Construction Software Companies & Consultants in Detroit, MI

RIVET is a Detroit-based software company that builds a workforce management platform for self-performing specialty contractors, with a particular focus on mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) firms. Started in 2020, the company has grown to a team of more than 40 people. It says more than 150 MEP contractors use its software, and that the platform has been used to manage over 40,000 craft workers and plan more than 100 million labor hours.

What the Platform Does

RIVET is built on the idea that field labor is both the biggest risk and the biggest opportunity for a specialty contractor. The software is meant to replace spreadsheets and reactive, scattered planning with one shared labor plan. It aims to help contractors catch the conditions that drag down productivity before they hurt margins, including overmanning, heavy overtime, schedule compression, open-ended assignments that run to the end of a job, and high crew turnover on a site.

• Workforce Forecasting: projects labor demand anywhere from a few weeks to more than two years ahead
• Schedule and Dispatch: one dashboard for coordinating crews, sending assignments by text message and seeing who is available
• Productivity Analytics: compares actual hours with planned hours and budget, and shows why projected hours at completion have shifted
• Rostering and Information: worker profile cards listing skills and certifications
• Communication: messaging to the field without having to manage group texts
• Integrations: brings in job budgets and worker records from existing systems, including a Vista integration certified on Trimble Marketplace

Who It Serves

The product is designed for several roles inside a contracting firm. Executives can weigh backlog against available capacity, spot peaks and dips in labor demand, and decide which bids to pursue. Labor and operations managers can move workers between projects and handle labor requests in one place.

Superintendents and foremen can check daily rosters on a phone or tablet and request crew. Project managers can build labor plans, get early warnings about overruns, and keep records that support change orders and compression claims. Safety managers get alerts before certifications, trainings or badge access expire, and can connect the platform to a learning management system.

Preconstruction teams can create labor projections for bids and find gaps in future work.

Ongoing Development

RIVET keeps releasing new features. A September 2026 update added a new message composer with live preview, file attachments, embedded images, better table editing and site contacts drawn from job details. The same update rebuilt the dispatch flow so one pass can reach both craftworkers and the leadership team.

It also made SMS messages arrive as a single text instead of several pieces, and added a threaded desktop inbox. A shared team dispatch center and scheduled sending are planned. Customers are supported by account managers and implementation managers.

For buyers comparing construction software, RIVET is a specialized option. It focuses on labor planning for self-performing trade contractors rather than general project management, and it publishes customer case studies, a blog, a podcast and event recaps on industry topics such as electrical contracting.