Why we built this voice-first, not as an afterthought

Talk to enough contractors and you’ll notice something field-management software has largely ignored: a lot of the best people in this trade are more comfortable talking through a job than writing it up. That’s not a knock on anyone. It’s a pattern worth taking seriously.

Industry research backs this up. A 2023 survey of 1,000 construction workers by the National Federation of Builders found that 24% identified as neurodivergent, with ADHD the most commonly reported trait among them. Notably, more than a third said their condition made construction more appealing to them, not less. Separately, a large peer-reviewed study of nearly 10,000 adults found that people with a diagnosed ADHD condition were almost twice as likely to actually start a business, not just consider it, while the same researchers pointed out that running a business demands exactly the “formal, prolonged, administrative” work that can be hardest for that group.

Put those together and you get a real explanation for something a lot of contractor software gets wrong: it assumes the person running the business wants to sit down and type a structured form. For a meaningful share of the people actually doing this work, that assumption is backwards.

We didn’t design ScopeAccord as “software for people with ADHD,” that’s too narrow, and it’s not the point. We designed it around how the job actually gets talked about: out loud, in whatever order it comes to mind, standing on a ladder or in a truck between stops. Voice and freeform description aren’t an accessibility feature bolted on afterward. They’re the starting point.

Say the job. Let the structure happen after.