Forward for electrical contractors

What electrical subs actually deal with

You’re running 5-50 active projects at any given time. The GC’s PM doesn’t add your foremen to their Procore account. Your field crew works off paper sets, phone screenshots, and screenshots-of-screenshots that are two revisions behind. Every “what’s the right conductor size” question routes through your PM, who is on three other calls.

The math is brutal: a single misrouted RFI on a $15M electrical scope can cost you 40 hours of field labor before the clarification lands. Procore-side data exists for that RFI; your foreman just can’t reach it.

What Forward does for electrical

Forward connects to the GC’s Procore + Autodesk Construction Cloud accounts (via standard OAuth grants the GC already issues to plenty of vendors). Your foreman texts a phone number you control. Forward looks up the answer in the GC’s data, cites the source, and texts it back.

Specific electrical workflows covered out of the box:

• Wire size / circuit sizing — text the load + voltage, get NEC 310-compliant sizing back with code citation. NEC 310.16 table values, voltage drop check, ampacity adjustments for ambient temp.
• Panel schedules — send me the panel schedule for level 3 east pulls the latest PDF from the GC’s drawings folder.
• Riser diagrams — show me A-301 returns the sheet thumbnail + PDF in iMessage with the latest revision number.
• RFI status — what did RFI 142 say pulls the GC-issued response and posts it back, cited to the RFI ID.
• Submittal status — is 26 05 13 approved returns the current ball-in- court, approval status, due date.
• Draft an RFI from the field — foreman texts draft RFI: conduit conflict between A-201 ceiling grid and S-201 beam at C-12. Forward composes the RFI and queues it for your PM to approve before it posts to Procore.
• Daily-log time tracking — crew text their hours and craft codes; Forward fills the daily log field-by-field.

Why this is different for sub-contractors

Most construction software was designed for the GC. Procore was built for the GC’s PM. Autodesk Build was built for the architect’s coordinator. Field-collaboration apps assume the user is logged into the project’s organization.

As a sub, you don’t have that login. You read the GC’s data through their portal at best. Forward is the first construction tool we’ve seen that’s comfortable straddling the GC-sub boundary — your foremen text your phone number, Forward authenticates via the OAuth grant your project executive negotiated with the GC, and the data flows.

Onboarding new tradespeople

Your apprentices and journeymen change project assignments constantly. The standard onboarding move — “here’s your Procore login, install the app, log in” — doesn’t happen because they don’t have a Procore login. You’re a sub.

Forward onboarding: add the new tradesperson’s phone number to the project from your foreman’s dashboard. That’s it. No login, no app, no IT ticket. Their first text gets a personalized welcome from the bot.

The 90% / 10% rule

90% of the questions your foremen ask all day are answerable from data that already exists in the GC’s Procore + Autodesk + their drawings folder. Forward gets those answers to your field crew without involving your PM.

10% of questions are genuinely new — a real clarification, a conflict that needs an RFI, a coordination question between trades. Forward drafts the RFI/issue/email and routes it to your PM’s approval queue.

Net effect: your PM’s 100-text/day inbox becomes a 10-text/day approval queue. Every other answer was already in the data; the bot just delivered it.

How to try it

Text +1 (682) 300-6750 with size #6 wire for 60 amp. Live demo project returns the NEC-cited answer + voltage drop check.

For pricing scoped to a sub running 5-50 active projects, drop your email above and we’ll send the relevant tier.