- Project management — drawings (sheet-level revs), RFIs, submittals, change orders, daily logs, CPM with slip alerts, closeouts
- AIA pay apps — G702 / G703 with retainage and stored materials, ready on day one
- Field operations — foreman dashboard, crew of the day, geofenced timesheets w/ photo + EXIF, voice logs, NOAA weather, equipment pinned at site, ship-out gate
- Estimating (basics) — takeoff with assembly catalog, self-perform pricing, estimate-to-job handoff
- Owner & sub portals (basic) — read-only owner portal, one-click sub bid response, audit-stamped every action
- Back office — helpdesk with SLA tiers, knowledge base, room booking, IT asset checkout
- Training & safety — 52-week EN/ES toolbox talks, certifications & licenses with expiry alerts, building permit tracker
- Notifications — email + SMS via AWS SES + Twilio (we operate the accounts)
- SSO — Google & Microsoft sign-in
- Standard everywhere — SOC 2-aligned controls, daily backups, field-level audit trail, soft-delete with deletion approval, separate database per customer, encrypted credentials
One bundle for your side of the job. Founding-customer pricing.
AOS is in open beta. Three bundles — GCs & Subcontractors, Owners & Developers, and A/E Firms — each with the optional add-ons that match how your side of the job actually runs. Beta rates lock in for two years from the open-beta start.
Pricing differs by side of the job · pick yours
One simple formula.
Your bill is always made of the same three parts — no contract-value tax, no surprise project fees, no per-seat games on external users.
One number for the platform — the project record, the field app, the basic portals, helpdesk, KB, room booking, AIA pay apps, and US-based support. Up to 50 active projects during beta.
Add internal users freely during beta — we're not charging per seat. External users (owners, subs, board, alumni, architects) sign in via secure one-click links and are never counted against your seat total, beta or GA.
Seven optional modules — payroll, accounting, ITB, sub compliance, owner finance & boardroom, compliance pro, and residential builders. Turn on only what you need; turn it off when you don't.
One simple formula.
Your bill is always made of the same three parts — no portfolio-value tax, no per-building project tax, no per-seat games on external users (your GCs, A/Es, board, or investors).
One number for the Owner platform — Command Center, building & lease portfolio, cash forecast 30/60/90, pay-app review, owner↔GC bridge, basic board packet, and US-based support. Up to 25 buildings and 15 active capital projects during beta.
The base bundle covers 5 internal users on your team; additional internal users are $50 / user / month. External users (your GCs, A/Es, board members, investors, tenants) sign in via secure one-click links and are never counted against your seat total — beta or GA.
Three optional modules — Accounting & AP with multi-EIN consolidation, Tax Planning (federal + 15 state, K-1 box-mapped), and Compliance Pro. Turn on what you need; turn it off when you don't.
One simple formula.
Your bill is always made of the same three parts — no fee-on-fee tax, no per-project surcharge, no per-seat games on the consultants and clients you bring in as external users.
One number for the firm OS — current drawings register, RFI & submittal SLA, design-issue tracking, pay-app certification, firm-wide portfolio dashboard, and US-based support. Up to 20 active projects during beta.
The base bundle covers 5 internal users on your team; additional internal users are $50 / user / month. External users (consultants you sub-contract to, owner-side clients, GC project managers) sign in via secure one-click links and are never counted against your seat total.
Three optional modules — Time Tracking & Billing (AIA phase fees, T&M, NTE), Accounting & AP (multi-EIN for multi-discipline firms), and Compliance Pro (licenses, E&O, stamping authority). Turn on what you need; turn it off when you don't.
Almost everything. One number.
The base bundle includes the platform's main surface — project record, field, basic portals, back office, compliance basics — capped at 50 active projects during the beta period. Add-ons cover the modules a subset of customers need.
The Owner Command Center, one number.
The base Owner bundle includes the Boardroom, cash forecast, building & lease portfolio, pay-app review, and the owner↔GC bridge — modules GCs pay for as add-ons. Capped at 25 buildings and 15 active capital projects during the beta period.
- 5 internal seats included — your CFO, asset manager, construction manager, accounting lead, and one more. Add seats at $50 / user / mo. External users (GCs, board, investors, A/Es) stay free.
- Owner Command Center — morning briefing across every project: slips, variance, RFI SLA breaches, pay apps awaiting your review, renewal alerts at 90/60/30/7d
- Building & Lease portfolio — buildings, leases (NNN / MG / FS), renewal options, escalators (fixed-pct + fixed-amount, compounded or additive), CAM / RE-tax / insurance, TIA obligations and draws
- Cash forecast 30 / 60 / 90 — daily forecast with 5 CFO-tunable levers (AR collection %, retention release %, AP pay-lag, tax buffer, deferred revenue)
- Pay-app review — G702 / G703 with stored e-signature, conditional & unconditional lien waivers linked, retention release dates calculated automatically
- Cross-project schedule rollup — master schedule across every GC, baseline drift, critical-path delays, weather context
- Vendor & insurance compliance — sub COIs, W-9s, prequal, MWBE, OSHA — with project-level gating + 90/60/30/7-day expiry alerts
- Lien rights at owner level — NOC, NOI, advance-waiver-void protections, bond-claim windows across every job
- Owner ↔ GC bridge — your GCs on AOS feed directly into your portfolio; non-AOS GCs get a tokenized portal (no account creation, no software for them to buy) for pay-app drafts, RFI / submittal response, and schedule status
- Board packet (basic) — generate, approve, distribute with per-member secure links and engagement analytics (who opened, who read what)
- Notifications, SSO, SOC 2 controls — email + SMS via AWS SES + Twilio, Google & Microsoft sign-in, daily backups, field-level audit trail, separate database per customer
The firm OS, one number.
