Welcome to Baulit: What You Can Do

Baulit is construction project management software built for residential builders. Whether you run spec builds, custom homes, or land development, Baulit gives you one place to track everything from permit to closeout.

This guide gives you a quick tour of what the app can do and where to find things. By the end, you will know enough to jump in and start working.

What Baulit Helps You Do

Baulit covers the full lifecycle of a residential construction project. Here is what you can manage from a single app:

Track projects — manage both Land Purchase and Construction projects, each with their own set of phases and tasks.
Build task lists — create tasks, group them into phases, set durations, assign predecessors, and track progress through five statuses.
Schedule with Gantt and CPM — see your timeline on a visual Gantt chart with automatic critical path calculation. Know exactly which tasks drive your completion date.
Track budgets and costs — enter budgets per cost category, log actual costs, and see where you stand against contract price in real time.
Manage change orders — document scope changes with line items, track approval status, and see budget impact instantly.
Write daily logs — record weather, crew counts, work performed, and notes for each project day. Use AI to draft them faster.
Run reports — generate portfolio, budget, overdue task, and vendor insurance reports across all your projects.
Collaborate with your team — invite contractors and stakeholders. Contractors see their assigned tasks. Stakeholders get a read-only progress view.
Use AI tools — ask questions in plain English, generate project templates from a description, draft daily logs, compose stakeholder emails, and more.

The Three Screens You Will Use Most

Baulit keeps things simple. There are three main areas you will work in every day:

Dashboard

The Dashboard is your home base. It shows all of your projects at a glance. You can search, filter, sort, and group projects. The Insights tab gives you KPI tiles, budget summaries, and deadline warnings across every project. The Activity tab shows recent changes, and the Team tab shows who is working on what.

Project View

When you open a project, you land in the Project View. This is where all the work happens. It has eight tabs:

Overview — project health at a glance: progress, budget status, upcoming deadlines, and key contacts.
Tasks — your full task list with phases, statuses, durations, and assignments.
Gantt — visual timeline with critical path highlighting and the Dependency Wizard.
Budget — budget vs. actual costs broken down by category.
Change Orders — all scope changes with approval tracking and financial impact.
Daily Log — day-by-day record of weather, crews, and work performed.
Files — upload and organize project documents, plans, and photos.
Calendar — task deadlines and milestones on a monthly calendar.

Reports

Reports live in the menu (gear icon on the Dashboard). They pull data from all your projects so you can see your full portfolio health: which projects are on track, which are over budget, which tasks are overdue, and which vendor insurance certificates are expiring.

Tip: Every number in Baulit is clickable. If you see a budget total, a task count, or a deadline warning, click it to jump straight to the underlying detail. This "information to action" design means you are never more than one click away from fixing a problem.

How Navigation Works

Baulit does not use traditional page URLs. Instead, it is a single-page app where your current view is tracked in memory. Here is how to move around:

Dashboard logo or back arrow — returns you to the Dashboard from any project.
Project cards — click any project card on the Dashboard to open its Project View.
Tab bar — inside a project, use the tab bar at the top to switch between Overview, Tasks, Gantt, Budget, and the other tabs.
Menu button — the gear icon on the Dashboard opens a menu with links to Reports, Contacts, Settings, and Help.
Keyboard shortcuts — press Cmd+S (or Ctrl+S) to save, Escape to close panels, and / to focus the search bar.

What is Next

You now have the big picture. The rest of the Launch Pad walks you through each step:

Signing Up and Logging In — create your account and get into the app.
Creating Your First Project — set up a real project with tasks and details.
Adding and Managing Tasks — build your task list and track work.
Your Dashboard: The Command Center — master the Dashboard tabs and navigation.

Each guide takes a few minutes. By the end, you will be managing your first project like you have been using Baulit for weeks.