Today
Buyout sheets live in email while job cost still shows last month's budget.
Bid it · on Pinnacle Office
Takeoff on the drawing. Every measurement becomes a quantity line in the estimate.
Your whole office in one package.
PINNACLE PRECON
Bid it.
Take it off the drawings and build the number you will sell.
Real Pinnacle screen · sample company and data
Autoplay is on. Hero panels change every few seconds.
Sound familiar?
Takeoff in one program, pricing in a spreadsheet, billing somewhere else.
Pick your trade. These are the everyday problems from our General Contractor page, and where each one lands in Pinnacle Office.
Today
Self-perform and sub bills never share one view against the sold number.
Build it · on Pinnacle Office
Purchase orders, bills, AP and AR post to the job and its cost codes.
Today
Owner change orders update the field log but not WIP or the schedule of values.
Build it · on Pinnacle Office
Log added scope on the job and the sold number moves with it, so extras get billed instead of forgotten.
Today
Executive view of live jobs is a slide deck, not the books.
Close the books · on Pinnacle Office
WIP and job P&L sit in the books next to journals and the trial balance.
Illustrative trade situations, not customer data or quotes.
How a job moves through Pinnacle
One job, entered once.
The takeoff becomes the estimate. The bid you win becomes a live job. Cost, change orders, pay apps, crew hours and the books all post to that same job.
Step 1 · Bid it
Take it off the drawings.
Open the plan set, measure lengths and areas, and count items right on the sheet. Every measurement becomes a quantity line in the estimate.
Pinnacle Precon →Real Pinnacle screen · sample company and data
Step 2 · Win it
Build the number you will sell.
Assemblies from your own parts and cost codes. Every project you're chasing sits on one bid board, and the bid you win carries straight into a live job.
Pinnacle Precon →
Real Pinnacle screen · sample company and data
Step 3 · Build it
Job cost against the estimate.
Purchase orders, bills, AP and AR post to the job and its cost codes. See what's committed and what's spent while the work is still going.
Pinnacle Cost Control →
Real Pinnacle screen · sample company and data
Step 4 · Bill it
AIA pay apps from the job.
Build the G702 / G703 pay application from the job you already set up, with the schedule of values right there.
Pinnacle AIA Billing →AIA, G702 and G703 are trademarks of The American Institute of Architects; no affiliation or endorsement implied.
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Step 5 · Pay the crew
Hours that post labor to the job.
Post crew hours (straight, overtime, double time) and run payroll from them. Built today for a single shop.
Pinnacle Payroll →
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Step 6 · Close the books
Every job on one desk.
Making-and-spending charts, plus billed, leftover and job mix, pulled from your job files. WIP and job P&L sit in the books next to journals and the trial balance.
Pinnacle Office →
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What's in Pinnacle
Every module the office runs on.
Eleven modules, from the first drawing to the closed books, all in one package. Open any module to see every feature that is ready today, and what is coming in Early access.
Take the guided tour: one job from the plan sheet to payday, on six real screens
Take the drawings off, price them and build the estimate in one place.
Ready today
- Takeoff from PDF, image or Excel plan sheets
- Count, measure, pipe and wire runs on the sheet
- Symbol key with auto-count and an accuracy check
- Compare drawing revisions with an overlay
- Set the scale from a known length or the sheet
All 11 features
- Assemblies and shop kits that explode into parts
- Labor units and labor factors you can edit
- Parts catalog, distributor and manufacturer lists
- Material prices three ways: your supply houses, your own pricing-service account, or the built-in online price search
- Vendor price book compare with margin impact on open estimates
- Export the takeoff as CSV or Excel
Early access
- AI takeoff counts that you review
- Trade content packs for every trade
Every job in one hub, from the first drawing to the closeout file.
Ready today
- Project hub with overview, team and similar past work
- Drawings, revisions and what each addendum added
- Device counts, materials with waste, systems and phases
- Scope: inclusions, exclusions and assumptions
- Extras and add-alternates kept outside the base bid
All 12 features
- RFI and submittal logs
- Job photos from the phone
- Job file sections for specs, addenda, POs and pay apps
- Activity log and risk flags
- Mark an estimate won to open the job with the next number
- Bid emails filed from a jobs@ mailbox
- Project manager desk
From the invitation to the number you turn in.
