Construction Software Companies & Consultants in Salt Lake City, UT

ConsLog is a software company based in Salt Lake City that offers a cloud-hosted platform for managing construction and real estate projects, with a focus on the people who pay for them. The idea behind the product is simple: whoever finances a building project should have an easy way to keep track of it.

The system is therefore organized around the owner's perspective on design, bidding and field work, not just the needs of the general contractor. Its typical users are developers, property managers, retail organizations and other groups that handle many building projects at once.

What the platform does

ConsLog positions its product as a capital project management system and a project management information solution. It gives owners, architects, contractors and consultants a common place to work, and it covers the path from early drawings through the bid process and into the build itself. The main areas include:

• Shared review of drawings and PDF files during the development stage
• A bidding system with deadlines that are enforced, live countdown clocks and video conferencing
• Cost control tools for creating, sharing and exporting pay requests, change orders and schedules of value for owners and architects
• Gantt scheduling in which each bar can be clicked to see photo updates, with progress tracked through photos, reports and action items
• Daily reports that contractors can file from a browser or from the mobile app while on site
• Action items, including submittals and RFIs, discussed in live chat with defined groups, with outside participants added by email or phone
• Data export to PDF or Excel, and a final zipped file for a finished project that keeps every document and record neatly arranged

Where contractors already use outside tools for their daily reports, integrations import those reports automatically, so crews avoid entering the same information twice. The company's homepage lists impressive activity counts: more than 8,800 projects, over 4,000 companies, about 8,700 users and some 72,000 reports.

Approach to customers

ConsLog stresses that the tool should adapt to the customer, not the reverse. Its stated practice is to tailor the software to a client's processes, and it takes pride in building highly customized solutions whenever a client needs them. Interested organizations can ask for a demonstration or book a meeting with the team.

Customer comments on the site praise the support and the pace of improvement. A vice president of construction and property management at First Bristol Corp. describes service as beyond compare and notes the team's patience with user mistakes. A construction, design and real estate director at Wal-Mart Brazil says her team handled more than 1,000 projects in different parts of the country with information shared with contractors online, without needing to visit job sites.

Origins and leadership

The company grew from the experience of founder and chief executive Phelipe Silva. As a project manager at the US Army Corps of Engineers, he felt the daily difficulties facing owners and concluded that a well-planned system could remove most of them.

After he built a mobile app for the government and was nominated in the agency's innovation awards, he started ConsLog. He also worked as a senior analyst at Goldman Sachs, helping automate processes there, and holds a bachelor of science in construction management.

Co-founder and chief technology officer Lucas Amorim studied electrical and computer engineering. A serial entrepreneur, he has built and exited several businesses, and he has been with ConsLog for many years. The company says it is growing quickly, with more than 1,000 companies worldwide using the system, and its website is offered in English and Brazilian Portuguese.