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Solution 11 / Construction Companies
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Construction Companies

A construction OS built for your jobs — not Procore's price sheet.

Legacy construction platforms are priced as a percentage of your annual volume, sold in a dozen SKUs, and locked behind services contracts for every change. We build custom construction operating systems with AI in weeks — bids, jobs, RFIs, submittals, daily logs, punch lists and pay apps in one place, flat monthly, unlimited seats.

Asset / 001-LMN
Mechanical patent drawing of a lemon, exploded view with internal clockwork gears
FIG. 1Top 10% BuilderLovable.dev
Builder Status / Lovable.dev
Top 10% Builder
Lovable.dev

Lemon Labs is ranked in the top 10% of custom builders on Lovable.dev — the AI-native development platform.

Model / Pricing
Legacy vendor
$500 – $75k+ up-front

Plus per-user or volume-based licensing, add-on SKUs for financials / safety / preconstruction, and a services contract for anything outside the template.

Lemon Labs
$0 up-front

One monthly subscription. Build, hosting, iteration, AI upgrades — unlimited seats across office and field.

Actions / Primary
AI-Accelerated Custom Development

Walk us through your job types, sub tiers and pay-app cadence on a 45-min discovery call, or send a written brief.

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↳ Section 02 / Head-to-head

Legacy construction software vs. Lemon Labs.

Dimension
Legacy platform
Lemon Labs
Up-front implementation fee
$500 – $75k+
$0
Per-user / volume licensing
$150 – $875 /user/mo or % of volume
Flat monthly — unlimited seats
PM + field + accounting in one system
3 – 5 tools stitched together
Single construction operating system
Custom reports & workflows
Services-contract change orders
Iterated on your monthly subscription
AI field copilot & log summarization
Not offered
Included, tuned to your project types
Data ownership
Vendor-locked, export limits
Yours, exportable
Time to launch
3 – 12 months
4 – 8 weeks
↳ Section 03 / Off-the-shelf reality

What the platforms actually cost.

Sticker price is one line. Real cost is per-user or volume-based licensing + implementation + module add-ons + the plans, financials and safety tools legacy suites carve into separate SKUs.

Platform / Procore
Procore
Platform
$375 – $875 /mo per product, volume-priced
Setup / build
$10k – $75k implementation
  • Priced as % of annual construction volume — cost climbs with growth
  • Financials, quality, safety and preconstruction are separate SKUs
  • Every custom report or workflow goes through a services contract
Platform / Buildertrend / CoConstruct
Buildertrend / CoConstruct
Platform
$399 – $899 /mo per company
Setup / build
$500 – $3k onboarding
  • Built for residential remodelers — thin on commercial workflows
  • Job costing depends on QuickBooks two-way sync — brittle at scale
  • Field UX is slow on 4G with 40+ photos per daily log
Platform / Sage 300 CRE / Foundation
Sage 300 CRE / Foundation
Platform
$150 – $300 /user/mo + hosting
Setup / build
$15k – $60k implementation
  • ERP-first — designed for controllers, not project managers
  • Field, PM, and accounting live in different modules with delayed sync
  • Requires a consultant partner for even minor changes
Platform / PlanGrid + Bluebeam + QuickBooks + spreadsheets
PlanGrid + Bluebeam + QuickBooks + spreadsheets
Platform
$200 – $500 /user/mo combined
Setup / build
$0
  • Plans, RFIs, submittals, budgets and payroll live in 4+ tools
  • Monthly WIP report is hand-assembled from exports
  • No single view of job health, committed cost or schedule slip
↳ Section 04 / Our build

A system that fits your jobs.

We start from your job types, sub tiers and pay-app cadence — then design the field, PM and financial tooling around them. Everything below is included in your monthly subscription.

Top 10% Lovable Builder
  • Job portal per client — schedule, budget, RFIs, submittals and photos
  • Bid & estimate builder with your assemblies, unit costs and markup
  • Change order workflow — internal, owner and subcontractor approval
  • Daily field logs with weather, crew, equipment, photos and voice notes
  • RFI, submittal and transmittal logs with aging and auto-reminders
  • Punch list with room / area, trade assignment and mobile sign-off
  • Subcontractor & vendor portal — COIs, W-9s, lien waivers, pay apps
  • AIA-style pay applications (G702 / G703) with retainage and stored materials
  • AI field copilot — drafts RFI responses, flags scope creep, summarizes logs
  • QuickBooks / Sage + Autodesk / Procore data import + DocuSign + payroll

Ready to own your construction operating system?

No up-front fee. No per-volume tax. One monthly subscription and a system built for the way your jobs actually run.