By TIM · August 2026 · 8 min read
CoConstruct is sunsetting: new projects cannot be added after March 31, 2027, and full platform access ends in April 2027, with all users required to migrate to Buildertrend. For US boutique construction and remodeling businesses that built their estimating and project workflows inside CoConstruct over several years, the real migration challenge is not choosing replacement software — it is the operational work of transferring cost catalogs, proposal templates, client records, and active project timelines while live jobs continue. That work requires a person, a process, and dedicated time. Selecting a new platform does not cover any of it.
CoConstruct was acquired by Buildertrend in February 2021. At the time of the acquisition, the official position was explicit: there were no plans to shut down CoConstruct. Both platforms would continue operating. For the construction businesses that had spent years building cost catalogs, proposal templates, and client histories inside CoConstruct, that assurance mattered.
The position changed. According to CoConstruct's official migration resources, the timeline now in effect is as follows:
| Date | What Happens |
|---|---|
| February 2021 | Buildertrend acquires CoConstruct. Official statement: no plans to close the platform. |
| 2026 | Sunset process begins. New feature development on CoConstruct stops. Buildertrend migration support goes live. |
| March 31, 2027 | Final deadline to add new projects in CoConstruct. Any project not initiated before this date must start in Buildertrend. |
| April 2027 | Full CoConstruct access ends. All data, workflows, and active projects must be operating in Buildertrend by this date. |
For a business currently running 8 to 12 active projects with a cost catalog, proposal library, and client database built over multiple years, “migrate by April 2027” is not a simple switch. It is an operational project with its own scope, timeline, and resource requirements — running in parallel with the revenue-generating work the business cannot stop.
The conversation most CoConstruct users are having right now is a software question: which platform do we move to? Buildertrend is the official destination, but JobTread, Projul, Knowify, and others have all stepped into the traffic. There is no shortage of comparison content, feature breakdowns, or alternative lists.
That is a reasonable question to ask. It is not the hard question.
The hard question is: who is going to do the migration?
When a construction business moves to a new project management platform, the software transfers nothing. Every piece of operational data currently in CoConstruct — cost catalog line items, labor rates, markup structures, proposal templates, client records, active project schedules, subcontractor contacts, payment histories — must be manually reviewed, reformatted, and re-entered into the new system. The new platform has different field structures, different category logic, different template architecture. Bulk import tools exist but they rarely transfer cleanly without significant correction and validation.
Beyond the data transfer, there is a retraining requirement. Field crews, project managers, estimators, and office staff who have built workflows in CoConstruct need to learn new processes — during a period when active jobs are running, clients are expecting deliverables, and nothing about the business's revenue cycle has paused.
This is not a software problem. A subscription to a new platform can be purchased in an afternoon. The operational work that follows — the data entry, the template rebuilding, the record migration, the parallel system management, the team retraining — requires the focused hours of someone who is not simultaneously managing client calls, estimating new jobs, and supervising field crews. That is a labor problem. Most small construction businesses do not have a spare person to absorb it, which is exactly why most migrations happen slowly, incompletely, and with data integrity issues that surface months later. For more on why software adoption breaks down at the operational layer even when the product is strong, see why most job costing software stops being used within 90 days.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median wage for an office and administrative support role is $44,080 per year — $3,670 per month before benefits, management overhead, and turnover costs. An operations role that could absorb and manage a migration of this scope would represent exactly that investment. For the businesses that do not have that person on staff, the migration burden falls on the owner or an already-stretched office manager — and the tradeoffs are predictable: either the migration moves slowly and leaves gaps, or the active business pays the cost while the owner's attention is elsewhere.
A complete CoConstruct migration is not a single data export. It is a sequence of distinct tasks, each with its own time requirement and its own opportunity for things to go wrong if they are not handled carefully.
| Migration Task | What It Involves | Est. Hours | Who Handles It |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost catalog transfer | Export all line items, labor rates, material costs, markup structures; reformat for new platform's data schema | 8–20 hrs | Admin or owner |
| Proposal template rebuild | Recreate estimate templates in new system's format — each template typically 1–3 hours to rebuild | 6–18 hrs | Estimator or owner |
| Active client record migration | Transfer current and recent clients: contact info, project history, payment records, communication logs | 4–10 hrs | Admin |
| Active project data import | Move open project timelines, task lists, budget tracking, change order history, milestone records | 10–30 hrs | PM or owner |
| Subcontractor and vendor list rebuild | Recreate all sub contacts, rates, insurance docs, and history in new system | 2–6 hrs | Admin |
| Team training — field and office | Train all platform users on new workflows; build SOPs for recurring tasks | 8–20 hrs | Owner or trainer |
| Parallel operation window | Running both systems simultaneously to prevent data loss during transition | 4–8 weeks of overhead | All staff |
| Data integrity audit | Verify migrated data for errors and missing records before fully decommissioning CoConstruct | 4–8 hrs | Owner or PM |
Total estimated migration work: 42–110 focused hours, concentrated in a 4 to 8 week window while the business continues normal operations.
That is a real project — with a real resource requirement — that no software vendor executes for you.
The businesses that navigate this smoothly do one of two things: they either have a dedicated operations or admin role whose primary job for the transition period is the migration itself, or they bring in outside operational capacity to manage it. The ones that struggle try to absorb the migration across an already-full team, with no dedicated owner, no defined timeline, and no systematic process for the data transfer.
TIM is not a CoConstruct alternative. This page is not comparing TIM to Buildertrend, JobTread, or any other platform. If you are evaluating which project management software to land on, that is a separate decision — and there are plenty of resources to help you make it.
TIM Is Digital Labor
TIM is a business operating system for US service businesses with 1 to 15 employees running high-ticket projects. TIM handles the operational work that the migration requires: catalog setup and formatting, template builds, client record migration, active project data entry, team onboarding support, and the ongoing system maintenance once the transition is complete.
The distinction matters because the software decision and the migration execution are two separate problems. Choosing a platform takes hours. Executing the migration correctly — without dropping active projects, without data integrity failures, without losing the estimating accuracy built up over years of CoConstruct use — that requires the sustained, organized effort of someone doing that work full-time for a defined period.
TIM handles lead follow-ups, professional quotes, project tracking, payment requests, and client communication — the operational work that keeps a service business running. A platform migration is a concentrated version of exactly that work. TIM is built for it.
TIM is priced against the $4,000/month salary of the operations role it replaces, not against $20/month software. For a business facing 40 to 100 hours of concentrated migration work on top of a full project schedule, that comparison is worth making before committing to a timeline. For a full view of how TIM fits into the operational layer of a high-ticket service business: see how it works.
TIM does not offer a free trial or an open signup. TIM engages selectively — because TIM is accountable for outcomes, not for activating accounts.
If you are a US-based remodeling or custom construction business with 1 to 15 employees, currently running on CoConstruct, and approaching the migration with limited internal capacity to absorb the work correctly — tell us about your operation. We will take an honest look at whether there is a fit, what the migration would involve, and whether TIM is the right match for where you are.