Adaptive
AI-native project accounting platform for construction that deploys autonomous AI agents to handle WIP analysis, change orders, AP coding, billing, lien waivers, insurance tracking, and field coordination -- runs alongside existing ERPs without migration.
Hidden Pricing
3.0 /5 composite score
A genuinely novel AI-agent approach to construction project accounting with month-to-month contracts and full data export -- however, pricing is undisclosed (custom quote only, RF1) and there is no public developer API, which limits both value transparency and agent friendliness for an AI-native platform.
Solid
Rubric Scorecard
| Criterion | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Value for the price | 2/5 | monthly base fee scaled to revenue band (custom quote; no public pricing) Source → |
| Agent Friendliness | 2/5 | API: Integrations with major ERPs via pre-built connectors; no public developer API documented |
| Ease of adoption | 3/5 | web-saas, moderate learning curve Source → |
| Portability & lock-in | 4/5 | export: api |
| Interoperability | 4/5 | 9 integrations Source → |
How we verified this: we checked Adaptive against its live site and an independent source — adaptive.build. Nothing on this page is listed from memory. See how we grade. Verified 2026-07-04.
Evidence
Integrations
Sage Intacct Sage 100 Sage 300 QuickBooks Online QuickBooks Desktop Foundation Acumatica Procore Buildertrend
Adoption
Deploymentweb-saas
Self-serve signupno
Implementation requiredvendor-led
Training requiredtutorials
Learning curvemoderate
Data export
Export mechanismapi
Export scopeall-data
Contract lock-inmonthly
Sources
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