Construction Software Companies & Consultants in Denver, CO

Assignar is a construction operations platform for contractors who carry out work in the field. It was founded in 2014 for self-performing general contractors and specialty subcontractors, and it now reports more than 800 contractor customers worldwide on thousands of infrastructure projects. The company has a North American office in Denver, Colorado, and an Australian base in North Sydney. Buyers in Colorado can therefore deal with a vendor that has a local presence and also serves customers internationally.

What the platform does

Assignar's central idea is a single record of work. Field crews enter hours, dockets, equipment use and variations once. The office then uses that same information for payroll, invoicing and job costing, so nobody has to type it in again. The company presents this as margin control.

Finance teams, business owners and site supervisors each get their own view of how a job is performing against its original bid. They see this while the project is still running, rather than weeks later in month-end accounting results.

• Drag-and-drop scheduling of crews and machines, with recommendations based on availability and compliance
• Mobile timesheets, site diaries, quantities and custom forms submitted from the jobsite
• Automatic application of pay rates, bargaining agreement and award rules, and plant hire rates
• Schedule of rates and time-and-materials workflows that lead to invoice generation
• Equipment prestarts, defect logging and utilization tracking tied to each asset
• Safety and compliance documentation, reporting dashboards and progress tracking
• Integrations that send verified field data to accounting systems

Products and industries

Assignar sells two main products, Assignar Operations and Assignar Pay. Its lineup also includes Milo and three trade-specific editions: CraneOps, InfraOps and TrafficOps. The software is aimed mainly at heavy civil and infrastructure work. Target trades include crane and rigging, excavation and earthworks, demolition, concrete, asphalt and paving, rail, scaffolding, traffic management, drilling, piling and non-destructive digging. Its published case studies also cover electrical, mining, renewables and utilities contractors in North America and Australia-New Zealand.

How it works with clients

The company says each customer gets a structured implementation and dedicated support. Its customer success staff are described as having hands-on experience in the construction industry. In the office, the platform supports planning through allocation dashboards and work orders. It helps mobilize compliant workers and equipment. It also handles processing, where staff verify field submissions before running payroll and invoices.

For field users, the goal is fast forms that flag exceptions for review and let routine entries pass straight through. Customer figures on the site include payroll time savings, and one contractor reports saving about six hours a week on timesheet handling.

Background and leadership

Assignar started as an in-house tool. CEO and co-founder Sean McCreanor began building it in 2013 for the specialty civil and rail subcontracting business he co-founded. Before that, he had built and sold an IT firm. CTO and co-founder Marko Tomic previously worked on web products in media, telecommunications, education and government.

Sophie Edwards, an organizational psychologist, heads people and culture. Assignar's origins inside a working contracting business and its narrow focus on self-perform field operations set it apart from general project management tools.