The schedule
Every item in the scope becomes an activity with a duration, something in front of it and a trade on it. Forward pass and backward pass, so you get real float and a real critical path — not a list of tasks in the order they were typed.
For estimators, and the people who then have to build it
Your tender package, read and sequenced.
NextSchedule reads the scope of work and the drawings in a tender package and hands back a sequenced schedule, trade by trade — with the work marked by others pulled out, and a check against the completion time the contract actually demands.
3 tenders, no card, nothing to cancel.
Example outputLift station upgrade · 7 of 94 activities
| Activity | Trade | Days | Start | Finish | Float |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Award and mobilization | Prime contractor | 5 | 20 Apr | 24 Apr | 0 |
| Shoring and excavation | Earthworks | 12 | 27 Apr | 12 May | 0 |
| Dewatering set-up | Mechanical | 3 | 27 Apr | 29 Apr | 9 |
| Base slab formwork | Concrete | 6 | 13 May | 20 May | 0 |
| Base slab pour | Concrete | 1 | 21 May | 21 May | 0 |
| Conduit cast into slab | Electrical | 4 | 14 May | 19 May | 4 |
| Wetwell piping rough-in | Piping | 9 | 22 May | 3 Jun | 2 |
Printed on top of the real thing: This schedule was built from scope of work and tender documents only. No drawings were issued at time of schedule creation.
What comes back
The exclusions list
Anything the documents hand to somebody else is pulled out and listed on its own, with the line it came from. You price what is actually yours, and you can show the owner why.
The completion check
The documents say how many days you get. The schedule says how many days it takes. When those two disagree you find out while you are still pricing it, not at the pre-construction meeting.
A schedule per trade
One view per trade, with that trade's work and the handoffs either side of it. That is what you send a sub when you ask them to price their part.
How the money works
Two charges, kept separate on purpose. You never pay for the job side of a job you did not win.
While you are bidding
From $299/month · CAD
Banded by how many estimators you have, not by how many tenders they read. Price as many as you like. Bid them, win them, lose them — the price does not move.
Once you have won it
$149/month · per live job
This is the half the superintendent uses: the daily screen, work packages with the tools and materials on them, the baseline, the narrative and progress from the field. It starts when the first payment clears and it stops the day you close the job.
Ticking we won it does not open anything. It raises the invoice and asks who the project manager is. The job side opens when the payment clears — and we tell you 28 days before any card is ever charged again.
All the bands and what is in themWhat it will not do
- It does not invent dates. If a document cannot be read, it says which one and stops — because a contractor who bids off made-up dates is worse off than one who got no answer.
- It does not quietly drop work. Anything it is unsure about comes back as a question with the exact line it came from, so you make the call instead of finding out on site.
- It does not hold your records. Close a job, cancel, stop paying — the schedule as you bid it, the baseline, the narrative and every change recorded against it stay readable, for nothing.
- It does not share what it learns from your tenders. Correct a trade once and it stays corrected for your company and nobody else's.
Put a tender you are actually bidding through it.
That is the only test worth anything. 3 packages, no card on file, and the schedules you build stay readable whatever you decide afterwards.
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