CompanyCam is built to document the jobsite.
Forge is built to run the whole job.
CompanyCam made a sharp product for jobsite photo documentation — location-stamped photos, galleries, annotation, reports the crew actually uses. It earns its place in a lot of trucks. Forge solves a different problem: the commercial installer who needs the estimate, schedule, certified payroll, submittal, and change-order in one chest — where the photo is a drawer, not the product.
Side by side. Honest about both.
Field ops captures photos to the project record, federated with the estimate, schedule, and change-order. Documentation is a drawer in the chest, not the headline capability — CompanyCam goes deeper on photo-first workflow.
Native and deep. Location-stamped photos, project galleries, timeline, annotation, and shareable reports — this is the category it leads.
Yes. AI primitives are the foundation. Modules share architecture, not nightly integrations between separate products.
A focused documentation product with AI features added to the photo workflow. Architecture is photo-first, not a multi-module operator platform.
Native. Trade assemblies for roofing, security & fire, AV & low-voltage, solar, HVAC, electrical — the estimate and the photo live in the same project.
Not in scope. CompanyCam integrates with estimating tools rather than producing the estimate itself.
Treasury (coming soon). Davis-Bacon rates per project, prevailing wage per worker per task, WH-347 designed to be ready to file.
Not in scope. Payroll lives in a separate system.
Field-initiated. A photo or scan delta becomes a change-order, the customer signs from the truck, and Treasury (coming soon) will write the financial side automatically.
Photos can document the condition behind a change-order, but the change-order workflow and its financial impact live in another tool.
Document plate native — submittal packages, as-builts, commissioning records, version-controlled inside the project.
Strong at photo documentation and reports; formal submittal / as-built / commissioning packages are not the product's purpose.
Yes. Hyperion — iPad/iPhone LiDAR. Walk the structure, get a line-item estimate. Methodology and sample plan published at /proof/hyperion-accuracy (±0.8% flat/low-slope, ±2% complex geometry; graduates to a measured benchmark after independent third-party verification).
Photo capture, not spatial measurement. No scan-to-estimate engine.
Native dialer, SMS, call recording, and AI call summaries that write to the project log — federated with CRM and payroll.
Project-level comments and photo sharing keep the crew aligned on the documentation; not a voice/SMS comms system.
Where CompanyCam is the right call.
- 01.Operators whose first and biggest need is dead-simple jobsite photo documentation the whole crew will actually adopt — that's exactly what CompanyCam was built for.
- 02.Teams that already run a stack they like (their own estimating, CRM, accounting) and just want best-in-class photo capture alongside it via integrations.
- 03.Trades and residential operators who don't carry certified-payroll, submittal, or commercial change-order burdens and don't need a full operating system.
- 04.Mixed-trade or service crews where photo accountability and shareable visual proof of work matter more than consolidating the whole back office.
- 05.Operators who want a focused, accessible per-user tool rather than a platform commitment.
The honest line.
If the operator's need is excellent jobsite photo documentation alongside a stack they're happy with — and they don't carry certified payroll, submittals, or commercial change-orders — CompanyCam is the right tool and a lighter, cheaper commitment than a full platform. Founding Charter is built for the commercial install contractor who wants the estimate, the schedule, the payroll, the submittal, the change-order, and the photo on one chest, with a compliance trail the field crew can defend.
Documenting the job and running the job are different problems. CompanyCam picked one. Forge picked the whole chest.