Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
SelfBuildOS covers the whole self-build — schedule, money, materials, plans, paperwork, and your lender — without the client portals, proposals, and CRM bloat that pro tools make you pay for and wade through.
A schedule that already knows the sequence
The Post-Frame Standard template ships with the whole build wired up — tasks, durations, dependencies, and inspection gates. The Up Next view shows what you can start today and what's blocked, and the schedule reacts the moment you check work off or pass an inspection.
- 95 tasks across 7 phases with 152 dependencies, pre-built
- Inspection gates modeled as tasks that block downstream work
- Long-lead warnings so windows and trusses get ordered early
- Every phase, task, and label is editable — fork-on-create keeps your copy yours
A budget that tracks labor, not just lumber
Three numbers per phase — Allocated, Committed, Actual — with subcontractor labor sitting right next to materials. The moment you commit past your allocation, you know, while you can still do something about it.
- Allocated / committed / actual rollups at the phase and build level
- Over-commitment warning fires before the money is spent
- Subcontractor bids and payments tracked alongside materials
- Contingency drawdown visible phase by phase
Set the money up right, before you break ground
The headline problem in owner-building is underestimating the budget. So this is a build-time feature: seed phase allocations from curated post-frame benchmarks, then capture the front-bookend facts — loan terms, draw schedule, builder's-risk, temp power, and permits — on a single pre-construction sheet.
- Benchmark-seeded allocations you can edit line by line
- Loan amount, rate, close date, and draw count in one place
- Builder's-risk carrier and policy expiry tracked
- Temp power and permit notes you'll reference all year
Materials ordered, tracked, delivered
A sortable takeoff grid you can edit inline, a vendor-grouped shopping list for purchase day, and purchase orders with delivery countdowns — so late steel surfaces before the crew is standing around waiting on it.
- Inline-editable takeoff grid with a purchase lifecycle (needed → ordered → purchased → received)
- Shopping list grouped by vendor with click-to-call
- POs with expected-delivery countdowns and late flags
- Actual costs and receipts flow straight into the phase budget
Subs and inspections on one calendar
Your plumber shows up in Foundation, Rough-In, and Finish, so subs are real entities here — not rows in a phase. Schedule inspections from the gate itself, and connect Google Calendar so build appointments land on your phone next to the rest of your life.
- Sub directory with bids, payments, and assignments across phases
- Calendar built around crane days, sub visits, and inspections
- Two-way Google Calendar sync, with personal events overlaid read-only
- Booking a task whose inspection hasn't passed warns you up front
Your plans, marked up and on site
Upload the plan set and carry it everywhere: page through sheets, zoom into details, and drop pen, box, arrow, and text annotations that live in the app — the file is never touched. Save the views you keep returning to and link them to tasks.
- PDF and sharp images; vector PDFs zoom without pixelating
- Saved detail views linked to the tasks they belong to
- Slip-sheet a revision and your notes re-anchor to the new sheet
- A viewer and a notebook — never a drawing editor
Every document, filed where it belongs
Contracts, COIs, permits, lien waivers, warranties, and receipts in one place — each filed against the sub, PO, phase, or permit it relates to. Set expiry dates and get reminded; pull the whole closeout binder in one click.
- Construction-phase-aware linkage, not just a folder
- Expiry tracking on insurance, licenses, and permits
- One-click closeout binder filter and export
- PDFs and images render inline
A daily log that holds up later
A flat, dated journal of the build: what happened, who was on site, and a few photos — with the weather captured automatically and frozen as a snapshot. It's the contemporaneous record that backs schedule slips, payment disputes, and loan draws.
- Automatic weather snapshot per entry (immutable)
- Who was on site, in free text — documentation, not timesheets
- Photos attached to the day
- Reverse-chronological feed you can deep-link by date
Loan draws your lender can actually use
Construction loans release money in draws, and missing paperwork is the top reason they stall. Assemble a borrower-side Schedule of Values, tag the photos and lien waivers that prove the work, and export a clean per-draw package.
- Schedule of Values built from your real budget rollup
- Cost-to-date with committed, actual, projected, and variance
- Lien-waiver tracking on subcontractor payments
- Per-draw CSV export and print-to-PDF package
And it keeps you on track
Reminders that reach you
A reminder engine emails nudges for long-lead orders, expiring insurance and permits, upcoming inspections and appointments, and draws that are ready to request. Tune which ones you get, and the lead-time window, per your preference.
Your data, always exportable
One-click CSV exports of line items, purchase orders, and your full budget summary — plus the closeout binder. For taxes, your lender, or just your own spreadsheet habits. Nothing is locked in.
Built for the job site
Mobile-first and dark-mode ready, so checking off tasks, snapping photos, carrying plans, and logging the day work from the middle of the build. A dedicated offline app is on the roadmap.
All of this, for the price of one build
Free during early beta. Your post-frame schedule is ready two minutes after you sign up.
Get startedCancel when you move in — that's the point.