Built in the trade · Run on the job

Software built for the trades.

Eleven tools on one data spine — bidding, field ops, drawing markup, crew timesheets, takeoff & estimating, firestop, landscaping field service, union labor rates, and a free office suite. Built inside a working contractor, and shipped only when it saves an estimator, PM, or foreman time this week.

5branches running it
9union locals
12states of CBA data
11tools in production
The Suite

Nine tools. One spine.
All in production.

Each tool stands alone. Together, data entered once flows from first takeoff to final pay app — no retyping, no sync jobs, no exports.

Flagship · Bid management

BidWatt

Every bid, one board. A kanban pipeline your whole desk can see — and analytics that tell you where the money actually is.

  • Pipeline with multi-estimator scope assignment
  • Client CRM + win/loss analytics by GC and scope
  • AI spec scanning & bid-invite email intake
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Field operations

JobWatt

Awarded bids become jobs automatically. Then the field takes over — and the numbers come back honest.

  • PIN daily logs, photos & crew hours from a phone
  • Earned value: CPI & SPI by system, not vibes
  • AIA pay apps & SOV without spreadsheet hell
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Firestop bidding

FireWatt

The only cloud-native bid engine built for firestop. One pipeline from drawings to done: PDF takeoff → estimate → proposal → submittals.

  • On-drawing PDF takeoff with hierarchical breakouts
  • Penetration rate tables & UL-system matching logic
  • GC-ready proposals and submittal packages in minutes
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Union labor rates

SubWatt

Travel and subsistence straight from the CBAs. Tap a county on the map, get the rate — no PDF digging, no calls to the hall.

  • County-level lookup across 9 locals / 12 states
  • Zone & special-site overrides (Hanford handled)
  • Effective dates tracked as agreements change
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PDF markup & editing · Free

PDFWatt

A professional PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. Mark up specs, measure drawings, stamp and sign — files never leave your machine.

  • Text editing, callouts, clouds, stamps & saved signatures
  • Drawing-scale length and area measurement
  • OCR for scans, form filling, tables & charts — $0, forever
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Word processing · Free

WordWatt

A full word processor in your browser — Word-familiar ribbon, real pages, and it opens and saves genuine .docx files Microsoft Word reads natively.

  • Styles, lists, tables, pictures & page setup like Word
  • Saves real .docx — round-trips with Microsoft Word
  • No accounts, no uploads, no watermarks — $0, forever
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Spreadsheets · Free

SheetWatt

A full spreadsheet in your browser — 400+ Excel formulas, Excel shortcuts, and it opens and saves real .xlsx files Excel reads natively.

  • Formulas, filters, conditional formatting & number formats
  • Real .xlsx round-trip plus CSV import/export
  • Print window, autosave & recents — $0, forever
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PDF takeoff & estimating

WattEstimate

Rip plans, build estimates. On-drawing takeoff straight on the PDF — lengths, counts and areas become priced assemblies, assemblies become the bid.

  • Measure & count directly on the drawings
  • Assemblies price into the estimate as you take off
  • Recap by area & group — sign in with your JobWatt/BidWatt account
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Field progress markup

PlanWatt

The job walk, on the drawings. Tap any run on the plans to mark it done — the sheets keep score, and the GC gets a clean PDF.

  • Tap-to-select runs — vision parsing reads every sheet automatically
  • Progress & remaining views with live job % from your color legend
  • Photo pins, offline marking that syncs later & photo-strip PDF exports
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Crew timesheets

TimeWatt

Hours from the truck, not by text. The crew taps in ST/OT/DT per job; the construction manager approves with cost codes — and payroll gets the exact workbook it always has.

  • One-screen phone entry with "same as yesterday" one-tap days
  • Approval gated on cost codes — splits must sum to the hour
  • One-tap export to the master payroll workbook (.xlsx)
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Field service · Landscaping

LawnWatt

Quote-to-cash for landscaping crews: e-signed proposals, one-click optimized routes, an offline-first crew app, geofenced payroll, invoicing, and collections in one continuous loop.

