Founder-led, contractor-shaped.
Buildwell is a founder-led construction software company focused on one painful problem: contractors losing money when scope changes, T&M work, billings, and project records aren't documented, approved, and easy to prove.
The product is intentionally focused where it matters most — document changes, capture signatures, keep supporting costs attached, draft billings from the job record, and make the approval trail clean enough that teams actually use it.
Who's behind Buildwell.
Buildwell is built by Tim Layton, a software engineer and founder based in Seattle. Tim is building the product directly with feedback from residential construction operators using Buildwell on real jobs.
Founder
Tim Layton
Founder, Buildwell
Tim Layton is a software engineer and founder with more than 20 years of experience building technology products across startups, agencies, and large-scale platforms. He has worked at Shopify, Amazon, and Boulevard across hands-on engineering and technical leadership roles. He has built and led teams behind software for major consumer brands, marketplaces, and growing businesses at significant scale.
Design Partner
Bozich Construction
Kenny · Owner / Residential GC
Running Buildwell on real residential jobs and pushing on what works, what's clunky, and what should ship next.
Built with contractors, not guessed in a conference room
Shaped by real residential GCs running real jobs.
We work with design partners running Buildwell on real projects who tell us what works, what doesn't, what saves time, and what actually protects money when a change or billing hits.
Design Partner
Bozich Construction
Kenny · Owner / Residential GC
Running Buildwell on real jobs and shaping what ships next.
Want to help shape what Buildwell builds next (and use Buildwell for free)?
We're taking on a small number of GCs and contractors as design partners. We meet with our design partners weekly to collect feedback and ensure their success with Buildwell.
Small on purpose. Focused by design.
Buildwell isn't trying to bury contractors in another massive project-management platform. The goal is to make the most financially painful records simpler — changes, approvals, signatures, line-item backup, T&M records, billing visibility, and audit packets.
Founder-led means early customer feedback doesn't get filtered through layers of process. If something is confusing or slow on a real job, the fix lands in the next deploy.