Guides
Practical guides for contractors evaluating construction software. Written by the team behind WorkHoist, and written to be useful even if you decide to stay where you are.
- Who owns your construction data?
Three ways contractors lose access to their own project data — and the questions to ask a vendor before you sign.
- Why construction payments are late
Subcontractors wait 51 days to be paid after submitting a pay application while GCs estimate payment is sent in 35. Retainage and prompt payment law are the backstop; your pay application is the lever.
- Change orders when you can’t stop work
97% of specialty contractors sometimes start directed work before approval. This guide covers what makes that work collectable afterwards — the confirming letter, what to track, and where the law helps.
- Does AI actually work in construction?
Four in five construction organisations have not got past an AI pilot, and nobody has published a credible figure for what it returns. What works, why it fails, and how to test a vendor claim.
- Lien waivers: what you’re actually signing
A waiver arrives with the pay app and someone wants it back today. The distinction that matters is conditional versus unconditional — and one version ends your lien rights the moment you sign.
- Should you bid prevailing wage work?
Public work pays well and the compliance is not optional. The question is not whether you can do the work — it is whether you can carry the paperwork every week without an error.