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Subcontractor Intelligence

40 Subs. Zero Scorecards.
Procore Can't Tell You Who's Reliable.

You manage 40 subcontractors. Which 5 are reliable? Which 3 are impacting your schedule? Which one is about to miss a critical handoff? You don't know — because Procore tracks documents, not performance.

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The Subcontractor Blind Spot

Four reasons your sub management is based on guesswork, not data

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No Sub Visibility

Procore tracks that subs exist. It stores their contracts and insurance certificates. But it cannot tell you which subs are performing well and which are dragging your project down. Documents are not performance.

02

Gut-Feel Management

Sub selection for the next project is based on relationships and memory. "We used them last time and it was fine." No data. No scoring. No accountability trail. The same underperforming sub gets rehired because nobody tracked the problems.

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Handoff Chaos

The gap between when one sub finishes and the next starts costs you schedule days. Nobody tracks handoff efficiency — how many days are lost in transitions between trades. Across 40 subs, those gaps add up to weeks.

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No Accountability Data

During disputes, you need to prove a sub’s historical performance. With Procore, you’d need to manually reconstruct their record from scattered daily logs and change orders across multiple projects. POD has it scored and ranked automatically.

How POD Scores What Procore Ignores

Multi-Dimensional Sub Scoring

POD scores every subcontractor across five dimensions: cost performance, schedule reliability, quality metrics, safety record, and handoff efficiency. Each dimension produces a score, and an overall composite score lets you rank all subs at a glance.

AI Handoff Tracking

POD measures the gap between trade transitions — days lost between one sub finishing and the next starting. Which handoffs are smooth? Which cost you a week every time? AI identifies the worst transition pairs and alerts you before the next one.

Performance Trending

Sub scores aren’t static. POD tracks performance over time so you can see if a sub is improving or declining. A sub scoring 85 today but trending down at 3 points per month is a future problem. You’ll know before it hits your schedule.

Risk Flagging

If one sub handles 40% of your contract value and their performance is declining, that’s concentrated risk. POD flags risk concentration, declining scores, and handoff bottlenecks before they become schedule delays or cost overruns.

Procore vs POD: The Subcontractor Performance Matrix

Procore gives you zero performance data. POD scores eight subs across five dimensions — watch the rankings emerge.

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Stores contracts and COIs. No performance data. No scoring. No rankings.

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PODPOD

Scores every sub across 5 dimensions. Rankings update with every field report.

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CostSchedQualitySafetyHandoffRankApex Electric00000#2Summit Mech.00000#5Titan Concrete00000#3Pinnacle Steel00000#6Horizon Drywall00000#7Delta Plumbing00000#1Vanguard HVAC00000#8Atlas Roofing00000#490+80-8970-79<70

Subcontractor Intelligence — Performance Scored, Risk Quantified

Handoff efficiency and contract tracking updated with every field report

Handoff Efficiency

POD
Target: 1d
Coastal 0.0dIroncladIronclad0.0dApex EleApex Ele0.0dSummit MSummit M0.0dPacific
Avg Gap0.0d
Days Lost0
Idle Cost$0
On Time1/4
Summit Mechanical Pacific Plumbing worst handoff at 4.0d vs 0.0d planned, $7.2K idle cost

Sub Contract Tracker

POD
$9.8M Total
Civil WorksCivil
+$0$0
0% billed$0 retained
Steel CoStructural
+$0$0
0% billed$0 retained
PowerTechElectrical
+$0$0
0% billed$0 retained
Mech/ElecMechanical
+$0$0
0% billed$0 retained
Facade IncEnvelope
+$0$0
0% billed$0 retained
Original$0
Revised$0
Billed$0
Retainage$0
5 subcontracts totaling $9.8M54% billed, $532K retainage held

Data-Driven Sub Accountability

Composite Scoring

Five dimensions weighted into one score per sub. Compare all 40 subs on a single ranked leaderboard updated weekly.

Contract vs Performance

Contract value vs billed vs earned, scope remaining, cost performance index — all tracked per sub with every pay app.

Safety Integration

Sub safety records feed directly into their score. Incident rates, near-miss reporting, toolbox talk attendance — all weighted.

Cross-Project History

POD tracks sub performance across all your projects. Hiring decisions backed by data from every job they’ve worked on.

Handoff Gap Analysis

Measure transition time between trades. Identify which sub combinations produce the longest gaps and why.

Automatic Updates

Scores update with every field report and pay application. No manual data entry, no spreadsheet maintenance.

What we hear from the industry: “Our worst sub last year is our biggest sub this year. Why? Because nobody tracked their performance systematically. They bid low, we hired them again, and now we're dealing with the same quality issues on a bigger project.”

— The problem POD was built to solve

Frequently Asked Questions

Stop Guessing. Start Scoring.

See how POD ranks every subcontractor across cost, schedule, quality, safety, and handoff efficiency.

Last updated: March 2026