The base A/E bundle is the firm operating system — current drawings register, RFI & submittal SLA tracking, design-issue management, pay-app certification, firm-wide portfolio dashboard. Time tracking, billing, accounting, and license compliance are add-ons. Capped at 20 active projects during beta.
- 5 internal seats included — your principal, two project architects, a project engineer / specifier, and your contract admin / billing person. Add seats at $50 / user / mo. External users (consultants, clients, GCs) stay free.
- Firm-wide portfolio dashboard — every project your firm is engaged on, on one screen: RFI SLA breaches, submittals about to age out, pay apps queued, design issues with site photos. Sortable by principal-in-charge, phase, client, fee remaining.
- Current drawings register — A-, S-, M-, E-, P- with revision history. When you re-issue, AOS notifies the field and the prior revision goes "for reference only"
- RFI workflow with SLA — inbound RFIs threaded with drawing reference, turn-time per project + per firm, owner-SLA breaches flagged before they bite
- Submittal review — submittal log keyed to CSI spec sections, stamp options with redline annotations, turn-time tracked
- Design issue tracker — site-photo evidence + location pin + severity + assigned trade. Status open → in-resolution → resolved. The GC can't close them without your sign-off.
- Pay-app certification — G702 / G703 on a screen. Percentage-complete per line item, site-photo evidence attached, two-click certification with AIA-spec language
- Site visit reports — tablet-friendly with EXIF geotag, observation / recommendation pairs, one-click PDF to owner
- Project records — contracts, scope, fee schedule, client + consultant directory, document register, meeting minutes, transmittals
- Notifications, SSO, SOC 2 controls — email + SMS via AWS SES + Twilio, Google & Microsoft sign-in, daily backups, field-level audit trail, separate database per firm
Turn on what you need.
Seven optional modules priced separately. Available on the beta bundle today and on every tier post-GA. Each one is the kind of workflow not every customer needs — but the customers who need it really do.
Payroll
$500/ month
Run construction payroll directly inside AOS — built around how field crews actually get paid. No per-employee fee.
- Certified payroll (Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage)
- Multi-state withholding & unemployment
- Per-diem and fringe-benefit handling
- Direct deposit + paper checks
- Timesheet → gross-to-net automation
- Accounting GL sync
Accounting & AP
$1,000/ mo + $750 / additional EIN
End-to-end accounts payable wired to the same project record. AI invoice parse, 3-way match, approval routing, payment run. First EIN included; consolidates across as many as you run.
- AI invoice parse (PDF / image)
- 3-way PO ↔ receipt ↔ invoice match
- Tiered approval routing
- ACH + check payment runs w/ positive pay
- 1099 tracking + January export
- Job-cost native GL · multi-EIN consolidation
Subcontractor ITB
$500/ month
The full invitation-to-bid workflow — when you're sending packages out, not just receiving them.
- 5 estimator seats included · +$50 / mo per additional active estimator
- Whole office views the bid board read-only — free
- Bid packages assembled from takeoff
- Multi-location sub matching
- Bid leveling w/ inclusions / exclusions
- Risk overlay (bonding, concurrent load)
- Sub qualification & insurance gating
- Award → subcontract handoff
Sub Compliance
$200/ month
Stop chasing COIs, W-9s, and bond docs by email. Subs self-serve via tokenized link; admin reviews via queue.
- Per-sub COI / W-9 / bond on file
- Expiry alerts (90 / 60 / 30 day)
- Sub self-service upload portal
- Admin review queue
- Auto-block pay-app release if expired
- Audit-grade evidence trail
Owner Finance & Boardroom
$899/ month
The CFO / owner workflow. Cash forecast, treasury, tax planner, multi-EIN consolidation, and the board packet you used to compile by hand.
- Morning briefing w/ KPI strip
- 30 / 60 / 90-day cash forecast
- Treasury panel + bank-rec heat chip
- Federal + 15-state quarterly tax planner
- Multi-EIN consolidated statements
- Board packets + controlled distribution portal
Compliance Pro
$499/ month
The depth pack for commercial GCs and self-performers. Lien rights, per-diem, alumni pay-history, and insurance renewals.
- 51-jurisdiction lien waiver registry
- Blue Notary RON integration
- Per-diem GSA + OCONUS engine
- Alumni pay-history portal (7yr)
- Insurance auto-renewal (broker RFQ + AI quote parse)
- Salvage marketplace + LEED scorecard
Residential Builders
$599/ month
Custom-home and spec-builder workflow. Selections, allowances, draws, homeowner portal, change orders with e-signature, walk-through & punch, warranty tracker. Flat monthly — no per-home, per-allowance, or per-draw fees ever.
