Highwire Reviews & Product Details

Highwire’s Prequalification Platform empowers GCs and owners to understand each contractor’s strengths and weaknesses and help them succeed through continuous engagement and improvement—a concept we call Contractor Success. Highwire addresses a broad spectrum of risk assessments, including safety, financial stability, capacity, and insurance (COI). When your project is ready to begin, Highwire’s integrated field applications provide essential tools for inspection, incident reporting, and ongoing risk evaluation. With over 60,000 contractors in the Highwire Network, many of your subcontractors and suppliers are likely already connected. With Highwire, you can: - Enhance safety and reduce recordable incidents. - Prevent costly delays by minimizing contractor defaults. - Ensure compliance with industry regulations. - Streamline processes, eliminating manual work and saving valuable time. - Achieve significant savings in insurance programs.

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Highwire

Languages Supported

German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Product Description

Highwire's Prequalification solution is a comprehensive platform designed to help general contractors assess and mitigate risks associated with subcontractor selection. By evaluating factors such as financial viability, project capabilities, safety performance, and past project experience, Highwire enables contractors to make informed decisions, ensuring projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget. Key Features and Functionality: - Financial Analysis: Assess subcontractors' financial health to prevent costly defaults and project delays. - Project Capabilities: Verify subcontractors' experience and capacity to ensure they can meet project requirements. - Safety Performance History: Evaluate past safety records and compliance to promote a safe working environment. - Diversity Classifications: Identify subcontractors with specific diversity classifications to meet project or organizational goals. - Insurance and Surety Bond Tracking: Ensure subcontractors maintain appropriate insurance coverage and bonding to mitigate potential risks. - Litigation and Default History: Review subcontractors' legal and default histories to identify potential red flags. - Client and Supplier References: Gather feedback from previous clients and suppliers to assess subcontractors' reliability and performance. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Highwire's Prequalification solution addresses the challenges of traditional subcontractor prequalification processes, which are often cumbersome and time-consuming. By streamlining the assessment process and providing a comprehensive view of each subcontractor's strengths and weaknesses, Highwire enables general contractors to: - Avoid costly defaults and project delays by ensuring subcontractors are financially viable and capable. - Improve safety outcomes by selecting subcontractors with strong safety performance histories. - Save time and resources through an efficient and effective prequalification process. - Gain confidence in subcontractor selection with expert, third-party validation and quality assurance. By moving beyond traditional "yes" or "no" screening methods, Highwire fosters collaboration between general contractors and subcontractors, promoting continuous engagement and improvement to deliver successful projects.

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Highwire Reviews (12)

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David W.

EHS Director - New England States

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/8/2025

"Very amazing team at Highwire AND the platform is genuine!"

5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

I've had the opportunity to work with several contractor qualification and risk management platforms over the years—but none have impressed me quite like Highwire.

From the moment I began using it, Highwire distinguished itself not just as a tool, but as a true partner in driving safety, accountability, and performance excellence across our projects. The platform is incredibly intuitive, yet powerful in the depth of insight it provides. Whether it's evaluating a contractor's safety record, tracking compliance documentation, or proactively identifying potential risk factors, Highwire gives me confidence that our teams are making informed, data-driven decisions.

What I appreciate most is that Highwire doesn’t just flag issues—it helps contractors improve. It fosters a collaborative environment where continuous improvement is the norm, not the exception. That’s a rare and refreshing approach in this industry.

I've seen firsthand how Highwire has helped us streamline prequalification, improve transparency, and ultimately enhance the quality and safety of the work being performed. It’s no surprise that so many industry leaders are turning to this platform.

If you're serious about elevating your contractor management process and building stronger, safer partnerships—I can’t recommend Highwire highly enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

"Honestly, there's very little to dislike about Highwire. If anything, the platform's wealth of features can feel a bit overwhelming at first for new users—but that's only because it offers such a comprehensive suite of tools. Fortunately, their support team and user resources make the learning curve manageable, and once you're familiar with the platform, the capabilities it provides are invaluable." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Highwire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Highwire is solving one of the most persistent challenges in construction and contractor management: the disconnect between compliance-based safety metrics and true cultural engagement. What makes Highwire so effective is that it doesn’t just gather data — it creates a platform to engage the hearts and minds of leadership. It encourages real, meaningful conversations about where a company truly stands on its continuous safety culture improvement journey.

For me, the greatest benefit is being able to move beyond box-checking and into the realm of strategic alignment. Highwire helps elevate safety from a back-office function to a boardroom priority by making risk and performance visible, actionable, and personal. It drives transparency, builds accountability, and ultimately supports the kind of partnership we need to build a resilient, high-trust safety culture — not just on paper, but in practice." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Willie W.

