Move two sliders. This is a rough, honest estimate of what a GC your size typically spends every year across a stack of separate tools, before anyone counts the hours spent keeping them stitched together.
Office and project staff carry the expensive seats: project management, estimating, BIM, accounting, and CRM. Field crews cost far less per head, so your mix matters more than your headcount.
Figured on the high side, assuming the best-in-class tool for each job: Procore, an Autodesk BIM suite, a construction ERP like Viewpoint or CMiC, premium estimating, ADP, Salesforce, and the rest. Run leaner tools and it comes down; run the premium stack most growing GCs drift into, and this is about right.
Every GC is spending it. Almost none can tell you what it is, and that isn't carelessness. The number is built to stay invisible.
Some bill annually, some monthly, some per project, paid by different people across ops, accounting, and IT. Nobody sits down and adds them all up.
One tool bills per seat, another takes a cut of your construction volume, a third charges per module. You can't just multiply seats by a price, so you never try.
Implementation fees, the IT hours keeping fragile integrations alive, and the time your team burns re-keying the same number between systems never show up as a software line.
Renewals tick up every year, and the volume-based tools charge you more the more you build. The number you signed up for is not the number you're paying now.
So the real figure is large, and no one has ever totaled it. The same blind spot hides your fully loaded cost per employee on the labor side, which CSS surfaces honestly because the accounting underneath is done right. You finally get the number to price and staff against.
Beyond the core platform, these are the systems most GCs pay separate vendors for. In CSS they are part of the same ledger, not another subscription and not another login.
One platform, one ledger, one price, everyone on it. Bring your current stack to a demo and we'll show you the difference side by side.
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