Industry · Construction
Construction software for the jobsite, the fleet, and the project ledger.
We build the software construction runs on: project and bid management, equipment and fleet systems, field-data capture, document and cost control, and the marketplaces that move materials and machines.
It's the same end-to-end build behind YardClub — the contractor-to-contractor equipment marketplace we shipped to $120M+ in transactions and a Caterpillar acquisition.
On top of the systems you run, not replacing them
The problem
Why the data never reaches the decision in time.
The work happens in the field and the systems live in the office, and the gap between them is where the money leaks. A foreman logs the day on paper, the change order lives in someone's email, equipment hours are guessed at month-end, and the PM finds out a job is over budget weeks after it went sideways.
The tools that promise to fix this are usually generic SaaS that doesn't fit how your crews, yards, and contracts actually work.
The fix isn't another off-the-shelf platform your teams won't adopt — it's software built around your real workflow, that captures field reality, connects it to the office, and surfaces the cost or schedule problem while there's still time to act.
in added value if construction closed its productivity gap — labor productivity has grown ~1%/yr over two decades, vs 2.8% for the world economy.
McKinsey Global Institute, 2017 ↗
What we build
Where construction software earns its keep — and what each use case delivers.
Not one product — a set of high-leverage systems that fit the way your operation already works. For each: what it does, the benefit it produces, and how that plays out.
Project & bid management
Estimating, bid tracking, scheduling, RFIs, submittals, and change orders in one connected system — commercial and field status in the same place.
Benefit — fewer surprises, tighter margins, faster and more accurate bids.
Example: a field change order updates the project's cost and schedule the same day, so the PM acts while there's still room.
Field-data capture (works offline)
Daily logs, time and production tracking, photos, inspections, and punch lists captured on a phone at the point of work — synced when a signal returns.
Benefit — accurate as-built reality reaches the office same-day; rework from stale data drops.
Example: a foreman logs a deficiency photo from a no-signal basement; it uploads at the truck, so the office works from today's site.
Equipment & fleet management
Tracks utilization, hours, location, maintenance, and cost-per-asset across owned and rented machines — surfacing idle iron and overdue service.
Benefit — higher utilization, lower rental spend, downtime caught before it stops a crew.
Example: an idle excavator shows up against another site's rental order, so it's moved instead of a second one rented — cost-per-job real, not estimated.
Equipment-sharing & procurement marketplaces
Two-sided platforms to rent idle equipment between contractors, or order materials and rentals — listings, availability, payments, and the full ledger. The category we built end-to-end with YardClub.
Benefit — idle assets become revenue, procurement gets faster, the payment and trust layer is handled.
Example: a contractor lists a machine sitting between jobs and rents it to a nearby crew — a depreciating asset turned into income, booking and money handled.
Document, cost & compliance control
A single source of truth for drawings, contracts, RFIs, lien waivers, safety records, and certified payroll — versioned, searchable, tied to the project.
Benefit — disputes resolved with the record instead of arguments; audit exposure cut.
Example: a delay claim is settled in minutes with dated daily logs and document history from the system — not a costly reconstruction months later.
Field intelligence & safety analytics
Analytics and, where data supports it, ML over the project and field record — schedule-risk flags, cost-overrun early warnings, safety-pattern detection.
Benefit — risks surfaced early instead of explained after the fact, and a safer site.
Example: a schedule-slip risk is flagged from current production rates weeks before the milestone, so the GC re-sequences trades while recovery is cheap.
The measured impact
What better software does to construction work.
Independent, third-party findings on the cost of the gap construction software closes — cited as industry evidence, not Silicon Prime's own client results.
US construction rework, yearly
About 48% of all rework — driven by poor project data and miscommunication, out of roughly $177.5bn in total avoidable labor cost. The direct prize field-data and document-control software is built to capture.
FMI & PlanGrid, 2018 ↗
Average cost overrun
With schedule delays averaging 52%, across an analysis of 500+ large projects each worth at least $100M, against initial estimates. The overruns better controls catch.
McKinsey, 2022 ↗
Least-digitized major US industry
Construction ranks ahead of only agriculture — the exact gap purpose-built software exists to close, and the reason generic SaaS keeps missing the field.
McKinsey Global Institute, 2017 ↗
The scope
What construction software development covers.
