Scope signed, changes priced, margin kept

NYA runs the design-build job end to end — estimate to punch list — with selections, change orders, the schedule, and the client in one place, priced flat per firm.

Design-build lives and dies on decisions made mid-job. The client picks tile after the slab is poured, the sconce moves after rough-in, the allowance runs out in week six. Most software makes you choose between construction platforms built for GCs running twenty subs and design tools that end at the mood board. NYA is built for the firm doing both halves of design-build: the design decisions, and the build that has to absorb them.

Estimates that become jobs

Build the estimate from line items, send the proposal, and the client signs in their portal — the draft, sent, signed lifecycle is visible instead of buried in email. Won work converts straight into a project with its schedule, tasks, and budget, rather than being retyped into a second system. Lead tracking sits in front of all of it: one pipeline from first call to signed scope, so bids stop dying in a notes app.

Selections, allowances, and the change-order paper trail

Every selection is tracked per item, organized by area, each with its own approval status — so "the clients approved the counters" is a record, not a recollection. When scope moves, it becomes a numbered, priced change order with its own lifecycle, and budget vs actual shows what the change did to the job before the final invoice has to argue about it. Purchase orders, expense tracking, and time tracking sit on the same job, so the cost side never detaches from the work.

The schedule, the site, and the subs

One day-grouped schedule per job holds inspections, deliveries, and install days. Tasks carry an assignee and a due date. Daily logs keep the site narrative on the project instead of in a text thread, and photos and drawings live in the job's file storage, dated and findable. Collaborators — the install crew, a sub, the millworker — can get read-only project access, so the people executing always see the current set without another seat charge.

Lighting and electrical drawings without a CAD seat

RCP Studio turns an uploaded floor plan into a to-scale reflected ceiling plan: place fixtures and switches, let auto-wiring connect circuits, and run validation before the inspector runs his. It generates fixture, switch, and circuit schedules and exports a permit-ready PDF set — the drawing your electrician actually works from, produced in-house instead of waiting on a draftsman.

Where the margin usually leaks