One system for the full scope of commercial electrical

If your electrical business focuses on commercial jobs and projects, an electrical contractor software should have core features that handle the complexity of that type of work. Here are the key things you should look for that enable commercial electrical:

• Time-Saving AI Powered Mobile Contractor Tools—These features would be things like automated PO scanning and mobile document scanning that work in the field, and update data across the platform in real time, cutting down on manual work, and helping closeout jobs faster.
• Smart Dispatch & Schedule Assist—Commercial electrical work comes with different types of contractors with different skills and certifications. A dispatch board that can suggest optimizations based on who has what skills, who’s available, or who is closest to the site keeps dispatching quick, clean, and correct. 
• Customizable Workflows—Build your own templated workflows that match the type of commercial work and projects your team actually does. Use built-in forms that contractors work through step by step on the jobsite, so electrical industry requirements and compliance are followed to the letter, and job work is closed out instantly when the workflow is completed.
• Asset History—Generators, panels, replacement parts, and anything else you need is logged by techs, with full history for every job, every location, every multi-site project. You retain digital proof of all work done since day 1.
• Real-time WIP Tracking—Labor, hours, materials, asset usage, everything you need across the length of a project is tracked and documented, living in the platform in real-time every day. You don’t wait until the project is done to realize you spent too much, because every day you have clean timelines and reports that show you how you’re tracking against even the most complex multi-site projects.
• Advanced Reporting & Custom Dashboards—Commercial work requires the ability to look at the smallest data point all the way to the big picture. In BuildOps, you can build your own reports using every single data input in the platform. Your dashboards, your way.

BuildOps integrates with the ERPs frequently used by electrical contracting teams including Sage, Viewpoint, and Quickbooks. BuildOps syncs field data (time tracking, POs, invoicing, etc.) directly with your ERP's job costing and payroll modules. Data flows both ways, keeping financials accurate without manual re-entry.

BuildOps is an operational backbone for commercial electrical teams to build on top of, no matter what other tools are in your tech stack.

Most electrical businesses are up and running on BuildOps within 8-12 weeks. We map your legacy data, configure custom workflows that match your specific electrical operation and the work you do, and we train your crew—office staff and field techs alike. Our integration specialists will be with you every step of the way to help you build out your new operational architecture.

BuildOps was created specifically for commercial companies, and continues to be guided by input from electrical business owners, dispatchers, and contractors.

OpsAI is ready for use right now, and isn’t just a chatbot or bolted on feature. It was built to truly understand and automate the work of commercial electrical teams.

Our customers have seen results like 80% less data entry using our PO scanning tools, have saved hours every month using our Smart Dispatch and invoice automation, and love the ability to turn tech voice notes into structured field notes in seconds—all powered with OpsAI. 

OpsAI learns from your electrical jobs and project data to flag issues, identify recommended work, suggest next actions, and cut busywork, getting sharper with every visit. It turns your legacy system of record (showing you the history of what was done) into a modern system of action, guiding every team member from field to office on what steps to take next.

Here are the key ways OpsAI would help a commercial electrical operation across roles:

• In the Field: Sends the right electrical contractor to the right job, briefs the foreman before the crew gets there, captures visit voice notes and turns them into work summaries, and summarizes daily reports from jobsites.
• In the Office: Turns visit notes into invoice summaries to close out billing faster, provides summaries and daily reports from jobsites, optimizes dispatch boards and scheduling based on which electrical contractors have the skills needed for each job.
• For Finance Teams: Generates invoice summaries that customers can actually read and understand, matches bulk payments to open invoices, and pulls line items from PO photos.
• For Sales: Reads completed visit notes to look for replacement, repair, and upselling opportunities your team can act on in the future, and recommend to customers before someone else does.
• For Owners: Surfaces jobs, trends, and risks you might not catch before it’s too late, so you spend time making decisions, not looking for information.

The BuildOps platform was built so even the least tech-savvy electrical contractor can use it effectively, and most team members become comfortable with BuildOps with only 1-2 training sessions. During implementation, we help you build the custom workflows your commercial electrical business actually uses, so when your contractors are starting out with the platform, they’re learning how to use it to complete the exact type of work they are going to do out in the field.

Role-based permissions ensure your team only sees what they need to, and you are in full control of that. You can set permissions for contractors, for dispatchers, for office admin, for leadership, for business owners—whatever you need. BuildOps is a platform where all the data is accessible to anyone, whether they’re using a desktop or using their phone, but you are in total control of who sees what.

Maybe you want to build a custom report for each electrical contractor to see their individual job performance stats, but you want a different dashboard for leadership to compare job profitability for all your contractors. BuildOps lets you do that.

BuildOps is also SOC 2 compliant with enterprise-grade encryption for data in transit and at rest, so you can be assured: your data is secure, and your data stays yours.

BuildOps was purpose-built from day one to handle commercial-scale work—we didn’t tack those features on later. In BuildOps, service work and project management all run on the same platform with shared data. The same board that dispatches your electrical contractors to the jobsite talks to the dashboard that covers your recurring maintenance contracts. The boots on the ground electrician that’s flagging system deficiencies can instantly pull up the full service history for that location, and see what recommendations were already made and what work was done previously.

Everything lives in a central system built for the scale of commercial electrical work, for recurring maintenance contracts, and for large-scale, multi-location projects, so each team member knows exactly how to take immediate action.

Of course we can. Using BuildOps:

• Classic Electric unified their whole operation in a single platform, achieving 300% growth
• JL Minter Inc. slashed billing time by 73%
• Dane Electric cut invoicing time by over 30%
• Jolma Electric saw a 50% leap in overall efficiency
• Layer One fixed their job costing process, saving 1 week of manual work every month

There’s a clear reason scaling commercial electrical shops trust BuildOps.

Legacy systems and ERPs are a system of record, showing you what happened last month and leaving you to put the pieces together yourself. BuildOps isn’t a platform that records events—it's a system of action that understands commercial electrical work so you can get more done.

BuildOps automates your entire commercial electrical operation from end-to-end: quoting, dispatching, visit notes, PO scanning, invoicing, and more, all through a platform that is built to already understand commercial electrical workflows out of the box without you prompting it.

Your legacy ERP is telling you what happened, and doesn’t understand your dispatch logic or electrical workflows. BuildOps and OpsAI already understand it, so it can help each team member when taking their next action.