BuildGuild
Notebooks and chat threads
Contractors juggle many sites, rotating crews, material orders and client payments in notebooks, spreadsheets and endless WhatsApp groups.
Built for India 🇮🇳
The construction app built for how India actually builds.
One mobile app for everyone on the site — contractors, architects, interior designers, homeowners and the crews who build. Attendance, wages, materials and money, in the palm of your hand. Even when the signal drops.
The problem
India's building sites still run on paper, WhatsApp and memory.
Wage maths and disputes
Daily wages, half-days, overtime and cash advances are worked out by hand. Every week brings disagreements over who worked what — and who is owed what.
Homeowners can't see their build
Families spend their life savings on a home but have no clear view of progress, spending or approvals once construction begins.
The idea
One app for everyone on the site — from the architect to the mason.
BuildGuild connects the whole construction value chain in a single app. Each person gets a view made for their job, and everyone works from the same live project.
Contractors
Run sites, crews, attendance, wages, materials and client payments.
Architects
Drawings, revisions, approvals and site supervision — with an audit trail.
Interior designers
Room-by-room furnishing, from moodboard to installation.
Homeowners
Find trusted professionals, plan costs and watch their home being built.
Site crews
Masons, plumbers, electricians, carpenters — see tasks, mark attendance, see pay.
A contractor can add a crew and clients with just their phone numbers. When they install the app, their work history is already waiting — so every new site brings new people into the network.
Only on BuildGuild
More than site management: tools to win work and run a business.
Most construction apps stop at the site. BuildGuild also helps professionals get found, sell clear packages and earn from leftover stock, all in the same app they use every day.
Public profile
A shop window for every professional.
Contractors, architects and interior designers publish a professional profile that homeowners can search, compare and trust.
- Brand and portfolio: business name, about, past work and service area.
- Specialisations for each discipline, plus GSTIN for credibility.
- Search and reviews: homeowners find pros by city, discipline and rating.
- Draft → Published: go live only when the profile is ready.
Construction packages
Turnkey packages, priced the Indian way.
Contractors publish clear, tiered packages priced per square foot, so homeowners know exactly what they get before they call.
- Four tiers: Basic, Classic, Premium and Luxury.
- ₹ per sq ft by city tier, matching how India prices a build.
- Spelled-out specifications: structure, bricks, concrete grade, flooring, doors and windows, bathrooms, electricals, paint.
- Add-ons like solar water heater, EV charging point, borewell and elevation design.
- Side-by-side compare so homeowners can choose with confidence.
Resale marketplace
Turn leftover material into money.
Every build ends with surplus: extra bags of cement, spare tiles, offcut steel. BuildGuild lets professionals list leftovers so buyers nearby can find them.
- Post in seconds, straight from a project's surplus stock or the materials catalogue.
- Price per unit with photos, listed by city.
- Anyone can browse, including homeowners on a budget.
- Call or WhatsApp the seller directly. Simple and familiar.
Mobile-first
Built for the phone in a site worker's pocket — not a desk.
Construction happens outdoors, on dusty sites with patchy signal and everyday smartphones. BuildGuild is designed for that reality from day one.
Works offline
Attendance and task updates save on the phone and sync automatically when the signal comes back.
Simple for every worker
Big buttons, plain words, one job per screen — and voice notes so a worker can speak a progress update.
Android and iOS
One app on both platforms, tuned to run well on the affordable phones used on Indian sites.
Speaks the site's language
Bags, brass and cft. Rupees with Indian grouping. Cash, UPI and bank records.
Built for India 🇮🇳
Made in India, for India's construction sites.
BuildGuild is focused entirely on the Indian market — starting with residential and small-commercial construction in India's fast-growing cities and towns. It isn't a foreign tool translated for India; it's built around how Indian sites actually work.
India-onlyTarget market at launch
Tier 1 & 2Cities in our first wave
MumbaiProduction hosted in AWS ap-south-1
+91Phone-number sign-in
Why now: global construction software assumes salaried staff, desktop users and card payments. India builds on daily wages, UPI and smartphones — and that gap has never been properly filled.
Indian from the ground up
Daily wages (dihari) & advances
Bags · brass · cft · quintal
₹12,50,000 — Indian grouping
UPI · cash · bank · cheque
City-tier rates
GSTIN on profiles
Vastu guidance
Monsoon-aware schedules
+91 OTP sign-in
WhatsApp & call-first contact
Local trade names — mistri, beldar
Speaking more of India's languages
English at launch, with every screen ready for translation. Indian languages are on the roadmap.
हिन्दीதமிழ்తెలుగుमराठीবাংলাಕನ್ನಡગુજરાતીമലയാളം
How we build
Built AI-first: a tiny team shipping like a big one.
BuildGuild is developed with AI coding agents (Claude Code) as full members of the engineering team. A founder sets the product direction; AI agents help design, write, test and review the code against a written playbook of the Indian construction domain.
Domain knowledge written down once
Indian units, daily-wage rules, trades, payments and brand rules live in a shared playbook the AI follows on every task. It doesn't have to re-learn them each time.
Plan → build → verify, every change
Each feature starts as a written plan, is built in small focused steps, and has its decisions recorded in a daily engineering log.
Quality enforced by machines
Every change must pass type checks, lint rules, brand checks and automated tests before it ships. End-to-end tests drive the real app on a phone.
Humans own the risky calls
Anything touching money, data or permissions needs a human decision. AI speeds up the work; it doesn't make those choices.
Why it matters
Speed without cutting corners
- Fast iteration: field-pilot feedback becomes a tested fix in days, not months.
- Lean costs: a small team can build and run a product this deep.
- Consistent quality: the same rules, tests and brand checks apply to every screen.
- Next: AI inside the product, such as smarter cost estimates and progress insights from site photos.
~4 monthsFrom first commit to field pilot
500+Commits
100+Mobile screens
1,300+Automated tests
Where we are
Built, tested, and heading to the field.
Built
A deep, working product
- 100+ mobile screens across 5 user types
- Public profiles, packages and resale marketplace
- Cloud backend live, app builds in testing
Now
Field pilot
- Real contractors and crews on real Indian sites
- Learning from daily use, fast iterations
Next
Public launch
- Play Store and App Store release in India
- Hindi and more Indian languages
Early access
Be first on site.
Are you a contractor, architect, interior designer or homeowner in India? Join the pilot and help shape BuildGuild.
Request early access