- Selections & allowances w/ over-budget alerts at picking time
- Homeowner one-click portal (schedule, selections, COs, photos, draws)
- Lender-specific construction draw packaging (saves 8–12 hr / home)
- Change orders w/ homeowner e-signature; allowance overages auto-drafted
- Walk-through & punch w/ photo-tagged items + homeowner sign-off
- Warranty tracker — 30-day / 6-month / 11-month inspections auto-scheduled
- Multi-lot pipeline board across every home in production
Turn on what you need.
Three optional modules priced separately. Most Owners run on the base bundle alone for the first quarter; add-ons come in when you cross into multi-entity, want quarterly tax estimates run for the board, or take on the lien-rights workload yourself.
Accounting & AP
$1,000/ mo + $750 / additional EIN
End-to-end accounts payable wired to the same project record — and the multi-EIN consolidation engine. Holding-level balance sheet, P&L, and cash flow across every OpCo and JV. First EIN included.
- AI invoice parse (PDF / image)
- 3-way PO ↔ receipt ↔ invoice match
- Tiered approval routing
- ACH + check payment runs w/ positive pay
- 1099 tracking + January export
- Multi-EIN consolidation · JV accounting · holding-level rollup
Tax Planning
$399/ month
Quarterly tax estimates the board can review live. Safe-harbor and annualized installment, side-by-side. Federal plus 15 state-overridden due dates. K-1 box mapping across all 42 schedule lines.
- Safe-harbor + annualized side-by-side
- Federal + 15 state-overridden due dates
- Auto-picks lower estimate per entity per quarter
- Quarterly payment voucher generator
- K-1 box codes — all 42 mapped
- Tax-position notes pinned to the board packet
Compliance Pro
$499/ month
The depth pack for institutional owners. Lien rights at owner level, insurance auto-renewal, RON e-notary for waivers, and the per-property compliance file.
- 51-jurisdiction lien waiver registry
- Blue Notary RON integration
- Insurance auto-renewal (broker RFQ + AI quote parse)
- Salvage marketplace + LEED scorecard
- Building permit + certificate-of-occupancy tracker
- Per-property capex compliance file
Turn on what you need.
Three optional modules priced separately. Most firms run on the base bundle for the first quarter; add-ons come in when you want billing and time tracking on the same record as the CA workflow, when you cross into multi-EIN, or when license / E&O renewal becomes the kind of mess only an owned tool can solve.
Time Tracking & Billing
$400/ month
AIA phase fee structure baked in. Staff log time against project + phase from any device. One-click invoice generation with your firm's template or AIA G702. T&M and not-to-exceed projects supported.
- SD / DD / CD / BN / CA phase fee plans
- Time tracking by project · phase · staff · billing rate
- Real-time phase burn-down for PMs
- Invoice generation (AIA G702 + firm template)
- T&M, not-to-exceed, fixed-fee projects
- Reimbursable expense linking + WIP reporting
Accounting & AP
$1,000/ mo + $750 / additional EIN
End-to-end accounts payable wired to the project record. AI invoice parse, 3-way match, approval routing, payment run. Multi-EIN consolidation if your disciplines operate as separate OpCos. First EIN included.
- AI invoice parse (PDF / image)
- 3-way PO ↔ receipt ↔ invoice match
- Tiered approval routing
- ACH + check payment runs w/ positive pay
- 1099 tracking + January export
- Multi-EIN consolidation · discipline-level P&L
Compliance Pro (A/E)
$299/ month
The license, insurance, and stamping-authority workflow A/E firms inherit from regulatory compliance — not from project work. Lighter than the GC version; built around what architects and engineers carry.
- Per-person professional license tracking (state + reg # + expiry + CEU)
- License renewal alerts (90 / 60 / 30 / 7 days)
- Firm-level E&O / professional liability renewal (broker RFQ + AI quote parse)
- COI distribution to clients on demand
- Stamping authority (NCARB / NCEES record sync, per-project assignment)
- CSI MasterFormat submittal compliance check
From closed beta to GA, on a calendar.
Two windows to lock in beta pricing — closed beta and open beta. Limited slots in each. Tenants who sign up during the beta period keep their founding rate for two years from the open-beta start.
Closed beta opens
Invite-only access. The founding cohort starts onboarding, gives feedback, and shapes the platform. No payment during the closed-beta window.
Open beta opens
Public signups go live at $500 / mo. Closed-beta tenants begin billing today. The two-year price lock starts today and runs through Jul 13, 2028.
Beta signups pause
Last day to sign up at the beta rate. No new signups Dec 15 onward. Existing beta tenants keep running through Dec 31 while we prepare for GA.
GA opens
General availability for new customers at GA pricing. Beta tenants keep their locked rate (and add-on rates) through Jul 13, 2028. No auto-bumps.
AI included. Budget visible. No surprise bills.
AOS uses AI for invoice parsing, voice log categorization, broker quote review, field photo analysis, and a handful of other places where it earns its keep. Every tenant has a monthly credit budget you can watch in real time, alert on, and cap by user. Overage is your choice — never our default.
