Construction Software Companies & Consultants in Columbus, OH

Overview

PeerAssist is a construction software company based in Columbus, Ohio. It builds cloud-based tools for trade contractors who want to link work in the field with the back office. The company says it has served subcontractors since 2007, and it sells its products as affordable software delivered over the web rather than as on-premise systems.

Its main offering is a field productivity platform. The platform replaces paper forms and spreadsheet logs with shared digital records that field crews, project managers and office staff can all view in real time.

Who it serves

PeerAssist mainly serves specialty and trade contractors, not owners or design firms. Its listings describe general contractors and subcontractors as the core audience, and much of its published customer base is in the wall-and-ceiling trades. Customers named in its materials and announcements include Pompeii Painting, Midwest Drywall and California Drywall. This makes the company a good fit for drywall, painting, interiors and other self-performing trades that manage many small changes, deliveries and crew requests on each job.

Products and capabilities

The platform is built around a few connected areas of contractor work:

• Digitizing construction documents and field correspondence so paperwork is captured on site rather than retyped later
• Construction eForms that standardize the reports and requests crews submit
• Time and materials tracking for out-of-scope or extra work, so it can be documented and billed
• Field work orders that turn site requests into trackable records
• Material management and purchasing tools that coordinate orders among the field, office and warehouse
• Cost management views that help office staff see what is being spent on each project

How it works with clients

The company describes its approach as connecting the field and office, so crews and managers work from the same information instead of passing paper back and forth. Because the software runs in the cloud, contractors can roll it out to crews without heavy IT infrastructure. PeerAssist runs a dedicated customer support line and a separate sales team. It also offers a demo library so prospective buyers can see the tools in action before committing.

Background and what sets it apart

PeerAssist says its people bring about five decades of combined experience in construction software. It positions its products as purpose-built for the business problems of trade contractors rather than adapted from general project management tools.

Its focus on documenting extra work and controlling material purchases addresses two common sources of lost margin for subcontractors: change work that never gets billed and poorly tracked material orders. Buyers comparing construction software vendors may find PeerAssist most relevant if their priorities are field documentation, T&M capture and procurement control, more than estimating or full accounting.