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Everything we’ve published, in one place. Free trade calculators, use-case walkthroughs, industry research, and long-form writeups. No login, no email gate. Designed for field foremen, PMs, supers, AORs, and owner’s reps looking for fast reference material.
Free trade calculators →
30 no-signup calculators across electrical, mechanical, plumbing, structural, concrete, masonry, drywall, paint, framing, and life-safety code-checks. Same logic the bot inside Forward runs over text.
Use-case writeups →
19 detailed walkthroughs of how Forward handles specific field-foreman workflows — RFIs, drawings, submittals, change orders, code lookups, photo identification, observation reports, inspection requests, safety incidents, meeting minutes, spec search, and more.
Industry research →
Sourced overview of where commercial-construction field-tech adoption sits in 2026, drawing on JBKnowledge ConTech Report, Dodge SmartMarket, and our own PM interviews.
Blog: the texting-layer thesis →
Why fifteen years of construction-tech apps haven't moved field-side adoption past 20-35%, what works instead, and why a phone number is the only field interface that has held against the install / abandon cycle.
Blog: building Forward →
Technical write-up: Claude Sonnet 4.6 + a 70-tool catalog + project-disambiguation resolver, the failure modes that took the most time, and how Forward sits on top of Procore + Autodesk + OneDrive without becoming a parallel system of record.
Blog: the Procore lookup tax →
Diary-study quantification of the PM-as-Procore-proxy load: 40-80 lookup texts per PM per day, ~68 effective senior-PM hours per week burned across a 6-PM org, and the wedge that recovers most of it.
All of this is Forward’s reference layer.
The Forward product is a phone number your field crew + PMs text. The bot runs the same calcs you see in /tools, reads from Procore + Autodesk + OneDrive, and replies with cited answers in seconds.