- Money moves between banks in seconds.
- A package is tracked to your door.
- The forecast updates by the minute.
Construction money still runs on paper.
BuildPaid turns construction documents into governed records, and governed records into outcomes: approved, held or released, each with its reason.
- The certificate is a PDF in somebody's inbox.
- The pay app is printed, signed, notarized and scanned.
- The waivers get chased one email at a time.
- The lender finds the problem after the draw is in.
- And everyone waits.
Before BuildPaid: chase documents.After BuildPaid: trust records.
Realityhas enteredthe chat
$540,360 didn’t move.
YouWhy hasn’t Draw 2 been funded?
The OS answers from the record, not from someone’s inbox. The GC, the subs and the lender see the same answer, the same evidence, and what clears the hold.
No account needed. Alexis walks you through a live demonstration project.
- Pay application 2signed by the GC, certified by the architect
- Halcyon Electric · insurancecurrent
- Ironline Shielding & Concrete · insurancecurrent
- Northbay Mechanical · insuranceexpired Oct 23, 2026
- Hold found
due on Draw 2 · $600,400.00 billed, less $60,040.00 retainage
because Northbay Mechanical's insurance expired Oct 23, 2026.
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Billed $600,400.00 · retainage $60,040.00
Pay application 2, period to Oct 14, 2026
GC signed and architect certified Oct 16, 2026 -
The hold is the draw’s own rule, applied to the record
It holds what is due on Draw 2, nothing else -
Paid from Draw 2 with Halcyon Electric and Ironline Shielding & Concrete, whose insurance is current
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Read from the certificate dated Sep 18, 2026
General liability expired Oct 23 · Auto expired Oct 23
Umbrella expired Oct 23 · Workers' comp expired Oct 23
To release
Upload a current certificate for Northbay Mechanical.
Then: Draw 2 has no hold left, and $540,360.00 goes to the lender to decide.
If it is not cleared by Nov 23, 2026, it holds the next draw too.
Inspect the evidence in the demo →Your seat
The fact never changes.
The consequence does.
What’s true
Northbay Mechanical’s insurance expired Oct 23, 2026.
It holds Draw 2: $540,360.00.
A current certificate clears it.
Read from Northbay Mechanical’s own certificate · the same for every seat below
Quarry Hill Health Partners
Billed work on your building isn’t paid, and the clock is running toward the next draw.
- What moves it
- The hold isn’t about the work. Ask your GC for Northbay’s renewal date; the record shows you when it lands.
- What this seat sees
- The whole draw, the hold, and the date it carries to the next one.
The construction lender
You can’t fund Draw 2. Your own rule says active insurance before money is released.
- What moves it
- Fund when the OS reads a current certificate and the checks run clean. Nothing else on the draw is holding.
- What this seat sees
- Every check on the draw, each tied to the page that proves it.
Meridian Vault Builders
Your pay application is stuck on one sub’s certificate, not on the work.
- What moves it
- Get Northbay’s renewed certificate uploaded. The OS reruns Draw 2’s checks the moment it’s read.
- What this seat sees
- Your draw, each sub’s line, and the one thing holding it.
Northbay Mechanical · Halcyon Electric · Ironline Shielding
One certificate stands between every trade on Draw 2 and its payment.
- What moves it
- Northbay’s renewed certificate. Halcyon and Ironline have nothing open; they see the reason and the date instead of chasing the GC.
- What this seat sees
- Its own line, what it waits on, and what clears it. Not the rest of the job.
On Northbay’s line
Your invoice rides on your sub’s payment. If you supply Northbay, your money sits behind its certificate.
- What moves it
- Ship or hold with the real reason in front of you, not a rumor about the job.
- What this seat sees
- Your sub’s line and what holds it. Never the rest of the job.
Northbay’s insurance broker
Your insured’s policies expired Oct 23. No renewal has been read since.
- What moves it
- Issue the renewed certificate. The draw reruns when it’s read.
- What this seat sees
- Your insured’s certificate and the hold it causes.
One record, read once, told to every seat. Each sees what it is party to and nothing more. Demo project, fictional parties; there is no supplier on the demo record, so that seat shows what one on Northbay’s line would see.
Read from a real public bid set
Nobody modeled this building.
BuildPaid read it.
A real set off a public bid: NYC Health + Hospitals, Queens, a home dialysis training center. BuildPaid read sheet A-851, confirmed its number against the set’s own sheet list, and stood its 163 wall runs up on the sheet they came from. No one drew a model. The same read found at least 10 sheets the set’s list names that were never issued.
The model is written as IFC, the open format Revit, Navisworks and Solibri read. Every element carries the sheet it was read from.
Found in the same real set
The set’s own list names sheets nobody issued.
The cover sheet of the Queens bid set lists the drawings that make up the job. BuildPaid read that list, then named every page it was handed. Ten sheets on the list are not in the set, among them the electrical plan for an add alternate. A bidder pricing this set can’t see what those sheets would show.
- M-004AHVACnot in the set
- M-010AHVAC Cellar Floor Demolitionnot in the set
- M-100AHVACnot in the set
- E-100AElectrical Cellar Power Plan · Add. Alt.not in the set
- E-102Electrical 2nd Floor Power Plannot in the set
- E-400AElectrical One Line Diagramnot in the set
- E-402AElectrical Panel Schedulenot in the set
- EN-004Energy Analysisnot in the set
- EN-005Energy Analysisnot in the set
- SP-501Fire Protection Specification Sheetnot in the set
The sheet list read from the set’s cover sheet, G-000, against all 93 pages issued. BuildPaid drafts the question to the architect and asks for them by number. Real public bid set, shown for demonstration only. BuildPaid is not affiliated with the owner or the architect.
Construction doesn’t have a paperwork problem.It has a truth problem
Everybody has the documents.
Nobody has the same answer.
The drawings know. The specs know. The contracts know.
After 25 years in construction, one question kept coming back: if the truth is already in the records, why does everyone reach a different answer?
BuildPaid is my answer.
Tomorrow, from the record · fictional demo job, live
Change one fact.Watch everything that depends on it.
Nothing here is predicted. The job’s record, the live forecast and the OS’s rules, run forward.
Subinsurance
Concreteconcrete
Draw
Next draw
Fundinglender
- Cause
- Impact
- Reach
Alexis · from the job’s record
The record’s own words
Tap a fact to see everything it reaches.
Why, line by line
Drawn from the record, not filmed. Nothing here predicts what people will do. How this is made
The picture is drawn from the record, not filmed: each party’s work carries its own light, and the light along the hoarding is the draw’s money. Every change is a date already on the job’s record, the forecast the OS read for the site, or a rule run forward on them. Nothing here predicts what people will do. Past the forecast, the weather is not read. Money the rain moves is the schedule’s reach at the next draw, not what anyone will bill. A changed fact is simulated and nothing is sent; a renewal lifts a hold, it does not stop the rain, and the verdict still decides what funds.
Why lenders can trust the answer.
If it can't prove it, it can't pass it.
Anything the OS can't tie to a document goes to review, never to clear.
Not read is never called missing.
If the OS hasn't read something, it says so. It never claims a document lacks what it didn't look for.
The OS drafts. You send.
Requests are written from the records and handed to you. Nothing goes out in your name on its own.
The payment won’t bounce.
Every payee is checked against the ISO 20022 address format the bank will require, before the money moves.
The record decides.
A verdict comes from checks against documents, not from a score or a model's opinion. You can open every step.
The record decides.Alexis explains why
She holds no opinions. She reads the record back to you: what is holding the money, what it rests on, and what will hold it next, with the document behind every word. She never decides anything. The record does.
You
Proof →
- DocumentNorthbay Mechanical’s certificateend date printed: Oct 23, 2026
- RuleActive insurance before money movesapplies to every draw
- FindingThe insurance expiredgoverned fact
- OutcomeDraw 2 held$540,360 waits for the cure
You
Potential holdNo hold ahead225 days remain · affects the first draw checked on or after it · responsible: Ironline (or its broker)A renewal is on the record, so that clock no longer runs.
The demo’s real record. The Next scene shows what happens if Ironline Shielding & Concrete’s renewal is read before its Jun 15, 2027 end date; in the demo, that clock is still running.
What changed?
Everything recorded on the job since yesterday, last week or a date you name. Money that moved is kept apart from decisions that moved none.
What is holding the money?
Every hold, ranked by what moves money first, with its proof, how long it has stood and who acts. Ask why, and she shows the chain from the document to the hold.
What can hold it next?
Dates already on the record become clocks: when a certificate ends, which draw it reaches and who is responsible. When nothing is coming, she says so.
Facts, not blame.
She says what the record shows: “No certificate the OS has read since shows a renewal.” She names no one as late unless the record shows they were told.
In the trailer or on the deck.
The whole OS runs on a phone: Alexis’s briefing of what changed and who acts, the situation, the certificate and the Fix this path, with nothing to install. Open it from the field and see exactly what's holding the money.
Good evening.
Welcome to the BuildPaid OS.
Schedule · Harbor Clinic Fit-Out (DEMO)’s finish moved Tue, Nov 24 → Mon, Nov 30.
Owner The GCOPENDraw record · Quarry Hill Oncology LINAC Replacement (DEMO) draw 2 is waiting on your decision: $540,360.00 net
Owner The lender · Cure Decide on the verdictDECIDELicense · A license arrived naming Ironline Concrete Holdings LLC, not Ironline Shielding & Concrete; it is not counted
Owner Ironline Shielding & ConcreteOPEN
Put your next job on BuildPaid.
We're onboarding a small group of founding pilot jobs: GCs, lenders and owners who want every draw governed from day one. Bring one job and we'll run it end to end with you.
The demo runs fictional parties through the live OS. BuildPaid is not yet SOC 2 certified; our security posture is published in Resources.
Founding pilot
- One real job, from drawings and contract to pay apps, waivers and insurance
- Every draw governed, with the hold, the reason and the fix on one record
- Direct line to the founder while we build it around your job
Stop chasing paper.Start making it
BuildPaid clears the draw so the work gets paid.