Ready today
- Bid board of forwarded invitations
- Bid Day workbook: markup, overhead, profit, bond and permits
- Lock the bid for submission
- Bid recap with what-if and bid hours vs posted hours
- Freeze the bid onto Cost Control
All 9 features
- Buyout: compare supplier quotes and create the PO
- Bid package PDF with a crew estimate
- Proposal builder and archive
- Bid calendar on the dashboard
Early access
- Freeze a bid and compare it to live prices
- Assemble GC bid packages
Know where every job stands against the bid, every day.
Ready today
- Job Center: bid, posted, remaining and phase production
- Purchase orders count as committed; receiving posts material
- Change orders that freeze onto the job
- T&M tickets signed in the field
- Vendors, payables, receivables and customers
All 11 features
- Match vendor invoices to open POs and flag price drift
- Invoice inbox that proposes the job folder
- Job review that catches duplicates
- Insights: bid vs actual, crew mix and company health
- Dispatch board for who is on which job
- Service flat-rate book
Early access
- Cost to complete on each job
- Change-order impact on the original bid
- Job scheduling board
Pay apps from the schedule of values, and the cash desk behind them.
Ready today
- AIA G702/G703-style pay apps on every job
- Stored materials and close the period
- Post the pay app: billed, retainage and what the GC still owes
- Retainage tracked on billing and aging
- AR billing, cash receipts, AR and AP aging
All 9 features
- AP invoices, payments and a 1099 report
- Cash desk: bank books, Positive Pay and vendor ACH files
- Payroll ACH with a second login to release it
- Lien waiver and pay app templates
Early access
- Take ACH or card on AR invoices
- Flag COI expiry and missing lien waivers
Hours from the field, payroll in the office, one book.
Ready today
- Hours from your phone: My Day, clock in, ST, OT and DT
- Phone app on the home screen, with Microsoft sign-in
- Paper time slips photographed to the office queue
- Payroll Center: checks, stubs and week totals
- Certified payroll WH-347 with the statement of compliance
All 11 features
- Union ST, OT, DT and fringes by local, with remittance print
- Phone vs office hours exceptions
- Deductions and garnishments
- Year-to-date hours and earnings
- SSNs and bank numbers encrypted and masked
- Payroll, built today for a single shop
Early access
- Lock payroll when the period closes, for any shop
- Prevailing wage burden on job cost
- Clock in by GPS near the job site
WIP, job P&L and the books, straight from the jobs.
Ready today
- WIP schedule with fading jobs in red
- Job P&L and over/under billing
- Trial balance, P&L and balance sheet
- Posted journals: mistakes are reversed, never edited
- Close the week and lock the month
All 9 features
- Copper and conduit price watch vs the bid
- Truck and equipment hours on the job
- Email the books and print the accounting pack
- Export journals as CSV or QuickBooks IIF
Early access
- Cash outlook thirteen weeks out
Ask about a job or a desk and get answers with their sources.
Ready today
- Ask about this desk, with suggested questions
- Shop chat that cites the file, or says it is unverified
- AI scan of a drawing sheet in takeoff
- Project assistant for scope and missing items
- Answers from the user manuals
All 7 features
- Search across the shop files
- Choose local or outside OCR for drawing scans
Ask out loud: job cost, documents, hours. It reads, it never pays or sends.
Whole module in Early access
- Press to talk, with an answer card that shows the source
- Looks up jobs, job cost, documents and payroll
- Never pays, sends, approves or deletes
- Sees only what your login can see
- Understands spoken job numbers
- Coming to Precon
One login, your company kept separate, and every change logged.
Ready today
- Two-factor sign-in and passkeys
- Microsoft work-account sign-in
- Each company kept separate in the database
- Access by role and per person, with a change log
- Send security events to your SIEM
All 13 features
- Shop API with scoped keys
- Turn modules on or off per company
- Your logo, light and dark appearance
- Read-only job file browsers that open Microsoft 365 or Acrobat
- Job desk: notes, RFIs, daily reports and punch items
- Home dashboard with bids, risk flags and open RFIs
- Windows desktop and network install
- Backups and data retention
Reach the office from the job site or from home.
