules. No napkin math.
SignatureE-signOne tap in client portal. No PDF print, sign, scan, email loop.
Sync2sBillable amendment to QuickBooks, budget updated, schedule extended.
- Why thread-detection wins

Built for the way change
requests actually arrive.
Not for clipboards.

Whiteboards forget. Emails get buried. PDF e-sign cycles take 3 days. We catch the change in the same thread the homeowner sent it in, price it from your catalog, and get the signature before you walk on site.

Caught in the thread, not lost in the inbox

Most scope changes are spoken or texted, not formally requested. We monitor the threads and flag scope shifts as they happen.

Email/whiteboard: ~35% capture
BuilderPad AI: 78% capture

Priced from your catalog, not the napkin

Line items pull from your assemblies and cost book; markup rules applied per trade. Your numbers, not a vendor's.

Generic CO templates: $/SF guesses
BuilderPad AI: line items + your markup + tax

Signed in the portal, billed in QB

Homeowner approves with one tap. Signed COs push to QuickBooks as billable amendments, update the budget, extend the schedule.

PDF -> print -> sign -> scan: 3 days avg
BuilderPad: 91 sec -> QB <= 2s
- Power features

The change order system your PMs wish they had in the truck.

Thread-aware detection

Every field comes with a % we'd stake our license on.

Scope intent98%
Trade95%
Line item 479%

Multi-source capture

SMS, voice memo, sketch on photo, email - all flow through the same drafter.

Markup rules engine

Per-trade markup, tax handling, contingency rules. Configured once.

Homeowner e-sign portal

One-tap approval. No PDF print. No scan. Audit-logged signature.

BuilderPadnow

Approve CO #024 - $4,200 hinge upgrade?

GoldenLeaf Residence · 06.20 Finish Carpentry

ReviewApprove

Budget + schedule auto-update

Signed CO pushes a budget amendment + schedule extension to the job.

Audit trail

Every edit, every signer, every timestamp logged. CPA-ready export at year-end.
— E-signature · Powered by DocuSign

Get every change order signed — without the printer.

Send a change order for signature in one tap. Your client reviews the scope, the price, and the photos, then signs on their phone — backed by DocuSign's legally binding e-signature and a complete audit trail. The signed CO files itself to the project and the billable pushes to QuickBooks.

  • Legally binding e-signature, backed by DocuSign
  • Sign on any device — phone, tablet, or desktop
  • Tamper-proof audit trail on every signature
  • Signed change order auto-files to the project
Change Order #014Waterfall island edge
Completed
Kitchen · added scope+$3,750.00
Client signature
Karen Hanson
Signed Apr 18, 2026 · 2:14 PM · device verified
Powered by DocuSign · tamper-proof audit trail
- Field notes

The story of a $4,200 change order that almost died in a text message.

The homeowner texted the PM at 9:47pm. “Can we swap the cabinet hinges to soft-close throughout? Saw it at the model home.” The PM thumbs-upped from the truck and drove home. By morning the text was three threads deep, buried under the next day's framing inspection and a callback about the wrong tile.

AI flagged the scope change overnight. By the time the PM opened his laptop with coffee, a draft CO was sitting in the queue - Blum 110° soft-close hinges, 32 doors, 4 drawer fronts, labor priced at the standard finish-carpentry rate, 22% markup applied. He approved with one tap. The homeowner e-signed at lunch. The billable amendment hit QuickBooks before he walked on site.

These are the changes that used to disappear - the “oh yeah, that” changes nobody got around to writing up. Two of them a month, every month, is the difference between a 14% margin and a 19% margin. That's the recapture.

We used to call them 'oh yeah, that' changes. They don't exist anymore.

Jake Miller · PM · Holbrook & Co.

AI caught a $4,200 cabinet swap I'd already forgotten about. By the end of that week we'd signed eight more changes I would've eaten.

MH

Marcus Holbrook

Owner · Holbrook & Co. Homes · Nashville, TN · 22 jobs/yr

Recaptured · year 1 across 22 jobs

$186K

97% homeowner sign-through

CO close time

9 days → 2

No new ops hires. No PDF e-sign tools.

Change Orders

Every “while you're at it” should pay for itself.

Watch a text message become a signed change order in under two minutes.

Trusted by builders across the country

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