Constructive vs Foundation

Constructive is a customer experience platform for home builders, covering the client journey from pre-construction through selections and maintenance. Its Customer Portal gives clients build progress, site photos, documents and contacts, with information updated automatically. Online Selections provides a digital showroom for choosing colours, fixtures, finishes and appliances, with more than 90,000 items accompanied by photos, textures and descriptions. The 3D Selections product creates a client-specific internal and external model from the builder’s working drawings. Maintenance guides defect reporting and stores details, images, comments and statuses centrally. The branded mobile app supports push notifications, and the product is available on Android, iOS and the web. Customer Portal survey integrations include SurveyMonkey, Zoho and Qualtrics, with surveys triggerable at key milestones. The company describes authenticator-app codes as an additional login protection option. Plans are priced per job, and the pricing page sets a minimum licence spend of $6,600 per year; listed prices exclude GST. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Perth, Western Australia.

Foundation is a custom home management app for builders and remodelers, bringing schedules, budgets, draws, contracts, selections, and client communication into one system. Scheduling includes Gantt-style timelines with movable phases and tasks, templates, and a cross-project crew calendar. Financial tools cover budget tracking, cost-plus budgets, draw requests, homeowner payments by ACH or card, and a payment ledger; QuickBooks sync is also listed. Users can upload plans, measure quantities and areas, count fixtures, and export takeoff quantities as CSV. AI features include estimates and specifications from plans, selections from vendor quotes, and a budget assistant. Digital signing, private-link bid packages, spec sheets, and subcontractor insurance tracking support contracts and procurement. Homeowners have a portal, and subcontractors can use token links. Foundation runs in a browser on phones, tablets, and desktops, including iPhone, Android, and iPad; it can be added to a home screen without an app store download. The monthly base plan is $199 a month plus an $8 service fee, totaling $207 monthly. An annual plan is $2,200 a year plus an $80 service fee, totaling $2,280. A 14-day free trial is available.