SHEETA102

A102 · The diagnosis

For years, our industry has focused hard on the numbers. Labor hours. Material costs. Production schedules. Job costing. Percent complete. Throughput.

And that matters.

But some of the most expensive problems on a project don't start in the estimate. They start in the gap between what happened and what got communicated.

The photo that stayed on someone's phone.
The issue that was mentioned but never followed up on.
The answer that came three days too late.
The punch item nobody owned.
The superintendent who said, "I told your guy."
The PM who had to rebuild the whole story from texts, emails, and memory.

That's the gap Praxon was built for.

SHEETA103

A103 · The real question

The P&L tells you what happened. The field tells you why.

Most companies can tell you what they estimated. What they bought. What they produced. What they billed. What they made or lost.

But can they tell you what happened in the field before it became expensive?

Who saw the issue first?

Who was notified?

What decision was made?

What photos were taken?

Who owned the next step?

Was it ever closed out?

For too many companies, the answer is scattered across text messages, emails, phone calls, notebooks, and memory.

That's where jobs start to drift.

Not because people are lazy. Not because people don't care. Because the information isn't tied to the work.

Most companies know where the money was spent.

Few know what caused it.

SHEETA104

A104 · The control surface

The floor plan tells you where the job is bleeding. Before anyone has to ask.

Open Praxon Monday morning. Every room shows its real state — released, staged, in progress, field-verified, complete. Open issues turn the entire room red. It's field verification and live job status on one surface, so you see the problems before the foreman texts you about them.

praxon.app / Project — Technical Campus / Floor 2 / Plan

01

Issue overlay Open issues turn the entire room red, regardless of lifecycle. PM sees the bleeding from the office.

02

Phase outlines Dashed boundaries show install phases. Toggle to focus one, dim the rest.

03

7 lifecycle states Needs FV · Field Verified · Released · Staged · In Progress · Complete · Issue.

04

On-site presence When a crew clocks in, a hard hat appears in the room they're working. No more guessing where anyone is.

Needs FV Field Verified Released Staged In Progress Complete Issue

↑ Detail D1 — Real screen, currently shipping in pilot

SHEETA105

A105 · The schedule

Every room, every scope, every week. On one board.

Most shops run scheduling out of a whiteboard, a foreman's truck, and someone's text history. Updates live in three places that never quite agree. When a job slips, half the crew finds out late, and the other half finds out from the GC.

Praxon is construction scheduling built for the way specialty trades actually sequence a job — your rooms grouped by scope and phase, laid out as a Gantt, with target and substantial-completion milestones right on the timeline. Drag a bar to reschedule. Commit your drafts to the master in one move. Then email the whole schedule straight from Praxon to your GC or customer — no export, no screenshot, no separate scheduling tool.

app.praxonops.com / schedule

Project Schedule

Technical Campus · Floor 2 — rooms by scope. Drag to reschedule, tap a bar to edit.

Schedule 26 rooms · 3 blocks · Jun 15 – Aug 9 1 out of sequence

Commit · 23 drafts Send GC Email Print

View

GanttDeliveries

Range

4 wk8 wk3 moProject

Scheduled On track Behind Blocked Draft (not on master) Committed (on master)

BLOCK

WK 1

Jun 15

WK 2

Jun 22

WK 3

Jun 29

WK 4

Jul 6

WK 5

Jul 13

WK 6

Jul 20

WK 7

Jul 27

WK 8

Aug 3

Casework13 rooms

111Workroom

112Program Director

113Conference

117Faculty Break

119Men's

121Women's

125Wellness

123Family

129Computer Lab

Solid Surface8 rooms

111Workroom

112Program Director

113Conference

TARGET COMPLETION

SUBSTANTIAL

One project's rooms, grouped by scope — drag to reschedule, commit drafts to the master, email straight to the customer.

Auto Schedule

Don't build the schedule. Generate it.

Auto Schedule reads the numbers you already have — budgeted hours per room, plus travel and site-setup time — and turns them into a sequenced, room-by-room plan. Start from the date you have to finish, or the date you can start. Praxon fills in the rest.

Backward from a deadline

Give it a target completion date and Praxon schedules backward — so you can see today whether the finish date you promised is even reachable.

Forward from a start

Pick the day the crew can get on site and Praxon builds the plan forward — showing where the job lands when work actually begins.

Budget hours per room + Travel time + Site setup → Sequenced schedule

For the field

Monday morning. One screen.

Most Mondays start the same way. Phones out, texts flying. "Where are we today?" "What's on the truck?" An hour gone before the first piece goes in. Half a day gone if it's the wrong jobsite.

It's not the field's fault. The information has always lived somewhere else — a manager's head, an email thread, the shop calendar — just never in the hands of the people in the field.

