ConTechFinder

Follow-up to the 570 milestone. The thing nobody told me before I started: most construction software is not built for the people doing construction. It's built for the office staff who manage the people doing construction. That's why 55% of these tools refuse to publish a price (they want to qualify your company size first), and why 55% still expect a superintendent to use a laptop on a muddy site instead of a phone. The gap is solo operators. 9% of the market serves them, and three full categories serve none of them at all. If you're a solo estimator bidding small commercial work in Preconstruction, BIM, or Takeoff, the market gives you nothing built for your size. That's the opening. Anyone building for the one-person construction shop has an empty category waiting.

Quick milestone for ConTechFinder. The directory just crossed 570 construction software tools across 15 categories, every one added by hand. No scraping, no AI summaries of vendor copy. I open every product page, check pricing, test the mobile app, and read enough of the feature list to know who it's actually built for. The data from doing this at volume turned into a free market report on contechfinder.com. Five numbers worth knowing if you sell or buy construction software: 55% of vendors hide their pricing 45% have a mobile app 9% target solo operators Three categories have zero solo options Project Management has 45 tools, the largest of any category Free to list your tool if it belongs.