Whole module in Early access
- Reach the office desk remotely
- Hours and daily logs offline on the phone
- Host on your server or ours
- Spanish screens
- Native iPhone and Android apps
Request a demoAdd the modules you want with "+ Add to my demo", and we will show you exactly those.
Early access items are part of the Pinnacle product vision. See the full catalog or request a demo to see what fits your shop.
Built for your trade
Find your trade. Pinnacle runs the office on top.
Same office package for concrete through steel.
Pick a level to pull it out.
How a building goes up
At the topGeneral Contractor and PinnacleGeneral Contractor
The general contractor runs the whole job, and Pinnacle holds it all together: one plan and one set of books from the first stake to the last pay app.
Level 5The finishDrywall, Painting, Flooring, Landscaping
The finishes make it a building people can use. They are only as good as every level under them.
- Sits on
- Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC & Mechanical, Fire Protection, Low Voltage & Security and Solar
- Carries
- The general contractor and Pinnacle
Level 4The systemsElectrical, Plumbing, HVAC & Mechanical, Fire Protection, Low Voltage & Security, Solar
Power, water, air and safety are roughed in and tested while the walls are still open.
- Sits on
- Roofing, Glass & Glazing and Insulation
- Carries
- Drywall, Painting, Flooring and Landscaping
Level 3The shellRoofing, Glass & Glazing, Insulation
The roof, the glass and the insulation close the building in, so the work inside can keep going in any weather.
- Sits on
- Masonry, Steel & Welding and Framing & Carpentry
- Carries
- Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC & Mechanical, Fire Protection, Low Voltage & Security and Solar
Level 2The structureMasonry, Steel & Welding, Framing & Carpentry
The frame and the walls go up on the foundation and carry every floor, system and finish that comes after.
- Sits on
- Demolition, Site Work and Concrete
- Carries
- Roofing, Glass & Glazing and Insulation
Level 1The foundationDemolition, Site Work, Concrete
Everything starts here. The foundation is the first thing built and the last thing anyone sees, and every trade above it stands on it.
- Sits on
- The ground itself
- Carries
- Masonry, Steel & Welding and Framing & Carpentry
No building goes up without a good plan and great execution. Every trade has its place, and each one builds on the one before it. Pinnacle works the same way: the takeoff feeds the estimate, the estimate becomes the bid, and the bid you win becomes the job. From there the job’s own numbers carry into billing, payroll and the books, so each step starts where the last one left off.
All 20 trades
By role
Who in the office uses what.
Each person touches a different part of the same job.
Owner
See every job and the books without building a report.
Close the booksBuild it
See your steps →Estimator
Take it off the drawings and build the number you will sell.
Bid it
See your steps →
Project manager
Run the job against the number you sold.
Build itBill it
See your steps →Office and bookkeeping
Bills, pay apps, hours and the books in one place.
Bill itPay the crewClose the books
See your steps →Contractor FAQ
Straight answers.
Is this one package or five programs?
One package. Pinnacle Office is the entire office in one package, estimating to accounting. Takeoff, estimate, and bid in one place, then carry cost, billing, and hours on the same job.
Can we move off what we run today?
Pinnacle is designed to run a Move-in Check when you switch systems and to auto-import from your old books Early access. Request a demo and we'll look at how your office runs today.
Who is payroll built for today?
Post crew hours (straight, overtime, double time) and run payroll from them. Built today for a single shop. Locking payroll when the period closes, for any shop, is Early access.
Does Pinnacle file certified payroll?
No. Pinnacle is designed to prepare and track certified payroll, WH-347 and tax worksheets Early access. Pinnacle does not file or certify with any agency.
Can the crew put in hours from the field?
Hours from your phone is built today. Taking hours and daily logs offline on the phone is Early access.
Where does it run?
Pinnacle is designed to host on your server or ours Early access. Ask us in a demo about your setup.
What does “Early access” mean?
Items tagged Early access are part of the Pinnacle product vision. Request a demo to see what fits your shop.
Does it work for my trade?
Every trade uses the same Pinnacle office package, from the estimate to the books. See the 20 trade pages.