Built by a builder. On his own jobs.
Todd Sullivan has been building houses for forty years. He runs Sullivan Homes out of Hayden, Idaho, and he is still running it — this is not a builder who left the trade to start a software company.
He is not a software person. He is the person the software was supposed to be for, and spent most of those forty years being handed tools that had clearly never been carried onto a site.
The company that proves it.
Sullivan Homes builds in North Idaho and eastern Washington. Real jobs, real clients, real inspections, real subs who do not answer email.
Every job that company has run this year has run on BOS. Not a pilot, not a demo account — the actual schedule, the actual money, the actual client. When something in here is wrong, it is wrong on a house somebody is living in, and it gets fixed that week.
That is a slower way to build software and a much harder one to fake.
Why he built it.
The schedule was always the thing. Not because builders don't know how to plan a house — they do — but because the plan lived somewhere the people doing the work couldn't reach. A whiteboard at the office. A spreadsheet nobody could read on a phone. A printout already out of date by Wednesday.
So the superintendent stopped updating it, and once the schedule stopped matching the job, everything downstream drifted with it — subs, deliveries, inspections, and a client who found out late. Every builder knows that cycle. Most have decided it is just what building is.
He did not think it was a planning problem. He thought it was a tool nobody would pick up, and that the fix had to start with the phone in the super's hand rather than the screen on the office desk.
Ten months, on live jobs.
BOS was built over ten months against Sullivan Homes' own work. Every screen in it was corrected by somebody who had just come off a site annoyed about something — usually him, usually from a truck.
That is why it looks the way it does. The type is big because he could not read the old one in the sun. The buttons are big because he was wearing gloves. Subs never get a login because his subs were never going to make one.
What he wants from you.
To hear when it is wrong. BOS is early, and the builders who come on now will shape what it becomes — not through a feedback form that goes into a queue, but by telling him, and having it change.
He answers the phone himself. If you build homes and something on here doesn't match how the job actually works, that is the conversation he wants.