We build the software contractors run on, and we put AI to work on the busywork that eats your week. Not a demo — the same tools we use to run a construction operation every day.
We build the AI. We run our own company on it. Then we hand it to you.
Estimating · takeoffs · contracts · field crews · every dayMost contractors don't have a work problem — they have an overload problem. Every system we build is judged by one measure: how much weight it takes off the owner.
Bids, billing, and follow-ups happen on a system, not on your kitchen table at 9pm.
Field to office, estimate to invoice, you to your foreman — the details survive the handoff instead of living in your head.
Where the job stands against the bid — while there's still time to act on it, not at closeout.
Everything we build is field-first: dead simple on the surface, advanced underneath. If a foreman won't use it, it doesn't ship.
We write our own construction software and run our own company on it before it ever reaches a customer. If it doesn't survive our Monday, it doesn't ship.
Construction intelligence for the contractors who do the work. Point it at a spec book and it reads the thing — then keeps score against the bid while the job is still moving.
Safety sign-offs, timecards, and daily duties — off the clipboard and onto the phones your crew already carries. You get the compliance record without chasing paper across three trucks.
The field math that gets done wrong on a tailgate at 6am — concrete, aggregate, slopes, areas. No account, no upsell, no catch. Built because we needed it ourselves.
Put an honest number on what manual takeoffs cost your operation every month — and what those hours are worth back in your pocket. Your inputs, not our averages.
Pick the one job nobody should be doing by hand. Calls and voicemails that never get returned. An inbox that needs triaging before anyone can work. Quotes retyped into three places. We automate one of them, prove it for a month, then go find the next one. No platform migration, no year-long project — we start with a piece small enough to be obviously worth it.
The company runs on process instead of memory. Estimating and takeoff support, receivables and payables, contract review, SOPs, safety coordination — the systems layer that lets a contractor grow without drowning.
The right people and material hit the right site. Scheduling, dispatch coordination, and the communication rails between office and field — so the day starts moving before the phone starts ringing.
Built by people who know what a pay app is. When the off-the-shelf tool doesn't fit how you actually work, we build the piece that does — document handling, bid analysis, daily reporting, the internal tool you've been describing to software salesmen for two years.
A web presence that wins work, not just exists. Sites, content, and social built for contractors — clear, honest, and aimed at the customer you actually want next.
There's a lot of noise in this business right now. Here's the plain version of what that actually means at Iron & Oak — so you can judge it instead of taking our word for it.
IAOIntel and HardHatOps are live software with real users. Everything we know about putting AI into a contracting business, we learned by shipping and maintaining these.
Our estimating support, document review, reporting, and internal systems run on the same automation we sell. We're the first customer and the harshest one.
AI is very good at reading documents, catching discrepancies, and killing repetitive work. It is not a foreman and it doesn't replace judgment. We'd rather say so up front than sell you a disappointment.
Blueprint reading, takeoffs, estimating, contracts, safety, crews — that's the background here. The technology serves the work, not the other way around.
One conversation. Where the hours go, where the leaks are, what you'd take back first.
We start with one system — not a re-org. The one where the hours are leaking worst.
Each system feeds the next. The operation gets calmer while the volume grows.
Written from inside the work — not by a marketing department. No gated PDFs, no email wall.
Most owners guess wrong on this. The answer isn't the task you hate most — it's the handoff that keeps failing. Here's how to find it in your own week, and the four questions that tell you whether a job is worth automating at all.
An honest inventory from a company that builds this software. Four things it does better than a person, three it does badly, and the one failure mode that will cost you money if nobody's watching for it.
The hours are the obvious cost. They're not the expensive one. What actually hurts is the bid you didn't submit — and the way takeoff load quietly caps how much work a company can chase.
Tell us where the weight is. We'll tell you — straight — whether we can carry it.