Pool construction software built around the subcontractor sequence

A pool is ten trades in a fixed order, and the whole margin lives in whether the next one shows up on time. Schedule the sequence, cost every phase, bill the draws, and keep the homeowner watching progress instead of calling about it.

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The sequence is the schedule

Excavation, steel, plumbing, gunite, tile and coping, decking, equipment set, plaster, startup — each a scheduled phase with its own sub, its own dates and its own predecessor. When gunite slips a week, everything downstream moves with it and every sub sees the new date in their portal.

Estimate the way you actually price

Line items carry a quantity, a unit and a unit cost — cubic yards of gunite, linear feet of coping, square feet of decking — with markup per line or across the bid. Your cost codes are yours; nothing here assumes a house.

Draws, retainage and the money that follows the phases

Bill by draw as phases complete, hold and release retainage, and watch job cost against the estimate while the hole is still open. It posts into a real double-entry ledger, so the P&L for the pool is the P&L your CPA sees.

The homeowner watches, from their phone

Daily photos, this week's schedule, selections, approvals and what is due next, on a private link. A pool is the most-watched project a family will ever buy; the portal is how they watch it without phoning you.

Questions builders ask

Does this handle pool service and cleaning routes?

No, and we would rather say so. SelfConstruct is built for pool construction — jobs with a start, a sequence and a completion. It has no recurring billing, no maintenance contracts and no route dispatch, so if your revenue is monthly service accounts this is the wrong tool. If you build pools and someone else services them, it fits.

Can I estimate in cubic yards and linear feet?

Yes — every estimate line has its own quantity, unit and unit cost, and the unit is free text. Yards of gunite, feet of coping, square feet of deck, each priced its own way.

Can subs see only their own scope?

Yes. Subcontractors get their own portal with their scope, dates and documents — not the whole job, and not your costs.

See it working right now

The live demo is a fictional construction company you can click through end to end — including a working client portal — the whole product, running. Pricing is published on the site: $299/mo per company, unlimited users, 50 GB of storage included.