You award.Kickoff opens on the same job.
After you award, Job Kickoff is the shared space the lead contractor and the awarded sub use before anyone hits the site.
Insurance, contracts, site contacts, safety items, and notes sit here instead of inboxes and folders. Discussion stays on the job for the conversation around that handoff.
Award is the handoff.The Job Kickoff tab opens.
Winner and everyone else hear at the same time. On the awarded job, Job Kickoff becomes the workspace both companies share. It is not a new file. It is the same job record.
- Both companies see the same checklist, documents, and notes.
- Add teammates when estimating is done and the field needs the picture.
- Kickoff locks to this award. A different sub does not inherit this list.
Harbour St watermain replacement
Parker Civil · awarded to Northline Excavating
Job Kickoff
Shared with Northline Excavating. Checklist, documents, and notes for start of work live on this job.
Lead
Parker Civil
Awarded sub
Northline Excavating
Checklist, files, and notes.Both sides work the same list.
Either company can check items off. Each company uploads its own documents, tagged Insurance, Contract, Safety, and the rest. Notes are plain text with line breaks kept, so the crew can read them on a phone.
- Insurance certificate, contract, site contacts, and safety sit in one place.
- Send Update emails the other company when you change the page.
- Defaults belong to the posting company. Each side can only delete lines it added.
Harbour St watermain replacement
Parker Civil · awarded to Northline Excavating
Kickoff Documents
Both companies can upload and view.
- Contract
Harbour-St-subcontract.pdf
Parker Civil
- Insurance
Northline-COI-2027.pdf
Northline Excavating
- Safety
Site-specific-HASP.pdf
Northline Excavating
Kickoff Checklist
Either company can check items off.
- Insurance certificate on file
- Contract uploaded
- Site contacts shared
- Pre-job safety meeting booked
Kickoff Notes
Laydown is the north lot. Traffic control starts 6:30 AM. Site contacts: Maya Chen (Parker), Tom Reid (Northline).
Estimating hands it to the field.The thread stays on this job.
Add the people who need the picture. Kickoff is the structured handoff. Discussion is the conversation. Both stay tied to this job so the next estimator is not hunting an inbox.
- Multiple teammates can sit on the same job. Each person has their own login.
- Bring them in while bids are open, right after award, or once kickoff is moving.
- The job does not leave with the estimator who posted it.
Harbour St watermain replacement
Parker Civil · awarded to Northline Excavating
On this job
Each person has their own login.
Alex Rivera
Estimator · Parker Civil
Priya Shah
Project manager · Parker Civil
Tom Reid
Foreman · Northline Excavating
Send Update
Email Northline Excavating that kickoff changed.
Contract and insurance are up. Site contacts still need a name from your side.
Send UpdateAfter award, before the site.
What is Job Kickoff?
After a job is awarded, Job Kickoff is a shared space for the lead contractor and the awarded sub to get aligned before and during start of work.
Both sides can share important documents, work through a mutual checklist, and leave notes—so insurance, contracts, site contacts, safety items, and handoff details sit in one place on the job record instead of scattered across inboxes and folders.
It works alongside the job's Discussion tab: kickoff for structured handoff and files, discussion for ongoing conversation—both tied to the same job.
Can our team members work on the same job together?
Yes. You can add your own company teammates to a job at any point: while bids are open, right after award, or when you are deep into kickoff. Bring the right people in when you need them.
Multiple teammates can sit on the same job. Each person you add sees that job on their own dashboard. Everyone uses their own login. No shared passwords.
That is people from your own company. Who you invite to bid is a different block: invite lists, email invites, and whether the job stays private. In the dash that invite block is labeled Crew Control, so the names are easy to mix. It is not your own crew.
Estimating and procurement can hand off cleanly, or you can line up teammates before award and expand the team after, so Job Kickoff starts with everyone who needs to be in the room.
Can I organize multiple jobs under one larger project?
Yes. KNTRCTR lets you group related jobs into Projects so a larger site, phase, or contract does not turn into a pile of disconnected requests.
For example, you might post separate jobs for excavation, trucking, utilities, and concrete, then group them under the same Project on your dashboard. That gives your team a cleaner view of who priced what, who was awarded, and who was on site.
It also keeps the history documented for the future. If you ever need to look back at a specific project, you can return to that Project view and see the subcontracted jobs tied to that work instead of digging through every job one by one.
Award is not the end of the file. It is when the field gets the picture.
Kickoff, discussion, and the review that follows all sit on the same job.