Every contractor who uses construction management software has had the same conversation at least once. The invoice comes in. Someone asks why the software bill went up again. The answer is always some version of: "we added two more people" or "they changed the pricing tier."
That's the per-seat tax. It's the structural feature of almost every construction SaaS product on the market — JobTread, Procore, BuilderTrend, CoConstruct. You pay per user, per month, often per feature module too. The bill goes up as your team grows. You're renting access to your own job data.
We got tired of it. So we built Cubitworks.
What Cubitworks Is
Cubitworks is a full construction management platform — jobs, CRM, budgets, scheduling, invoicing, field ops, customer portal, purchasing, and compliance — deployed on infrastructure you control. No per-seat fees. No feature gating. No module add-ons. One flat monthly rate based on how many active jobs you're running.
The platform runs on Cloudflare Workers and Pages (edge-native, globally distributed), Neon Postgres (real ACID-compliant Postgres with multi-statement transactions for the budget engine), and Cloudflare R2 for file storage. At contractor scale, the infrastructure cost is effectively zero — Cloudflare's free tier handles the traffic, Neon's Launch tier handles the database, and R2's storage fees are fractions of a cent per job's photo library.
The bill you see on the Cubitworks pricing page? That's us — not AWS, not Salesforce, not a VC-funded SaaS company optimizing for ARR growth. When you pay for Cubitworks, you're paying for access to a platform built by contractors who use it on real jobs.
Why We Built It Instead of Customizing What Exists
The honest answer is that customization doesn't get you what you actually need. The construction management tools that exist are built for the median contractor. The median contractor isn't Tessera Construction.
We needed things that weren't available on any platform:
- Lien window timer with per-state rules. Missouri has specific statutory windows for mechanic's liens. We needed those deadlines tracked automatically, not manually entered in a calendar.
- Per-municipality permit tracking for the KC metro. Every jurisdiction has different inspection requirements and turnaround times. We track 13 KC-metro jurisdictions natively.
- COI gating on vendor payments. We don't pay a sub whose certificate of insurance has expired. We needed that enforced in the system, not in someone's head.
- Missouri statutory disclosure compliance. MO § 407.937, § 407.725, and § 429.012 require specific language on contracts. We stamp it automatically.
- Formula-driven budget engine. Change a room dimension and the whole budget recalculates. That's not how off-the-shelf tools work. That's how we needed it to work.
None of those exist in JobTread, Procore, or BuilderTrend. They're not on any roadmap we've seen. They're not things you can build with webhooks and Zapier. They require deep schema integration and custom business logic.
Building Cubitworks was the only path to having them.
What "Own Your Stack" Actually Means
Owning the stack doesn't mean running servers in a closet. Cubitworks is fully cloud-hosted — Cloudflare manages the global distribution, Neon manages the Postgres database, and R2 manages file storage. You don't touch a server.
What it means is that your job data lives in a Postgres database you can query directly. You're not stuck waiting for an API to expose a field you need. You're not blocked from exporting your own data. If you want to run a custom report that nobody at JobTread ever thought to build, you write a SQL query.
It also means the API is yours. Every table, every endpoint. If you want to build a custom iPhone shortcut that logs daily notes to Cubitworks from your lock screen, the API is there. If you want to wire Cubitworks to your accounting software in a way that no official integration supports, you have the endpoint.
The compliance and lien features alone paid for the build. A missed lien filing window on a $200k job is a six-figure mistake. Having that tracked automatically, with alerts that fire before the window closes, isn't a nice-to-have — it's risk management infrastructure that no off-the-shelf tool provides.
The Pricing Model
Cubitworks pricing is based on active jobs and users — not per feature, not per module.
- Starter ($99/mo): Up to 5 active jobs, 3 users. Every feature included.
- Growth ($249/mo): Up to 25 active jobs, 10 users. Every feature included.
- Pro ($499/mo): Unlimited jobs, unlimited users. Every feature included.
Every plan gets the full feature set: CRM, budgeting, scheduling, invoicing, field ops, customer portal, purchasing, compliance, reporting, and integrations. There's no "Standard vs. Professional" gating where the features you actually need are locked behind a higher tier.
14-day free trial, no credit card required. If you don't see value in the first two weeks, there's nothing to cancel.
Who Cubitworks Is For
Cubitworks is built for small to mid-size contractors who run complex jobs and need a platform that does the whole job — not a collection of point solutions stitched together with spreadsheets. If your operation runs on a combination of JobTread or Procore for project management, a separate tool for estimates, another for invoicing, and a spreadsheet for job costing — Cubitworks replaces all of it.
It's not built for Fortune 500 construction companies with 200-person IT departments. It's built for the contractor with 5–50 employees who wants software that actually reflects how they work — and doesn't charge more every time they hire someone.
If that's you, start your free trial. You'll have a full account in under two minutes.