The Plan Builder takes the messiest input you've got — an inspection PDF, a few photos, a half-formed list of "the kitchen needs work" — and turns it into a structured renovation plan you can actually run. Findings become plan items. Plan items group into phases. Phases sequence with dependencies, costs, and target dates.
Each plan item carries a contractor brief: scope, materials, photos, dimensions where known, gotchas to call out. When you send it to a contractor for a quote, you're not pasting a paragraph into WhatsApp and hoping they read it — they get a structured ask, and their response slots back into the plan.
Built for the way renovation actually unfolds: you start with what you know, plans shift when the wall comes down, and Perch tracks the diff. Change orders flow through a proposal-and-decision pattern so nothing slips into the bill quietly. AI checks scope completeness and pricing reasonableness before you sign anything.
Not for: contractor-side construction scheduling — if you're a contractor managing your crew, your subs, your job costing, and your Gantt charts, Buildertrend or JobTread is the right tool. Not for architectural design — Perch sequences and tracks renovation work, but it isn't a CAD tool or a design portfolio. Not for granular task management — Perch operates at the plan-item level ("replace the boiler"), not at the individual-step level your contractor would use internally.