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Forge is just a few weeks away, and what better way to celebrate than announcing Sahil Bloom as our closing keynote. Millions of people read his newsletter, The Curiosity Chronicle, every week. His book, The 5 Types of Wealth, is a New York Times bestseller. He’s also the managing partner of SRB Ventures, an early-stage investment fund. His work is about building a business and a life that are rich in time, relationships, health, and money. What a great way to close out an inspiring few days with the best and brightest in the industry. Just a few more tickets remain, so if you haven’t booked your spot, now’s the time to do so:

Commercial contractors should not have to piece together the financial side of the business and the operational side of the work. BuildOps and NetSuite together give commercial contractors a stronger connection between finance, field execution, and the day-to-day operation. Together, we connect the financial side of the business with the operational reality of commercial service — from dispatch and technician workflows to service agreements, work orders, quoting, and field execution. The result is a more connected operation for the unsung heroes of the trades — one that helps teams stay reliable when the work is complex and customers are counting on them. We’re proud to help bring that together:

"Skilled tradespeople maintain the infrastructure modern life depends on, and the work itself rewards them with something most jobs can’t offer, which is the daily evidence that what they do matters and that they’re good at it. Salary campaigns alone won’t close a gap driven by meaning. The trades need to show young workers what the craft is, how to find a way in, and what a career in the trades can look like 30 years from now." BuildOps CEO @AlokChanani recently shared his thoughts with @Inc about how the industry is making it difficult for younger generations to break in👇

We could tell you why Forge is a must for commercial contractors. But why not hear it from the contractors themselves? 👇 PS: Forge tickets are going fast — grab yours before it's too late. Can't wait to see you in sunny San Diego 😎🤙

Every commercial contractor runs two sets of numbers whether they mean to or not. Work progresses in the field while invoices, payments, purchase orders, receipts, labor and material costs move separately toward the books. Labor is the sharpest gap. The field books hours at a blended rate, but the real payroll cost, including taxes, burden, prevailing wage and fringe, lands later and often never makes it back to the job. On a prevailing wage job, the premium can run about 30 dollars an hour over the burden rate the field is watching. So the margin a project manager watches all month is not the margin finance books at the end of it. Nobody finds out until close, and by then the crew has moved on and there is nothing left to recover. Finance Hub closes that gap by putting a governed ledger inside BuildOps between the two systems. Transactions are validated, coded and approved there before they post. Exceptions surface in near real-time when they happen rather than at month end. Periods close and stay closed. Every financially significant action is written to an audit record. Job cost and work in progress refresh from the same ledger, so the field and finance finally read one number. Take a closer look at Finance Hub:

We benchmarked 1,500+ commercial contractors and found that the top 20% collect cash 62% faster, pull 65% more revenue per technician, and win 14 more points on every quote. Now you can see where your shop sits, and what closing the gap is actually worth. Run your numbers (takes about 3 minutes):

BuildOps just took home Project Management Solution of the Year from @PropTech_Awards. BuildOps was built because commercial contractors deserve a platform that works as hard as they do. For the crews keeping hospitals cool, schools running, and buildings safe — the work behind the scenes that nobody sees until it stops. Awards are great to have. But what matters more is watching contractors close out work faster, spot problems earlier, and grow without adding back-office headcount. Huge thank you to the contractors who trust us with their work and the team behind the product. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is headlining #Forge2026, the biggest event for commercial contractors, this November in San Diego. Can’t wait to see him in a room full of the teams that keep the lights on and the data centers humming. Third-generation racer. 50 wins, 2 championships, 2 Daytona 500s, 15 straight years as NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver, Hall of Fame since 2021 — and now owner, broadcaster, author, and founder. He’s lived the same math contractors do every day: good day vs. bad day usually isn’t luck, it’s whether the team nailed the prep. That’s why he belongs on the Forge 2026 stage in San Diego this November. #AllSystemsGo.

We’re honored to be recognized on the 2026 @Inc 5000. What started with a simple belief, that the unsung heroes of the trades deserve world-class technology, has grown into a platform helping commercial contractors break through growth ceilings, raise the bar, and build the future of the industry. We’re proud of what our customers and employees have built together and even more energized about what comes next. We’re just getting started.

Today we’re launching our first annual Commercial Contractor Benchmark Report — built from a full year of real jobs, invoices, work orders, and service agreements from 1,500+ commercial contractors across North America. The data is wild.👇

The top 20% of contractors generate 65% more revenue per tech, move jobs from open to complete 48% faster, and support ~7 techs per back-office FTE. Join our webinar to see the report up close:

Proud to partner with @lumberfi_inc to connect BuildOps field data directly into Lumber’s Canadian payroll engine—giving contractors one connected system from job site to general ledger, with compliance and job costing handled automatically.

Over the last 12 months, monthly active AI users inside BuildOps grew 17x across more than 1,500 commercial contractors 🧵 For example, techs now run 100,000+ equipment nameplate scans in a single month. They take a photo, #OpsAI reads the plate, and the asset record fills in:

Revenue that used to sit in visit notes is finally getting picked up. AI recommendations are viewed 12x more often than a year ago, turning technician notes from completed visits into thousands of new sales opportunities each quarter.

The reason it all sticks: none of this lives in a separate AI app. OpsAI sits in the dispatch board, the visit recap, the invoice, the PO upload — inside the workflows contractors already run — so it feels less like a pilot and more like how the work gets done now.

3 keynote speakers who raised the bar at the biggest event for commercial contractors. Forge has a history of bringing in keynote speakers people talk about long after they leave the stage. And Forge 2026 is about to shift into another gear. Get your tix

We’re proud to welcome retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Will Swenson, Medal of Honor recipient, as a strategic advisor to BuildOps. The trades are building a huge part of this country’s future. The people doing that work deserve a stronger voice.

Will is joining BuildOps to help bring attention to the skilled-labor shortage, champion more pathways for veterans into the trades, and elevate this workforce as a national priority. Read more: