jordan653•18d agoProlific Poster

Walked onto a job site in Phoenix last Tuesday and watched a foreman flip between 7 different apps just to check the day's schedule

I was there doing a quick consult and this guy had Procore open for one thing, PlanGrid for drawings, some random text chain for change orders, and then he pulls out a paper clipboard for his daily log. It was a total mess. He told me he spends about 45 minutes every morning just syncing info between all these platforms. How is that still normal in 2024? Does anyone actually have a streamlined system where their software actually talks to each other, or are we all just stuck using a dozen tools that do the same thing?

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cole_bailey8518d agoTop Commenter

Set up a simple integration using Zapier or Make to bridge your main systems. I had a similar mess on a job in Tucson and got it down to Procore and one shared Google Sheet that auto updates from texts and emails. Took a Saturday to set up but saves that 45 minutes every morning. The key is picking one tool as the source of truth and making everything else just copy to it.

fisher.diana18d ago

My brother-in-law tried something similar with a home remodeling project and it turned into a mess of duplicate entries.