Autodesk Construction Cloud COI tracking

What Autodesk Construction Cloud does—and doesn’t—do with insurance

Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) is a unified platform for design coordination, project management, cost, and field workflows—RFIs, submittals, drawings, and the like. It can store documents and maintain a vendor directory tied to a project, so you *can* file a subcontractor’s certificate of insurance in ACC. But storing a PDF is not the same as tracking it.

ACC on its own does not read an ACORD 25, check limits or endorsements against your requirements, request certificates from subs automatically, or warn you before a policy expires. When you add a subcontractor to a project, nothing reaches out to that vendor for their COI, and when a policy lapses, ACC doesn’t know and doesn’t act. That’s expected: ACC is a project-and-build platform, not an insurance-compliance platform.

Where insurance actually lives in the Autodesk ecosystem: BuildingConnected + TradeTapp

Autodesk owns BuildingConnected, a bid-management network connecting general contractors and subcontractors, and TradeTapp, its subcontractor prequalification and risk tool. This is where insurance factors into the Autodesk workflow—but almost entirely at the preconstruction / bid stage, not during the build.

BuildingConnected

BuildingConnected handles bid invitations, subcontractor discovery, and (via Bid Board Pro) tracking bids and due dates. It’s about *who you invite and award*, not about monitoring their insurance certificates over the months of a project. Insurance management is not a documented BuildingConnected feature on its own.

TradeTapp

TradeTapp is the risk engine. It lets subs submit qualification applications and lets GCs evaluate them with automated financial reviews, safety statistics, questionnaires, financial-ratio analysis, and recommended single-project and aggregate limits. Autodesk describes insurance data as one of the inputs into that qualification decision, and TradeTapp integrates with BuildingConnected Pro so risk insights flow to estimating teams. This helps inform decisions like subcontractor default insurance (SDI) enrollment.

The key nuance: TradeTapp evaluates a subcontractor’s risk profile—including insurance—*before you award the work*. It is prequalification and vetting, not an ongoing certificate-of-insurance tracker that watches every policy’s expiration date once the sub is on site. (Facts here are accurate as of 2026; confirm current features with Autodesk.)

Prequalification vs. ongoing COI tracking: two different jobs

This is the distinction that trips up a lot of construction teams. Prequalification answers “Is this sub financially sound and adequately insured *today*, before we hire them?” Ongoing COI tracking answers “Is every active subcontractor *still* carrying the coverage, limits, and additional insured endorsements we require, every single day they’re on the job?” A certificate is only accurate the day it’s issued—a sub who was fully insured at bid time can have a cancelled or downgraded policy three months later.

Both jobs matter. TradeTapp does the first extremely well. The second—ongoing expiration tracking and certificate grading—is where teams standardized on Autodesk typically add a dedicated tool.

How to close the ongoing-monitoring gap alongside ACC

You don’t have to leave Autodesk to solve this. The practical pattern is to keep BuildingConnected and TradeTapp for bid-stage vetting, keep ACC for project delivery, and run a dedicated COI tracker in parallel for the collect-verify-monitor lifecycle. A good ongoing tracker should:

• Collect certificates without friction—ideally a no-login upload link you send to each sub, so they don’t need an Autodesk seat to submit.
• Read the ACORD 25 automatically instead of forcing manual data entry.
• Verify coverage types, limits, and endorsements against your requirements and flag what’s missing.
• Grade every certificate so a non-compliant sub is obvious at a glance.
• Watch expiration dates continuously and remind subs before a policy lapses.

Wardly is a free COI tracker built for exactly this ongoing layer. Subcontractors upload via a no-login link, Wardly reads the ACORD 25, grades each certificate A–F, tracks endorsements, and monitors every expiration date continuously—complementing, not replacing, the bid-stage vetting you already do in the Autodesk ecosystem.

Related workflows

If your insurance vetting happens through BuildingConnected, read BuildingConnected insurance tracking for a closer look at what that network covers and where certificate monitoring picks up. Teams on other stacks can compare Procore COI tracking, and if you’re building a process from scratch, see how general contractors track insurance.

For the tooling decision itself, the best COI tracking software roundup and the feature comparison lay out what to look for in a dedicated tracker.