Buildr vs CMiC

Buildr is an AI preconstruction platform for commercial general contractors, combining CRM, estimating, bid management, workforce planning, and forecasting. Its Construction CRM captures leads, qualifies pursuits, and manages client relationships with the preconstruction team. Kit, its AI agent, uses relationships, pursuits, documents, and project records to prepare work and next steps. Kit can read RFPs, draft pursuit fields and follow-up questions, and prepare a lead or project for review before saving. Teams can set go/no-go decisions using their own critical questions and criteria. Unlimited custom fields and activities are filterable and customizable. A mobile CRM supports pipeline work from the field, office, road, or phone on iOS and the web. Buildr offers Procore integration, APIs, webhooks, and ready-made integrations. Its custom plan includes unlimited users and data, importing, onboarding, implementation, training, and in-house support. Pricing is on request. Buildr reports average industry-support response under 10 minutes. Security includes two-factor authentication, bcrypt password hashing, and TLS 1.2.

CMiC is a construction ERP for managing financials, projects, workflows and analytics. Its financial tools include construction accounting, project controls, equipment and inventory, opportunity management, payroll and human capital management. Project management covers controls, drawings and construction documents, prequalification and procurement, quality, and safety. CMiC says its Single Database Platform brings financials, projects, resources and content assets together. Deployment options include on-premise installations, private-cloud Platform-as-a-Service and multi-tenant cloud Software-as-a-Service. Listed integrations include Bluebeam, Kofax, DocuSign, Microsoft Integration Package, Power BI and ImageTrust. Its APIs expose enterprise business logic through endpoints for connecting with other applications; a global API request record limit began with Patch 22. CMiC also offers mobile products for smartphones, tablets and desktops, including Construct APR, CHK, CT, ESS, OM, PM and PR. Construct ESS is available for iOS and Android. The company serves general and specialty contractors, heavy/highway firms and project owners. Pricing is available on request.