Praxon ends that. Every installer's schedule is on their phone before they leave the house — where to go, when to start, what they're loading, what's hitting the site, who to call. They show up ready at 7.

When the schedule changes, every affected person gets a push and the day is tagged UPDATED. No more "I never got the text."

Morning, Bobby.

68°, clear in Columbia — good day to work

NOT ON THE CLOCK

FIRST UP TODAY

Northgate Athletic

P-24-0911-010i · Area D (Team Suite)

Clock In

Scan the QR in your area to clock in

Today's work 3 your ready jobs

Northgate Athletic

Area D · Team Suite

5 rooms · scheduled 7:00–3:30

Clock in ›

Northgate Athletic

Area E · Visitor Suite

3 rooms · ready for install

Clock in ›

Technical Campus

Lab Casework

12 rooms · ready for install

Clock in ›

"Schedule is the conversation every shop has at 6 AM Monday.

The one that should already be answered by the time anyone walks in."
— Brian Milburn

SHEETA106

A106 · What changes

Eight things that change the day you turn it on.

Praxon isn't a database of features. It's a set of outcomes. Every capability inside it exists to move one of these needles — in the field, in the office, and in the relationship with your customer.

This is what the office sees first thing. Counts, attention flags, what's gone quiet — all of it built from what the field already did. Nothing typed in.

app.praxonops.com / home

Good morning, Brian.

Here's what's happening out in the field today.

Issues Open

48

12 overdue

Punch Open

19

6 overdue

Questions Waiting

12

4 over 3 days

Rooms Done Today

7

+3 vs yesterday

Active Projects

23

5 archived

Attention needed View all projects →

Technical Campus

P-25-1028 · Tri-State Construction

4issues overdue15questions waiting

Riverside Tower — Lobby Millwork

ACM-001 · Tri-State Construction

6 daysno field update

Hotel Tower — Guest Rooms

P-24-0911 · Tri-State Construction

8punch overdue

Needs you today

3 rooms waiting on Field Verification

Technical Campus

Riverside Tower has gone quiet

No field update in 6 days

8 punch items past their date

Hotel Tower — Guest Rooms

Derived from field status — nothing typed in.

01 / FIND THE STALLS

See where work is stuck before it becomes a fire.

Open the floor plan and every room shows its real state — in progress, complete, blocked, open issue. Status is derived from what the crew marks, never typed twice, and nothing moves to done until a human field-verifies it. Open a plan and you can see who else is on it, live. You see what's stuck before the foreman texts you about it.

▢ Room 121 · In Progress · Field-verified gate · 2 on plan

02 / CAPTURE WHAT THE FIELD SEES

One markup palette. Every surface. Auto-tagged.

Measurements, conditions, photos, questions — the same palette works on shop drawings, arch sheets, and field photos. Field-verified dimensions, blocking, outlet locations, question pins all flow straight back to the shop. Auto-tagged with room, phase, sheet, user, time. The installer never thinks about metadata.

⊕ Measure · Condition · Utility · Question · Photo

03 / GET ANSWERS FASTER

Every question, in one thread, tied to the room.

Field questions, issues, GC requests — all live in one thread next to the room they came from. Urgent messages land on every device, full screen, sound, repeat until acknowledged. No ack in 10 minutes? Auto-escalates to the foreman, logged. "I didn't check my email" stops being a defense.

↗ Room 121 · Critical · Acknowledged 4:23 PM

04 / CLOSE OUT CLEANER

Punch items stop living in loose emails.

Punch list imports from a PDF and routes to the right installer by company tag. Pre-walkthrough QC catches your own defects before the GC sees them. Critical contract terms — LD triggers, notice windows, NDFD clauses — surfaced where the field can see them, not buried in a contract folder.

▢ Punch imported · 47 items routed · 12 your scope

05 / REPORTS THAT WRITE THEMSELVES

Generated from work your crew already did.

GC Issue Report, Install Progress, Daily Field — built from the same captures the field already made. Photos export with markups baked in: measurements, conditions, arrows, all visible to the recipient. Send Monday 8am, not Sunday 11pm. And months later when someone asks "what happened in Room 121?" — the record is right there. Timestamped, pinned, attributed.

↗ Issue Report · Install Progress · Daily Field · Timestamped · Verifiable

06 / SUBS, IN LINE

Your subs run on the same board your crew does.

Award a scope, schedule it, cut the work order, send it — one pipeline, no spreadsheets. Subs update room status on the same surface your installers use, scoped so they only see what's theirs. You always know who's done what, without chasing a text back.

▢ Award · Schedule · Work order · Sent · 3 subs live

07 / DELIVERABLES, RECONCILED

Every truck, matched to the room it's headed for.

