Questions, answered.

Kanstruction plans and runs construction projects with your trades and customers. It’s a role-based Kanban board with the construction pieces built in: dependencies, trades, scheduling, budgets, allowances, change orders, bids, permits, inspections, walkthroughs and invoices.

It means Kanstruction is early. The core is working and in use, and we’re adding and changing things quickly based on what contractors tell us. Expect some rough edges, and tell us what’s missing at support@grablife.net.

Kanstruction is free to use during the alpha. There are no paid plans.

No. Kanstruction runs in your browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Sign in at app.kanstruction.com with your email or with Google.

Create an account, name your company, and create your first project. It starts in Planning, so you can add tasks and people before anything moves. When you’re ready, start the project to work on the board.

Not to answer a job request: they reply from a link. To work on your project they join with an invitation, and it’s free for them. They see their tasks in the browser or in the Kanstruction app.

The trade, the kind of job, the town and the dates. Never the address or the owner until they’re on the job.

The property owner sees the project’s progress and only the tasks you share with them, such as selections and approvals. They never see the budget, your costs or internal notes. You can add them when you create the project or later.

No. Only the bidder and you see their bid.

Tell a task what it waits on. It stays Queued until those tasks are done, then becomes Ready by itself. A task can also wait until its materials are delivered and checked, or until an inspection passes. If someone tries to move a card the rules don’t allow, the move is refused with the reason.

The person doing a task is reminded at 8 am a set number of days before its planned start, in the app, as a notification and by email, and asked to confirm the day. A trade’s notice period from your trades list is added too. You can also turn reminders off for a project.

Any change to price or schedule goes to the customer as its own change order to approve or decline. You can create one directly, or turn a walkthrough item into one.

Give the customer an allowance for a selection, like tile or light fixtures, and the shops they can pick from. They make their pick and you confirm it. They can change it until it’s ordered. If it comes in over the allowance, you can bill the overage.

Yes. Look up the jurisdiction from the project address, list the permits (general, building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical or other) and track each from Needed to Applied for, Issued and Closed. Record inspections and their results.

Yes. Duplicating a project copies its details, budget, trades and tasks into a new project in Planning. People aren’t copied. Finished projects can be archived: hidden from the list, but kept with everything in them.

Labor and material lines are seen by managers only. Allowances are also seen by everyone on that task. Customers never see the budget.

Only the vendor and your company’s admins see those files.

Yes. You can download a copy of your information at any time from your profile, and you can delete your account in the app. See the privacy policy for details.

Kanstruction is built by Grab Life Inc., 21 Smith Point Rd, Alton Bay, NH 03810. Call 781-888-9030 or email support@grablife.net.