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What Cornerstone does not do

No BIM or model coordination
We read sheets. If your job is modelled and clash detection belongs against the model, that is Autodesk.
No accounting integration yet
Exports are CSV today. If your books have to stay in lockstep with the job automatically, this is the gap that matters most, and we would rather you hear it here.
No native mobile app, no offline
Responsive web. The field never opens it anyway: they text a photo to a number.
No sheet markup
No redlining, no overlays. Keep Bluebeam.
No warranty or service module
The year after closeout is Buildertrend's, honestly.
No timecards, no equipment tracking
Keep whatever you use. We are not trying to be everything.
No meetings or QA checklist builder
On the roadmap. Not in the product.
No full CPM scheduler
A three-week look-ahead resequenced nightly. It does not replace P6.
No integration marketplace
An API is planned, not shipped.

Who each of these actually is

Cornerstone

A crew of agents that works your jobs overnight and hands you one report at 5am.

Built for: GCs running TI, medical, retail and light industrial. Custom builders and remodelers.
Priced: Flat monthly by active job count. Setup once. Model spend capped and published.
Seats: Unlimited. Your whole office, including the bookkeeper who logs in twice a month.
Sub accounts: None, ever. Subs answer a text or forward an email to the job address.
Strongest at: It does the work rather than storing it. Nothing else on this page drafts the RFI, chases the certificate or catches the duplicate line on its own.

Procore

The commercial construction platform of record. Broad, mature, deeply integrated.

Built for: Commercial GCs, owners and specialty contractors, small to enterprise.
Priced: Annual, priced against your construction volume, with modules bought separately.
Seats: Unlimited users on your own team.
Sub accounts: Free collaborator accounts, but a sub still has to create one and log in to use them.
Strongest at: Breadth and ecosystem. Hundreds of integrations, a serious mobile app with offline, and a decade of hardening. If you need one system that touches everything and connects to everything, this is the one.

Autodesk Build

Construction management sitting on top of the Autodesk design stack.

Built for: GCs and owners whose projects are modelled, and anyone already living in Revit.
Priced: Per-user subscription, sold in packs.
Seats: Per named user.
Sub accounts: Collaborators are invited users.
Strongest at: Model coordination. If your job is built in Revit and clash detection needs to happen against the model rather than the sheets, nothing here competes with it.

Buildertrend

The residential standard: scheduling, selections, client communication and invoicing.

Built for: Custom home builders, remodelers and specialty residential contractors.
Priced: Monthly tiers per company, with the higher tiers unlocking financials.
Seats: Unlimited internal users on most tiers.
Sub accounts: Subs and clients get portal logins.
Strongest at: Residential workflow depth and the client portal. Selections, warranty, invoicing and homeowner communication in one place, built by people who know remodels. CoConstruct is now part of the same company.

Fieldwire, Raken and the like

Field-first point tools: plans in a pocket, tasks, punch, daily reports.

Built for: Superintendents and field crews who want one job done well.
Priced: Per user, monthly, with a usable free tier.
Seats: Per named user.
Sub accounts: Invited users.
Strongest at: Field usability. Fast, offline, and a foreman will actually open it. If the only problem you have is getting current plans and punch into the field, a point tool beats a platform.

Spreadsheets, email and a binder

What most of the industry actually runs on.

Built for: Almost everybody, including plenty of companies who also pay for one of the above.
Priced: Free, plus whatever the misses cost you.
Seats: Unlimited.
Sub accounts: None.
Strongest at: Zero adoption friction and infinite flexibility. It is the incumbent you are really competing with, and it never has an outage.

Section 1 of 3

Records the work

Table stakes. Every platform here does most of this, and where we do not, it says so. If this section were the whole comparison you should buy Procore.

