The contractor's
project room.
Scope, blueprint, client-shareable timeline, off-market deal flow —
every project lives in one tenant your whole crew can see.
Four tools, one project room.
Built by a Honolulu design-build practice that needed all of this and couldn't find it anywhere. Each piece works alone — together they replace your scoping spreadsheet, your CRM, and your client-update emails.
AI Scope Generator
Photos and an address in. Phase-by-phase scope of work, line-item ranges, and Hawaii contractor tax gross-up out — in 60 seconds. Send it as a real lead with one click.
Project Room (Tenant)
One tenant per company, every project inside. RoomPlan blueprints, client-shareable timelines, daily logs, invoices with tax handling, change orders with public approve links.
Property Brief
$15 / month homeowner intel. Your address every Wednesday: TMK, zoning, lava zone, permit history, comps. Built on the same Hawaii data layer the scope generator uses.
Aloha Off-Market Network
Deal flow before MLS. Three tiers — $99 watcher, $499 builder, $1,500 founding member. Hawaii adjacency alerts, distressed-permit signals, intros to vetted agents + lenders.
Scan, scope, share.
From the first site walk to the final invoice, every project moves through the same three steps. The client sees the same timeline you do.
Scan or upload
Walk the site with RoomPlan on an iPhone — or drag in photos. The scope generator reads it, asks two clarifying questions, and writes a phase-by-phase scope of work in 60 seconds.
Turn it into a project
Approved scope becomes a real project room: blueprint editor, daily logs, time clock, invoices with Hawaii tax accounting, change orders. One tenant, every project, your whole crew can see it.
Share with the client
Every project gets a public timeline link the homeowner can check anytime — milestones, photos, change orders, invoice approvals. No more weekly “how’s it going” emails.
Built by a working contractor.
Not a SaaS startup chasing a vertical. A Honolulu design-build practice that needed all of this on real job sites — and shipped it.
John Thomas
Founder · Ikena Design & Build · Honolulu
I run an active design-build practice in Honolulu — and I built BlueWave Projects because I needed it.
Before software I spent a decade as a 100-ton USCG Captain with 1,000+ sea days; the contractor work came after I came ashore. Everything in BlueWave Projects exists because I needed it on a real job site — scoping, blueprints, change orders, Hawaii sub-deduction tracking — and couldn’t find software that worked the way contractors actually work.
If you’re a design-build shop, custom home builder, or active renovation GC, this tool was built by someone with sawdust on their boots — not a SaaS bro chasing a vertical.
Visit Ikena Design & Build →Priced for working contractors.
Start free. Upgrade when the workflow earns you back its first month. No per-seat tax, no setup fee, no contract.
Solo
One project room, every feature unlocked. For solo GCs proving the workflow.
- 1 active project
- AI scope generator (5 / month)
- RoomPlan blueprint editor
- Client-shareable timeline
- Daily logs + invoices
- Hawaii tax accounting
Pro
Unlimited projects, full team, branded client portal.
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited scope generations
- Invite teammates (no per-seat fee)
- Custom subdomain + branding
- Change orders with public approve links
- Property Brief credits included
Founding Builder
For shops doing $5M+ a year. Includes Aloha Network Builder tier.
- Everything in Pro
- Aloha Off-Market Network — Builder tier
- Adjacent-permit alerts
- Direct line to the BlueWave team
- Quarterly underwriting workshop
- Locked-in price for life
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Every Hawaii GC who hires subs is leaving money on the table if they don't understand §237-13(3)(B). A plain-English breakdown of the sub-deduction, what counts, what doesn't, and how to track it.
How to scope a renovation in 60 seconds (and why your hand-written estimate keeps losing jobs)
The five-step AI workflow we use to turn a site walk into a phase-by-phase scope of work in under a minute. With real numbers from real Honolulu renovations.
Got questions?
The ones working contractors ask before they sign up. If yours isn't here, start a free trial and try the workflow on a real walk-through — you'll know within a week.
Talk to a working contractor.
Free trial is the fastest path, but if you want to talk it through first — drop a note and we'll get back same day.