Construction & trades software
Field work runs on paper, texts and spreadsheets that never reach the office.
The software problem this industry has
A foreman needs three more finishers by Thursday, so he asks around. Timesheets arrive as photographs of a clipboard. Somebody in the office re-types them. By the time anyone knows what actually happened on site, the week is over and the margin on that job was decided days ago.
The information exists. It just never arrives anywhere it can be used.
Why generic tools fail it
Generic tools assume a desk, a laptop, a stable connection and one language. A trades crew has none of those. They're mobile, they're intermittently connected, and on a lot of US sites they're bilingual.
So the software gets opened once, abandoned, and the crew goes back to texting — which is the correct decision, because texting works. Anything that takes more taps than a text message loses to the text message. Adoption is a design problem, not a training problem.
Where it hurts
- Crews are filled by text and word of mouth, so the job goes to whoever answers first.
- Pay is negotiated one call at a time because nobody posts it.
- Timesheets and site updates arrive as photos and get re-typed in the office.
- Many crews work in Spanish, and most software is English-only.
What we'd build first
- A mobile-first crew or hiring app that takes fewer taps than a text
- English and Spanish from the first release
- Views over the data you already keep in Procore or spreadsheets
- Notifications that reach the field, not just the office
What we've built here
HammerLoop is a hiring network connecting US trades workers with the contractors and employers hiring them — live in production across web, iOS and Android since June 2026, with 2,216 members and 192 employers as of July 2026. Pay rates on every job, a 60-trade taxonomy, an "available now" status, worker-location privacy and an English and Spanish interface, because that's who does the work.
We also build dashboards and data pipelines on top of Procore — the platform most US construction firms already run on — giving firms views over their own Procore data, plus the transformation work third-party services need to consume it.
Questions people ask us
Cost, Procore, Spanish, and whether crews will actually use it.
Ask us something elseMost work starts around $8,000. A full build across web and mobile is usually $20,000 to $50,000, depending on how much there is. It's a fixed price agreed before anyone starts, and hosting and support are quoted separately.
Yes. We build dashboards and data pipelines on top of Procore, giving firms views over their own Procore data, plus the transformation work third-party services need to consume it.
Yes, and on a lot of US sites it has to. HammerLoop runs in English and Spanish across web, iOS and Android — the interface, the notifications and both store listings. We'd ship both languages from the first release.
By making it take fewer taps than a text message, because anything slower loses to the text. Crews are mobile, intermittently connected and often bilingual, so the app is designed for that. Adoption is a design problem, not a training problem.
Yes. We designed, built and still run HammerLoop, a hiring network connecting US trades workers with the contractors hiring them: live since June 2026, with 2,216 members and 192 employers as of July 2026, pay rates on every job and a 60-trade taxonomy.