The draw that ate two evenings, assembled before coffee
Camber & Crown is a light commercial contractor we invented, followed from a Friday plan drop to the draw on the 25th.
Before: two nights every month
The owner sat at the kitchen table matching logs, waivers and photos to the schedule of values.
Now: two minutes overnight
The draw builds itself from records the crews already keep.
A front door for facilities directors
A facilities director arrives with a plan set in hand. Each part of this one has a job, noted beside it.
The plan drop sits in the bar
Drop your plans sits beside the phone number, so nobody has to scroll to start a bid.
The hero starts a bid
One field takes the project, square feet and due date, and opens a bid file instead of phone tag.
Services that read like a scope sheet
Four lines, each written the way an owner scopes the job.
Proof from the people who sign
The quotes come from property managers and owner reps, because they sign the next contract.
The footer closes the loop
Towns served, licensed and bonded, and the plan drop once more for the reader who scrolled to the end.
- Build-outs
- Ground-up
- Structural
- Design-build
Built plumb, billed square
Tenant build-outs and light commercial turned over on the date we said, with a project record that proves every line. Drop your plans and get a real answer, fast.
Attach a plan set and hear back the same day. Or call (630) 555-0177
Scope sheet
- Tenant build-outsOffice, retail, and medical suites turned over on the date we said
- Ground-up light commercialFrom pad to punch list with our own supers on site
- Additions & structural workSteel, masonry, and rough carpentry we self-perform
- Design-build deliveryOne contract, one team, one schedule that holds
When our bank wanted backup, it was already in the packet
Property manager, Oak BrookEvery change signed before the work happened. No surprises
Walt N., owner’s rep, ElmhurstPlans on Friday, site walked with questions by Tuesday
Facilities director, Downers Grove
The paperwork is square before anybody asks for it.
Behind the bid, the paperwork
It reads plan sheets and field texts into the job file and works out the retainage on each draw for the office to check.
A bid file before the estimator is out of the truck
A facilities director drops a plan set for a medical suite. The sheets are read for scope, trades and the due date, and a bid file opens with a checklist per trade.
The deadline was on the bid board before the weekend started.
Plan drop
What arrived
Medical suite build-out, 4,800 square feet, plans attached.
Bid due the 14th. Walkthrough available next week.
Facilities director, Downers Grove.
What the sheets said
Plan drop
- Scope
- Medical suite, 4,800 sq ft
- Trades
- Demo, framing, MEP, finishes
- Due
- The 14th, on the bid board
- Takeoff
- A checklist per trade
- Bid file open for the estimatorNot buried in an email thread
The daily log writes itself one text at a time
Foremen text a photo or a voice note at the end of the day. Each is filed to the right job’s log, and anything that looks wrong goes to the project manager.
The daily log now costs the foreman one text, not an evening.
Texts from the field
- Daily log, north wall framedOak Brook suite
- Photo, north wall, by date and areaOak Brook suite
- Daily log, deck poured, crew of sixAddison ground-up
- Photo, crack at the slab edgeTo the PM
Two daily logs filedThe crack went to the project manager before the next pour
The change order that cannot get lost
A client emails for two more outlets and a moved door. It becomes change order 014, linked to that email and unbuilt until someone signs.
Extra work is a signed line item now, never a favor someone forgot.
CO-014, Oak Brook suite
Drafted
- Scope
- Two duplex outlets, door moved 30 inches
- Asked in
- The client’s 10:04 email
- Schedule
- Two field days after rough-in
- On signature
- Added to the schedule of values
The draw assembles itself
Overnight on the 25th, the month’s daily logs set percent complete against the schedule of values. Retainage is worked out and every sub’s lien waiver is checked.
The owner reads it once and sends it before the first truck leaves.
Month end, the draw builds
- 2:00 amPercent complete from 22 logsProgress
- 2:01 amSet against the schedule of valuesMatched
- 2:01 amRetainage worked outDone
- 2:02 amLien waivers in from every subChecked
- 2:02 amCO-014 includedReady
Squared by 7:00The pay app, in the owner’s inbox
Pay application, Oak Brook suite
Ready to send
- This period
- Framing, MEP rough-in, CO-014
- Retainage
- Held at the contract rate
- Waivers
- One from every sub on site
- Backup
- A photo behind every line
Built plumb, billed square
Start from how your crews close out a job
A person reads every request and replies within one business day.
Start a project
We fit the build to that, waivers and retainage included. Your schedule of values is where we begin.