One credit = one unit of AI work, priced before you run it. Every AI call previews its credit cost; bulk operations show the projected total before you commit. No hidden meter, no mystery multipliers — you always see exactly what an action costs and what's left in your monthly pool.
2M credits / month bundled in. Roughly 200 invoice parses, or 400 voice log categorizations, or 60 broker-quote reviews — at typical per-action cost. Enough to evaluate every AI feature on a live project before you decide which to run at scale.
Hit the cap, choose how it goes: pre-purchase top-up packs, pay-as-you-go on next bill, or auto-refill with a monthly ceiling you set. Default is top-up packs — explicit, no surprises. CFOs change it per account.
| Line item | Detail | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Included with beta bundle | 2M credits / month, resets the 1st ≈ 200 invoice parses or 400 voice logs at typical cost | Free |
| Top-up pack — small | 5M additional credits, never expires Pre-purchased; AI pauses when you run out | $50 |
| Top-up pack — large | 20M additional credits, never expires Better per-credit rate; for AI-heavy customers | $150 |
| Pay-as-you-go overage | Charged on next month's bill, opt-in per account Default is OFF — you have to enable it | $12 / 1M credits |
| Auto-refill | Auto-buys a top-up pack when you hit the cap; you set a monthly ceiling e.g., "buy up to 3× $50 packs / month" | Pack price |
Real-time usage dashboard
Credit consumption by user, by feature, by week. Live graph in the admin panel; CSV export for your books. Every AI call is logged with its prompt category, credit count, and the user who triggered it.
75 / 90 / 100% thresholds
Email + in-app alerts at each threshold. At 100% the default is a hard pause — AI features deactivate until next month's reset, you buy a top-up pack, or you flip overage to PAYG. You decide which.
No single estimator burns the company's quota
Set a per-user monthly credit cap so one user running bulk invoice parses can't drain the tenant's pool. Caps are inheritable from role (e.g., all estimators get 200k; admins get unlimited).
See the cost before you run it
Bulk operations — "parse these 50 vendor invoices" — show the projected credit cost in the confirmation dialog, plus your remaining monthly budget after the run. No surprises.
US-based support · SOC 2-aligned controls · daily backups · field-level audit trail · soft delete with deletion approval · a separate database per customer · encrypted credentials · AWS SES + Twilio (we operate the accounts) · bilingual EN/ES toolbox talks · NOAA weather on the daily log · one-click sub bid response
The questions buyers actually ask.
What does "open beta" mean for pricing?
Closed beta runs Jun 14 → Jul 13, 2026 (invite-only, free). Open beta runs Jul 13 → Dec 14, 2026 for new signups; existing beta tenants keep running through Dec 31. GA opens Jan 1, 2027. Every beta tenant — closed or open — keeps the beta rate for two years from Jul 13, 2026 (through Jul 13, 2028). At that point you roll to then-current GA pricing with 90 days notice and the option to leave clean. No auto-bumps.
What if GA pricing comes in lower than my locked beta rate?
You win either way. The beta-cohort guarantee: if GA pricing for the same bundle (base plus the add-ons you're running) comes in lower than your locked beta rate, you automatically drop to 10% below the GA rate for the rest of your lock window. The math is whichever is lower — your locked beta rate, or GA × 0.9. We'll never have a beta tenant paying more than 90% of what a new customer pays for the same scope. You're a founding customer; loyalty should not be a tax.
Why is the beta rate so low? What will GA pricing actually be?
The $500 / mo beta base is a founding-customer rate that holds for 24 months. GA pricing publishes Jan 1, 2027. We're aiming for a reasonable price point: a typical customer under $15M annual revenue runs $1,000-$2,000 / mo all-in (base plus add-ons). Larger companies pay more — but the axis is project count and compliance depth, not your construction volume. We don't charge for the dollars flowing through. Beta tenants who sign in 2026 stay on their locked rates through Jul 13, 2028 regardless of where GA pricing lands; at lock-window end you roll to then-current GA rates with 90 days notice and the option to leave clean.
How does pricing scale as our company grows?
By usage, not by construction volume. Most construction software prices on a percentage of annual construction value (often 0.4–1.0% of ACV), which means a strong year of bookings turns into a six-figure invoice from your software vendor. AOS doesn't do that. The base bundle is a flat monthly fee. Add-ons are flat monthly fees. Larger firms pay more because they (a) cross the 50-active-project beta cap and need a higher project tier, (b) carry multiple EINs and add the Accounting & AP per-EIN line, (c) have the compliance / multi-state footprint that justifies the Compliance Pro add-on. Each of those is a real workload we're servicing — not a percentage of your top line.
How do I get a beta slot? Are slots really limited?
Yes — beta slots are capped to keep onboarding quality high and feedback loops tight. Closed beta is invite-only and the smallest cohort; tell us about your company and we'll let you know if there's room. Open beta opens to public signups on Jul 13 with a larger cap, but we'll close intake as soon as the cohort fills (or Dec 14, whichever comes first). Earlier signups get more onboarding attention.
What's the difference between signing up in closed vs open beta?