Safety Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/23/2025

"Outstanding Customer Support Makes All the Difference"

5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

I appreciate the customer support, as they are both knowledgeable and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

To look up more than one contractor, you have to go back to the main menu each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/13/2025

"I have been using HighWire for 8 months. Highwire needs improvement for user-friendliness."

2.5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

The report generation is fast, and we can send a PDF report to the respective partner for their action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

There is no verification method for the inspector to determine whether he can reject or accept the compliance evidence against the observation with action points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Highwire solving and how is that benefiting you?

Please see my points that are to be incorporated for improving the construction safety inspection checklist in order to ensure the inspection has met HSE requirements .

The points are listed below.

1.In the category section, there should be a drop line for each category to ensure inspectors are not overlooked checking points while inspecting the respective category based on the OSHA and Google requirements.

e.g., a) scaffold. Based on the type of scaffold, checking points are different, e.g., suspended, supported, and MEWP.

b) Electricity—Construction temporary electricity management safety checking point and electrical safety requirement during testing commissioning time as per the NFPA 70E, grounding, LOTO, etc.

c) For excavation, the type of soil and, based on the soil, protection and access to be provided for complying with excavation safety.

d) Hot work—based on the type of hot work, e.g., electrical arc welding and gas welding

e). Concrete safety—static concrete pump hopper grating safety requirements, such as limit switches and concrete pipeline safe routing requirements, etc.

2.The points are listed below for high-risk activities.

High-risk activity audit checklist to be prepared specifically for all the high-risk activities for conducting the periodical HRA audit as site work progresses

e.g., of high-risk activities

a) Energy isolation .b) Electrical.c) Ground disturbance.d) Driving & off-road vehicles .e) Working from heights .f) Lifting operation.g) Mobile equipment.h) Confined spaces .i) Hazardous material.j) Material handling .k) Temperature extreme.l) Noise

3.The points are listed below for incidents.

Type of incident category to be included, such as first aid cases, MTC, environmental, dangerous occurrence, LTI, property damage, etc., for more elaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clay J.

Foreman

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/18/2025

"It is easy to navigate and to understand"

5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

You will not get confused. Everything is right there on the screen couldn’t be easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

I shouldn’t have to pick what company I’m with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris P.

Safety Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/23/2025

"Great Access"

5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

It’s a great platform to check on clients insurance, etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

It’s actually very good. I don’t have any dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve L.

EHS High Risk Operations Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/14/2024

"Highwire Helps Our Business Succeed"

5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

- Highwire has allowed us to have a deep insights to negative trends across projects and develop awareness campaigns.

- Highwire's Safety Prequalification module has enabled us to manage the risk of hiring Contractors with a less than desireable safety management system. The utilization of a safety scoreing system provides us with clear data on a Contractors past injury metrics, regulatory violations and the strengths and weaknesses of their corporate safety program.

- Through the use of Highiwre's "Inspect" module, we have been able to develop a structured field inspection workflow that aims to ensure safe workplaces. The result is a professional inspection report, that can be distributed to various stakeholders, to provide assurance that safety risks are being managed.

- Highwire provides a large selection of KPI's and statistical reports, than can be tailored for our organization. This helps to drive accountability across project teams. Showcasing positive trends helps to strengthen culture throughout our Organization.

- My favorite feature about Highwire is their team! They are always quick to respond with a "can do" attitude. Their Customer Service is second to none and I always know they will push the boundaries to accomodate any request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

There are no downsides to using Highwire, it can only make you better than you were yesterday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Highwire solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Highwire helps to ensure that we contract with suppliers that are safety consious which in turn reduces the risk to our organization.

- Highwire provides visibility to positive and negative trends that helps to drive accountability and correctve action.

- Highwire's tools help to ensure visibility to EHS issues are easily communicated and raises the bar for safe workplaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Waylon F.

Sr. Project Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"1st time user of Highwire"

5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

I like the standardized inspection process where each inspection type has a set of project dynamics to review and each individual is inspecting the same criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

I haven't found anything that I did not like about Highwire as of yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cindy D.

Claim & Safety Administrator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/15/2024

"G2 Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Highwire?

How very user friendly the system is. I also love the communication as well. Response time is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Highwire?

Completion of requests pertaining to engineering.

Although I like the reports, there are a few things I don't like. For example, when I run a report, it lists ALL 200+jobs before showing the actual report/numbers.

Mobile device connectivity issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.