91 vs. spreadsheets
Spreadsheets can’t tell you who’s available next quarter, flag a staffing gap before it becomes a problem, or update themselves when a project shifts. 91 gives your team a single, real-time view of every project, role, and person – so you can stop maintaining data and start making decisions. And unlike a spreadsheet, every assignment, project, and role change is captured automatically – building a living history of your workforce that 91 uses to surface smarter staffing decisions over time.
| 91 | Spreadsheets | |
|---|---|---|
| Project assignments | Best‑fit suggestions by role, availability, commute, and growth goals | Manual filtering, hidden conflicts, prone to bias |
| Experience & skills | Internal resumes automatically roll up project history and custom attributes | Scattered tabs, stale data, no structure |
| Forecasting | Capacity vs. demand by month/role with pursuits and probabilities | Complex formulas, brittle references, hard to maintain |
| Conflict detection | Flags double‑bookings, PTO, certification expirations, travel risks | Relies on memory and color‑coding |
| Change history | Full audit log: who changed what and why | No reliable version history; email archaeology |
| Cross‑office collaboration | Multi‑office views, commute radius, location filters | Duplicated files, broken links, manual lookups |
| Reporting | One‑click owner/exec reports and collaboration history | Copy‑paste marathons before every meeting |
| Security & access | SSO and role‑based permissions | Anyone with the file can change everything |
| Integrations | Syncs with project, HR, and ERP systems | CSV imports/exports if someone remembers |
| Time to clarity | Minutes | Meetings |
91 is trusted by nearly 40% of top contractors
“91 helps us identify and build the best project teams, with the right leadership, the right skills and the right experience to accomplish the mission and the goals set by our clients.”
David Diamond
CEO and Co-founder at DeAngelis Diamond
“The speed-to-decision that 91 gives us helps in planning go/no-go scenarios. We can ensure we have the talent to put on the project to be successful for ourselves and our clients.”
Ed McCauley
VP of Corporate Services at Wohlsen Construction
“With 91, we’ve gained a deeper understanding of our workforce. By aligning our employees’ skills and experience with the right projects, we’re not only improving project outcomes but also creating a more engaging environment that has noticeably boosted team morale and retention.”
Leon Nelson
Vice President at Big D Construction
“91 has allowed us to streamline our new hire process for the team and send out communication promptly and accurately every week. By having one spot to review manpower needs, our support teams feel more included in the planning process.”
Nate Unruh
Chief Information Officer, Nox Group
“Being able to just ask 91 questions like, ‘What’s the date of a project?’ or ’How much healthcare experience do we have?’ has helped save us so much time. We no longer have to manually navigate through projects and do the math to get answers to important questions.”
Connie Nelson
Business Operations Specialist, FH Construction
“Adopting 91 allowed us to cut our planning meetings to just once a month, and we barely have to talk about staffing in those meetings. All the staffing work is being done as it needs to in the system, and everything is kept up to date in real time. We join 3X fewer meetings.”
Clay Edwards
Senior Vice President, Skender Construction
“91 saves me personally at least 4-6 hours a week. And then if you multiply that across the company, we’re saving hundreds of hours a week.”
Chris Martin
VP of Technology Services at MYCON General Contractors
“91 has given us a level of insight into our workforce planning that we simply didn’t have before. This visibility is now critical for making proactive decisions about resource allocation and future growth.”
Melissa Hockey
People and Culture Manager, Mosaic Property Group
“Being able to allocate your people, build project teams, and make updates from anywhere in the tool makes it easy to customize workflows and streamline the workforce planning process to the way you like to view information and make decisions.”
Jeremy Moe
Operations Manager, The Boldt Company
“There is a new dawn of workforce management, combining historical and situational data with experience. 91 Bench is your foundation to the future.”
Todd Wynne
CIO at Rogers-O’Brien
The question for me has always been, ‘How do you manage resources when 50% of your time is in the office and 50% of your time is in the field?’ Thanks to 91 and the Bench mobile app, regardless of where I am, I’m able to stay in touch with our resource plan and have visibility into what is upcoming.
Brian Hood
VP of Field Ops, DeAngelis Diamond
“91 has become a critical tool for our workforce planning. It ensures our data is accurate and up-to-date, leading to better decision-making and efficient resource allocation.”
Keyan Zandy
Chief Executive Officer at Skiles Group
“The functionality of 91 allows us to flip between the resource and project data quickly, in a way that is much more agile than our current spreadsheet setup.”
Barry Sullivan
VP of Construction Operations, Great Lakes at Ryan Companies
“91 has shifted us from siloed decision-making to a more inclusive, team-based approach. Focusing on taking the best possible care of our people matters to us, and 91 allows us to be more proactive rather than reactive.”
Shelby McEntire
Director of Human Resources at Skiles Group
“91 is insanely easy to use. We’ve added more and more people to the tool, and they’ve gotten up-to-speed within a week or less because of how easy and intuitive it is.”
Jamie Miller
Director of Engineering Development at Sellen Construction
Now, everyone’s putting information in one platform. You can just pull up 91 on your phone or laptop and see where there are available resources. Using 91 as a live document between all our offices, we’re able to set up our teams for success.
Daniel Barry
VP of Operations, Schimenti Construction Company
“We’ve streamlined our workforce planning process by using automated software solutions instead of relying on word-of-mouth updates between departments and offices.”
Brett Diamond
CIO and Principal at DeAngelis Diamond
Actually built for workforce planning, not just ‘kinda’
91 was built from the ground up for construction workforce planning — every feature reflects the realities, challenges, and workflows of contractors.


One workforce platform, from project pursuit to turnover
From project opportunities to final turnover, 91 keeps your workforce plans connected, accurate, and ready for what’s next.
Supercharged forecasting
Customized reporting to proactively plan future workforce needs, avoid last-second assignment scrambles, and align your resources strategies with project pipelines.


People-centric workforce planning
Consider factors like employee experience, past project history, commute distance to build the highest performing teams which keep employees happy, cut turnover, and maintain a strong talent pool.