Closed-beta tenants (Jun 14 → Jul 13) get the most one-on-one onboarding, the strongest input into roadmap, and don't pay anything until Jul 13. Open-beta tenants (Jul 13 → Dec 14) pay from day one at the open-beta rate. Both cohorts get the same two-year price lock running from Jul 13, 2026 through Jul 13, 2028.
Why a signup pause from Dec 15 to Jan 1?
The last two weeks of December are a hard stop on new accounts — we use that window to finalize GA pricing, lock the GA contract terms, freeze billing changes, and make sure every existing beta tenant is solid going into GA. New signups resume on Jan 1, 2027 at GA pricing. If you want a beta rate, sign up before Dec 14.
Why a single bundle instead of three tiers?
We don't yet have enough usage data to know exactly where the tier boundaries belong. Rather than guess and force customers to re-tier later, we're starting with one inclusive bundle plus add-ons. At GA we'll tier based on what actual customers actually use.
What's the 50-active-projects cap, and what happens if I cross it?
The beta bundle covers up to 50 active projects at any one time during the beta period. Closed projects don't count. If you're approaching the cap or need to run more, drop us a line — we're sizing larger pilots case-by-case during beta.
How does AI usage billing actually work?
Every AI feature (invoice parse, voice log categorize, broker quote review, photo analysis) consumes credits from your monthly bucket. The beta bundle includes 2M credits / month — about 200 invoice parses or 400 voice logs at typical per-action cost. You watch consumption live, get alerted at 75% / 90% / 100%, and decide what happens at the cap: pause AI features until next month's reset, buy a top-up pack ($50 buys 5M credits, $150 buys 20M), enable pay-as-you-go overage at $12 per million, or auto-refill with a monthly ceiling you set. The default at 100% is "hard pause" — we never bill you for credits you didn't explicitly authorize.
Can I set per-user AI caps so one estimator can't burn through the company quota?
Yes. Per-user credit caps are inheritable from role — give all estimators a 200k monthly cap, all PMs 500k, admins unlimited. Caps are enforced at the API layer; once a user hits theirs, their AI features pause for the rest of the month while everyone else's keeps working. You can also raise an individual user's cap mid-month from the admin panel; the change is logged in the audit trail.
What does AI usage look like in our books?
Every AI call is logged with timestamp, user, feature, credit count, and dollar value. Export to CSV from the admin panel any time. The bundled 2M credits stay inside the $500/mo line item on your bill; top-up packs and PAYG overage are itemized as separate AP charges with the period and pack ID. Most CFOs map the AI line to a single "Software — AI services" GL account.
What if our AI usage spikes during a heavy invoice cycle?
Three protections, in order: (1) the pre-flight cost preview shows projected credits before any bulk operation, so you decide whether to run it or split it; (2) per-user caps prevent any one user from running the whole company dry; (3) the per-tenant cap is the absolute ceiling — at 100% AI pauses until you buy a top-up pack or your monthly bucket resets on the 1st. You can also pre-buy a 20M-credit pack at month-start if you know a heavy cycle is coming.
Why no per-user fees during beta?
We want beta customers to give the platform to everyone on their team without weighing the math on each seat. Per-user pricing creates friction at exactly the moment we want the opposite — broad usage, honest feedback, real adoption signal. Expect AOS to add a reasonable per-user component at GA; founding-cohort customers keep their beta rate (flat-only) for the duration of their engagement.
What does "external user" mean, and are they really free?
External users are people outside your company who interact with AOS through a portal — owners approving pay apps, subs responding to bid invitations, board members reviewing packets, ex-employees pulling W-2s, architects on read-only RFI access. They sign in via secure one-click links (no account creation) and are never counted as billable seats. This stays true at GA.
Which add-ons should I expect to turn on?
It depends on what you do. Payroll if you don't already have a construction payroll vendor. Accounting & AP if you want to replace your AP stack. Subcontractor ITB if you're a GC sending bid packages out. Sub Compliance if you carry the audit burden for sub COIs / W-9s. Owner Finance & Boardroom if you have a board or institutional ownership. Compliance Pro if you work across multiple states or pay per diem. Residential Builders if you build custom or spec homes — selections, draws, homeowner portal, and warranty become first-class instead of bolted-on.
I build custom homes — is the Residential add-on enough, or do I need different software?
Enough. The GC base bundle gives you the construction record (drawings, RFIs, change orders, daily logs, AIA pay apps for the lender, field crew + timesheets, training & safety, helpdesk). The Residential add-on layers on the homeowner-facing pieces (selections, allowances, draws, signed COs, walkthrough, warranty, multi-lot pipeline). Together it's the residential builder OS — no second tool. Flat $1,099/mo for the pair, regardless of how many homes you build or how many allowances each one has.
Per-home fees? Per-allowance fees? Per-draw fees?
Zero of any of those. The Residential add-on is flat monthly. Build one home or fifty (up to the 50-active-project beta cap); track ten allowances per home or fifty; assemble four draws or fourteen. Same $599/mo. We don't price residential software on a per-home or per-transaction basis — that's exactly the model we built AOS to replace.
