Civil HQ

Built for civil project teams

Keep projects moving. Let engineers engineer.

Civil HQ is being built for the day-to-day work of running civil projects: turning field notes, client changes, schedules, hours, and cost information into clear next steps. The goal is less chasing, copying, and status hunting, so engineers and project managers can stay focused on the work.

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Current stage: Active development and customer discovery. Not yet ready for production use.

ONE PROJECT / ONE WORKING HISTORY CONCEPT 01
A useful project history built through everyday project work A shared project history connects schedule building, task assignments, quick hour logging, and time and cost forecasts. The team remains responsible for the project record. BUILD THE SCHEDULE TURN THE PLAN INTO DATES, MILESTONES, AND OWNERS GET TASKS MOVING SEND THE RIGHT NEXT STEP TO THE RIGHT PERSON FORECAST TIME + COST SEE PRESSURE EARLY, USING THE WORK ALREADY RECORDED LOG HOURS QUICKLY TIE TIME TO THE PROJECT WHILE THE WORK IS FRESH USEFUL, CURRENT, CONNECTED PROJECT HISTORY FIELD NOTES · CLIENT CHANGES DECISIONS · HOURS · PROGRESS THE TEAM OWNS THE RECORD · CIVIL HQ HELPS CARRY THE WORK FORWARD

The problem we’re investigating

Project work rarely lives in one place.

Teams piece together what is happening from inboxes, spreadsheets, shared drives, schedules, accounting systems, and memory. The plan gets stale, changes lose context, and project managers spend time reconciling information instead of moving the job forward.

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Where did that come from?

Client direction, field notes, and decisions get separated from the task or schedule they changed.

02

What is the real status?

Hours, progress, budget, and schedule live in different places, so a clear answer takes manual work.

03

Who owns the next step?

Information passes through email and meetings before it becomes a task with an owner and due date.

These are the problems we are testing through conversations with civil project teams. We want to learn where the work actually bogs down before calling the product finished.

What we’re building

The project record should help run the job.

Civil HQ is aimed at the work project managers and engineers already do: build the schedule, assign the next task, track hours and progress, and understand where time and cost are heading. Each update should strengthen the project history instead of creating another place to maintain.

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One working project history

Keep decisions, changes, hours, Tasks, and Milestones connected to the Project and Client they belong to.

Foundation in development
02

Schedules that reflect the work

Build and adjust Milestones, due dates, and assignments without rebuilding the plan in several tools.

Task and Milestone foundation exists
03

Tasks that reach the team

Turn meeting notes, client requests, and field updates into clear Tasks with an owner and due date.

Product direction
04

Hours without the headache

Make time entry quick enough to do as work happens, with hours tied back to the right project and task.

Product direction
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Time and cost outlook

Use actual progress and project history to spot schedule pressure and forecast time and cost earlier.

Product direction

Why Civil HQ

Less clerical work. More engineering.

The aim is simple: engineers should not have to become full-time data coordinators to keep a project current. Civil HQ should capture the work once, carry it forward, and leave professional judgment with the people responsible for the job.

  • Enter it onceuse it across the project
  • People stay in chargeof official records
  • Context stays attachedto changes and decisions
  • History stays usefulfor the next decision
  • Work stays visibleby project and role
  • AI handles busyworkpeople make the call

Where Civil HQ stands today

The foundation is real. The day-to-day tools are still being built.

Civil HQ is in active development and customer discovery. The underlying records exist for firms, users, clients, projects, team membership, Tasks, Milestones, roles, sign-in context, and history.

Now we’re turning that foundation into something a real project team can use every day. The customer-ready MVP is not complete.

Firm, client, and project setupFoundation exists
Tasks and MilestonesData foundation exists
Project overviewRead-only foundation
From note to assigned TaskBeing designed
Document workspacePlanned
Customer-ready MVPNot yet available

Who we want to learn from

People who keep jobs moving.

We’re learning how civil teams plan work, make assignments, handle changes, track hours, and answer the constant question: where does this project really stand?

  • Civil project managers
  • Project engineers
  • Technical and field-exposed staff
  • Firm leadership
  • Operations, IT, and finance participants

The people behind Civil HQ

Built from civil-engineering and systems experience.

Co-Founder / Product

Peter Brower

Peter brings civil-engineering education and infrastructure project experience to the product and systems work behind Civil HQ.

Co-Founder / Civil Engineering Systems Partner

Barret Knutson

Barret brings civil-engineering experience and systems perspective to how Civil HQ is shaped and tested.

Participate in research

Tell us where project work gets harder than it should.

We want to hear how your team builds schedules, assigns work, handles field and client updates, logs hours, and forecasts time and cost. This is a working conversation, not a sales pitch.

Please do not send confidential client, project, personnel, or credential information.

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