Set the target on-site date by room and scope. Actual lands on its own from receiving, so the board reconciles itself as the trucks show up. Commit the dates straight to the master schedule in one tap. No more "did that ship?" — the answer is on the screen.

▢ Target on-site · Actual from receiving · Committed

08 / LABOR TRACKING WITHOUT A SECOND APP

Crews clock in where they already work.

Clock-in lives on the same app the field already opens — no separate timesheet tool, no double entry. Hours capture by job and task, then push to your costing system at end of day with one button. And when a crew clocks in, a hard hat shows up in the room they're working — no more guessing where anyone is on site.

↗ Clock in · Hard hat in room · Hours pushed to costing

Here's one. The Daily Field Report — generated automatically from the captures your crew already made. Nobody writes it. It writes itself.

praxon.app / Project — Technical Campus / Reports / Daily Field — built 6:00 AM

Daily Field Report

Technical Campus · Floor 2 · Thursday

AUTO-GENERATED 6:00 AM

3Rooms advanced

1Room completed

2Open issues

17Photos captured

Progress

Room 118CompleteCasework set, hardware installed

Room 121In ProgressUppers hung · base pending blocking

Room 124In ProgressField-verified · staged for Monday

Needs attention

Room 121Issue · 4dWall out of plumb — GC notified, awaiting response

Room 130Wait · GCCeiling grid not released — crew blocked

Every line traces to a timestamped capture in the field. Nothing typed twice.

SHEETA107

A107 · Scope

If your shop fabricates it and your crew installs it, this is for you.

Praxon was built for the trades that live and die on the install. Shops that field-verify, fabricate to spec, ship to a jobsite, coordinate with a GC or builder, and chase punch lists for months. If that's your workflow, the trade label doesn't matter — the pain is the same. It's specialty trade project management for the field — not generic construction software bent to fit.

↳ Where Praxon earns its keep

Praxon was built for the specialty trade contractors who do the install work. The label on your shop sign doesn't matter — the workflow does. If you're running multiple install crews across multiple sites — GC-driven or owner-direct — Praxon is the tool you didn't know you needed. One crew on one site, you can hold it in your head. Three crews across five sites, with three different GCs asking three different versions of "where are we?" — that's where the Wild West starts and where Praxon takes over.

★ Founding trade

Commercial millwork

Architectural casework, hospital, hospitality, retail buildout. Where this product was born.

★ First customers

Residential cabinetry

Kitchen, bath, semi-custom and custom. Production builders and luxury custom homes.

★ First customers

Closet companies

Custom and franchised. The field-verify → fabricate → install → punch loop is identical.

★ First customers

Built-ins & wall units

Home office, wardrobes, Murphy beds, garage and pantry systems.

Workflow fits

Solid surface & stone

Countertops, vanities, wall panels. Templating workflow rhymes exactly.

Workflow fits

Architectural metals

Handrails, custom panels, decorative metalwork. Shop-to-field model, same pain.

Workflow fits

Architectural glass

Storefronts, interior glass, mirror walls. Field dimensions are everything.

Workflow fits

Hospitality casework

Hotels, restaurants, multi-unit residential. Punch list closeout is the whole game.

Workflow fits

Commercial flooring

Resilient, hardwood, large-format tile. Field-verify the slab, ship the goods, install on a GC's clock.

Workflow fits

Doors & hardware

Commercial openings, frames, finish hardware. Punch list and backcharges are the daily fight.

Workflow fits

Specialty ceilings

Acoustical, wood, metal, custom. Field-fit, fabricated to room, installed on a tight sequence.

SHEETA108

A108 · How we price

Built for full-team adoption.

Most construction software is priced to keep people out. The more your team grows, the more it costs to give them access — so most shops don't. Logins get shared. Field people get locked out. The tool that was supposed to fix communication becomes another wall.

Praxon was priced the opposite way.

No one should have to decide whether a foreman, installer, or project coordinator is "worth another seat."

Projects aren't won or lost in the software. They're won or lost through communication, accountability, and execution across the entire team. So our pricing is built around what your business does, not how many people do it.

Pick the tier that fits your operation. Add as many people as that tier allows at no additional cost. When information lives with everyone who needs it — PMs, supers, foremen, installers, engineers, ops — visibility goes up, issues surface faster, and accountability is automatic.

Our goal isn't to sell more seats. It's to close the gap between what the shop knows and what the field needs to know. Software only creates value when people actually use it.

Three tiers, built to scale with contractor maturity. Packaging is set during pilot — numbers come at launch.

Tier 01

Field

Bring the field together

Built for

Contractors looking to bring field execution into one place.

Field visibility
Daily reports
Time tracking
Issues
Questions
Field verification
Communication
Mobile access

Available at launch · Q4 2026 Get Early Access

Nearly 30 years in the trade. I built the thing I wanted on every job.

