Independent civil-engineering software
Construction management,
by and for civil engineers.
Field logs, RFIs, pay applications, in-browser CAD, 3D estimating, and scheduling — all connected in one tool. Built to replace the spreadsheet stack.
Free for 30 days · Cancel anytime. · Demo is read-only, no signup.
Construction admin
5 modules
Field Logs
Daily reports with weather, crews, equipment and photos.
RFIs
Request, route and close out, tied to who owes the answer.
Submittals
The log by spec section, with dependencies.
Reader
Mark up plan sets to scale and export the PDF.
Tasks
Project to-dos from urIssue, beside the work.
Revenue management
3 modules
Contracts
Prime and subcontracts, change orders and retainage.
Schedule of Values
Pay items, quantities and billed-to-date on one sheet.
Pay Applications
G702 / G703 straight from the schedule of values.
Project controls
7 modules
Budget & Forecast
Committed, spent and forecast by cost code.
Invoices
Read, coded, stamped and approved in batches.
Price Up
Pricing for change orders and extra work, to PDF, Word and Excel.
Scheduling
Day-by-day lookahead, down to 15-minute shifts.
Work Plans
Step-by-step plans with equipment, materials and safety.
Labor & Timesheets
Crews, hours, rates, equipment and materials.
Logistics
Equipment and deliveries tracked on a map.
Engineering
8 modules
Render
A 3D model and takeoff built from a drawing set.
Lift Planner
Crane picks against real load charts, with rigging.
Site Builder
The site in 2D or 3D on a real map.
3D Builder
Footings and piers with live quantities.
Job Builder
Station-by-station staging and closure plans.
CG Calculator
Center of gravity, sling loads and tilt.
EasyCAD
CAD in the browser with layers and blocks.
Cut & Fill
Earthwork volumes from the grades.
Why this exists
I'm a civil engineer with over sixteen years of experience building large public infrastructure jobs. I've been coding on the side, for fun, for about twenty-two years. Recent AI tooling made it fast enough to put together the kind of tools I'd been wishing I had since the start of my career.
I built CivilXL so I could see a job on the go, from one place, instead of digging through ten spreadsheets and three folders to answer a single question. One project, one set of entities, one place — plus a few things I could never quite do in Excel: in-browser CAD, 3D takeoffs, a center-of-gravity calculator for rigging picks, and a station-by-station closure-plan paint grid for road and bridge work.
If you've been there, it'll feel familiar.
What it isn't
CivilXL is not a replacement for enterprise software. It's meant to work alongside the project-controls and CM platforms your company already pays for — not in lieu of them. It picks up the day-to-day jobs those tools leave on a spreadsheet.
The pay-app workbook, the daily log template, the lookahead, the field-photo folder, the hour-by-hour shift plan you scratch in a notebook on the way to the site — those are the jobs CivilXL is for, and it's kept that narrow on purpose.
Common questions
- Can I export my data?
- Yes. Every module exports to Excel, PDF, or CSV. The data is yours — if you cancel, you keep the exports.
- Does it work on a phone or tablet?
- Field logs, RFIs, and Reader work on a phone in the browser. The CAD, 3D Builder, and scheduling modules are desktop-first — they're built for a keyboard and a mouse.
- What does it cost?
- Free for 30 days. $20 a month after that — deliberately affordable, set to cover server costs and let me keep working on it. Your subscription also unlocks the rest of the tools I've built: Fraywire, urIssue, and Glideslope.ai.
- Where does my data live?
- On a server I run, encrypted at rest. No ads, no resale, no training of third-party models on your project data.
- Who's behind this?
- One civil engineer with sixteen years on large public infrastructure jobs and twenty-two years of coding on the side, working independently. There's no company, no investors, and no roadmap meetings — if something's broken, you'll be writing to the person who'll fix it.