Most construction software is built around the GC's workflow. Project management. Drawing markup. RFIs. Change orders. Those are real problems, and Procore, Buildertrend, and others handle them well. None of them are built around the daily question a concrete sub asks: are we pouring at 6 AM Friday, and who do I tell if we're not?
That gap — between the GC's tools and the sub's daily reality — is where Planning Ops lives.
Why We Exist
Concrete subs lose money in three places that software doesn't currently help with:
- Cancellation chaos. Weather hits. The next hour is spent texting six to twelve people, each one needing slightly different information, half of whom will miss the message. Tomorrow at least one person shows up to a closed gate.
- Crew double-booking. Same crew accidentally assigned to two pours on the same day. Caught Tuesday morning by two angry phone calls. Costs $500+ per incident in hard costs alone.
- Lookahead drift. The 60-day lookahead lives in a different spreadsheet than the daily schedule. The two diverge within a week. Monday-morning meetings turn into 20-minute file reconciliation.
None of these are GC problems. All of them are sub problems. Most of them are concrete-sub-specific (because the pour-cancellation cadence is uniquely intense — weather, ready-mix, pump, crew all in one operational decision).
What We Believe
Software should match the workflow, not the org chart
If your daily verb is "pour," your tool should be built around pours, not generic project tasks.
The tool you use should be one you own
Your scheduling data shouldn't live in the GC's Procore instance. When the project ends, your history should still be yours.
Notifications should be one click, not twelve texts
If software can fan out a cancellation to every contact in seconds, the cost of "should I cancel" goes way down. Which is the right outcome.
Pricing should fit small subs
Solo through 35 seats with monthly billing. No enterprise sales call to see the numbers. No demos required to start a trial.
What We Build
Two applications, sharing the same backend:
- Place & Finish Hub — daily pour calendar with one-click cancellation notifications, live weather per project, crew double-booking detection, cubic yards rollups, and a 365-day rolling lookahead.
- Manpower Tracker — crew-week grid with Day Mode, projection with live manpower-gap strip, foreman/project/utilization analytics, and a 4-tier role model (admin, editor, coordinator, viewer).
Bought together as a bundle, or separately. Same login. Same branding.
The Company
Planning Ops LLC is a veteran-owned South Carolina limited liability company. Registered agent: Registered Agents Inc, 6650 Rivers Ave., Suite 100, Charleston, SC 29406. Founded 2026. Independently funded. The product is built and run by a small team that has spent meaningful time around concrete pours and around software, with no investor pressure to bolt on features that don't help subcontractors.
The founder is a U.S. military veteran and a concrete operations manager. That dual background — discipline learned in service, problems learned on the jobsite — shapes how the product is built: ship what subs actually use, no enterprise-software bloat, no pricing games.
How to Reach Us
Email admin@planningops.com — every message comes to a real person on the team and gets a response within one business day. We don't use a ticketing system to filter you, we don't gate support behind a tier, and there's no AI chatbot pretending to be the first line of defense.
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