Capability	Cornerstone	Procore	Autodesk Build	Buildertrend	Fieldwire, Raken and the like	Spreadsheets, email and a binder
Drawing set and current-revision controlEverybody has to know which sheet is current.	Yes	Yes	Yes	PartlyDocuments and plans, lighter than a commercial set manager.	YesThis is what field tools are best at.	No
Sheet markup and overlayRedlining in the field.	NoWe read sheets, we do not draw on them. Use Bluebeam or a field tool for markup.	Yes	Yes	Partly	Yes	No
BIM and model coordinationClash detection against a model rather than sheets.	NoNo. If your job is modelled, Autodesk is the answer here.	Yes	Yes	No	Partly	No
RFI log	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	No
Submittal log and lead-time tracking	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Change orders and change events	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partly
Daily logs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Punch list	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Photos, filed against the job	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Document storage	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Yes
Meeting minutes	NoNo. On the roadmap, not in the product.	Yes	Yes	Partly	No	Partly
Inspections and QA/QC checklists	NoNo. Inspection cards are filed, but there is no checklist builder.	Yes	Yes	Partly	Yes	Partly
Safety incidents and OSHA 300	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly	Partly
ScheduleLook-ahead or full Gantt.	PartlyThree-week look-ahead, resequenced nightly. Not a full CPM scheduler, and it does not replace P6.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Budget and job cost	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partly
Pay applications, AIA G702 and G703	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	No	Partly
Lien waiver collection	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	No	Partly
Certified payroll and prevailing wage	Yes	Yes	Partly	No	No	Partly
Selections and allowancesResidential lives or dies here.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Partly
Bank draw packages	Yes	Partly	No	Yes	No	Partly
Warranty and service after closeout	NoNo. Buildertrend is genuinely better at the year after the job ends.	Partly	No	Yes	No	Partly
Estimating and takeoff	PartlyQuantities off the set and bid levelling, yes. A full estimating database with assemblies, no.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partly
Time tracking and timecards	NoNo. Keep whatever you use.	Yes	Partly	Yes	Yes	Partly
Accounting integrationQuickBooks, Sage, Foundation, Viewpoint.	NoNot yet, and this is the honest gap that matters most. Exports are CSV today. Say so out loud rather than let it surface after signing.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Integration marketplace	NoNo marketplace. An API is planned, not shipped.	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	No
Native mobile app with offline	NoResponsive web, not a native app, and no offline mode. The field does not need one because the field never opens it: they text a photo to a number.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

does it partly, or a piece of it does not

Section 2 of 3

Does the work

This is the section the sheet exists for. Everything above stores what a person already did. Everything below is work that happened without a person doing it. No competitor on this page claims any row here, and that is not a knock on them: it is a different product category.

Capability	Cornerstone	Procore	Autodesk Build	Buildertrend	Fieldwire, Raken and the like	Spreadsheets, email and a binder
Reads the whole drawing set for cross-discipline conflicts, nightlyNot a model clash report you run. A sweep of every sheet issued since the last one, every night.	Yes	No	PartlyClash detection against a model, when a model exists and somebody runs it.	No	No	No
Drafts the RFI off the conflict it foundWith the sheet and detail already referenced, and the response date set from the pour rather than a default.	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Chases lapsing certificates, licenses and waivers without being askedSweeps every sub on every job nightly and sends the chase before it lapses.	Yes	PartlyTracks expiry and can notify. It does not write and send the chase.	No	PartlyTracks expiry. Same distinction.	No	No
Catches a duplicate or wrong line on a pay applicationCompares this application against the schedule of values and every prior application.	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Watches contract notice clocks and warns before entitlement is lostReads your contract once, then never forgets the 14-day window.	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Prices a change off your own contract unit rates	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Writes the daily log from photos, voice notes and the crew threadNobody types it.	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Resequences the look-ahead for weather and tells the trades	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Assembles the bank draw package and waits for a signature	Yes	No	No	PartlyGives you the pieces. You assemble the package.	No	No
Flags an allowance overrun at the moment of the pickBefore the order, when it is still a decision rather than a fight.	Yes	No	No	PartlyTracks allowance totals. Does not warn you at pick time.	No	No
Drafts the reply to the owner with the pricing already attached	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
One report at 5am instead of a notification streamThe measure of a good day with this product is how little you touch it.	Yes	No	No	No	No	No

does it partly, or a piece of it does not

Section 3 of 3

Adoption, price and exit

The three things that decide whether software that looked good in a demo is still being used in March.

