For commercial real estate development teams

Take on more projects, not more overhead.

The financial workspace for running a real estate development project. Yardstone assembles the draw, budget, and reporting; your team just reviews and approves.

Review instead of prep · Eliminate data entry · Sits above the books you keep

Project header showing remaining budget of $1,910,000 with total budget, committed, and invoiced
Current draw card: $940,500, Draw #1, 10 invoices included
Cost code breakdown including soft costs: architecture and engineering, permits, developer fee, and financing, with live amounts per line

Realtime numbers, updated as documents land. The budget is right whenever you check.

The overhead trap
Until now, more projects meant more overhead.

Each project brings documents to track, vendors to manage, draws to assemble, and reports to rebuild. Scaling up your projects has meant hiring up.

Yardstone breaks the cycle, so you can take on more, with less.

Every project tells its own story

Every change, recorded the moment it happens.

A living record of what moved, when, and by whom. So when anyone asks for an update, you don't assemble the answer. You open it.

TodayContingency −$7,500 reallocated to Framing · J. Okafor
2d agoLien waiver received from Terra Vista Concrete
4d agoCOI flagged for Grady Electrical, expires in 9 days · auto
6d agoChange order #12 approved +$9,200 to Framing
How it works

Assembled for you, reviewed by you.

01

Bring it together

Connect your budget, contracts, invoices, and vendor docs. One source of truth, no spreadsheets to rebuild.

02

Yardstone assembles it

It reads, codes, and categorizes every document as it lands: each invoice and contract to the right cost line. The draw builds itself, the budget updates, the reporting stays ready. Your team reviews instead of entering data. Automatic checks for anything that doesn't tie out are on the way.

03

Approve, and it goes out

Draw packages and partner updates go out ready to send, not rebuilt from scratch.

You upload
Invoices
Contracts
Change orders
Yardstone AI
Reads every document, codes
every number to its cost line
You review
Budget updated
Draw assembled
Report ready
Works with Intuit QuickBooks Dropbox Google Drive
What's inside

One workspace for the whole development.

More projects, same team

Handle a bigger pipeline without adding headcount.

Review, not prep

Yardstone does the data entry, spots potential problems, and assembles the numbers. Your team just reviews.

An always-current budget

Realtime numbers, updated as documents land, so the budget is right whenever you check.

Compliance, handled

Track COIs and lien waivers, and flag what's about to expire.

See the full product
Who it's for

Made for everyone on the team.

Know where every project stands, and never get caught off guard when capital asks.

Take on more projects without adding people.
Report to lenders and LPs with numbers you trust.
Steer and approve without living in the details.

The draw, the chasing, and the data entry, handled.

Approve line items and draws in one place, instead of marking up PDFs.
Documents update the budget as they land, so no re-keying.
Assemble the monthly draw in one place.
Stay ahead of expiring COIs and lien waivers.

Approvals cleared, and a record you can close the books against.

Clear approvals in one place, without chasing people down.
Invoices are read once, with no double entry into your accounting system.
A complete, traceable record for close and review.

For teams running active development projects

Keep your books. Keep your process. Yardstone is the layer on top that assembles draws, budgets, and reporting. It adds to your stack without disrupting it.

In their words

"Assembling a draw is a pain. When we're reviewing in real time instead of compiling and chasing paperwork, we finally get our time back—and can put it into work that actually makes us money." Stephen (CPA), VP, Avenue Development

Pricing

Starts at $500 a month.

For teams running real projects. No long implementation, no six-figure contract, no surprises.

No long implementationNo six-figure contractPriced for lean teams
Book a demo

See a draw assembled for you.

Start with a 30-minute walkthrough. Like what you see? We'll set up one of your real projects, risk free.

Live in days You control who sees what Your first project set up for you, risk free
The product

Every phase of the project, assembled for you.

Yardstone helps you manage your budget, capital stack, planning, and reporting. We automate the tedious work so your team just reviews.

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Phase 01 · Budget

Set the budget once. It stays current.

Realtime numbers, updated as documents land. Build the project budget and Yardstone keeps it current, reading invoices as they arrive and tracking amendments and transfers as the plan moves. Nothing to maintain by hand. Automatic checks for anything that doesn't tie out are on the way.

Yardstone budget for The Folsom — committed and invoiced kept current
Phase 02 · Execution

Run the build without the busywork.

Invoices, contracts, and vendor documents all in one place and automatically organized. Track commitments per vendor, stay ahead of expiring COIs and lien waivers, and let the monthly draw assemble itself, ready for your team to review instead of build.

Yardstone reading a subcontract and updating the budget by cost code
Phase 03 · Reporting

Reporting made easy.

Stop wasting time assembling reports. Draw packages and partner updates come out ready to send. Every change is on the record, so when anyone asks what moved, you already have the answer.

Pick what belongs in the draw and the package assembles in one click. Invoices already drawn never show up twice, and you can add supporting documents to any package, site photos included.

Where Yardstone fits

Adds to your stack. Disrupts nothing.

Keeps your books

Nothing to rip out

QuickBooks and your process stay exactly where they are. Yardstone works on top: draws, budgets, and partner reporting, synced both ways.

Focused by design

One job, done exceptionally

All-in-one platforms do everything, but rarely everything well. Yardstone does one thing at the highest level: the financial story of your project.

Built for the owner

Your capital-side layer

For the owner and the money, not the GC's field ops. Budget, draws, vendors, and partner reporting in one place, on the tools you already use.

Trust & control

Your financials stay private, and under your control.

Yardstone holds your draws, budgets, contracts, and vendor data, and keeps it private, with you in charge of who sees what.

You control accessSet permissions by person and by project, so the right people see the right numbers and no one else.

A complete audit trailEvery change is recorded with who made it and when, so nothing happens off the record.

FAQ

Common questions

Can't find your answer? Ask us in a demo.

Yes. It's built for lean teams running a handful of active projects, not enterprise portfolios. If spreadsheets have stopped keeping up, it fits.

No. Yardstone sits above your accounting software and syncs both ways, so you enter things once. QuickBooks is supported today: approve an invoice or mark a bill paid in Yardstone and it flows into QuickBooks, and changes in QuickBooks flow back the other way. Sage support is on the way.

Days, not quarters. Onboarding your first project can be done in an afternoon.

Yardstone uses AI to analyze your documents and automatically extract the data. Every number extracted by AI can be traced back to its source, and we make it easy for your team to verify everything quickly. When a document is ambiguous, Yardstone asks you instead of guessing.

Yes. Your data is encrypted and stored within your company's dedicated workspace, where it is only shared with the users you invite. Yardstone never uses your data to train AI models for other companies.

See it on your own projects.

A 30-minute walkthrough, not a generic pitch.

Book a demo

See your next draw, already reconciled.

A 30-minute walkthrough on your projects, not a generic pitch. Bring a real budget and we'll show you how it would work.

Walk through a draw on your own numbers
See the reporting your capital partners would get
No pressure, no long sales cycle
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