Cottonworks delivers enterprise-grade project, asset, and emergency response management purpose-built for public works agencies — with security that protects taxpayer data and pricing that respects every budget.
No signup needed for the sandbox. Two minutes to see if it fits your workflow.
Public works teams carry enormous responsibility — bridges that hold, roads that are safe, water systems that run clean. They do this work with limited budgets, lean crews, and software that was never designed with them in mind.
Cottonworks was born from a genuine passion for public service. We built this platform because the people who maintain your community's infrastructure deserve tools that are as serious about their work as they are.
Built alongside public works professionals, not for corporate IT departments.
Workflows designed around how PMs, inspectors, and directors actually work.
Priced to serve small counties and rural districts — not just large metro agencies.
Every road, bridge, and facility is a public trust. We help agencies honor that responsibility with tools built around accountability and visibility.
Designed for the agencies that serve real people every day.
Onboard in days, not months. No lengthy implementation contracts.
Purpose-built workflows for the real complexities of managing public infrastructure, capital projects, and emergency response.
Track every project from planning through closeout. Gantt schedules, budget phases, team assignments, and full document management in one place.
When disaster strikes, response time matters. Manage storm damage, flooding, and emergency infrastructure projects with dedicated workflows built for FEMA reimbursement tracking.
Manage roads, bridges, fleet, facilities, and equipment in one system. Log inspections, track conditions, and get ahead of maintenance cycles.
Every asset your agency manages — roads, bridges, culverts, facilities, fleet — plotted on an interactive map powered by real GPS coordinates. See exactly where your infrastructure is, flag problem areas, and assign field crews without leaving your desk.
Keep every contractor, consultant, and grant agreement organized with expiration alerts, compliance tracking, and match requirement monitoring.
Track vendor invoices from submission through payment. Smart PDF scanning auto-fills fields from uploaded invoices, and digital signature workflows keep approvals moving.
Real-time visibility across all active projects, assets due for inspection, and upcoming contract deadlines — with personal workboards for each staff member.
Organized folder structures per project and asset. Upload permits, plans, environmental docs, correspondence — everything in one searchable location.
When a community member calls in an infrastructure concern, log it, flag the asset, and assign it to the right staff member — automatically triggering an email notification.
Maintenance jobs, preventive schedules, and parts inventory tied together. Assign, track, and close out — with auto-generated PM jobs on the cadence you set.
Agencies, users, roles, and audit log — with both Stripe and manual PO/invoice billing supported. Government-friendly payment paths for the customers who can't put SaaS on a credit card.
SB1, FHWA, Davis-Bacon, DBE — turn on the reports your projects require, driven by the modules you already use. Configurable by region.
Citizen-facing project status pages, opt-in per agency. Show your community what you're building without exposing internal data — embeddable on your existing county site.
Natural-language queries against your projects, vendors, and assets. Ask in plain English; get answers cited back to the underlying records. Beta access for early-access partners.
$699 a month. That's less than three hours of consulting from the big guys. Predictable, no "contact sales" gates, no quote-by-headcount games.
No per-user math, no quote games. You pay a flat agency rate based on three transparent team-size tiers — and we tell you the number up front.
Pay by credit card or ACH bank transfer through Stripe, or send a PO/check against a PDF invoice. Half our customers can't put SaaS on a credit card. We get it — and we built the alternative path before you had to ask. No Klarna, no Cash App, just the methods your finance office actually uses.
Early-access partners help shape what gets built next. Talk to us about what your agency actually needs and where it fits in the roadmap — your input changes the product.
Taxpayer information, infrastructure records, and project data are not just files — they're public assets. Every layer of the Cottonworks platform is designed to protect them.
Industry-standard security headers enforced on every request — including X-Frame-Options, Content Security Policy, and HTTP Strict Transport Security. Deployed behind TLS for all data in transit.
Granular permissions ensure staff only see and do what their role requires. Admins, Project Managers, Inspectors, and Field Staff each operate within appropriate access boundaries.
Every action is logged — who changed what, and when. Complete activity history across all projects, assets, and documents for compliance audits and accountability.
API rate limiting prevents brute-force attacks, credential stuffing, and automated abuse. Sensitive endpoints like file scanning carry stricter request thresholds.
Automated backups run daily, keeping a rolling 7-day history of all data. Your infrastructure records are protected against hardware failure, corruption, or accidental deletion.
All data entering the system is validated and sanitized server-side. Parameterized queries prevent SQL injection. File uploads are type-validated and size-restricted.
Our Commitment
"We will never sell, share, or monetize your agency's data. Public records belong to the public — and to you."
The tools your team needs shouldn't require an enterprise IT budget. Cottonworks is priced for agencies of every size — from rural counties to regional authorities.
No per-user fees that balloon as your team grows. One predictable cost your finance department will appreciate.
Every feature — projects, ER response, assets, invoices, maps, and more — included at every price point. No feature gating.
$850 one-time setup fee covers up to 10 hours of data-migration work — send us your existing spreadsheets and exports, we upload them for you before launch. Workflow setup + team training included. Waived on 2-year and 3-year terms.
Both start with a term commitment. Longer commitment = more months free. Month-to-month becomes available after your initial term ends.
Team-size tiers: 25–50 users add a flat $200/mo. 51+ users add a flat $300/mo. No per-user fees inside a tier.
Pay upfront, get the biggest discount.
Pay monthly, but commit for a term to unlock discounts.
What happens when your initial contract ends.
Not available as a starting plan.
Enterprise APM platforms charge $50k–$200k/year before implementation. Cottonworks delivers the same depth at a fraction — because budget constraints shouldn't break infrastructure management.
No form, no sales call, no email collection. Just click around in a seeded demo county and see if it fits how your agency actually works.
Every agency is different. Tell us about your team, your current challenges, and what you're trying to accomplish — we'll show you exactly how Cottonworks can help.
ASTM-compliant PCI scoring, color-coded condition map, multi-year budget scenarios, six council and federal compliance reports, public citizen-intake form at your branded URL, and StreetSaver / PAVER / Cartegraph migration. Built to do what the legacy pavement-management tools do — at a fraction of the price.
Pavement Pro pricing
+$130/mo
on top of base plan
$800 one-time implementation
Covers our team uploading your existing pavement data the first time. Not waived on multi-year terms.
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