Capability	Cornerstone	Procore	Autodesk Build	Buildertrend	Fieldwire, Raken and the like	Spreadsheets, email and a binder
Subcontractors need an accountThe single biggest reason construction software stalls after month two.	YesNever. A sub answers a text or emails the job address.	PartlyFree collaborator accounts, but they still create one and log in.	Partly	PartlySub and client portals.	Partly	YesNo accounts, which is exactly why the industry still runs on it.
Your field crew needs an app	YesNo. One phone number. Text a photo, leave a voicemail, forward an email.	Partly	Partly	Partly	Partly	Yes
Unlimited internal seats	Yes	Yes	NoPer named user.	Yes	NoPer named user.	Yes
Price is knowable before a sales call	YesPrinted on the website. Same number in the checkout.	NoQuoted against your construction volume.	Partly	Yes	Yes	Yes
Price does not rise as your volume rises	YesPriced by active jobs, not by what those jobs are worth.	NoVolume-based by design.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Every automated action is on an audit trail with a name against it	YesEvery model call is a row with the tokens and the cost. Every message a person approved.	Partly	Partly	Partly	Partly	No
Model spend is capped and the cap is visible to youAsk any AI feature vendor what last month cost and watch what happens.	Yes	No	No	No	No	Not applicable
One-click export of every register	YesNine CSVs, nothing watermarked or held back on a lower plan.	Partly	Partly	Partly	Partly	Yes
You can buy the whole thing and run it yourselfStewardship over extraction.	YesThe Hand Off tier transfers the repository, the database, the domain and the operating knowledge. It is a product we sell, not a threat we tolerate.	No	No	No	No	Yes
Implementation measured in days rather than months	YesTwenty minutes of intake, first report within two mornings.	No	No	Partly	Yes	Yes

does it partly, or a piece of it does not

When you should buy one of theirs

We would rather lose a deal we should lose than spend six months failing a company we should never have sold.

Buy Procore

You need one platform that touches everything and connects to everything.

Hundreds of integrations, a hardened offline mobile app, an owner-side product, and a decade of enterprise deployment behind it. If you have an accounting system that has to stay in lockstep and a compliance department that needs modules we do not build, buy Procore. We will still be worth running alongside it.

Buy Autodesk Build

Your projects are modelled and coordination happens against the model.

We read sheets. If your team lives in Revit and clash detection belongs in the model, nothing we do replaces that.

Buy Buildertrend

The homeowner relationship and the year after closeout are the whole job.

Warranty, service tickets, homeowner invoicing and a portal built for people who like portals. We do not do warranty at all yet.

Buy A field tool

Your only real problem is current plans and punch in the field.

Fieldwire or Raken will solve that for a fraction of anything on this page, today, and a foreman will actually open it.

Buy Spreadsheets

You run two jobs a year and you have never eaten a change order.

Then the honest answer is that you do not have the problem this product solves, and we would rather say so now than sell you a subscription you cancel in April.

Every product on this page is a filing cabinet. This one is a crew.

The question is not which system stores your RFIs best. It is whether an RFI gets written at all on the night a clash appears on sheet A-402, whether the certificate gets chased on the ninth day rather than the day after it lapses, and whether anybody adds up the lighting picks before the order goes in. Those things do not happen because software recorded them. They happen because somebody did them, and at two in the morning nobody is doing them.

Compiled 2026-08-18 from each vendor’s published materials. Modules, pricing and packaging change, and every one of these companies ships continuously, so verify anything here that would change your decision before you sign. If we have a row wrong, tell us and we will correct it on this page rather than argue about it in a meeting.

Put it on a job.

Twenty minutes of intake and the crew starts working your job this week. We load your subs, ingest your drawing set, and the first 5am report lands within two mornings. Setup plus a monthly tier, cancel any month. If it does not catch something you would have eaten, cancel and you have learned that.

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