They schedule the crews.POD reads the project.
Assignar is a workforce scheduling and compliance platform: crews dispatched, certifications verified, equipment allocated, timesheets in by five. It is good at getting the right people and gear to the right site. What it does not do is read the project those people are building. POD reads every timesheet, daily report, pay app, and schedule and tells you what is going wrong and why.
Assignar schedules the workforce: crews, certifications, equipment, and timesheets across your jobsites. POD reads the project and tells you what it means: which trades are past diminishing returns, which zone is the bottleneck, whether the critical path is holding, whether earned value is tracking. Keep the tool that schedules the crews. Add the one that reads the job. No sales call. Public pricing.
Transparent vs. Hidden Pricing
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The crews, scheduled. The project, read.
A scheduling platform gets everyone to site. This is what happens next, when the job is read.
The left column is a good Monday in a scheduling tool. The right column is the same Monday, read by POD. The loading numbers on the right also appear in the two live KPIs below.
Which one earns its place with you?
No spin. If the left describes you, Assignar earns its quote. If the right does, you need the read. Many teams run both.
Assignar fits when…
A workforce scheduling and compliance platform earns its cost here
- Scheduling crews and equipment across many jobsites is the daily problem
- Certifications, inductions, and training must be verified before anyone is dispatched
- Digital timesheets and custom forms are replacing paper for the field
- Who goes where tomorrow is the question you are answering
POD fits when…
You need to know what the project is telling you, not only who was sent to build it
- You need to know whether the crews you sent are actually moving the schedule
- Critical path, float, earned value, and CPI/SPI matter to you
- You want the project read every morning, not a report built by hand
- Your foremen would rather talk for 60 seconds than fill in a form
A Real POD Read — From Ordinary Rosters and Timesheets
Auto-generated from the rosters, timesheets, and daily reports the field already files. No workforce module required, no report to build.
Illustrative project: 2 of 5 trades past the 24-worker diminishing point; 3 of 5 zones in optimal range.
What each has. You decide.
On everything you both do, POD does more or better. Assignar keeps crew dispatch, and POD does not pretend otherwise. Every third-party figure links to its source.
| Capability | AssignarWorkforce scheduling & compliance | Plan of DayConstruction project-controls platform |
|---|---|---|
Everything you both do — POD does it better | ||
| Field-to-office communication | Strong field-to-office comms, forms & notifications an Assignar strength | ▲ BETTER 60-second voice reports, offline, AI-structured. The office sees them instantly and the morning brief reads them |
| Timesheets & daily forms | Digital timesheets & custom forms an Assignar strength | ▲ MORE Timesheets and daily reports are read, not just filed: labor hours become manpower efficiency, crew loading by zone & overtime ROI |
| Certification & compliance tracking | Certification, safety-training & compliance tracking an Assignar strength | ▲ MORE Training-compliance and compliance-countdown KPIs read from your records, plus the safety leading indicators below |
| Project scheduling | Workforce scheduling; no Gantt or critical-path analysis per SelectHub(source) | ▲ BETTER Reads your P6 (XER) or MS Project (XML export) schedule into a Gantt with critical path, float & SPI |
| Reporting | Custom reporting, noted as cumbersome per SelectHub(source) | ▲ BETTER Hundreds of KPIs auto-generated plus a daily morning brief. No report builder to configure |
| Workforce intelligence | Headcount, hours & allocation | ▲ MORE Manpower loading efficiency & crew loading by zone (the two KPIs above): which trades are past diminishing returns, which zone is the bottleneck |
Where POD Goes Further Assignar schedules the workforce and keeps it compliant. It does not read the project and tell you what is going wrong and why. This is the layer POD adds, on top of the dispatch board you keep. | ||
| AI read of every report & file | — | ▲ BETTER Every timesheet, daily report, photo, pay app & schedule is read by AI: insight, not a file list |
| Morning brief & executive narrative | — | ▲ BETTER An AI-written brief every morning: what changed overnight, what is at risk, what to do first |
| Earned value & pay-app intelligence | — | ▲ MORE CPI/SPI, earned value & pay-app reconciliation computed from your own files |
| Predictive safety analytics | — | ▲ MORE Leading indicators (fatigue, new-worker risk, schedule pressure) before the incident, not counts after |
| Voice-first field reporting | — | ▲ BETTER 60-second voice reports, offline, AI-structured in ten languages |
| Timeline playback | — | ▲ MORE A project DVR: scrub to any day and replay how the job got here |
| Ask POD & Tell POD | — | ▲ BETTER Ask POD any question about your project; Tell POD an update by voice |
Where Assignar stays your tool Assignar is genuinely good at this, and POD does not try to replace it. Keep it; POD reads what comes out of it. | ||
| Crew dispatch & asset allocation | Scheduling crews & equipment across projects, with certs checked before dispatch its core strength | BY DESIGN Not a dispatch board. POD reads the rosters, timesheets & reports that come out of it; keep Assignar for who goes where tomorrow |
The facts | ||
| Pricing model | Quote-only, priced by modules & users | Public, tiered by team — $299 → $2,499/mo, self-serve |
| Speed to value | Quoted & configured per contract | Minutes — upload a file or speak a report POD files & organizes every document, then reads each one to build your budget, schedule, EVM, reports, QA/QC and safety automatically. Then Ask POD anything, or Tell POD an update by voice. No configuration, no data entry. |
| Deployment | Cloud, with a mobile app for the field | SaaS, self-serve, offline field reporting |
| User rating | 86 / 100 analyst score SelectHub (97 reviews)(source) | — |
Assignar does not publish list pricing; every deal is quoted by modules and users, and this page does not estimate it. The analyst score and the scheduling and reporting notes are from the linked third-party review site (SelectHub) at the time of writing and may change. Comparison based on publicly available information. Assignar is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Assignar.