Do you charge for the owner portal, sub bid portal, or board portal?
No. The owner portal and basic sub bid response are included in the beta bundle. The board portal is part of the Owner Finance & Boardroom add-on. External users (owners, subs, board members, alumni, architects) are never counted as billable seats.
Can I switch add-ons on or off month-to-month?
Yes. Add-ons can be turned on or off month-to-month; you'll only be billed for the months a given add-on was active. The beta bundle itself is a monthly commit (no minimum term) during the beta period.
Do you migrate data from our old system?
Yes. We import users, projects, cost codes, vendors, and subcontractors via XLSX templates as part of every onboarding. Larger pilots get help pulling open AP, in-flight pay apps, active subcontracts, employee history (for the alumni portal), and active lien rights from your prior system as part of the implementation.
Annual or monthly billing — what's the catch?
Annual will save roughly 10–12% compared to monthly. There's no auto-renew lock-in: you can switch to monthly or cancel at any renewal with 30 days notice. We don't keep a customer who doesn't want to be one.
Where is the data hosted?
US-based managed cloud (Ohio region) with daily backups and encryption at rest. AOS is SOC 2-aligned and the security questionnaire is available on request. IP addresses and user agents on external portals are stored only as secure one-way hashes — never as raw values.
The questions Owners actually ask.
Why $750 for Owners vs $500 for GCs?
The Owner bundle includes modules GCs pay for as add-ons — the Boardroom, the cash forecast 30/60/90, the building & lease portfolio, and the owner↔GC bridge. Buying those as add-ons against the GC base costs more than the Owner bundle's $750. We priced the Owner bundle to undercut the unbundled equivalent — not to charge Owners more.
How does the per-user pricing work?
The $750 base includes 5 internal seats on your team — typically your CFO, asset manager, construction manager, accounting lead, and one more. Additional internal seats are $50 / user / month. External users are never billable: your GCs (on the tokenized portal), board members, investors, A/Es, and tenants sign in via secure one-click links and never count against your seat total, beta or GA. Why the seat fee on the Owner side and not the GC side? Owner-team usage tends to be deep and continuous (CFO + asset manager checking the dashboard daily); GC-team usage skews toward field crews with light-touch tools where per-seat pricing creates the wrong incentive. We're matching the model to how each side actually uses the platform.
Who counts as an "internal" user vs "external"?
Internal = anyone on your direct payroll or your management company's payroll who logs in to AOS to do their job (CFO, asset manager, accountant, construction manager, analyst). External = anyone outside your operating entity who interacts with AOS through a portal: your GCs and their subs (via the tokenized GC portal), board members (via the board packet portal), investors (via the LP portal), A/Es (read-only RFI access), and tenants (lease / TIA portal). External users never count toward your seat total. If you're unsure where a particular person fits — for example, an outsourced fractional CFO — talk to us; we'll typically count them as a single internal seat.
What counts as an "active capital project"?
Anything currently in design, bidding, construction, or punch list. Closed projects don't count toward the 15-project beta cap. Routine maintenance and turnover work doesn't count either — only capital projects with a budget you're tracking. If you're running more than 15 active capital projects, talk to us; we're sizing larger portfolios case-by-case.
What counts as a "building" in the 25-building beta cap?
Each individual property in your portfolio, whether owned or under management. Multi-tenant buildings count as one. Sub-units (leases inside a building) don't count toward the cap — those are tracked freely under each building. Disposed properties drop off automatically.
How does multi-entity / JV work?
Each OpCo or JV is a separate "entity" (EIN) in AOS. The base Owner bundle includes one EIN. Add the Accounting & AP add-on for multi-EIN consolidation at the holding level — balance sheet, P&L, and cash flow roll up across all entities. JVs get their own minority-partner accounting with promote / waterfall structures handled. Each additional EIN beyond the first is $750/mo on top of the $1,000 add-on base.
My GCs aren't on AOS. Can they still feed the portal?
Yes. Non-AOS GCs sign in to a tokenized portal at /gc-portal/<token> — no account creation, no software for them to buy, free for the GC. They draft pay apps, respond to RFIs and submittals, post schedule updates, and upload lien waivers. You see everything on your portfolio dashboard, side-by-side with data from your GCs who are on AOS. The GC-side experience is intentionally minimal — they don't have to learn a new tool, they just respond to your structured asks.
Can my board log in? Are board members billable users?
No, they're never billable. Board members are external users — they sign in via per-member secure links and never count against your seat total, beta or GA. The basic board packet is included in the Owner bundle: generate, approve, distribute with engagement analytics (who opened, who read what) and a pre-meeting Q&A channel.
Where do leases fit in?
In the base bundle. AOS tracks buildings, leases (NNN / MG / FS), escalators (fixed-pct + fixed-amount, compounded or additive), CAM / RE-tax / insurance reconciliation, security deposit, notice periods, and holdover. Plus renewal options, TIA obligations and draws (planned / spent / paid / remaining), expiry alerts at 90 / 60 / 30 / 7 days. Lease-level rent rolls feed the cash forecast automatically.
How does AOS handle 1031 exchanges and like-kind property mapping?