  • Multi-crew route optimization with live GPS dispatch
  • Offline-first crew PWA — photos, signatures & completions sync exactly once
  • Satellite measure → live-priced proposals, invoicing & AR aging
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WattBot · Crew member #001

Not a chatbot.
A crew member.

WattBot is a friendly AI agent that runs on your computer — not in someone else's cloud. Give it work, not prompts. It ships loaded on a thumb drive: plug it in and put it on the crew.

Answers questionsSpecs, submittals, CBAs — plain English in, answers out.
Works across your filesReads folders of drawings, photos, and PDFs on your drive.
Sees imagesPoint it at jobsite photos or a marked-up plan.
Generates imagesMockups, markups, and one-off graphics on demand.
Pursues goalsHand it a task, not a prompt — it works the steps.
Learns over timeGets sharper on your jobs, your terms, your way.

⚡ Runs local models on your own hardware — bids, specs, and photos never leave the building.

WattBot — the Watt Systems AI crew member
Why it works

No magic. Just the job,
done right in software.

One connected spine

Project name, client, scopes, dates — entered once. A FireWatt estimate becomes a BidWatt bid; an awarded bid becomes a JobWatt job. Nothing gets retyped, so nothing drifts.

AI where it actually pays

Spec scanning, bid-invite email intake, job-health narratives — that's WattBot working. It reads and drafts; your people decide. If it doesn't save hours this week, it doesn't ship.

Built by the user

Most construction software is built by people who've never priced a job. This suite runs a real estimating desk and real field crews first — the product is the byproduct.

Shipped from the jobsite

Every screen exists because someone on a crew needed it that week. Feedback on Monday becomes a feature by Friday — that loop is the whole company.

About Watt Systems

The tools came first.
The company came second.

Watt Systems started inside a working mechanical insulation contractor — five branches across the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, real bids going out the door every day. BidWatt was built to run our own estimating desk. JobWatt followed the work into the field. FireWatt priced the firestop scope nobody had good software for. SubWatt ended the where's-the-travel-rate scramble for good.

There was never a pitch deck. There was a rule: if it doesn't save an estimator, PM, or foreman time this week, it doesn't ship. The name came later. The rule never changed.

“The pipeline board ended our Monday status meeting. Every estimator can see where every bid sits — nobody asks anymore.”

Chief Estimator · Pacific Northwest

“Daily logs actually get filled out now. Foremen do it from the truck in ninety seconds, photos and all.”

Operations Manager · Five-branch contractor

“I stopped rebuilding the same firestop math in Excel every bid. FireWatt just knows it.”

Senior Estimator · Firestop division
Fair questions.

Asked at every desk
we've sat at.

Can we run just one tool?
Yes. Every tool stands alone — plenty of shops start with just BidWatt or just SubWatt. The spine is simply there the day you add a second one, and your data connects without a migration.
Does it work in the field with bad service?
Yes. The field apps are offline-first — daily logs, photos, and hours save on the phone and sync when signal comes back. A dead zone doesn't stop a log.
Where does the union rate data come from?
Straight from the collective bargaining agreements — maintained across nine locals and twelve western states, with zone and special-site overrides (yes, including Hanford) and effective dates tracked as agreements change.
We already have a process. Will this fight it?
No — it was built inside a shop with a process. Statuses, scopes, breakouts, and templates are yours to shape. The tools bend to how your desk already runs; they don't hand you someone else's workflow.
Is the AI going to price my work?
No. WattBot reads, drafts, and flags — it scans specs, summarizes job health, finds rates. Estimators price the work. That line doesn't move.
WattBot runs on my machine — does my data leave the building?
No. WattBot ships on a USB drive and runs local models on your own hardware — bids, specs, and photos never leave the building.