Industries · Construction

Construction operations, coordinated.

Change orders, RFIs, invoices, approvals, and subcontractor coordination. Currently deployed.

One change order touches five systems and four people before anyone gets paid.

Procore or Buildertrend for the project. QuickBooks or Sage for the money. Email for the decisions, spreadsheets for everything in between. The tools are fine. The coordination between them is where the job leaks.

The operating model

Every record enters once. The layer does the walking.

Today each of these systems is wired to the others by a person: re-keying, forwarding, chasing. Navon sits underneath as one coordination layer. A change order, an RFI, or a pay app enters once, routes itself, and lands in the system that owns it, with the hand-offs logged.

Your systems stay. The re-keying goes.

Project MgmtAccountingEmailSpreadsheetsDocuments
Coordination layer
CO-1042 · Change orderOpened in Procore
INV-2205 · InvoiceMatched to PO
RFI-208 · Steel packageRouted to PM
Every hand-off logged

How the money moves

The change order lifecycle.

Field request to paid invoice. Five stages that today sit in five systems, owned by five people, updated by hand.

With Navon, one record carries the change order end to end. This is the first thing we automate.

Deployed today

The construction operating layer.

Change orders, RFIs, pay applications, and subcontractor records moving through one governed layer that reads and writes the systems you already run.

  • Intake from email, photo, or voice memo; the field crew installs nothing
  • Approval chains with a named owner at every step
  • Procore, Buildertrend, QuickBooks, and Sage stay the systems of record

Delivered: live in production construction operations today.

Job record · Harbor Tower
CO-1042 · Harbor Tower
Matched to PO-889
Approved
RFI-208 · Steel package
Routed to the PM by trade
Answered
Pay App #14 · Meridian
Reconciled against commitments
Variance held
COI · Apex Electric
Expiry watched automatically
Renewal due
Every hand-off logged · Procore + QuickBooks stay synced
Where automation lands

Six workflows we automate first.

Identified by the teams running the work today. Each one replaces something a person is doing manually. We build them as discrete engagements, in priority order. Pick one to see it as it runs.

Change order intake

Field requests come in via email, photo, or voice memo. Navon classifies the scope, routes to the estimator, and opens the record.

ReplacesManual logging in three systems

Change order queue
CO-1043 · Field photo
Scope classified
Routed
CO-1044 · Voice memo
Transcribed + opened
Estimating
CO-1045 · Unclear scope
Foreman pinged
Awaiting info
Where Navon fits

Advisory leads. Automations do the work. The platform hosts it.

For construction specifically, here is what each practice line looks like.

Advisory

We start inside the job.

Interviews with estimators, PMs, and accounting. Walk-throughs of the change order flow, the RFI log, the pay app cycle. Written findings, phased plan, operator sign-off before anything gets built.

AI automations & agents

Intake, routing, rollups.

Change order intake from field signals. RFI routing by trade and project. Subcontractor doc classification. Invoice reconciliation against commitments. Where the work justifies it, managed agents carry a flow end to end, always inside an approval path with a named owner.

Platform

The layer underneath.

Change orders, RFIs, invoices, approvals, subcontractor records. All in one place with structured ownership, and Nova, the operations assistant, working inside it. Pulls from and writes to Procore, Buildertrend, QuickBooks, and Sage. Runs in your cloud, your VPC, or fully local. Your existing systems stay.

See where this lands inside your operation.

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FAQ

Construction-specific questions.

The operational questions construction buyers ask before the first call.

How does this work with Procore or Buildertrend?

Navon sits alongside your existing project management system, not as a replacement. The platform pulls from and writes to whatever you run today. The automations remove the coordination work that these tools were never designed to handle.

Do I need to centralize on Navon before any of this works?

No. Advisory starts by mapping how your operation actually runs. Automations get built against the systems you already have. Centralization happens only where it genuinely reduces coordination cost, never as a blanket migration.

What about field teams that do not use computers much?

The intake automations accept email, photo, voice memo, and text. Field teams send a picture and a sentence; Navon does the classification and logging on the back end. No new app to install for the crew.

What does the first engagement usually look like?

An operational audit. We spend time with estimators, PMs, and accounting. At the end you get a written picture of where time and money are leaking and a phased plan for what to automate first. Usually one to two weeks.

Where does our project data live?

Wherever it has to. Procore, Buildertrend, QuickBooks, and Sage stay the systems of record where they are today. The Navon layer runs in your cloud, in your VPC, or fully local, depending on your requirements, and that is decided during the evaluation, not retrofitted later.

Are you deployed in production today?

Yes. Construction is the first industry where the full Navon stack (advisory, automations, platform) runs live. The specifics of the current deployment are available on request.
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