Roughgrade helps construction and trades companies fix the layer between the office and the jobsite — untracked rework, crews waiting on information, schedules that slip quietly — and puts practical AI to work on it. Built by someone from the trades, not a boardroom.
Your margin doesn't disappear on the spreadsheet. It disappears in the field — in the gaps most systems never see, and nobody puts a number on.
Work done twice, paid for once — and rarely measured, so it never gets fixed.
Idle hours lost to missing information, materials, or the next work front.
Jobs drift for weeks before the office finds out — usually at month-end.
Daily logs get filled out and filed, but never drive a single decision.
Procore or CMiC bought and paid for — and worked around from the field side.
Start with an honest look at the field. Then fix what's leaking — with hands-on systems, practical AI, and the training your leaders need.
A bounded diagnostic of how work actually flows in the field. We walk your jobs, ride along with your supers and foremen, and hand you an honest picture — with dollar figures attached.
Hands-on execution of the roadmap: production tracking, short-interval planning, field-tech rescue — plus practical AI on the real choke points like dispatch, job costing, estimating, and reporting.
Develop the foremen and superintendents every firm is short of: planning the day before it starts, running the lookahead, and the documentation that protects you when a job goes sideways.
We work around your crews, never in their way — early mornings when the site is live, evenings for analysis.
We agree on scope and pull the last 30–60 days of daily reports, schedules, and cost reports.
Jobsite walks, ride-alongs, and short interviews with your PMs, supers, and foremen.
We compare what the paperwork says against what the field is actually doing.
Findings, dollars, and a prioritized roadmap — presented straight to your leadership.
Your foremen talk to us because we speak their language — and what they tell us is usually worth more than the reports.
We make the tools you already own work from the field side. We're independent — we don't sell you someone else's software.
Every issue is quantified — what it costs you, and why it happens. You get a decision, not a lecture.
Fixed scope, clear deliverables. The assessment stands on its own — even if you never call us again.
Roughgrade was founded and is led by Andrew Kispert, whose background in civil construction and field operations shapes everything the company does. He built Roughgrade to address the operational layer where construction projects most often lose margin — the daily flow of work between the office and the jobsite.
Most construction consultancies are led by finance and strategy professionals who have never managed field operations. Roughgrade takes the opposite approach: operationally grounded, fluent in how work actually gets built, and focused on production, planning, and field-to-office data — paired with practical AI in an industry that has been slow to adopt it.
Book a free 60-minute field-ops teardown for your leadership team, or just start a conversation. No pitch, no obligation.