Builtie vs ConstructConnect vs Dodge: Which Is Right for Trade Contractors? (2026)

They solve different problems. ConstructConnect and Dodge are project databases: you subscribe, search listings, and do the qualification, contact research, and outreach yourself. Builtie is a sales intelligence platform: it does those steps for you and delivers projects matched to your trade with the decision-maker's verified contact details and outreach context included. Commercial subs bidding through GCs lean ConstructConnect or Dodge. Trades who want direct relationships with builders, developers, and owners lean Builtie.

The core difference: listings vs leads

A project database answers "what projects exist?" A sales intelligence platform answers "which projects should I contact this week, who exactly do I talk to, and what do I say?"

With a database, the workflow after you find a promising listing is still on you: figure out whether the project actually needs your trade, identify who is really behind it (the name on the record is often a permit expediter or a numbered company), hunt down an email or phone number, and write the outreach. That is 20 to 40 minutes per lead when it goes well.

Builtie's pipeline runs that entire chain automatically and hands you the finished lead.

Feature-by-feature comparison

Where ConstructConnect wins

ConstructConnect is the established standard for Canadian ICI bidding. If your revenue comes from tendered commercial projects, you need visibility into the planning and bidding pipeline, and you use plan rooms and takeoff software, it is a mature and defensible choice. Builtie does not offer plan rooms or bid document management.

Where Dodge wins

Dodge has the largest project dataset in North America. If you operate across multiple US states or need national commercial coverage, Dodge's breadth is unmatched. For a contractor working one metro and its suburbs, most of that breadth is paid for and unused.

Where Builtie wins

1. Depth in the markets you work, over continental breadth. Builtie covers the residential, custom home, multiplex conversion, and mid-size commercial activity that makes up the bulk of trade work and barely appears in the big databases.
2. The lead is finished. Decision-maker identified, contacts verified, project value estimated, talking points written. The research step is gone.
3. Speed to the builder. Because qualification and contact discovery are automated, you reach the builder days or weeks before competitors working from the same public signals manually, and before the project ever hits a bid board.
4. Outreach automation. On Growth, Builtie runs personalized email and LinkedIn outreach and hands you the replies, and on the done-for-you Custom plan our team runs it end to end. None of the databases do this.
5. Direct relationships, not bid lists. Builtie is built to start conversations with builders and owners directly, where margins are set by relationship rather than by six competing bids.

Which should you choose?

• Large commercial sub bidding tendered ICI work: ConstructConnect (Canada focus) or Dodge (US/national focus).
• Trade contractor (HVAC, roofing, cabinetry, framing, structural, electrical, plumbing, GC) in a covered metro who wants a steady flow of ready-to-contact project leads and direct builder relationships: Builtie. Plans from $79/month per seat, with a 7-day free trial.
• Both worlds: some contractors run ConstructConnect for tendered work and Builtie for direct outreach. They do not overlap much.

Which plan fits you?

Starter, $79 per seat per month. 20 matched projects a month, which is $3.95 for a fully worked project — the decision maker, their verified email, phone and LinkedIn, the site context and the opening script all included in the one credit. Credits reset each month, and you can top up with a credit pack any time. Sourcing that by hand runs about twenty minutes a project, so the plan buys back roughly seven hours a month. Pick it if you already have someone sending the messages and what you are short of is a qualified list. It does not include Outreach.

Growth, $99 per seat per month. Twenty dollars more buys two and a half times the projects — 50 a month, $1.98 each — plus the entire outreach layer: LinkedIn and email sequences, campaigns, the unified inbox, events and social signals. Anyone opening more than 20 projects a month is better off here on volume alone, before counting the ten to fifteen hours a week that automated follow-up gives back. Pick it if someone on your team will log in and run it.

Done-For-You, the Custom plan, from CAD $1,500 a month. Pick it when the honest answer to “who is going to run this?” is nobody. Builtie's team writes the content, runs your LinkedIn, Instagram and email, answers the comments and DMs, builds and manages the campaigns, A/B tests the messaging, analyzes your followers and your competitors, and hands you the conversations. It sits on top of a Growth seat and is quoted against your trade, territory and channels. See everything Done-For-You covers, or compare all three on the pricing page.

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