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Fast, Budget-Backed Construction Proposals

Send budget-backed proposals, manage jobs, and invoice for your work

starting at just $149/month

Knowify simplifies the proposal and contract creation process, allowing your team to create and send professional, e-signable documents in just minutes. Auto-generate proposals based on your project budget, or start from scratch. With the flexibility to handle fixed price, cost-plus, and maintenance contracts in one place, your team is well-equipped to win more projects and grow your business.

Abstraction of a proposal and iconography to summarize the creation process (budgeting, proposal email, digital approval, tracking) | Improving the proposal creation process as a trade contractor | Knowify

Choose the right contract for the job

Quickly build accurate proposals for fixed price, cost-plus, recurring maintenance, and AIA-style jobs.

Send and track your proposals

Send legally-binding contracts for e-signature, and see instantly when clients open, review, and sign your proposals.

Track change orders and bill

View your original proposal and contract, track costs & change orders, and handle progress billing against the job once you’ve won it.

Monitor win-rate and improve

See the types of jobs you’re winning or losing over time, and which team members have the highest bid-hit rate.

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“With Knowify, we can send clients a professional-looking proposal in minutes without ever visiting the installation site itself. We use the templates we created in Knowify, make any adjustments needed, apply our markup and send everything to the client for them to digitally sign off on.”

Michael Haff
Owner, CastleElectric

Picture of Michael Haff | Castle Electric | Knowify case study

Build professional proposals, backed by real numbers

With Knowify, you can quickly, easily, and accurately budget for any job of any size, and turn those budgets into a professional looking proposal in just one click. Add your logo, T&Cs, and get your proposals approved, so you can win more jobs and get to work faster.

Abstraction of a budget breakdown (materials, labor, equipment, subs, misc.) | Budgeting 101 | Knowify

Build your budget by phase

No more guessing and hoping that your profit margins are healthy – Knowify gives contractors the power to create accurate budgets for each job, accounting for materials, fully loaded labor burden, and equipment costs. Turn those budgets into professional, branded proposals, complete with your T&Cs, and send them out in minutes, not hours.

Convert it to a professional proposal, collect an e-signature, and get to work

Send proposals via Knowify’s customer portal. Decide what your clients can and cannot see, send your branded proposal through, and work out any details directly via the app. When they’re ready to accept your proposal, they can e-Sign in the app so you can get to work faster. You can then use the portal to submit RFIs and change orders throughout the project, and invoice in phases or lump sum.

Knowify is your path to organized, profitable construction projects

View from our Plan & Track section with actual vs. budgeted costs for materials, labor, and subcontractors | Electrical contractor | Knowify

Multi-phase budgets

Build simple or complex budgets with multiple phases in just minutes, import your cost codes, and track costs for each phase.

Client-facing estimates

Markup your budget to cover profit and overhead, then turn it into a professional proposal in less than 60 seconds.

Service templates

Create reusable templates to calculate the labor and materials needed for your routine jobs like EV charger installs, or pulling wire. 

Project workflow view organized by contract status | Electrical contractor | Knowify

Construction CRM

Manage leads, bids, and active jobs with a visual job management board. Customize it to fit your workflow.

Flexible proposals

Create complex contracts quickly, with a high-degree of control over line item and document formatting.

Proposal management

See when a proposal is sent, open, and responded to. Allow clients to request revisions electronically.

Daily logs view displaying summary, weather, and phase progress | Electrical contractor | Knowify

Project scheduling

Schedule jobs by phase using gantt charts and dependencies. Add employees and equipment to the full job or a phase.

Daily logs and project documents

See a daily job summary with photos, notes, weather, and labor. Manage RFIs & submittals, and share key docs with your team or clients.

Task management

Use Tasks to create clear to-dos for your team and set up reusable task lists for processes like site inspection checklists.

Task view displaying list of pending and complete tasks (description, deadline, resource) | Electrical contractor | Knowify

Employee scheduling

Schedule your team to full jobs or single phases. Dispatch employees to service jobs in a few clicks.

Time tracking

Track and approve time from the field or office and get accurate labor cost data for payroll and job costing.

Real-time communication tools

Stay in-sync with tools that let you share info, leave comments, log expenses from the field, and more.

Purchase detail displaying how parts from inventory were allocated to a project | Electrical contractor | Knowify

Inventory tracking

Track inventory from purchase to storage location and see the job and employee that uses each item.

Project-level purchases & bills

Manage purchases, log expenses, and create bills for jobs and job phases from the field or office.

Purchase and bill management

Manage purchases, purchase limits, approve expenses, and log bills as paid across all jobs in on place.

View from our Plan & Track section with actual vs. budgeted costs for materials and labor | Electrical contractor | Knowify

Automated cost tracking

Your job activity (labor, materials, equipment, subcontracts, etc.) is used to allocate costs to the right job and phase seamlessly.

Labor burden

Track the full cost of your labor, including wages, union dues, taxes, and benefits to budget more accurately and keep jobs profitable.

WIP and profitability reporting

See real-time WIP, projected profitability, and how you’re tracking against budget on a project, so your team can course-correct as needed.

Product view displaying how to record payment for an outstanding invoice | Electrical contractor | Knowify

Invoice creation

Easily create invoices that follow your contract format, whether you use AIA pay apps, fixed-price, time and materials, or cost plus.

Change orders

Easily work change orders into your invoicing schedule and add them to the original contract. Receive and track revisions electronically.

Invoice management

Manage all of your invoices from one screen. Easily see what’s been paid, what’s overdue, and send payment reminders to clients.

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