Procore is a great platform priced for someone else's company
Procore's public pricing starts around $667 per user per month and scales up from there depending on module count, volume, and enterprise add-ons. For a mid-sized general contractor running 6 to 15 users across PMs, superintendents, project engineers, and estimating, that is a $48,000 to $120,000 per year contract before you have paid for the person who actually administers it. And Procore only works if someone administers it. Left to itself, the platform becomes a graveyard of half-filled fields, stale submittals, and RFI logs that nobody trusts. The mid-sized GCs we talk to fall into one of two buckets: paying for Procore and not fully using it, or not paying for Procore and running everything through email and spreadsheets. Both are the wrong answer.
MiOpsAI is a different shape of solution for the mid-sized commercial GC. It is not another project management platform trying to out-Procore Procore. It is an AI operations layer that runs the coordination work that Procore expects a human admin to do. RFI drafting, submittal chase, pay app assembly, subcontractor prequalification chase, owner update narratives, and daily report roll-ups all happen automatically, drafted for your PM to review and send. Your project record still lives somewhere, whether that is a simplified project platform, a shared drive, or a lightweight tool like Buildertrend. What MiOpsAI provides is the work, not another database.
What a mid-sized GC actually needs versus what Procore sells
The Procore module list is impressive: project management, quality and safety, financial management, workforce management, resource planning, BIM coordination, bid management, prequalification, and a preconstruction suite. For a $500 million per year enterprise GC with a full-time tools team, every one of those modules earns its seat. For a $30 million to $150 million per year mid-sized GC, most of that surface area is aspirational. What you actually need is: a way to draft RFI responses fast, a way to keep submittals from aging out, a way to assemble pay apps without a two-day scramble, a way to send owner updates that do not read like a robot wrote them, and a way to get subs to return signed change orders without three follow-up emails from a PM who already has 200 unread messages.
MiOpsAI is built around exactly those workflows. LizziAI handles the inbound reading and drafting on every project inbox. The Command Center chairs handle the specialized functions like Finance for pay app assembly and Operations for submittal aging. Nothing about it looks like a Procore replacement, because it is not. It is a productivity layer that produces the work a Procore admin would produce if you could afford to hire one full-time and if that person could type at AI speed.
The cost comparison a mid-sized GC actually cares about
Take a representative mid-sized GC with 10 users across the office team. Procore at $667 per user per month is $80,040 per year. Add a part-time Procore admin at $45,000 fully loaded and you are at $125,000 per year for platform and administration. That is your annual investment before any of it produces output.
MiOpsAI Growth plan is $299 per month for the base platform. Chairs are $250 per month each. A typical mid-sized GC deployment runs 3 chairs (Operations, Finance, Growth) for $1,049 per month total, which is $12,588 per year. That is roughly 10 percent of the Procore-plus-admin cost, and the output is the actual work product (RFI responses, submittal chase notes, pay app drafts, owner updates) rather than a platform waiting for someone to fill it in. See the pricing page for full details.
What you keep, what you drop, what you replace
The honest reality for most mid-sized GCs evaluating a Procore alternative: you probably want to keep something for drawing storage and schedule. Buildertrend at $199 to $499 per month per company handles this well for the mid-market. Autodesk Construction Cloud has a startup tier. A well-organized shared drive works for smaller shops. What MiOpsAI replaces is not the drawing storage layer. It replaces the human administrative labor that Procore assumes you have on staff to keep the platform fed.
You drop the Procore contract. You drop the assumption that a full-time or dedicated part-time admin is required. You keep a lighter drawing and schedule tool. You add MiOpsAI to run the coordination. Net cost goes down significantly, work product goes up because the drafting layer is now automated, and your PMs get their weeks back. This is the pattern we see repeatedly with mid-sized GCs who tried Procore, could not justify the ongoing cost, and needed something that produced work instead of requiring work.
Why the AI layer is the actual differentiator
Every construction management platform on the market stores project data. Procore stores it well. Autodesk stores it well. Buildertrend stores it well. What none of them do is generate the coordination output. RFI responses still get typed by a human. Submittal chase emails still get typed by a human. Pay app packages still get assembled by a human. Owner updates still get written by a human. The platform stores the result. The human produces it.
MiOpsAI inverts this. The AI produces the draft, the human reviews and approves, the result gets stored (in MiOpsAI's Hive, in your Procore, in your Buildertrend, wherever). The bottleneck of every mid-sized construction operation is human writing time. Automating the drafting layer, not the storage layer, is where the recovered hours actually live. See how LizziAI drafts and how the chairs coordinate for the mechanics.
What a switch from Procore to MiOpsAI actually looks like
Week one is data export from Procore and setup of a lighter drawing and schedule tool if you do not have one. RFI and submittal history is imported into the MiOpsAI Hive for LizziAI's reference. Week two, LizziAI starts drafting responses on your active projects with your PMs reviewing every send. Week three, we activate the Operations chair for submittal aging and RFI backlog tracking. Week four, we add Finance for pay app assembly. Month two, we typically layer in the Growth chair for bid pipeline and sub prequalification chase. Your Procore contract can be timed to end after this transition so there is zero coverage gap. Cancellation on MiOpsAI requires 60-day written notice.
The GCs we talk to who make this switch typically report the same three things at month three: PMs got their evenings back, submittal aging dropped by more than half, and the office admin who was fighting Procore full-time is now doing higher-value work like takeoffs and estimating support. That is the shape of the productivity gain.
Frequently asked questions
Can I run MiOpsAI alongside Procore instead of replacing it?
Yes, and many mid-sized GCs start this way. You keep Procore for drawing storage and schedule while MiOpsAI runs the coordination and drafting layer on top. Over 6 to 12 months, most decide whether to drop the Procore contract or keep it as a data-of-record layer. Either works. The AI drafting output is the same.
What about Autodesk Construction Cloud or Buildertrend?
Same pattern. MiOpsAI runs alongside whatever your project platform is. Buildertrend is a common pairing for mid-sized GCs because it is priced for the mid-market and MiOpsAI adds the AI layer that Buildertrend does not have.
Do we lose the ability to onboard subs on a portal?
Subs interact with MiOpsAI the way they interact with your PM today: through email, phone, and portal messages if you have one. No sub portal is required. Sub adoption of Procore portals is famously low across the industry. Working through email is what actually happens on job sites, and LizziAI is built for that reality.
What if we already export data from Procore for accounting?
Data export is preserved. MiOpsAI writes pay app packages, change order logs, and cost report narratives that hand off cleanly to Sage 300 CRE, Foundation, Vista, or whatever accounting system you run. This is separate from the AI drafting layer and is part of the Finance chair's job.
How do you handle project handover to owner?
Turnover packages (O&M manuals, warranty documentation, as-builts) are assembled by LizziAI from the project Hive at closeout, with the PM reviewing before delivery. This is one of the single biggest time savings we see because turnover packages are historically a two-to-three-week manual assembly job.
How do I get started?
Growth plan is $299 per month for the base platform. Chairs are $250 per month each. Most mid-sized GCs start with 3 chairs. Request access to book a walkthrough or check the commercial construction industry page. If you want to compare specifically on RFI performance, see the RFI-focused page. If margin visibility is your priority, see the budget-versus-actuals page.