STACK Helps Streamline Your Project Docs and Takeoffs with Cloud-Based Software

For general contractors and subcontractors looking to keep their cash flow moving, the preconstruction process is a key step to winning and growing their business.  The manual processes that many still employ today can be inefficient and segmented within various silos - making true collaboration between all project stakeholders difficult.  STACK Construction Technologies provides cloud-based software that aligns teams throughout this critical planning phase and eliminates the traditionally fragmented and error prone process that contractors often endure.

The overall mission of STACK is simple: create a collaborative environment for general contractors and subcontractors to save time, save money, and grow their business through the preconstruction process. From plan, spec, and document organization, to team collaboration, quantity and material takeoff, and reporting and analytics, STACK offers end-to-end support for all preconstruction tasks.

One of STACK’s most interesting feature sets is its cloud-based quantity and material takeoff tools.  By loading digital plans to their platform, users can simply set the drawing scale, point and click areas of the plans, define materials, and almost instantly have materials quantified for the project.  Customers leveraging STACK software report takeoff processes that can be up to 10 times faster than a more traditional / manual method.

For general contractors, STACK allows solicitation of drawings to bidders, more accurate cost comparisons, and the ability to quickly verify takeoffs for apples-to-apples comparisons. Having takeoff quantities at your fingertips can help GCs easily identify scope misses or other anomalies to help them win the overall bid. In addition, having all of the information in the cloud keeps everyone on the GC’s team and their subcontractors working from the latest set of plans to keep everyone on the same page.

For subcontractors, STACK provides a platform to organize all of the projects their team is bidding on, the quantity and materials takeoff tool to turn their bids around faster than ever, and a database of historical bid information to help analyze their company’s past successes. 

STACK is also integrated with many of the most popular software programs, such as Procore, Microsoft Excel, Dropbox, Dodge Data & Analytics, and SmartBid, just to name a few.  These integrations help reduce double work by transferring the most important data from one platform to the other, greatly reducing those silos of information that plague many companies today.

For more information about STACK, you can check out my interview from Groundbreak 2019 below!