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KNTRCTR is a subcontractor bid and performance platform for heavy civil and general contractors. Where PlanHub is a marketplace for meeting new subs, KNTRCTR is where you decide on the ones you already run with, reading their bids with Rex AI and remembering how they performed.
PlanHub is a marketplace. It’s where GCs and subs find each other, post work, and connect with crews they haven’t worked with before. If you’re trying to widen your bench and get in front of new subs in your market, that’s what PlanHub is built for, and it’s a real strength. There’s value in a room full of people you haven’t met yet.
That’s a different job than the one KNTRCTR does, and worth being straight about.
Subs find or get invited to jobs, then submit their bids into the platform. The tools are mostly manual, line them up, look them over. For discovery and getting bids in from a broad pool, that works.
But it’s built for the introduction, not the long game. There’s no AI reading the bids for what’s buried in them. And there’s no memory. The sub you found last spring, how they actually performed once they were on your site, that doesn’t carry forward into your next decision.
KNTRCTR isn’t about finding new subs. It’s about the ones you already trust, the crews you run with job after job, and making the call on who gets the next one. Two things PlanHub doesn’t do: read the bids for what’s hiding in them, and remember how the last job went.
Why KNTRCTR
The whole loop
Anyone can read the number, the number’s easy. What’s hard is reading all the bids at once and catching what the low guy quietly left out, the exclusion buried deep that becomes a change order later. Rex AI scans the whole field in under ninety seconds, then reads every attachment and lines them up against each other, so the exclusion one sub buried and another didn’t jumps out. And you tell Rex AI what to look for, the exclusions your shop always gets burned on, the scope gaps specific to your trade, so it’s checking every bid against your standards, not a generic checklist. It surfaces what’s in each bid. You still make the call.
When the work’s done, the reviews kick in. Quality, timeliness, safety, cleanliness, budget, whether you’d run with them again. Locked once it’s in. Keep it private to you, share it with the sub, or put it out to your peers in the network. That review feeds the next bid, so next time this sub’s number comes across your desk, you know how the last job actually went. Not from your PM’s memory. From the record.
A structured bid form against your scope and expectations, unit pricing, exclusions with a reason, and more. No decoding six different formats to figure out who left what out.
Side by side, price against leveled price against past performance, all on one screen. Level the bids without losing the original number. See who’s really low and who just forgot half the scope.
Every job in its lifecycle, from open to awarded to complete. A teammate only sees a job if they’re on it. Need-to-know, no clutter, no digging.
Group related jobs under a project and get the aggregate, budgets, low bids, award amounts, status across every package. The view you’ve been keeping in a spreadsheet, built in.
One click and every bidder knows, winner and the rest. Then Job Kickoff opens: a shared checklist, contacts, notes, and a place to line up the insurance and contracts before anyone mobilizes. Compliance handled at award, when it actually matters, before the iron rolls.
Find your subs wherever you find them. When it’s time to decide who runs the job, and to remember how they did, that’s KNTRCTR.
Meeting a sub is easy. Knowing which one to trust with the job is the hard part. That’s the part KNTRCTR was built for.
Twenty minutes, no slide deck. We will run a tender end to end so you can see where KNTRCTR picks up what your current stack leaves on the table.
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