Search your job costs straight from the records that created them
Every charge on a job started as a document — a vendor invoice, a purchase order, a change order, a receipt shot from the cab of a truck. BRAD reads those documents as they come in over email and text, and makes the costs inside them searchable by what they actually are. Ask “what have we spent on concrete?” or “show me everything from this electrician,” and the answer comes back from the records themselves — each line tied to the page it came from, not a spreadsheet someone reconciled three weeks ago.
Every cost traces back to the document that authorized it
A number on a budget line tells you what was spent. It doesn’t tell you who approved it, against which scope, or whether anyone signed off. BRAD keeps that thread intact. Pull up a charge and you’re one click from the invoice it sat on, the PO it was supposed to match, and the change order that made it allowable in the first place.
So when a line shows up that the PM swears was never approved, you don’t argue from memory. You open the charge, follow it back to change order #14, and read the scope and the signature on the page. The document is the source, and the source is always attached.
Pull every cost tied to a vendor or a budget line
BRAD knows that the invoice from the framer, the PO you cut for him in March, and the three field receipts the super texted in are all the same vendor — even when the name is spelled three different ways across three documents. Ask for everything tied to that vendor and you get the full run, not whatever happened to land in one folder.
The same holds for a budget line. “Everything booked against sitework” returns the records — invoices, POs, change orders, receipts — that actually carry that cost, gathered from across the project’s email and texts. You’re searching the documents, so nothing drops out because someone forgot to code it.
Ask “what have we spent on X?” and answer it from the records
Most cost questions won’t wait for the month-end close. The owner wants a number on the call, the super needs to know if there’s room for one more concrete pour, the office is chasing why a line is running over. BRAD answers from the documents already in the job’s record, so the answer is current to the last invoice that came in — not pinned to the last time a spreadsheet got touched.
And because every figure carries its citation, the answer holds up under scrutiny. The number comes with the invoices and tickets that add up to it, so whoever you’re answering to can check the math against the actual pages instead of taking your word for it.
It works over the email and text the costs already arrive on
Receipts, invoices, and approvals don’t show up in a tidy queue. They come in as a photo texted from the field, a PDF forwarded by a sub, a change order buried three replies deep in a thread. BRAD reads them where they land — you forward or copy it the way you already do — and files each one into the cost record without anyone re-keying a line.
No new system to log into, no export-import dance, no asking the field to change how they work. The documents that make up your costs keep flowing the way they always have, and the searchable record builds itself behind them.
Honest about what it is
BRAD is document intelligence for construction cost records — it reads, connects, and answers from the receipts, invoices, POs, and change orders you forward it, always with the source attached. It is not an accounting system, an audit, or a guarantee that a charge is correct or approved; it shows you the document so you can judge that yourself.
Your project’s documents and the cost record built from them belong to you, and each customer’s workspace stays isolated from every other. If you have specific requirements about how your cost data is handled, ask us — we’ll answer plainly rather than point you at a badge.
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Brad connects the plans, contracts, change orders, photos, and conversations on your job into one source of truth. Request a demo and bring a project you want to untangle.