
Ardaro
Ardaro is a web platform for construction companies and skilled-trade contractors, covering project-based and service-based operations.
What Ardaro is
Ardaro is a web platform for construction companies and skilled-trade contractors, covering project-based and service-based operations. It connects estimating and scheduling with field activity, actual costs, customer progress, and closeout. Estimating links measurements, takeoffs, labor, material allowances, scope, exclusions, revisions, and proposals. Job costing compares planned costs with receipt- and time-backed actuals, including variance, recovery, and job-level margin context. Guided browser speech recognition turns prompts about completed work, measurements, materials, conditions, requests, access, scope, and next steps into editable drafts that users review and explicitly save. Ardaro says microphone audio may be sent to the browser’s speech provider; Ardaro receives editable text for in-memory analysis and does not receive or store that audio. A single-job customer portal shares approved records while keeping internal information private.
Good
- Connects estimating through closeout
- Guided voice field-note drafts
- Tracks planned and actual job costs
- Single-job customer portal
- Browser-based access
Watch out
- No free plan or free trial
- Operations costs $149 a month
- Microphone audio may go to speech provider
Who it suits
It suits construction and skilled-trade businesses needing connected estimating, field, costing, customer, and closeout workflows. It can serve both project-based and service-based operations.
Verdict
Ardaro brings estimating, field notes, job costing, customer sharing, and closeout into one browser platform. Its paid plans and construction-focused scope make the intended audience clear.
Plans and prices
From Ardaro's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Cleaning Starter | $49 a month | Cleaning and property services only · 3D design and takeoff not included · $49/mo per workspace |
| Operations | $149 a month | Connected customer, work, field activity, money, files, and closeout workflows · $149/mo per workspace |
| Design & Takeoff | $199 a month | CAD/3D design · construction layouts · model takeoffs · material assemblies · pricing handoff · $199/mo per workspace |
| Founding Release | $199 a month | First 10 companies · arranged separately · availability and terms confirmed with Ardaro · $199/mo for 12 months |
| Complete | $249 a month | Field operations with 3D design and takeoff · $249/mo per workspace |
| Command | $499 a month | Workspace-wide design access · advanced controls, roles, SOPs, tools, and reports · $499/mo per workspace |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Custom scope for larger operating structures · arranged separately · From $1,500/mo |
The facts
Each one read from Ardaro's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The platform is currently focused on construction companies and skilled-trade contractors, including project-based and service-based operations.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Customer portal
- A single-job, accountless portal shares approved customer-facing records while keeping internal costs, suppliers, staff notes, and other jobs private.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Estimating
- The product connects measurements, takeoffs, labor, material allowances, scope, exclusions, revisions, and proposals to a job.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Field prompts
- Voice prompts cover completed work, measurements, materials, unexpected conditions, customer requests, access or scheduling issues, scope boundaries, and next steps.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Enterprise plan lists custom integrations and supplier catalogs; the pricing page says integrations are arranged separately with reviewed terms.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intelligence
- Ardaro says its insights distinguish measured facts, calculations, inferences, forecasts, and recommendations, with supporting evidence and limitations.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Ardaro connects contractor workflows from estimating and scheduling through field work, actual costs, customer progress, and closeout.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- Ardaro describes workspace boundaries, role-scoped access, access-controlled operational data, bounded change history, backups, restore procedures, monitoring, and controlled releases.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site offers a guided walkthrough and lists [email protected] and founder Brent Scott's phone number for contact.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Voice field notes
- Guided browser speech recognition prepares editable job and daily-work drafts that users review and explicitly save.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Voice privacy
- The browser may send microphone audio to its speech provider; Ardaro says it does not receive or store that audio and receives editable text for in-memory analysis.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free resources
- Ardaro provides ungated construction templates and a browser-based job-cost calculator without an account, email, or download requirement.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Job costing
- Ardaro tracks planned costs against receipt- and time-backed actuals, variance, recovery, and job-level margin context.checked 8 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform access
- The pages reviewed describe browser speech recognition and browser-based resources; they do not state availability of native desktop, mobile, extension, self-hosted, or API products.checked 8 Oct 2026
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