How Lonehelm watches
Five strands. One morning digest. The rest is silence.
Lonehelm compares the schedule the GC records against the schedule the jobs actually run, every night. The five strands below are the only signals that earn the morning digest — anything else waits for the recap.
Permits
License and permit expirations tracked to the day. Lonehelm flags anything expiring inside 30 days, so the renewal is filed before the city sends a notice.
Window: expiry within 30 days
Inspections
Rough-in, insulation, and final inspections watched against the project schedule. Anything due inside 72 hours rises to the top — reschedules pushed by the city land the same morning.
Window: due within 72 hours
Trades
The supers post a daily log; the agent compares against the scheduled trade. A missed-day tradesperson remark becomes a drift flag the next morning — not three weeks later when the homeowner asks.
Triggers: scheduled vs. actual
Budget
A line item that crosses its allowance gets flagged the day it crosses, not the month the P&L catches up. The headline risks stay one tile, never buried.
Triggers: line vs. allowance
Weekly homeowner update
Every Friday the agent drafts a clean photo-and-milestone recap from the photos and trade notes the week produced — the one homeowners actually want to read. You approve or edit before it goes out; the agent never sends on your behalf.
Cadence: Friday draft, human-approved before send
Why we built this
Because the GC who can't afford a project manager is the one who needs one most.
Lonehelm started with a builder on the south side of Portland running twelve jobs at a clip with his brother-in-law and a roster of four regular subs. He had Buildertrend. He had a spreadsheet. What he didn't have was the second pair of eyes that knows the rough-in is tomorrow and the permit renewal expires on Friday.
That's what Lonehelm is. Not a replacement for the tools you already pay for. A nightly reviewer that reads them — and only spends your attention on the one or two items that drift.
We don't replace your estimating, scheduling, or accounting software. We read what they record, watch it against what the supers post, and tell you the one thing that needs you today.
Good questions
What residential GCs ask first.
If we're building the thing you'd hire a project manager to do, you should know how it sits next to the tools you already pay for.
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Homeowner communications
Data & offboarding
Who it’s not for
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