SHT 12 · THE PRACTICE

Built for firms that actually build.

ConstruC is a San Francisco company building construction software for firms across Africa — not a generic project tool with a construction skin on it.

Why we built it

A construction firm already knows what went wrong — usually months after it could have been fixed. The bill lives in one spreadsheet and the budget in another. The site writes its diary from memory three days late because there was no signal. The excavator gets hired twice. The CEO finds out last.

None of that is a software problem in the abstract. It is seven departments keeping seven sets of books. So ConstruC gives each department its own tools and its own permissions, and lands the cost of all of it on one shared ledger — the priced bill becomes the budget, and the site's own progress becomes the forecast.

Built for Africa, not adapted to it

Most construction software is designed somewhere else and given a currency setting. An African firm gets a tool that assumes constant connectivity, a statutory stack from another continent, and a head office that answers email rather than WhatsApp. The gap is not features — it is assumptions.

So the assumptions are the product. Sites lose signal, so daily logs, attendance, snags and progress capture offline and sync later, stamped to the day the work happened. Firms run on WhatsApp, so the assistant answers there. And the statutory stack lives in the ledger: Ghana is complete today — PAYE bands, SSNIT, VAT with the NHIL, GETFund and COVID levies, and withholding tax, in the payslips and the general ledger rather than a spreadsheet beside them. Every entry carries its own currency, and further jurisdictions are added the same way.

Who is behind it

ConstruC was founded by Daniel Owusu, a civil and environmental engineer by training (Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley). The product is shaped by that: it measures a bill the way a quantity surveyor does, holds a programme the way a planner does, and treats a drawing revision as the legal record it actually is.

How we work

Everything on this site is shipped behaviour, not a roadmap. The seven department handbooks are published in full, free to read without an account, because a platform that will not show you how it works is asking for a lot of trust.

There is no demo request and no waitlist. Create your firm and use it.

See it for yourself

Create your firm, invite the departments and run a project. No sales call in the way.

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