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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "contractor-foreman",
 "name": "Contractor Foreman",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "contractorforeman.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "Projects, planning & team workflow",
 "summary": "Construction management — estimating, scheduling, daily logs and financial tracking — priced per company rather than per seat, with unlimited projects on every tier.",
 "best_for": "small and mid-size contractors who want estimating, scheduling and daily logs in one place and can commit to a year — the company-wide fee makes it cheap per head once you have a crew",
 "skip_if": "you are a sole trader with a handful of jobs, because Basic at $49 a month annual is real money against a spreadsheet and a calendar — though the 30-day trial and the conditional 100-day refund mean trying it costs nothing but your time",
 "honest_knock": "Credit where it is due first: this is company pricing with unlimited projects and no per-user overage inside your tier, which is rare in construction software and genuinely cheaper than per-seat rivals for a crew. The catch is the billing term. Monthly costs 20% to 32% more than annual on the same plan — $139 against $105 on Standard — and Basic is sold on annual billing only, so the cheapest way in requires a year paid up front. The user counts are the real ladder: 1, 3, 8, 15, unlimited. A five-person crew is not on Standard at $105, it is on Plus at $166, so count your licence holders before you compare against anything else.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$49",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic · per month billed annually for the whole company with 1 user",
  "from_price_usd_month": 49.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 11 Oct 2026 on their own pricing page: annual prices unchanged since 1 Aug 2026; the quarterly option recorded on 28 Aug 2026 has been replaced by monthly billing) Priced for the company rather than per seat, with unlimited projects on every tier, and annual plans open with 30 days free before the first bill; monthly plans are charged at sign-up. Annual: Basic $49/month ($588 a year, 1 user), Standard $105 ($1,264, 3 users), Plus $166 ($1,997, 8 users), Pro $221 ($2,654, 15 users), Unlimited $332 ($3,984, unlimited users). Monthly billing costs more for the same plans: Standard $139, Plus $199, Pro $279, Unlimited $399 a month; Basic is 'Available for Annual' only. The page's 'Save' figures match twelve monthly payments against the annual total: $404, $391, $694 and $804. Their own wording: the fee listed is the fee for the company as a whole. Card payments taken through the built-in Stripe integration are billed separately at 2.9% + $0.30 a transaction (3.9% + $0.30 for Amex, 1% + $0.30 capped at $10.00 for ACH).",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 49.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Basic, per month billed annually for the whole company with 1 user; unlimited projects on every tier. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-01.",
   "page": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/contractor-foreman-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Monthly costs 20% to 32% more than annual on the same plan — $139 against $105 on Standard — and Basic is sold on annual billing only, so the cheapest way in requires a year paid up front.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Buildertrend or JobTread",
  "why": "the standing comparison in construction software — compare total company cost at your crew size, since the per-seat rivals overtake this quickly"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/contractor-foreman.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/contractor-foreman-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/contractor-foreman/",
  "vendor_site": "https://contractorforeman.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.contractorforeman.com/cawglgaebpxr",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "contractor-foreman:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "contractor-foreman:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "contractor-foreman:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "contractor-foreman:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}