The Short Version
CompanyCam does one thing, and it does it better than anything else: job site photo documentation. Every photo your crew takes gets a GPS tag, a timestamp, and gets filed to the right project automatically. No more scrolling through someone’s camera roll. No more “I thought you took pictures.” No more arguing with a homeowner about what the roof looked like before you started.
I use CompanyCam across both my roofing business and my adjusting work. Every crew member has it on their phone. It’s one of the cheapest tools in my stack and probably delivers the most value per dollar of anything I pay for.
If you run a crew of any size, in any trade, stop reading reviews and just go try it. You’ll understand in about ten minutes.
Overview
CompanyCam was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska, and has grown into the dominant photo documentation platform for contractors. They hit a $2 billion valuation in August 2025 after closing a Series C round, and in March 2026 they acquired Beam Finance to add estimating, payments, and invoicing to their roadmap. The company is growing fast, but the core product — photo documentation — remains the reason contractors sign up.
Over 100,000 contractors use CompanyCam across every trade you can name: roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, painting, restoration, landscaping, concrete. Unlike most contractor software that picks a lane, CompanyCam works for any trade because photos are universal. Every contractor takes job photos. CompanyCam just makes sure those photos are organized, stamped, and accessible.
The idea is dead simple: replace the chaos of photos scattered across ten different phones and three text threads with one organized system that your whole team can see in real time.
Key Features
Photo Capture with GPS and Timestamps
This is the foundation. Every photo taken through CompanyCam automatically gets stamped with the GPS coordinates, the date and time, and the user who took it. You can see exactly where, when, and who.
Why that matters in practice: An insurance adjuster disputes your claim and says the damage wasn’t there. Pull up the time-stamped, GPS-tagged photo showing the damage on the day of inspection. Argument over. A homeowner says your crew damaged their fence. Pull up the before photos showing the fence was already damaged. Argument over. A crew member says they were on site at 8 AM. The photos say they were there at 10:30. You know what you need to know.
The stamps are toggled on in camera settings — date/time and GPS coordinates appear right on the image. No extra steps. Your crew just opens the app and shoots.
Project Timelines
Every project gets a timeline — a chronological feed of every photo, video, and document captured for that job. It’s a living record of the entire project from first inspection to final cleanup.
The timeline is a live link you can share with the customer. They can watch the progress in real time without calling your office every day. Send the link once, and the homeowner sees new photos as they’re taken. If there are photos you don’t want to share — maybe your crew’s lunch break selfie — you can hide individual images from the shared timeline.
This feature alone has reduced my customer phone calls by probably 30%. People feel informed. They trust the process more when they can see it happening.
There’s also a “Nearby Projects” feature that shows you other jobs your company has done close to your current location. That’s useful for door knocking — you can literally show a homeowner photos from a job you did three houses down. Social proof that’s hyper-local and specific.
Before and After Photos
CompanyCam has a dedicated before-and-after tool. Select your “before” photo, the app overlays a ghost image on your screen so you can line up the exact same angle, and snap your “after.” It creates a clean side-by-side comparison automatically.
These are gold for marketing. Post them on your Google Business profile, your website, your social media. Real work, real results, no stock photos. They’re also useful for insurance documentation — showing the adjuster exactly what changed from inspection to completion.
Photo Annotations
You can mark up photos directly in the app. Draw circles around problem areas, add arrows pointing to damage, overlay text with measurements or notes. The annotation tools include:
- Circles and arrows for highlighting specific areas
- Text overlays for adding job details or instructions
- Measurement labels for dimensions
- Freehand drawing for quick markups
This is particularly useful when you’re communicating with a crew that’s not on site. Instead of trying to describe where the flashing needs to go, circle it on a photo and assign it. Clear communication, no confusion.
Galleries and Sharing
Beyond the project timeline, you can build curated photo galleries — hand-pick the best shots from a project and share them as a clean, professional gallery link. This is better than a timeline for finished-job presentations because you control exactly what’s in there. No construction mess, no in-progress shots, just the polished result.
Share options are flexible. Copy a link, text it, email it, or share through any app on your phone. You control access and can turn off sharing whenever you want.
Checklists and Reports
CompanyCam includes project checklists that you can customize by job type. Roof inspection? Create a checklist: check ridge caps, check flashing, check gutters, photograph each item. Your crew follows the list, takes photos at each step, and the office knows nothing was missed.