Out of scope for the beta. The tax planner doesn't model 1031 timing yet; you'll continue running those through your CPA. On the roadmap for GA Q2 2027. If 1031 timing is on the critical path for your evaluation, let us know — we'll prioritize.
We're a REIT with public reporting. Do you do XBRL and 10-Q drafting?
Out of scope. The Accounting & AP add-on emits clean consolidated financials (balance sheet, P&L, cash flow) at the holding level that your filing team or external consultant uses to draft the public filing. We're focused on the operating record and the management view, not the public-disclosure pipeline.
What does "open beta" mean for pricing?
Closed beta runs Jun 14 → Jul 13, 2026 (invite-only, free). Open beta runs Jul 13 → Dec 14, 2026 for new signups; existing beta tenants keep running through Dec 31. GA opens Jan 1, 2027. Every beta tenant — closed or open — keeps the beta rate for two years from Jul 13, 2026 (through Jul 13, 2028). At that point you roll to then-current GA pricing with 90 days notice and the option to leave clean.
What if GA pricing comes in lower than my locked beta rate?
You win either way. The beta-cohort guarantee: if GA pricing for the same bundle (base plus the add-ons you're running) comes in lower than your locked beta rate, you automatically drop to 10% below the GA rate for the rest of your lock window. We'll never have a beta tenant paying more than 90% of what a new customer pays for the same scope.
How does pricing scale as our portfolio grows?
By portfolio size and entity count, not by construction dollars or asset value. Most institutional-software vendors price on assets-under-management (often 10–40 bps of AUM), which means a year of portfolio growth turns into a six-figure bill from your software vendor. AOS doesn't do that. The base bundle is a flat monthly fee. Add-ons are flat monthly fees. Larger Owners pay more because they (a) cross the 25-building or 15-active-capital-project beta cap and need a higher tier, (b) carry multiple OpCos or JVs and add the per-EIN line on Accounting & AP, (c) want the Compliance Pro depth for lien rights and insurance renewal. Each of those is a real workload we're servicing — not a percentage of your top line.
How does AI usage billing work for Owners?
Same model as the GC side — see AI usage & credit budgets above. Owners typically run lighter on credits than GCs do (less invoice parsing, less voice-log work). The included 2M credits / month covers most Owner workflows: pay-app review, broker-quote review for insurance renewals, board-packet draft summarization, and occasional vendor document parsing.
Annual or monthly billing — what's the catch?
Annual will save roughly 10–12% compared to monthly. There's no auto-renew lock-in: you can switch to monthly or cancel at any renewal with 30 days notice. We don't keep a customer who doesn't want to be one.
Do you migrate data from our old asset / portfolio system?
Yes. We import buildings, leases (with all escalator structures), vendors, active capital projects, GC relationships, and entity / chart-of-accounts structure via XLSX templates as part of every onboarding. Larger pilots get help pulling open AP, in-flight pay apps from each GC, active subcontracts at the GC level, pending TIA obligations, and pending lien rights from your prior system as part of the implementation.
Where is the data hosted?
US-based managed cloud (Ohio region) with daily backups and encryption at rest. AOS is SOC 2-aligned and the security questionnaire is available on request. IP addresses and user agents on external portals (your GCs, board, investors) are stored only as secure one-way hashes — never as raw values.
The questions A/E principals actually ask.
Wait — isn't AOS free for A/E firms?
It is, when you're working on a project hosted by an owner or GC who's already on AOS. Your CA team signs in as external users via one-click links — no account creation, no seat fees. That path doesn't change. The paid A/E tier is for firms who want to run AOS as their own operating system, across every project — including the ones where the owner or GC isn't on AOS. You get the firm-wide dashboard, time tracking, phase billing, project profitability, and the CA workflow working from your tenant outward — not borrowed from someone else's.
Why a paid A/E bundle at all?
Three reasons firms move from the free external-user path to a paid tenant: (1) your principals want one screen showing every project the firm is engaged on, regardless of which owner / GC platform each runs on; (2) you want time tracking, phase billing, and project profitability on the same record as the CA workflow; (3) you want your own contract management, license tracking, and E&O renewal calendar instead of inheriting whatever the GC's compliance module looks like. Most small firms (under 8 staff) stay on the free path; firms above ~10 staff with 6+ concurrent projects usually move to paid.
How does the per-user pricing work?
The $600 base includes 5 internal seats — typically your principal, two project architects, a project engineer or specifier, and your contract admin / billing person. Additional seats are $50 / user / month. External users are never billable: consultants you sub-contract to (MEP, structural, civil), your owner-side counterparts, the GC's PMs, and any outsourced CA support sign in via secure one-click links and don't count against your seat total.
What counts as an "active project" for the 20-project beta cap?
Any project your firm has an active fee on — design, CA, or both. Closed projects (final payment received, file archived) don't count. If you're chasing a project but haven't signed yet, it doesn't count. Projects on hold for more than 90 days drop off automatically (you can reactivate any time). If you're running more than 20 active projects, talk to us — we're sizing larger firm pilots case-by-case during beta.
How does time tracking & phase billing work?
