Greater confidence, accuracy and speed with budget management.
Real-time budget updates put everyone on the same page, providing visibility into general conditions and weekly accruals.
“I can tell you in real time my over under, accounts payable, etc. The numbers are always right in RedTeam Go,” says Phil Pace, Conseco Group CEO. “Before RedTeam Go, we had built in our contract that we needed a week turnaround between receiving funds from the owner and giving it to the subcontractor. We don’t need a week anymore, we need less than an hour.”
Project profitability has increased by 2% because project managers at Conseco Group have an increased sense of ownership and accountability over the project budget, and a culture of problem-solving has taken root.
Conseco is winning more bids.
RedTeam's bidding process has helped Conseco Group achieve a 50% bid success rate, because they can showcase to owners their due diligence and effectively demonstrate the differentiating value of their proposals.
“If I can get in front of a client and show them our bidding page in RedTeam Go and why we’re second lowest, my success rate is almost 50%," Pace says. “We can prove we’re doing our due diligence, and that’s a really strong negotiating tool.”
Projects stay on track, even through turnover.
The centralized documentation and intuitive interface of RedTeam Go allows new project managers to pick up ongoing projects without delays, increasing project efficiency and profitability. For example, when a project manager left Conseco Group’s largest project mid-way, within just one hour another project manager was able to step in and move forward without interruption.
Increased agility has decreased anxiety.
RedTeam enables Conseco Group to adapt swiftly to unanticipated changes and to inform all team members of those changes immediately.
During construction of a surgery center with several plan updates during construction, Conseco relied on the agility of RedTeam Go to track and share all plan revisions and updates in real time. Questions were resolved quickly and everything was organized while moving at a fast pace. The team wasn’t thrown off balance or delayed.
“The real advantage of RedTeam Go is that it reduces anxiety,” says Pace, "especially when managing multiple project changes. Not only did the submittal and RFI process in RedTeam Go enable fast communication with architects and subcontractors, but time management and tracking of change orders were handled quickly without disrupting work."
RedTeam Go further proved its worth during the pandemic when Conseco used the solution’s processes and guided workflows to keep a multi-million dollar set of projects for a fast food client on track. Conseco made up for months of delays caused by the pandemic and met the deadline, completing $80M in projects in one quarter (versus the typical $8 million) in spite of scheduling challenges, a smaller staff and an economic downturn.
“Without RedTeam Go, we couldn’t have successfully completed that volume of projects the way we did it,” says Pace. “It would have been too much to handle.”
Scott Karrle, who’s been at Conseco Group for 15 years serving as superintendent and project manager, agrees that RedTeam has become indispensable. “I can’t see managing a job without RedTeam Go anymore,” he says. “I start a job with it and I end a job with it.”