PDF photo reports can be generated from any project — pull the photos into a formatted document and export it. Useful for insurance claims, customer records, or internal documentation.
For my adjusting work, the checklists have been particularly valuable. I built templates for different claim types — wind, hail, water — and each one walks through every element an adjuster needs to see. My team captures consistent documentation on every claim, which means fewer supplements and fewer pushbacks from carriers.
AI Features
CompanyCam has invested heavily in AI, and the results are genuinely useful — not just marketing fluff.
AI Reports
This is the standout. Snap your job photos, talk through what you’re seeing (voice input), and the AI generates a formatted field report. No typing, no sitting in your truck at the end of the day filling out paperwork. Take the photos, narrate your findings, and CompanyCam turns it into a professional report you can send to the customer or the insurance company.
The AI can also summarize large photo sets. Dump 50 photos from a job into a project, and it generates a clean written summary. Edit it if needed, then send.
AI Captions and Organization
Photos get auto-captioned based on their content, making them easier to search and sort later. The AI also handles document scanning and can extract text from photos of documents, which is handy for capturing paperwork in the field.
Language Support
For crews with mixed language backgrounds, the AI handles translation and keeps communication clear. In a trade where your crew might speak three different languages, this feature solves a real problem.
Important Note on AI Pricing
The Pro plan only includes 10 AI credits total, company-wide. If you want unlimited AI features — and you will, once you try them — you need the Premium plan at $149/month minimum. The AI reports feature alone might justify the upgrade for contractors doing high volumes, but know what you’re getting before you pick a plan.
Mobile App
CompanyCam is a mobile-first product. The app is where 90% of the work happens, and it shows.
The interface is deliberately simple. Open the app, tap the camera, take a photo. It gets filed to the right project based on your GPS location. Your crew doesn’t need to select a project or fill out fields — CompanyCam figures out which job site they’re at and files accordingly.
The app runs on both iOS and Android. The latest Android version (10.0.10) was updated in March 2026, so they’re actively maintaining it.
Day-to-day, here’s what my crew does in the app:
- Take job photos (they land in the right project automatically)
- Annotate photos to flag issues
- Run through checklists during inspections
- View photos from other team members on the same project
- Share timelines or galleries with customers
The app handles video too — unlimited storage for video clips and documents alongside photos.
For older phones, the app can get heavy. If your crew is running 3-year-old budget Androids with limited storage, they might notice slowdowns. That’s the one consistent complaint I hear. The fix is straightforward: make sure your team’s phones aren’t packed with other stuff, or consider it part of your equipment budget to keep phones current.
One thing I appreciate: CompanyCam doesn’t try to reinvent the camera. It uses the phone’s native camera capabilities and adds its GPS/timestamp layer on top. Photo quality is whatever your phone produces. On a modern iPhone or Samsung, that’s plenty for documentation purposes.
A recent interface update rubbed some long-time users the wrong way — things that used to take one tap started taking more steps. I’ve seen that complaint on Google Play reviews. Personally, I got used to the new layout within a week. But if you’re training a crew on it for the first time, you won’t notice because you never knew the old way.
One thing CompanyCam doesn’t try to do: be a CRM. There’s no invoicing, no estimating (at least not yet — the Beam Finance acquisition might change that), no lead tracking. It does photo documentation and does it well. For everything else, you pair it with your CRM.
Pricing
CompanyCam restructured their pricing in recent years. Here’s where it stands:
Pro Plan — $99/month (billed annually)
Includes 3 users. Additional users are $29/month each (annually) or $34/month each (monthly billing). Monthly billing for the base plan is $99/month for 3 users.
What you get: Unlimited photo, video, and document storage. GPS and time stamps. Photo annotations. Checklists. PDF photo reports. Payment processing. Only 10 AI credits total — which will run out fast.
Premium Plan — $149/month (billed annually)
Includes 3 users with the same add-on user pricing. Everything in Pro, plus unlimited AI reporting, templates, and real-time dashboards.
This is the plan I’d recommend for most contractors. The unlimited AI alone is worth the step up from Pro. If you’re going to use CompanyCam properly, you want the AI reports.
Elite Plan — $249/month (billed annually)
Includes 3 users. Everything in Premium, plus review requests, dual camera mode, and digital signatures.
The Elite plan makes sense for contractors who are actively marketing and want built-in review generation tied to their completed projects.
