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Every job gets
its own feed.

Post photos, videos, and voice notes right from the app. Your team and the homeowner get a push notification — and it all stays pinned to the project, searchable for years. Think a newsfeed, built for the jobsite.

Post from mobile or web·Instant push notifications·Audit-trail by default
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Marcus Bell posted to Vannex Remodeling

Quick walkthrough before the drywall crew stages Monday 📍

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Jim Miller tagged you on 123 N Oak St

Framing inspection passed ✓ — you're clear to stage

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Rosa Salazar left a voice note

🎙️ Tile delivery pushed to Thursday · 0:32

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Marcus Bell
Superintendent
12m ago

Quick walkthrough before the drywall crew stages Monday 👇

Jobsite walkthrough
Dual cam
Marcus on the front camera
0:48
LikeReply14 likes · 6 comments
JM
Jim Miller
Project Manager
May 22, 2026 / 2:30 PM
Framing progress
Framing progress
Framing progress+5

Framing inspection passed on the Maple Residence ✓ Door 2 header sticker is on, joist hangers all good. @Drywall crew you're clear to stage Monday.

LikeReply5 likes · 3 comments · 4 tags
MC
Mike Costa
Electrician
3m ago

When are the framers wrapping the master bath? I'm staged for Friday rough-in — push or hold? @Jim Miller

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RS
Rosa Salazar
Tile Sub
just now
0:32
LikeReply2 likes
— One feed for the whole project1,000+ new discussions every month
One feed per projectEvery jobPhotos, videos, voice notes, decisions, and comments — all in one place, tagged to the work. Post from mobile or web.
Discussions started1,000+New project conversations kicked off across BuilderPad shops every month — and everyone tagged gets a push notification.
Response time-62%Faster replies because the photo, location, and task arrive with the post. No “which house?” ping-pong, no scrolling group texts.
Lost updates0Every post and reply is pinned to the project — searchable two years later, with photos, mentions, and decisions intact.
— How it works —

Post it once. Everyone
gets the update.

01 · POST FROM THE FIELD

Snap it. Say it.
Post it.

Your crew posts a photo, a quick video, or a voice note straight from the BuilderPad app — tagged to the task, no typing required.

Mobile or web · one tap
02 · EVERYONE GETS PINGED

The right people,
notified instantly.

BuilderPad pushes a notification to everyone on the task — your team, your subs, and the homeowner — with sub-by-sub permissions applied. @-mention anyone to pull them in.

Push · the moment it posts
03 · LIVES ON THE PROJECT

Pinned to the work.
Findable two years later.

Every post lives on its task, selection, PO, or change order — with every photo, video, comment, and approval logged.

Search · across 2+ years
— One source of truth

Stop chasing the job across
texts, emails, and voicemails.

Updates used to scatter across a dozen inboxes — and the one detail you needed was always in the one you forgot to check. BuilderPad pulls it all into a single feed, pinned to the project and searchable for years.

Before · scattered everywhere
Email
Re: Re: Fwd: selections??
Text message
where do I send the invoice?
Missed call
Framing sub · 2 missed
Voicemail
0:48 · unheard
Sticky note
tell Jim re: fireplace
Group chat
14 unread · who's coming?
After · one project feed
Vannex Remodeling · FeedAll in one place
MB
Marcus Bell
📹 Posted a walkthrough video · 14 likes
JM
Jim Miller
🖼️ Framing photos · @Drywall crew
RS
Rosa Salazar
🎙️ Voice note · 0:32
MC
Mike Costa
💬 When are framers wrapping the master bath?
— Inside every post

A jobsite feed that actually
knows your project.

Mention the right people, link the real schedule item or selection, and let AI tag every photo — so the feed isn't just chatter, it's the living record of the build.

@Mentions
Roof dry-in is done. @Jim Miller you're clear to frame. @Drywall crew stage for Monday.
4 people notified instantly

Tag people, trades, or whole crews. Only the right people get pinged — homeowners never see what isn't meant for them.

Quick links
Schedule: Drywall — MonSelection: Linear fireplaceFile: Permit-set.pdf

Drop a live link to a schedule item, a selection, or a file right in the message — like a hashtag that actually opens the thing.

