Contract types that flex per job
Fixed price, cost-plus, or time & materials with a not-to-exceed cap — set it once per job and Foundry bills, tracks budget, and reports profitability the way that job is actually priced.
Foundry for light commercial builders
Foundry doesn't make you pick a lane. Track budgets vs. actual, price change orders, and bill the job the way it's actually written — fixed price, cost-plus, or time & materials with a not-to-exceed cap — without switching tools or re-learning a workflow.
Across both NAHB's 2023 Remodelers study and 2025 Builders study, the gap between the most and least profitable companies concentrates on the same line: cost of sales. Top quartiles spend 5–10 percentage points less of revenue on labor, materials, and subs than bottom quartiles — on near-identical revenue and overhead. — NAHB, Remodelers' Cost of Doing Business Study & The Cost of Doing Business Study (2023 & 2025 Editions)
A custom home is fixed price. The build-out next door is T&M with a not-to-exceed cap. Most software picks one contract type and makes you force-fit the other. Foundry handles fixed, cost-plus, and T&M/NTE on the same dashboard.
Light commercial clients expect a priced CO back the same day, not the same week. Foundry captures the change, prices it against the budget, and gets it signed before the sub shows back up.
The same crew framing a house Monday and running a build-out Tuesday still needs labor landing on the right job, the right code, the right margin. Foundry doesn't care which job type it is.
A homeowner might let a missing signature slide. A property manager or GC won't. Every CO, approval, and invoice in Foundry is tied to a real signature and timestamp.
Light commercial work often comes with retainage held back until closeout, or milestone-based draws instead of a simple deposit-progress-final structure. Foundry tracks it the way the contract is actually written, job by job.
Fixed price, cost-plus, or time & materials with a not-to-exceed cap — set it once per job and Foundry bills, tracks budget, and reports profitability the way that job is actually priced.
The same crew, the same cost codes, whether they're framing a custom home or running a light commercial build-out. Budgets and profitability roll up the same way across your whole pipeline.
Price the change, get it signed, and watch the budget update automatically. Nothing gets built on a verbal handshake.
Set up draws, holdbacks, and retainage per job — Foundry tracks what's owed, what's held back, and when it releases, without a separate spreadsheet.
Foundry is in private beta with a handful of builders who mix residential and light commercial work. Get on the list — we'll be in touch with onboarding and pricing.