Thinking tools for both sides of a hire.
Free, private, and built from how construction hiring really goes. Weigh an offer in real dollars, see where your pay sits in the market, or model what one wrong hire costs. Nothing to install and no login. Results show on screen; the salary survey asks for an email because your figure joins the data.
For hiring leaders
The Four Stages of Hiring Competence
Assess your own hiring habits: how you test your judgment, use a method and learn from past hires. About 5 minutes.
Open the tool →Cost of a wrong hire
Model the true cost of one leadership mismatch, including the cultural, client, morale, and opportunity costs that never show up as a line item.
Open the tool →How healthy is your hiring?
Review the company’s overall hiring process, from attracting candidates through onboarding and retention. About 5 minutes.
Open the tool →Are you ready to hire?
Check whether one role, its compensation and the surrounding team are ready before you open a search. About 2 minutes.
Open the tool →The pre-offer checklist
Work through the bases to confirm before you extend an offer, across role clarity, skills, internal buy-in, references, work-style fit, and your own gut check. A live readiness read tells you whether to extend or which gaps to close first.
Open the tool →9-box talent grid
Plot your team on performance and potential, then read what each of the nine boxes means and what that person needs next. A thinking tool for who to develop, stretch, coach, and keep.
Open the tool →The Interview Designer
Build a role-specific interview plan with questions, responsibilities and one printable page per interviewer. Your work stays in your browser. The optional AI read sends the job description text to an AI model provider to pull out the hiring goals, and we do not store or log it.
Open the tool →Interview training
Learn how to conduct interviews and evaluate what you hear. A course for hiring leaders; access is requested on the tool page.
Open the tool →For everyone
Bay Area construction pay benchmark
Compare a salary with employer-advertised pay for the same construction role in the Bay Area.
Open the tool →How do you lead?
Review your day-to-day leadership across communication, decisions, accountability and developing others. About 5 minutes.
Open the tool →For candidates
Bay Area construction salary survey
Contribute a confidential compensation record to see how your pay compares with what construction professionals report earning. Includes 12 months of dataset access, or 24 for founding contributors.
Open the tool →Bay Area construction salary data
Explore professional-reported pay by role and region, alongside employer-advertised pay. Contribute a record for your personal comparison and a more detailed view.
Open the tool →Compensation comparison
Weigh a new offer against your current role on equal footing, in real annual dollars. Salary, bonus, commute, healthcare, retirement, time off, and perks, in one number.
Open the tool →Is it time to make a move?
A 2-minute, confidential read for construction leaders. Seven questions on growth, pay, trust, and the path ahead, with a straight answer on whether to stay, watch, or move.
Open the tool →Guides
The Hire in 4K guide
The method for running a hire you can defend, start to finish.
Open the guide →The Build to Last guide
Twenty-five chapters for construction professionals on trajectory, evaluating a firm, and negotiation.
Open the guide →Interview questions by role
Question guides for every construction role, for the interviewer and for the candidate.
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