Enterprise — Custom Pricing
For larger operations with advanced workflow needs. Talk to their sales team.
The Real Math
For a 5-person crew on the Premium plan: $149 base (3 users) + $58 (2 additional users at $29 each) = $207/month. For a 10-person crew: $149 + $203 (7 additional users) = $352/month.
That’s $35-$40 per person per month. For organized, GPS-stamped, time-stamped photo documentation on every job? That pays for itself the first time you avoid a dispute or win an insurance argument.
A 14-day free trial is available to test it out.
Integrations
CompanyCam connects to the contractor tools that matter:
- JobNimbus — Two-way sync. Create a job in JobNimbus, a project auto-creates in CompanyCam. Photos taken in CompanyCam sync back to the JobNimbus job record. This is the pairing I use daily and it works well.
- AccuLynx — Same two-way sync. Jobs and leads in AccuLynx create CompanyCam projects. Photos sync back automatically. Job milestone updates in AccuLynx update CompanyCam project labels.
- Jobber — For service contractors using Jobber as their CRM, CompanyCam plugs right in.
- JobTread — Project management integration for GCs.
- ServiceTitan — For HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors on ServiceTitan.
- Roofr — Measurement and proposal integration.
- Zapier — Connect CompanyCam to any other app in your stack with custom workflows.
The integrations require appropriate plan levels on both platforms. CompanyCam’s Basic tier (if it still exists) doesn’t support integrations — you need at least Pro.
The JobNimbus integration is the one I have the most experience with, and it’s tight. The sync is fast, the data mapping is clean, and it eliminates the need to upload photos manually between systems. If you’re using JobNimbus as your CRM, adding CompanyCam is a no-brainer.
Who Should Use CompanyCam
Basically every contractor with a crew. But specifically:
- Roofing contractors — Photo documentation is critical for insurance claims, customer trust, and dispute resolution. This is table stakes.
- Restoration contractors — Before-and-after documentation is your entire business case. CompanyCam makes it effortless.
- General contractors — Multi-trade job sites with multiple crews benefit from having all photos in one organized system.
- HVAC, plumbing, and electrical — Service calls, inspections, and installation documentation all benefit from GPS-tagged proof of work.
- Painting contractors — Color documentation, surface prep photos, finished work — it’s all relevant.
- Any contractor who has ever lost a dispute because they didn’t have photos — That’s probably all of us at least once.
- Contractors focused on marketing — The before-and-after photos, curated galleries, and project portfolios give you a steady stream of real content for social media and your website without extra effort.
Even a two-person crew benefits. At the Pro plan price, you’re looking at $99/month for three users. That’s less than one billable hour for organized photo documentation on every job.
Who Should NOT Use CompanyCam
The list of who shouldn’t use CompanyCam is short:
- Solo operators who are extremely disciplined about organizing photos themselves — If you have a personal system that works and you’re the only one taking photos, you might not need it. But the GPS stamping and timestamps are still valuable for dispute protection.
- Contractors looking for an all-in-one CRM — CompanyCam is not a CRM. If you want lead tracking, estimating, invoicing, and scheduling, you need a CRM like JobNimbus or AccuLynx. CompanyCam is the photo tool that plugs into your CRM.
- Companies that won’t enforce adoption — CompanyCam only works if your crew actually uses it. If you download it but nobody opens it, you’re wasting your money. Make it a job requirement, not a suggestion.
The Bottom Line
I’ll keep this simple. CompanyCam does one thing and does it extremely well. Every photo gets tagged with GPS, timestamped, and filed to the right project. Your whole team sees everything in real time. You have an organized, searchable visual record of every job you’ve ever done.
The AI reporting features save real time — voice-narrate your findings, get a formatted report. The before-and-after tool creates marketing content while you work. The shared timelines keep customers informed without clogging up your phone.
At $33-$40 per user per month on the plans that matter, it’s one of the best values in contractor software. The first time CompanyCam saves you from a he-said-she-said situation with a homeowner — and it will — it pays for a year of the subscription.
Pair it with JobNimbus or your CRM of choice, put it on every crew member’s phone, and make it mandatory. Your documentation, your dispute protection, and your marketing will all get better overnight.
Try the 14-day free trial. Hand your phone to your least tech-savvy crew member and see if they can figure it out. They will. That’s the whole point.