Standard AIA fee structure baked in: SD / DD / CD / BN / CA phases with budget hours and budget fee per phase. Staff log time against project + phase from any device; PMs see burn-down per phase in real time. Invoice generation is one-click — pulls hours through the fee schedule, applies your billing rates (with or without multipliers), produces an AIA-formatted invoice (or your firm's own template). T&M and not-to-exceed projects supported. Reimbursable expenses linked. The Time Tracking & Billing add-on is where this lives.
What about consultants we sub-contract (MEP, structural, civil)?
Two paths. (1) If you're paying them as 1099 vendors, they live as external consultants in your tenant — they upload deliverables to the project record via a tokenized portal, you pay them through the Accounting & AP add-on. They don't count as seats. (2) If a consultant team is large enough to want their own AOS tenant, they get one and you bridge tenants — same pattern as the Owner↔GC bridge. Either way, your CA workflow stays inside your tenant.
Can our outsourced bookkeeper or fractional CFO access the financials?
Yes. Outsourced finance staff typically count as a single internal seat. They get the same access as your in-house accountant. Audit trail records who did what across every entry.
How does the firm-wide portfolio dashboard work?
One screen across every active project your firm is engaged on. RFI SLA breaches surface in red, submittals about to age out in amber, pay apps queued for certification in the action column, design issues with site photos pinned by project. Sortable by principal-in-charge, by phase, by client, by fee remaining. Time burn-down per phase shown next to each project. The "what's burning at our firm right now" question becomes a single dashboard, not a Friday status meeting.
What about multi-discipline firms (architecture + engineering)?
Disciplines are first-class. Each project can have multiple disciplines engaged with separate fee structures and separate phase plans. Time tracking and billing roll up at the firm level but stay separable for partnership P&L. If you operate disciplines as separate EINs / OpCos, add the Accounting & AP add-on for multi-EIN consolidation.
Licenses, E&O insurance, and stamping authority — do you track those?
Yes, in the Compliance Pro (A/E) add-on. Per-person professional license tracking with state, registration number, expiry, CEU credits, and renewal alerts at 90 / 60 / 30 / 7 days. Firm-level E&O / professional liability insurance auto-renewal with broker RFQ. COI distribution to owners. Stamping authority (who's the registered architect / engineer on which project, with NCARB / NCEES record sync) tracked at the project level.
What does "open beta" mean for pricing?
Closed beta runs Jun 14 → Jul 13, 2026 (invite-only, free). Open beta runs Jul 13 → Dec 14, 2026 for new signups; existing beta tenants keep running through Dec 31. GA opens Jan 1, 2027. Every beta tenant keeps the beta rate (base + seats + add-ons) for two years from Jul 13, 2026 (through Jul 13, 2028). At that point you roll to then-current GA pricing with 90 days notice and the option to leave clean.
What if GA pricing comes in lower than my locked beta rate?
You win either way. The beta-cohort guarantee: if GA pricing for the same bundle (base + seats + add-ons) comes in lower than your locked beta rate, you automatically drop to 10% below the GA rate for the rest of your lock window. We'll never have a beta tenant paying more than 90% of what a new customer pays for the same scope.
How does AI usage billing work for A/E firms?
Same model as the other tabs — see AI usage & credit budgets. A/E firms typically use AI for spec parsing, submittal review acceleration, drawing markup OCR, and meeting-minute summarization. The included 2M credits / month covers a typical firm's monthly load.
Do you migrate data from our current PM / billing system?
Yes. We import projects, phases, fee schedules, clients, staff, time-tracking history (last 13 months), open invoices, and active consultant subcontracts via XLSX templates as part of onboarding. Larger firm pilots get help pulling open WIP, license records, and contact CRM data from your prior system.
Where is the data hosted?
US-based managed cloud (Ohio region) with daily backups and encryption at rest. AOS is SOC 2-aligned and the security questionnaire is available on request. IP addresses and user agents on external portals (consultants, clients, contractors) are stored only as secure one-way hashes — never as raw values.
Ready to join the beta?
Tell us your headcount, project count, entity count, and what you're using today. We'll send back a one-page recommendation with the add-ons that fit — and reserve your beta slot before signups close.
The PE bundle.
For permit-expediter firms running submissions across multiple AHJs. Accela / Tyler / OpenGov integrations, inspection scheduling, conditions tracker, ACH fee payment, client portal at permits.aos.build. Talk to us for pricing — we're sizing pilots case-by-case during private beta.
- Accela submission + status poll — OAuth2 per AHJ, record_create + status_poll every 15 min
- Inbound webhook — HMAC-verified (SHA-256 default, SHA-1 supported for Tyler), fail-closed 401 on bad signature
- Conditions tracker — per-permit list with assignment, due-date, proof-of-resolution
- Inspection scheduler — single calendar across every permit on a project
- ACH fee payment via Lithic — encrypted-at-rest destination credentials, snapshotted per payment
- Client portal at permits.aos.build — host-split owner-facing view per project
- Cross-tenant GC bridge — when your owner's GC is on AOS, your permit status flows into their project view via mig-360 outbox
- Tyler EnerGov / OpenGov / ePermitHub — reserved kinds in the connector registry; concrete impls land per pilot demand