Drop in drawings, specs, sub bids, or scope change requests. Ask in plain English for a takeoff, a draft RFI, a change-order proposal — or flip a voice memo into a formatted daily report. A22 keeps the books tighter and gets you paid faster.
“Risers up, sub short on hangers, change order out.” ·transcribed & formatted
The state of the trade
Capabilities
Each one is a working artifact your foreman, PM, or bookkeeper can use today — not a feature shipping next quarter.
Upload drawings, specs, or sub bids. Ask in plain English for a takeoff, a specs summary, or a draft RFI — A22 reads the documents and gives you a working answer in seconds, not the night before the bid is due.
Drop in a scope change request and get a proposal with the labor hours, materials, and cost impact ready to send to the GC. Stop being the last to know what a change is worth.
Lay two, three, or four bids next to each other across price, scope, exclusions, allows, and alternates. The trade-offs surface before you commit, not during the first progress draw.
Record the morning walk-through on the way to the truck. A22 transcribes it into a formatted daily report — weather, manpower, work completed, lookahead — already in your voice, ready to post to the GC.
Ask for a schedule and get one that respects the constraints you actually work under: cure times, inspections, the one mixer everyone shares, the lead time on the boiler.
A22 posts invoices, job-cost entries, and certified payroll straight into QuickBooks, Foundation, and GCPay. The books close faster, and you get paid on the same cycle the GC does.
How it works
Drawings in PDF, a spec book, sub bids, the change-order request — uploaded in any order. The trades already have enough paperwork; this is the last place it should pile up.
Prompts built the way a foreman talks. “How many doors on sheet A-201?” “What’s the labor on adding a sprinkler riser?” “Compare these two subs on the mechanical package.” A22 reads the docs and answers.
The bid lands in the estimate. The change order ready-to-sign goes to the GC. The invoice goes into QuickBooks. The daily report gets emailed. Nothing sits in a draft folder waiting on you.
Integrations
Invoices, job-cost entries, and certified payroll post straight into the platforms specialty-trade contractors already trust — no CSVs, no double entry, no “we’ll get to it Monday.”
Three integrations listed: QuickBooks, Foundation, GCPay.
Why “A22”
The name is short on purpose. A22 is built the same way: plain-spoken, prepared, accountable for every answer. It does not hide its work in a cloud it will not let you audit, and it will not ship a feature the estimator on the bench could not use the week it lands.
FAQ
Specialty-trade subcontractors — the framing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and finish subs who live and die by their bids, change orders, and pay apps. Not the GC. Not the architect. The trades the big platforms were not built for.
Enterprise estimating platforms stop at the GC’s desk. A22 goes one layer down — into the bid binder, the change-order log, the daily report, the certified payroll file. You don’t get a 200-tab platform; you get an experienced estimator sitting in the truck with you.
Drawings (PDF), specs, sub bids, scope change requests, photos from the field, and short voice memos from the superintendent. A22 reads all of them.
Yes. Invoices, job-cost entries, and certified payroll post straight to QuickBooks, Foundation, and GCPay — end of week, not end of month.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough
Send a real drawings package or scope change request and we will spend 30 minutes walking through what A22 does with it on your screen. If it does not save you time on first sight, it is not for you.
The whole team reads this inbox. Send a job you are bidding, a change-order request you are stuck on, or just a mention of your trade and we will be in touch within one business day.