A First Look At What’s Coming to Forge 2026

Forge is right around the corner, and we’re putting together a program built around the work contractors are doing right now: getting more from their teams, improving cash flow, adopting AI, and building a business that can keep up with demand.

Here's a closer look at some of the sessions we have in store this November.

Get hands-on with BuildOps

Forge brings you closer to the people who know the work best: other contractors using BuildOps every day and the people building the platform alongside them. You’ll hear how teams are approaching common challenges, ask practical questions, and see ideas you can take back to your business. Here are some of the hands-on sessions planned for Forge:

• Build Your First Custom Report, Live
• Get Better Invoices Out Faster
• Set Up and Manage Service Agreements
• Run Your Construction Projects: Drawings and Lists
• Work with Your GC on Projects: Submittals, RFIs, and Change Orders
• Get the Most Out of Mobile: Service Tickets and Recommendations
• Turn Your Techs into the Best Reps
• Connect BuildOps with Your Accounting System
• Build Advanced Reports with Power BI
• Run Your Sales Pipeline with CRM+

Whether you’re new to BuildOps or ready to get more from the platform, these sessions are designed to help you leave with something useful to apply when you get back to work.

Hear how other contractors are working through the big challenges

Forge will also bring together contractors for in-depth conversations about growth, labor, cash flow, and the changing nature of work.

Breaking the Legacy Cycle: Playbook for the First 150 Days on BuildOps

A customer-led look at the first 150 days on the platform—and what it takes to move from implementation to a better way of working.

BuildOps Financials in Action: Haynes’ Zero-Variance Close

Haynes Mechanical joins BuildOps to share what a cleaner, faster close looks like when teams have better visibility into the work behind the numbers.

How Agents Are Changing the Back Office

Kevin Harris of PMG talks about preparing a business for AI agents, including the data, job scopes, and human judgment needed to put them to work.

Beating the Labor Shortage with AI That Does the Work

Omnia Mechanical and Jolma Electric join BuildOps to talk about using AI to help stretched teams catch opportunities, keep work moving, and do more with the people they have.

From Instinct to Instrument Panel: The 5 Levels of Performance

A look at the benchmarks that separate businesses running on gut feel from businesses built to scale—and what moving up one level can mean.

You Can’t Hire Your Way Out: Getting 65% More Revenue from the Same Headcount

A conversation about technician productivity, capacity, and the ways strong operators get more done without simply adding more people.

Technicians as Your Best Sellers: Turning Every Visit into a Revenue Moment

See how contractors are turning what technicians notice in the field into recommendations, quotes, and booked work—without turning the service call into a sales pitch.

Go deeper on what’s next

Product deep dives will give you a closer look at the tools and workflows shaping the next phase of field service and construction operations, including:

• Financials
• OpsAI 
• Technician Experiences
• Service Agreements, Jobs, Dispatch and much more
• Construction lists, time tracking, financials, and forecasting
• Sales and CRM 

You’ll also find conversations about AI readiness, workforce change, modern work, and how to make new tools stick with the people who use them every day.

Make room for the conversations in between

Some of the most useful conversations happen outside the scheduled sessions. Forge will include time for roundtables focused on:

• Owners, C-suite leaders, and CFOs
• Project and construction operations
• Operations leaders and service managers
• Field operations and mobile teams
• Women in the trades

Bring the questions your team is working through. You may find the most useful answer in the next conversation, not the next slide.

Start making your Forge plan

The program is taking shape around the issues that matter most to commercial contractors: how to grow without adding unnecessary complexity, how to make better decisions with the information already in the business, and how to give teams more leverage in the work they do every day.

If you haven't booked your ticket or if you're still looking to add more people from your team, book your tickets before they sell out.