30 years · estimating · project management · engineering · operations · leadership · ERP implementation

BRIAN MILBURN
FOUNDER · PRAXON · GREER, SC

$Brian Milburn unloading cabinets on a jobsite$

Still doing the work.

For most of my life, I've worked in the trades.

I started as a young man sweeping floors, carrying materials, and learning from craftsmen who took pride in doing things the right way. Over the years, I grew into roles in engineering, project management, estimating, operations, and leadership — but I never lost my appreciation for the people in the shop or in the field.

The trades have been good to me. They've provided a career, lifelong friendships, mentors who shaped my character, and opportunities I could never have imagined.

Along the way, I noticed something that never seemed to improve. Good people were working hard. Projects were moving forward. Yet important information was still slipping through the cracks. Field teams were carrying burdens they shouldn't have to carry. Managers were spending evenings chasing updates instead of being present with their families. Problems that could have been solved early often surfaced when they were most costly.

I believed there had to be a better way.

Praxon wasn't born from a desire to start a software company. It was born from a desire to serve an industry that has given so much to me.

My hope is that Praxon helps bring clarity where there is confusion, accountability where there is uncertainty, and better communication between the people working together to build something meaningful.

At the end of the day, construction isn't really about buildings.

It's about people.

It's about craftsmen, project managers, installers, superintendents, business owners, and families who depend on those projects being successful.

If Praxon can help those people do their jobs a little better, spend a little less time putting out fires, and get home a little earlier to the people they love, then it will have accomplished exactly what it was created to do.

~30 yrsIn the trade

Day 1Still in the shop

Greer, SCWhere it's built

SHEETA110

A110 · The name

Why Praxon.

From the Greek πρᾶξις (praxis) — purposeful action, the practice of a craft — and the suffix -on, the instrument of the act.

Twenty-three centuries ago, Aristotle mapped three kinds of knowledge — and one of them, praxis, was the act of putting the other two to work.
They turn out to be the three phases of execution shared by every specialty trade that fabricates and installs — millwork and casework, countertops, glass, flooring, architectural metals, Division 10, and beyond.

θεωρία Theoria The knowing · the office

Estimating · Project Management · Drafting · Engineering

The bid. The contract. The schedule. The shop drawings. The sequencing. The constructability review. Knowing what the job is — before anyone touches a saw.

ποίησις Poiesis The making · the shop

Fabrication · Cut & machine · Assembly · Finish · QC

The shop floor. Turning material into product to spec. Making the thing that wasn't there before.

πρᾶξις Praxis The doing · the field

Field Execution · Install · Punch · Closeout · Coordination

What happens after the truck leaves the shop. Where everything you knew and everything you made finally gets put into practice — or doesn't.

Every trade has tools for theoria — knowing what to build, in the office.

Every trade has tools for poiesis — making it, in the shop.

And then comes praxis — putting it all into practice, in the field.

PRAON was built for praxis.

Precision in practice.

SHEETA111

A111 · Early access

We open in Q4 2026. Get on the list.

Praxon is in pilot with a first group of specialty trade shops through Q3 2026. General access opens in Q4 2026. The early access list goes first — and the founding batch gets founding pricing locked in for life.

Email

Shop name

Your role

Shop size

Tell us about your shop (what's killing you in the field right now?)

We read every one of these. You'll hear from Brian directly, not a sequence.

SHEETA112

A112 · Questions you're about to ask

Straight answers.

When can I actually get my hands on this?

General access opens Q4 2026. We're in pilot through Q3 with a first group of specialty trade shops. List members go first when access opens — and the first batch gets founding pricing locked in for life.

Does this replace what I already use for costing?

No. Praxon doesn't touch costing, payroll, or accounting. It runs the field — drawings, rooms, issues, reports. Your costing system stays your source of truth. Where it makes sense, we integrate so you don't double-enter work orders or hours.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Drawings cache to the device, markups queue locally, everything syncs when you're back on signal. The offline experience is non-negotiable — we know what jobsites are actually like.

iPad? Phone? Both?

Both. Installers usually run phones, foremen and supers run iPads. Same app, same data. Most field capture is tap-driven, not typed — drop a measurement, drop a condition, drop a photo. Nobody wants to type with gloves on.

When a backcharge comes up, does this actually help?

That's a big part of why we built it. Every photo, measurement, and condition note is timestamped, pinned to the room, and tied to the installer who captured it. When the bill lands, you've got the record.

What about the punch list?

Import the PDF. Items route to the right installer based on company and assignment. AI handles the ambiguous ones, PM reviews before it goes live. One-click status report back to the GC when items close.

Pricing?

We'll publish pricing closer to GA. Founding-batch shops get rates locked in for the life of their account.