What Story covers
Story covers a renovation end to end — from the first inquiry through design, contracting, construction, and final billing. This section describes each area by the job it does rather than by the screen it lives on.
By area
Section titled “By area”| Area | What it does |
|---|---|
| Leads and intake | First contact through to a won project, with meetings and visioning forms along the way |
| Quotes | The priced proposal, broken into lines by cost code, with client acceptance |
| Design | The phased process from visioning through final design, and the selections made along the way |
| Contracts and change orders | The owner contract, priced changes, and the billing schedule behind them |
| Budgets and cost control | What the work is expected to cost, what it has cost, and where it is heading |
| Billing and accounting | Pay applications, vendor invoices, and the accounting sync |
| Purchasing and vendors | Purchase orders and the vendor-facing views that go with them |
| Scheduling | Project milestones, with history as dates move |
| Field operations | The daily site record and labor time |
| Communication and documents | Issues, project updates, and the documents shared with you |
| Projects, teams, and contacts | Project setup, who is assigned, and the contact directory |
How the areas fit together
Section titled “How the areas fit together”The areas aren’t independent — they’re stages of one project, sharing one structure underneath.
A lead carries the design conversation: meetings, visioning, and the scope of work. When the work is won it becomes a project, and the priced quote becomes the contract. From there the contract drives billing forward through the schedule of values and pay applications, while the budget tracks what the work actually costs. Change orders adjust both sides together when scope changes.
Everything is grouped by cost code — the classification that separates framing from plumbing from tile — which is what lets a quote, a budget, and an actual cost be compared line for line.
How a project works explains that structure in full.
A note on scope
Section titled “A note on scope”Not every engagement uses every area. Story supports design-build, design-only, build-only, interiors-only, and furniture-only scopes, and a project only exercises the areas its scope calls for.