Punch, an Atlanta construction software company founded in 2025, announced on October 15, 2026, that it raised $2 million from returning investor Gutter Capital. Its product targets the superintendent’s end-of-day paperwork. A super talks to the Punch phone app during the day, and Punch assembles the daily report, flags delays and turns material requests into purchase orders that follow the contractor’s approval rules.
What it does
Today the daily report usually gets written last. The superintendent walks the job, remembers what happened, and types it into a form in the truck or the trailer after a long day.
Punch moves that capture into the walk itself. The super speaks short updates and takes photos as things happen, or forwards an email. According to Punch’s product page, each capture files into the day’s record under labor, deliveries, delays or issues, and the app asks a follow-up question when something is unclear. By the end of the day the report is drafted. The super reviews it and sends it as a PDF on the company’s template, with the photos and AI-written captions inside.
The same updates feed other work. Punch says a spoken material request becomes a purchase order priced from the contractor’s supplier list and checked against the budget, and a scope question becomes a task assigned to the project manager. The rules come from a company “playbook,” Punch’s term for approval limits, preferred vendors and required fields that the contractor writes down once. One example on its homepage routes any change order over $10,000 to the PM before it reaches the client.
Punch sits between the estimating and accounting systems and sends cost data on to the accounting side, which stays the system of record. Its website names Excel, PlanSwift and On-Screen Takeoff on the estimating side, and QuickBooks, Sage, Foundation and Trimble on the accounting side. The company says it is built for contractors doing $5 million to $1 billion a year.
Evidence so far
The evidence so far is Punch’s October 15 release and the customer pages on its website. Most of the measured figures come from one person, Dustin Gibbs, general superintendent at Piedmont Drywall in Atlanta. These claims come from Punch and its customers:
| Claim | Figure | Who reported it |
|---|---|---|
| Time to complete one daily report | 30 minutes in the previous field app, 3 minutes in Punch | Dustin Gibbs, general superintendent at Piedmont Drywall, in Punch's release |
| Time saved per day across daily reporting and material orders (the release also lists payroll) | About 2.5 hours | Gibbs, in Punch's release and customer story |
| Projects behind those daily reports | 6 | Punch's daily reports product page |
| Reduction in time spent on paperwork | About 90% | Punch, on its website |
| Expected annual savings at one drywall subcontractor | $178,000, a projection | Punch case study of a business case the subcontractor mapped with Punch's team |
The 30-minute baseline is Gibbs’s time in the field app his company used before, and Punch’s customer story says the times were reported by the customer. In that story, one spoken walk covered three buildings across five floors, with photos, flagged delays and a scope question that went to the PM as a task. Gibbs describes the change this way in the release: “I’m saving that time by not having to stop and fill out forms and search through emails all day.”
The $178,000 figure measures something different. It is a projection a drywall subcontractor built with Punch’s team, and most of it comes from expected savings on wrong material orders, labor sub overbilling and problems caught earlier. Only $13,000 of it is the cost of the daily report app the sub expected to drop.
How often supers edit the drafted report before sending it, and results from Punch’s other listed customers, are not yet public. Punch’s homepage shows logos for Rado Mechanical Group, Atlas Demolition and KR-Witwer alongside Piedmont Drywall.
How to measure it on your projects
Track superintendent minutes per daily report, along with the share of reports filed the same day. Minutes per report is the time from opening the form, or the app, to sending the finished report. Same-day filing matters because the daily report is the record a contractor relies on in a delay claim or a backcharge dispute.
Capture the baseline before a pilot:
- For two weeks, have each participating super note the start and end time of every daily report.
- Count reports filed after midnight on the day they cover, and divide by the total.
- Pull ten reports at random and count the entries for crew headcount, deliveries, delays and photos, so you can compare completeness later.
During the pilot, log every report where the super changed the drafted content before sending. That edit rate tells you how much review the tool still needs on your jobs. The labor productivity method built from daily logs and timecards is a second check, since better crew counts in the report make that calculation more reliable. ServiceTitan is piloting a daily log agent for commercial contractors as well, so the same baseline works for comparing tools.
A first step is to time the next five daily reports on one job and write down the minutes.
Availability and cost
Punch is available now. It prices by proposal, with no fixed tiers or per-seat fee, and its pricing page says each proposal targets a return of five to ten times the software’s cost. Punch says a team can go live on one workflow, such as daily reports, in less than 48 hours, and that a broader rollout across purchase orders, invoices, subcontracts and scheduling takes weeks. It plans to spend the new funding on its engineering and customer teams.