Summit Builders Group

Summit Builders Group, a general contractor managing 8 active residential and commercial projects simultaneously, was struggling to maintain control over their tool inventory. With 150+ crew members spread across multiple job sites, their tool management had become a constant source of frustration and financial drain.

• Tool hoarding — Crews were stockpiling tools in their trucks and gang boxes, leading to shortages at other sites
• No return accountability — Tools checked out to projects often never made it back, costing $50,000+ annually
• Site-to-site confusion — Moving tools between projects required endless phone calls and coordination
• Duplicate purchases — Superintendents bought new tools because they couldn't find existing inventory

“Our foremen would call the office asking where the concrete saw was, and nobody knew,” says Jennifer Walsh, Operations Manager at Summit Builders Group. “We were buying the same tools over and over because nobody could track what we already owned.”

Summit Builders Group deployed ToolWorks across all project sites and their central warehouse, creating a unified system for tracking every tool and piece of equipment:

Implementation took just 2 weeks. Every tool in the warehouse was photographed and cataloged using ToolWorks' Snap-to-Add feature, which reduced the initial inventory time by 80% compared to manual entry.

“The AI scanning was a game-changer for us,” Walsh explains. “Our guys could photograph a gang box full of tools and have them all logged in minutes. Nobody had to type model numbers or serial numbers by hand.”