AI photo tagging
Kitchen framing photo with AI-generated tags
#kitchen#framing#cabinets
"kitchen framing"1 photo found

Every photo is auto-tagged the moment it posts — so "show me the kitchen framing" actually finds it two years later.

Public or private
Everyone on the project
Team, subs & homeowner
Internal team only
Hidden from the homeowner
Just Jim Miller
Private 1:1 thread

Pick who sees each post — the whole project, your internal crew only, or one person. Sensitive conversations stay sensitive.

Automatic event updates

Framing marked complete on Harlow New Build

Auto-logged · 9:14 AM

Linear fireplace selected by John Harlow

Selection approved · Yesterday

BuilderPad posts the milestones for you. Finish a phase or approve a selection and the feed logs it — no one has to remember to announce it.

100%
Threaded by project
— Nothing trapped on a phone

Every photo, video, voice note, and comment your team posts lives on the project it belongs to — pinned to the task and searchable for years.

1,000
discussions started / month
1,247
active builds
2
years searchable
— Why generic chat doesn’t ship the job

Built for construction threads. Not generic messaging.

Group texts, WhatsApp, PM-tool comments, Slack channels — none of them tie a message to the actual work. None survive when a phone dies, a sub leaves, or a dispute lands. We do.

Group text (SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage)

No job context, no @mentions, no search across years. The thread dies when someone leaves the chat — and the field photos die with their phone.

Group text: dies with the phoneBuilderPad: pinned to the task, forever

Project-management tool comments

Only people with a paid seat inside the tool can post. Subs and clients without seats text you instead — and the chain breaks. Half the conversation lives outside the record.

Most PM tools: subs go around itBuilderPad: subs post free, no seat needed

Slack / shared inbox

Threaded by channel, not by job. No sub-by-sub permissions — every sub sees every message. No audit trail when the change order argument hits.

Slack: every sub sees every channelBuilderPad: sub-by-sub permissions per thread
— Power features

Everything around the AI
that makes a thread stick.

Voice memo transcripts

Every voice memo transcribed and pinned to the task. Searchable like text — two years later.

Builder · 0:2399%
Sub · 1:1497%
Client · 0:4882%
Post from the field

Snap a photo, shoot a quick video, or drop a voice note from the app — it lands on the task instantly. Subs and clients post from a free invite, no paid seat.

Instant push

Everyone tagged gets a push notification the moment a post or reply lands — on their phone, no app-open or refresh required.

@Mention permissions

Type @Jim — only people Jim is allowed to see resolve. Mention by trade, by phase, or by sub. Never blast the whole company.

Audit-trail by default

Every message timestamped, attributed, immutable. Export the thread as PDF — the same shape your attorney expects.

One-tap reply

Push notification. Thumb tap. Reply lands in the right thread.

Default action under your thumb. No login. Smart about timezone and on-call hours.

— Field notes

The reason every change-order argument starts with “where’s that text from last Tuesday?”

T

he thing builders actually need from messaging isn’t speed — it’s recall. Three months from now, when the homeowner insists you never told them about the upcharge, the question isn’t “what did you say,” it’s “can you prove what you said.” Group texts can’t. iMessage can’t. Slack can’t. The phone that took the photo is gone.

BuilderPad threads every text, email, photo, and voice memo to the work it’s about — then keeps it. Two years later, the change-order argument starts with a screenshot of the actual conversation, not a debate over whose memory wins.

"
We won an argument we would’ve lost. That’s what receipts buy you.
SP
Sarita Patel
Patel Renovations · Austin

“The homeowner came back six months later swearing we never told her about the upcharge. Took me eight seconds to find the text. Eight seconds. That used to be a week of scrolling.”

SP
Sarita PatelPrincipal · Patel Renovations · Austin, TX · 34 jobs/yr
Messages threaded · last 30 days3,841100% on-thread
Disputes settled with receipts4 → 0Without one trip to the texts folder.
— Bring one of your messy projects —

Kill the group text.
Keep the receipts.

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