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Assignar vs Workyard

Two field workforce platforms that both schedule crews and capture cost-coded time, aimed at different contractors. Assignar is a field-operations platform for civil and specialty contractors that schedules people and equipment together, tracks compliance, applies award and plant hire rates, and adds an AI contract assistant called Milo. Workyard is GPS time tracking and workforce management first, with cost-code job costing, accounting and ERP sync, and on its Autopilot plan AI time-keeping features. Partly like-for-like: both cover crew time and scheduling, but Assignar goes deeper on equipment, compliance and rates and Workyard on GPS time and payroll data. Desk research from vendor sites read Nov 2, 2026; no winner.

DESK RESEARCH FROM VENDOR SITES. Compiled from vendors' public websites (accessed Nov 2, 2026). Vendor claims are not verified by Means & Methods Lab. No scores or rankings.

In short: Assignar (Crew, equipment & compliance scheduling; no public prices (quote / sales)) vs Workyard (GPS time tracking, cost codes & field ops; vendor publishes prices). Facts last checked Nov 2, 2026. No winner declared; desk research from vendor sites.

Side by side

Assignar vs Workyard: vendor-published facts side by side
Sheet rowAssignarWorkyard
CategoryCrew, equipment & compliance schedulingGPS time tracking, cost codes & field ops
AI role (our label)AI features added to established productAI features added to established product
What it doesField-operations platform for civil and specialty contractors, which its homepage now calls a construction operations margin control platform. It describes live job margin against the bid budget; award, bargaining agreement and plant hire rates (wet, dry, standby and travel) applied automatically, with payroll and invoicing from the same record; and unbilled work and open variations surfaced while the job runs. Core features: drag-and-drop scheduling of people and equipment on the same job, timesheets and dockets from the field, digital forms, plant prestarts and defects, compliance tracking (tickets, licenses, orientations, expiry alerts), geo-location on timesheet and form submission, reporting, and CRM, accounting and ERP integrations; workforce-management pages describe matching skills to tasks, predicting limited resources and managing subcontractor licenses. The menu lists Assignar Pay, Assignar Operations, Milo, CraneOps, InfraOps and TrafficOps. Milo, its AI Construction Expert in Assignar Pay, answers plain-English questions from your uploaded contracts, enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs), tickets and dockets and shows the source clause (the page's examples: when a shift triggers overtime, or which clause supports a variation); because Milo sits inside the established platform, we tag it AI features added. The homepage targets asphalt, concrete, drilling, piling, excavation, earthworks, non-destructive digging, rail, scaffolding, crane, demolition, traffic management and more. Customer counts (which differ between pages), illustrative margin-leak percentages, efficiency and hours-saved figures and customer quotes are vendor material and are not used.Workforce management for contractors and field teams, with GPS time tracking, cost-code job costing, accounting sync and scheduling. It offers GPS time tracking with time-clock rules and auto clock-in, a time clock kiosk and clock-in verification with facial photos (face detection to ensure only facial photos are submitted), overtime and break compliance with a GPS audit trail, time capture by project and cost code on every time card, time-card sign-offs, live job-cost reporting by employee and cost code, sync of time by job and cost code to accounting/ERP (Sage, NetSuite, ComputerEase and Foundation named on the pricing page), scheduling with notes/checklists/attachments, a live crew map, mileage allocation, field expenses on a company card, mobile forms with an AI-powered form builder/converter (upload a PDF or image; Smart Forms is listed as an add-on), and a developer API with 60+ endpoints and no additional usage fees. The pricing page's Autopilot plan adds "AI Time Keeping": a Time assistant (marked New) that the vendor says finds and fixes a full pay period of timecards automatically, with all changes reviewed and approved by admins before they go to payroll, and a Project Time Tracking Agent that detects work-site visits and allocates time to the right project using your offsite and rule-group settings with no manual clock-ins. Worker and contractor counts and customer quotes are vendor-published material and are not used.
Who it's forCivil and specialty contractors' schedulers, field supervisors, operations and payroll teams (US, Canada, Australia per sales numbers on site).Contractors (trade, restoration, service and GC crews) that need GPS-verified, cost-coded time feeding payroll and job costing.
Pricing (as publicly stated)Not publicly listed. The pricing page FAQ says pricing is tailored to your team's needs with a custom quote through Book a Demo, and that you can test drive Assignar before committing. (The dollar figure on the page is a customer savings claim, not a price.)Pricing page: plans start at $6 per user/month billed annually, with monthly billing also available. Plans: Starter, Pro, Autopilot (marked most popular; adds the AI Time Keeping features, time-clock automations, time-card sign-offs, ERP integrations and API access) and Enterprise (contact sales); Smart Forms is an add-on without a listed price. Per-plan prices above the $6 starting figure are not shown in the page text we read.
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Facts last checked: Nov 2, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor page before relying on them.

Where the vendor descriptions differ

  • What each sells (vendor wording): Assignar's homepage calls it a construction operations margin control platform for civil contractors, covering crews, equipment, compliance and project performance. Workyard describes workforce management for contractors and field teams, with GPS time tracking, cost-code job costing, accounting sync and scheduling.
  • Scheduling: Assignar lists drag-and-drop scheduling of people and equipment on the same job, and its workforce-management page describes matching skills to tasks and managing subcontractor licenses. Workyard lists scheduling with notes, checklists and attachments and a live crew map.
  • Time and rates: Assignar lists timesheets and dockets from the field with geo-location on submission, and says award, bargaining agreement and plant hire rates (wet, dry, standby and travel) are applied automatically, with payroll and invoicing from the same record. Workyard lists GPS time tracking with time-clock rules and auto clock-in, a kiosk, clock-in verification with facial photos, overtime and break compliance with a GPS audit trail, and time by project and cost code on every time card.
  • Compliance and equipment: Assignar lists compliance tracking for tickets, licenses and orientations with expiry alerts, digital forms, and plant prestarts and defects. Workyard lists mobile forms with an AI form builder, mileage and field expenses on a company card; its pages we read do not describe equipment inspections.
  • AI (vendor statements): Assignar's Milo, its AI Construction Expert in Assignar Pay, answers plain-English questions from your uploaded contracts, bargaining agreements, tickets and dockets and shows the source clause. Workyard's Autopilot plan lists a Time assistant (marked New) that it says finds and fixes a pay period of timecards, with admins approving changes before payroll, and a Project Time Tracking Agent that allocates time to projects from detected work-site visits.
  • Integrations: Assignar lists CRM, accounting and ERP integrations. Workyard names Sage, NetSuite, ComputerEase and Foundation on its pricing page and lists a developer API with 60+ endpoints.
  • Pricing (read Nov 2, 2026): Assignar does not list prices; its pricing page says pricing is tailored with a custom quote through Book a Demo, with a test drive offered. Workyard lists plans from $6 per user per month billed annually (Starter, Pro, Autopilot, Enterprise by quote); per-plan prices above the starting figure were not shown in the page text we read.
  • AI tags: we tag both Assignar and Workyard as AI features added to an established product.
  • Not used here: customer and worker counts, margin and hours-saved figures and customer quotes (vendor material). Facts for both tools come from vendor websites (desk research).

Paraphrased from the sources listed above. Vendor claims are reported as claims.

What users say

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  • What either tool costs for your crew size
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  • How AI-suggested time-card changes are logged for wage-and-hour review
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