— 01 · ON-TIME
Land the schedule, every time.
Real critical path, not Gantt cosplay. Slippage cascades show before they bite. The framing carpenter knows about the cabinet delay six weeks out — not the morning he shows up to a locked job.
For Custom Home BuildersNEW · Live allowance
Built for the build they'll remember for the rest of their life.
BuilderPad runs the platform behind the $2M–$10M builds — schedule that holds, allowances tracked to the dollar, and a client portal worthy of the home.
Built for $1M–$10M+ jobs·9–24 month timelines·White-glove onboarding
Critical path · live · all subs
— 02 · ALLOWANCES
Hold the allowance, line by line.
Every selection rolls into the right allowance bucket the moment the homeowner approves it. No end-of-job surprises. No back-of-envelope COs at substantial completion.
— 03 · EXPERIENCE
Deliver the experience the house deserves.
A portal that matches what they paid for. Weekly photos, selection trails, draw history, schedule view — the kind of transparency that turns a one-time client into the next three referrals.
— The headline feature
Where every custom build runs aground.
Allowances are where every custom build runs aground. A $48,000 lighting allowance becomes $71,000 in 73 selections, nobody catches it until the punch list, and you're explaining a five-figure CO at the closing table. BuilderPad shows the cost the instant the homeowner clicks Approve — not 8 months later.
01 · CHOOSE · catalog click02 · IMPACT · live to the cent03 · PROTECT · auto-CO if over
— Stitched into the same build
The schedule and the portal — same project, same data.
Schedule changes show up in the homeowner's portal the moment they happen. Selection approvals roll into Schedule's downstream tasks automatically. One source of truth, two faces.
— What you actually track
Allowances are the headline. These are the other six things that keep a $4M build out of the ditch.
Allowance ledger · live
Every selection rolls up. Every dollar finds a bucket.
Kitchen. Lighting. Plumbing. Tile. Cabinetry. Hardware. Every allowance is its own ledger — selections drop in by category the moment they're approved, the bar moves, and the homeowner sees the same number you do.
Change order history
Every CO. Every signature. Every reason.
The four-month-out homeowner who claims they never approved the upgraded tile sees their own e-signed CO from month six, with the original allowance and the delta — in their own portal.
Vendor commitments
What you owe, when you owe it, on every job.
Every PO, every committed cost, rolling cash-flow per project. The architect's wife isn't surprised when you call about the marble — you've been tracking the deposit since week 4.
Draws · construction lender
Lender-ready packages, not Friday emails.
Pull a draw with one click. Cost-to-date, photos, lien waivers, % complete per CSI division — packaged the way construction lenders actually want it, not your bookkeeper's best guess.
Selections approvals
E-signed. Trail intact. No "I didn't pick that."
Every fixture, finish, paint chip, faucet — with the date, the homeowner's e-signature, and the version of the catalog they were looking at. The selection trail is the receipts.
Cost variance · per CSI
Where the job's leaking. Down to the division.
Estimated vs committed vs actual, rolled up by CSI division. The framing line that was supposed to be $87K is at $103K — you see it in week 9, not at closing.
Slippage flags · live
Cascade alerts, six weeks early.
If the tile delay pushes the floor, which pushes the trim, which pushes the cabinets — Schedule shows the whole cascade. You move dates before homeowners notice anything moved.
— What the homeowner remembers
The 18-month build she didn't dread.
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he Ashbys' Newport Coast house took 18 months. Five interior designers worth of opinions, eleven cycles of the kitchen lighting plan, a structural change six months in that reshuffled four trades. By the time it was done, plenty of couples would have moved out, hated their builder, and started a Yelp account. The Ashbys didn't. They knew where the money was, every Friday. They knew what was happening next, every Sunday night. They watched the build in the same portal where they approved the next selection — and when the final walkthrough came, the only surprise was a champagne bottle waiting on the kitchen island.
That's not a feature. That's the experience a $4M house should come with. BuilderPad makes it the default — not the thing you're trying to remember to do on top of running the build.
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Eighteen months. I never once didn't know where the money was. I never once didn't know what was happening next. When they handed us the keys, I wasn't relieved — I was sad it was over.
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Charlotte Ashby
Homeowner · Ashby Residence · Newport Coast CA · completed 2026
Anchor persona — composite. Real customer testimonials throughout the page.
— A moment, in motion
$1.2M in allowances. A $48,000 range hood. The math, in real time.
She finally found it. The hand-finished La Cornue range hood she's been pinning to her board since the floor plan was sketched. $48,000 — which happens to be the entire kitchen-appliance allowance for the build. She has already chosen the dishwasher, the fridge, and the cooktop. That bucket is half-spent.
In a normal build, the overage hides inside the $1.2M of total allowances until a bookkeeper finds it at substantial completion. The conversation that follows is the one nobody wants. In BuilderPad, the bucket flashes over the second she clicks the hood — alongside the auto-drafted change order for $24,000, the new bucket total, and a one-tap Approve button. Total allowance still well under cap. Builder still gets paid the upgrade. Homeowner still gets the hood.
Twenty-four thousand dollars, settled in four seconds — not eight months from now at the closing table.
We're running 9 high-end customs a year, average ticket $4.8M, 14 to 22 months each. Before BuilderPad we lived in spreadsheets and our clients lived in the dark. Now the schedule is live, the allowances hold, and the homeowner sees the same numbers I do. The first job we ran on BuilderPad closed three weeks early — that's never happened in 22 years.
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Robert PinaultOwner · R.D. Pinault Custom Builders · Anaheim CA · 9 customs/yr
Quote draft — to be confirmed with Robert before publishing.
Customs run on BuilderPad47
Allowance overages caught at click time$1.4MAcross 47 builds. Caught by the system, not the bookkeeper.
Selections
The headline feature, in detail.
Catalog management, allowance buckets per category, e-sign on every choice, auto-CO drafts for overages — the full spec sheet on what the hero animation shows in eight seconds.
Scheduling
Critical path. Not Gantt cosplay.
Slippage cascades, sub-trade notifications, draw alignment, milestone-to-portal feed. Built for 14-month builds, not 14-day kitchens.
Client Portal
Where the experience lives.
Branded portal per project. Photos, selections, schedule, allowances, draw history — the homeowner sees the same data you do, in a UI worthy of the house.
— White-glove onboarding · custom builders only —Talk to our team.
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