Beam
6.8#8 in home builder softwareFree planFree planWeb
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Build Method
7.6#4 in home builder softwareFrom $99 a monthAndroidiOSWeb
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| Fact | Beam | Build Method |
|---|---|---|
| Company size | LinkedIn lists Beam as privately held with 11–50 employees. | Crunchbase reports a 1–10 employee headcount. |
| Estimating | Its AI Assistant turns plans, takeoffs, or notes into professional proposals and learns a contractor’s pricing and style. | Estimating supports cost items, templates, allowances, vendor pricing, takeoffs and conversion into budgets and invoices. |
| Financial tools | The product suite includes invoicing and online payments, bill payment, expense management, job costing, and lien waiver management. | The product includes estimating, budgets, purchase orders, expenses, invoicing, and customer payments. |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Crunchbase places the company in Broomfield, Colorado, United States. |
| Integrations | Beam integrates with QuickBooks Online and lists partners including CompanyCam, busybusy, Dash Solutions, RenoFi, and XactRemodel. | The pricing page lists QuickBooks, Xero, and Google Calendar as integrations available across all plans. |
| Invoicing | Users can send invoices, manage change orders and accept online payments through a client portal. | Invoicing includes progress and milestone billing, payment-status tracking and links to estimates, budgets and change orders. |
| Purpose | Beam provides AI and financial tools that automate spreadsheets and paperwork for construction businesses. | Build Method describes itself as construction management software for contractors, builders, and remodelers to manage projects, schedules, documents, and client communication. |
| Security | Beam says it encrypts data in transit with HTTPS and TLS and tokenizes sensitive data such as bank account and card numbers rather than storing the actual data. | The features page says project documents can be shared securely. |
Beam plans
- CoreFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
- Plus—
- Scale—
Build Method plans
- 1 User$99 a month
- 1 User$99 a month
- 2 Users$149 a month
- 2 Users$179 a month
- 4 Users$199 a month
- 4 Users$239 a month
Pick Beam if…
Beam is designed for small and midsized contractors, including home builders, remodelers, specialty trade contractors, and commercial general contractors. It may suit teams seeking estimating, project, and financial tools in one web-based product.
Pick Build Method if…
It suits construction businesses that need project, financial, client, and subcontractor coordination in one service. Teams should note that plans are priced by user tier, while Enterprise allows unlimited users.