The software layer that runs construction — the systems that capture the field, connect it to the office, and move materials and machines. We build the software; we read from telematics, GPS, and on-machine controls, we don't build them.
Project, bid & document-control systems
Estimating, bid tracking, scheduling, RFIs, submittals, change orders, and a versioned contract record — custom-built to your workflow, or integrated with the system you run.
Field-data capture & mobile apps (offline-first)
Mobile apps for daily logs, time and production tracking, photos, inspections, and punch lists that work without a signal and sync when one returns — because a crew won't use a tool that dies in a dead zone.
Equipment, fleet & asset systems
Utilization, hours, location, maintenance, and cost-per-asset tracking across owned and rented machines — built on the telematics and rental data you already collect, so the numbers are trusted.
Marketplaces, payments & procurement
Two-sided equipment-sharing, rental, and materials-procurement platforms — listings, availability, transactions, payments — the category and infrastructure we built end-to-end with YardClub.
Field & project intelligence
ML models and analytics that turn the project and field record into early warnings — schedule risk, cost overrun, safety patterns — validated against your historical projects, not a false-alarm generator.
Integration & modernization
Connecting the accounting, ERP, payroll, and project tools you run into one record, and modernizing the legacy systems too brittle to build on — without ripping out what works.
What you get — assigned to you under full work-for-hire IP transfer
How it runs
One accountable lead, fixed scope, no handoffs.
The same delivery model behind all our work, tuned for the jobsite. Most engagements reach production in 4–8 weeks, payment tied to the ROI agreed at kickoff, full IP assignment signed before we start.
Discover
Scope the use case and the loss it targets — rework, idle equipment, slow bids, blown schedules — and confirm the data and workflow support it, with the honest "off-the-shelf already does this" call included.
Output: a ranked plan & the metric we'll be judged on
Connect
Integrate the field, accounting, ERP, telematics, and project data you already have into a usable record through governed connections — we don't replace what's working or touch on-machine controls.
Output: a trusted data foundation
Build
Develop the system — including offline-first mobile where the field needs it — in your own cloud tenant, tested against your real projects and crews, not a demo.
Output: a working system on your real data
Deploy & enable
Pilot on one project, crew, or yard, prove the metric moves, then roll out wide — your team trained to operate and extend it.
Output: a production system & a team that owns it
The track record
We didn't just build construction software — we built it, scaled it, and sold it to Caterpillar.
Most software shops talk about construction as a vertical they could serve. We shipped one of its category-defining platforms. YardClub — the "Airbnb for construction," a contractor-to-contractor marketplace for heavy equipment — was built by Silicon Prime end to end: listings, availability and booking, payments, and the full transaction infrastructure that let contractors rent idle machines to one another.
It processed $120M+ in transactions and was acquired by Caterpillar in 2017 — the same engineering this page is about, taken from a startup build to acquisition by the largest construction-equipment maker in the world.
Behind that is the production discipline we apply to every system. Over four years we've held a 200+ location operation at twice-a-week releases with zero critical defects (BJ's Restaurants) — evals before release, staged rollout, monitoring after.
Silicon Prime is a Stanford-rooted Responsible AI lab, founded in 2011, run by founder Kelvin Tran — 20+ years of production engineering, personally accountable for every engagement.
Why build it with us.
We've actually shipped construction software — to a Caterpillar acquisition. YardClub is real, in-industry proof: a heavy-equipment marketplace we built end-to-end, $120M+ in transactions. Depth in your industry, not a case study borrowed from another.
Built for the field, not just the office. We build offline-first because the jobsite is not a reliable network — a tool a crew can't use in a dead zone is a tool that doesn't get used, and an unused tool moves no metric.
The software layer, honestly scoped. We build the systems — project, field, equipment, marketplace, analytics — not telematics hardware, GPS units, or machine controls. That boundary means a faster, lower-risk engagement and no overpromising.
Founder-led, built to transfer. One accountable lead, not a relay of account managers; the code, apps, and pipelines are assigned to you, with your team trained to run them when we step back.
Questions buyers ask before they build.
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Ready to build software your crews will actually use?
Bring the loss you want to attack — rework, idle equipment, slow bids, blown schedules, a workflow nothing off-the-shelf fits — and we'll tell you honestly whether custom software is the right call, what it takes to build, and what it costs to run.