Most of our clients are building from out of state. They cannot drive by the job site. They depend entirely on us for visibility, documentation, and confidence. Here is exactly how we deliver that.
Client portal, scheduling, budgeting, daily logs, change orders, selections tracking, and draw requests. Every client receives portal access at construction kickoff.
Immersive 3D scans of your home during construction with walls open, documenting all framing, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems. Accessible by link for one year; full image set delivered at closeout.
Professional residential design software used for all iLevel plan sets, from schematic design through permit-ready construction documents and 3D renderings.
Plan markup, revision tracking, and document collaboration for the design and construction team throughout the project lifecycle.
Line-item job costing for every project. Every actual cost is tagged, coded, and documented before it appears on a draw request. The financial record behind cost-plus billing.
Portable satellite internet deployed to every job site, ensuring full connectivity for documentation, communication, and software access regardless of cell coverage at remote Black Hills and Wyoming locations.
Building a luxury custom home in the Black Hills is a complex, multi-year undertaking involving dozens of subcontractors, hundreds of decisions, and hundreds of thousands of dollars moving through the project in real time. Most of our clients are executives or business owners. They know what organized operations look like, and they know what disorganized ones feel like.
The tools we use are not about being a tech company. They are about running a construction company with the kind of discipline and documentation that protects your investment and keeps you informed from the first design meeting through the day you get your keys. Every platform in our stack was chosen because it solves a specific problem that matters to our clients: visibility, accuracy, documentation, and communication.
Here is what we use and what it means for your project.
Ressio is the operational hub of every iLevel project. It is where scheduling, budgeting, change orders, daily logs, and client communication are managed and documented throughout the build. Every active project lives in Ressio from the day the construction contract is signed through project closeout.
Every iLevel client receives access to their own project portal within Ressio at construction kickoff. The portal gives you real-time visibility into your project from anywhere, on your phone, tablet, or computer, without needing to call us to find out what is happening.
For out-of-state clients, this portal is the difference between feeling connected to your project and feeling like you are waiting for the next email update. You can check in at any time, on your own schedule, without interrupting the team.
3D Vista is one of the most valuable tools we use for our clients, and very few custom builders in the Black Hills market offer anything like it.
At key stages during construction, typically after framing, rough mechanical, electrical, and plumbing are complete and before insulation and drywall are installed, we perform a full 3D scan of your home using 3D Vista. The result is an immersive, navigable virtual walkthrough of your home as it actually exists at that moment in construction, with every wall open and every system visible.
What This Means for You During the Build
Most of our clients are not standing in their home when the walls are open. They are in Denver, Dallas, or Chicago running their businesses. The 3D Vista scan gives them the ability to walk through their home virtually, examine the framing layout, see where every plumbing line runs, confirm where electrical panels and conduit are located, and review the mechanical systems before a single inch of insulation goes in.
We send you a direct link to your scan that you can access on any phone, tablet, or computer. No app download required. You can share it with your architect, your interior designer, or anyone else involved in your project who needs to understand the current state of the build.
What This Means for the Life of Your Home
The value of the 3D Vista scan extends well beyond the construction period. Once your walls are closed, no one can see what is behind them without cutting in. That creates real problems down the road when a future contractor needs to know where a plumbing line runs before opening a wall, or when you want to add a circuit and need to know where the existing wiring is routed.
Your 3D Vista scan documents all of it permanently. At project closeout, we provide you with the complete set of 3D scan images as part of your homeowner documentation package. Those images stay with your home as a permanent record of what is inside every wall, ceiling, and floor assembly.
Your 3D Vista scan is hosted online and accessible via a shareable link for one year from the date of the scan. At the end of the hosting period, the online link expires. The full set of 3D scan images is saved and delivered to you as part of your closeout documentation package, so you always have a permanent copy regardless of the hosting window. If you would like to extend online access beyond one year, we can discuss hosting options at closeout.
Chief Architect is the professional-grade design software our in-house design team uses to develop every iLevel plan set from initial schematic through permit-ready construction documents. It is the industry standard for residential design and produces fully coordinated, dimensioned drawings that our subcontractors can build from without ambiguity.
For clients in our L2 and L3 design tiers, Chief Architect is also how we produce the full 3D exterior and interior renderings included in those packages. You see your home in three dimensions, with accurate material representations and real proportions, before a single construction document is finalized. Changes at the rendering stage cost nothing compared to changes after construction starts.
Because we design in-house using the same software our plans are drafted in, there is no translation layer between your vision and the documents your builder and subcontractors are working from. The designer who understands your project is the same team that produces the construction documents.
Bluebeam is the document collaboration platform our team uses for plan review, markup, and coordination throughout the design and construction process. It allows our project manager, design team, and field foreman to mark up drawings digitally, track revisions, and maintain a clear record of every plan change from design through construction.
For clients who want to review and comment on plan sets directly, Bluebeam allows us to share documents in a format that supports precise markup and annotation. Every comment, revision, and approval is tracked and dated, which protects everyone and keeps the plan set history clean from first draft through final construction documents.
QuickBooks Online is the financial backbone of every iLevel project. Every cost incurred on your build is entered into QuickBooks, tagged to your specific job, and coded to the appropriate CSI division. This is how we maintain the line-item financial accuracy that cost-plus billing requires.
When we issue a monthly draw, the numbers in that draw come directly from QuickBooks job cost data. Every vendor invoice, subcontractor bill, permit fee, and labor charge is in the system before it appears on your draw request. You are not paying from estimates. You are paying from documented actuals with a full paper trail behind every line.
QuickBooks Online also allows our team to monitor budget versus actual costs in real time across every active project. When a cost code approaches its budgeted amount, our project manager is alerted before it goes over, giving us the opportunity to communicate with you proactively rather than delivering a surprise on the next draw.
The Black Hills and Northeast Wyoming are not known for reliable cell coverage. Many of our job sites are on rural land, mountain property, or acreage well outside the reach of any cell tower. That is part of what makes the region worth building in. It also creates a real operational challenge for a construction team that depends on software, photo uploads, real-time communication, and daily documentation to run a modern project.
We solve that with Starlink Roam, a portable satellite internet system that travels with our team to every job site. Regardless of where your home is being built, our field team has a reliable high-speed connection to upload daily logs, transmit photos, access plans and specifications, communicate with subcontractors, and keep your Ressio portal current.
For our clients, this means the documentation and communication standard we commit to does not degrade based on your site location. A home being built on a remote 40-acre parcel in Wyoming gets the same daily log quality, the same photo uploads, and the same portal visibility as a project on a developed lot in Spearfish. The Black Hills setting is a feature of your home. It should not be a limitation on how it is managed.
