Builders · Custom, spec & production

You’re the bank until the draw clears.

Six subs, forty vendors, and twenty-two days between the concrete truck and the deposit that covers it. BLT holds the allowances, the change orders, and the draw package in the same ledger the field is filling all day.

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Finished dark-clad custom home at dusk
40+vendors on a single custom home
22 daysbetween the spend and the draw that covers it
0allowance overruns found at closing
10 secto post a supply house receipt to a phase
Two halves of one house

The truck fills the ledger. The desk draws on it.

In the field

The trip to the supply house is the accounting.

Your super is at Ferguson, the lumber yard, and the tile showroom four or five times a week. Each of those trips ends with a photograph, not a shoebox.

  • Receipt shot at the counter — BLT reads the line items and posts them to Plumbing · Fixtures before the truck leaves the lot
  • Selections photographed in the showroom and attached to the allowance line the owner picked against
  • Six subs clock in with a six-digit code, no app download, GPS on the row
  • Progress photos tagged to a phase, so percent complete on Friday is a count and not a feeling
  • Purchase request raised from the cab and approved before the lumber package ships
  • Basement with no bars — it captures offline and uploads on the drive home
In the office

The draw package is built from receipts you already have.

Nobody rebuilds the month on the 28th. The documentation the bank wants was created the day the money moved.

  • Percent complete per phase computed off real spend and real hours, then exported with the receipt images attached
  • Allowance lines tracked separately from hard costs — a $9,140 tile invoice is visible against a $6,000 allowance the day it posts, not at closing
  • Lien waivers collected per sub per draw; an unsigned conditional waiver holds that sub’s payment until it lands
  • Owner change orders priced, sent, and signed in the client portal, then written to Current with a who, a when, and a why
  • Sub invoices matched against the subcontract, so Committed drops only when the work is actually billed
  • Weekly close splits card from wire, records the draw deposit, and locks the period
Allowance variance 11 min ago
The tile allowance is $3,140 over before a bag of grout is opened. Allowance carried at $6,000. Arizona Tile invoice posted Tuesday at $9,140 — 620 sf of Calacatta at $14.20/sf plus $336 of trim and setting material. The allowance was written for a $7.50/sf porcelain. Nothing has been billed to the owner yet.
Draft the change order
Why this matters on a custom job

The allowance conversation goes better on Tuesday.

Every custom builder has had the same meeting: eleven allowance lines, all a little over, discovered together at the end. BLT names one line, on the day the invoice posts, with the square footage and the unit price already in the sentence.

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Allowances

Eleven lines the owner still gets to choose.

Allowances sit on their own lines with their own four numbers, so the base contract stays readable while the selections move.

Allowances Nicholson Rd · custom $64,180 / 96,500
LineBaselineCurrentCommittedActual
Tile & stone6,0006,0009,140 ↑
Plumbing fixtures14,00016,5004,22011,860
Lighting & fans9,5009,5002,1006,340
Appliances22,00024,00024,000
Cabinetry hardware3,2003,2002,980
Flooring31,00037,3009,40033,860
Allowance total85,70096,50039,72064,180
Appliances are $24,000 Committed and $0 Actual — ordered, approved, and not yet delivered. That is the number most builders don’t see until the invoice lands in the same week as a draw.
The draw

Four steps, none of them a scavenger hunt.

See the ledger

Start with the house you’re framing now.

One project free with every feature. Import last month’s spreadsheet and the allowance lines are live by lunch.