What POD Adds On Top
The intelligence layer over the rosters, timesheets, and reports the field already produces
Minutes, Not a Rollout
Upload a schedule or speak a report and see a dashboard today. No module configuration, no onboarding project, no sales call.
Reads the Files You Already Produce
Timesheets, daily reports, pay apps, budgets, P6 (XER) and MS Project (XML) schedules, photos. POD reads them and maps the data to KPIs automatically.
Hundreds of KPIs, Auto-Generated
Manpower efficiency, crew loading by zone, critical path, earned value, safety leading indicators. Animated dashboards with no report builder to configure.
Runs Alongside Your Dispatch Board
Keep Assignar for scheduling crews, verifying certifications, and allocating gear if it works for you. POD reads what comes out of it and adds the project read on top.
Voice-First Field Reporting
60-second voice reports the field will actually file, structured by AI in ten languages. No forms to fill in at the end of a ten-hour day.
Public, Self-Serve Pricing
Every price is published and tiered by team, not by module or user count. Start with a free trial, upgrade when you are ready, cancel anytime.
The Honest Take
If your problem is getting the right crews, with current certifications and the right gear, to the right site tomorrow, Assignar is built for that, and this page will not pretend otherwise. POD is for the next question: once they are there, is the project on schedule, on budget, and safe, and if not, why? Plenty of teams run both. Some find the read is the part they were missing.
Is POD your best match?
A short, honest self-check that scores your fit and tells you straight if a different kind of tool would serve you better. No sales pitch, no names, just an honest answer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Either. Assignar is a workforce scheduling and compliance platform: crews, certifications, equipment, and timesheets. POD is a project intelligence layer that reads the timesheets, daily reports, pay apps, and schedules your team already produces and turns them into dashboards, earned value, and AI insight. Many teams keep Assignar for dispatch and add POD for the read. If daily reporting and project health are the whole problem, POD alone covers it.
No. POD is not a dispatch board, on purpose. It reads the rosters, timesheets, and reports that come out of one and tells you whether the loading is working: which trades are past diminishing returns, which zone is the bottleneck, and whether the critical path is holding. If getting the right crews with current certifications to the right site tomorrow is the daily job, keep Assignar for that.
The project read. A workforce platform tells you who went where and for how many hours. POD reads your P6 (XER) or MS Project (XML export) schedule into a Gantt with critical path and float, computes earned value and CPI/SPI from your pay apps, surfaces safety leading indicators before the incident, and writes a morning brief that says what changed and what to do first. It also adds voice-first field reporting, timeline playback, and Ask POD, so anyone can ask a question about the project and get an answer.
POD publishes every price and tiers by team rather than by module or user count, from $299 to $2,499 per month, with a free trial to start and no sales call. Subcontractors upload through free links. Assignar prices by modules and users through a custom quote; this page does not estimate it.
Schedule the crews. Then read the job.
Keep the dispatch board if it earns its place. Start a free trial and see what your own timesheets and schedules have been trying to tell you.
Why Teams Switch to POD
What You Get With POD
Feature and cost comparisons are based on publicly available information and each vendor’s own published materials, and may change over time. Product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. POD pricing is published at planofday.com/pricing.