Limited beta slots Open beta pricing

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.

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Pricing differs by side of the job · pick yours

How it works · GCs & Subcontractors

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.

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Flat monthly base

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.

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No per-user fees

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.

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Optional add-on modules

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.

The beta bundle · GCs & Subcontractors

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.

Add-on modules · GCs & Subcontractors

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.

Add-on

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
Add-on

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
Add-on

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
Add-on

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
Add-on

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
Add-on

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
Add-on

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
Beta timeline

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.

Jun 14, 2026

Closed beta opens

Invite-only access. The founding cohort starts onboarding, gives feedback, and shapes the platform. No payment during the closed-beta window.

Jul 13, 2026

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.

Dec 14, 2026

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.

Jan 1, 2027

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.

Two-year price lock. Every tenant that signs up during the closed beta or open beta keeps the beta rates — base bundle and any add-ons — for two years from the open-beta start (Jul 13, 2026 → Jul 13, 2028). After that, accounts roll to GA pricing with no auto-bump surprise: we'll give 90 days notice and the option to renew at then-current rates or leave clean.
US-based customers only during beta. AOS is currently available to businesses formed and operating in the United States. We expect to open additional countries after beta — see our Terms for details.
AI usage & credit budgets

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.

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Metered in credits

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.

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Starter pack included

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.

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You pick the overage model

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
Visibility

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.

Alerts

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.

Per-user caps

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).

Pre-flight cost

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.

Standard on the beta bundle

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

FAQ · GCs & Subcontractors

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.

Limited beta slots · Last signup Dec 14

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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.

Permit Expediters · private beta

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.