Common questions aboutconstruction workflow automation.

Most fixed-price automation builds land between $18,000 and $48,000. Pay app assembly, subcontractor compliance, and Sage export pipelines typically sit in the middle of that range. Fractional data leadership is a separate monthly engagement. We scope and price every build in writing before kickoff — no T&M, no surprise change orders.

Yes. Pay app assembly is one of our most common builds. We pull cost data from Sage 300 CRE, reconcile against committed cost in Procore, assemble the per-subcontractor pay app PDF, and log every step for the controller's review. A typical engagement takes 6 weeks and converts a one-day-per-month manual process into a one-click run.

Discovery to live system in about 4–6 weeks for a single workflow. Week 1 is blueprint and scope lock. Weeks 2–4 are build with scheduled department check-ins. Week 4–6 is walkthrough, training, and handover. Larger multi-workflow builds run 8–12 weeks. Every milestone date is in the contract.

A consultant produces a deck and a recommendation. A fractional data leader sits inside your firm, owns the data roadmap, makes the call on vendor selection, runs the migration, and is accountable for shipped systems — not just slides. We're the calls a controller and an engineering lead would normally split between them, combined into one part-time partner.

Yes to all three. We build inside the systems you already pay for. Most of our work has been on Sage 300 CRE and Procore, but we've integrated with Sage Intacct, Buildertrend, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Bluebeam, and a long tail of Excel-heavy internal tools. If your team already opens it daily, we can build on top of it.

Scope, acceptance criteria, fixed dollar amount, and a firm go-live date — all in writing, all in the contract, all signed before kickoff. 50% deposit on blueprint sign-off, 50% on go-live. If we miss the date, the price doesn't move up. No discovery sprint, no T&M creep, no quarterly status committee.

No. We build inside your accounts, using your credentials, on your infrastructure. Code lives in your repo. Logs live in your systems. Nothing is hosted on our side after handover. We're a partner, not a vendor with a data lake.

We stay on call through the first full cycle (a month for monthly workflows, a quarter for quarterly ones) and watch the first run without touching it. After that, the runbook in your repo covers recovery steps for the failure modes we've seen. Optional ongoing support is available as a separate monthly retainer — but most of our builds run unsupervised after the first cycle.

Both. Our AI Trainings & Integrations practice covers Copilot rollouts for office staff, custom assistants trained on your specs and SOPs, and AI integrations into Sage, Procore, and SharePoint. The same fixed-price model applies. We start with the task, not the model — and pick the model based on your data sensitivity and existing licensing (Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI).

Our sweet spot is general contractors and home builders doing roughly $20M to $200M in annual volume — large enough that manual workflows are bleeding real money, small enough that adding a six-figure head count for a data team isn't the right move. We've worked inside national home builders too and can scale up.

Confluxion Point was built inside a national home builder — running the data function from solo hire to team lead. We know what manifest billing looks like, why pay apps take ten days, and how Sage data actually flows. Most consultants who pitch construction firms have never seen the inside of a pay app cycle. We have.

Alongside, almost always. The analyst knows the business — we hand them better tools, a cleaner data layer, and dashboards that don't need to be rebuilt every Monday morning. In a few engagements we've also helped firms hire their first dedicated data person; we run the search and the onboarding so the role lands well.