April 2026
2% sounds small. It's not. Here's the math at every size of contractor.
When we tell contractors we guarantee 2% cost recovery or they don't pay, most of them nod politely. Two percent doesn't sound like much. It sounds like a rounding error.
Then we run the numbers on their actual portfolio. And the room gets quiet.
Take your annual project volume. Multiply by 2%. That's the number.
That's not revenue. That's money you're currently losing that goes straight back to your bottom line. Pure margin recovery.
It's not one big thing. It's dozens of small things that add up across every project, every month, all year long. Here's what we typically find:
Concrete costs trending 3% above your company average across four projects. On any single project it looks normal. Across four projects over a year, it's $180K. Nobody caught it because nobody was comparing projects against each other in real time.
A project shows $400K in variance. The PM says it's mostly change orders. But when you actually separate approved scope changes from true cost overruns, $120K of that is real waste that got buried in the noise. Multiply that across five projects and you're looking at $600K that everyone assumed was accounted for.
A task falls 3 days behind. Nobody flags it because 3 days doesn't seem like a big deal. But it pushes 5 downstream tasks back. Overtime kicks in. Trades stack up. Coordination gets messy. That 3-day slip turned into $85K in extra costs. The tool would have flagged it on day one.
Supplier A has been late on 4 of their last 6 deliveries. Every late delivery costs you idle crew time. $540 per crew per 2-hour wait. Over a year, across all your projects, that one supplier relationship is costing you $60K in idle time nobody tracked. The fix is a phone call. But you can't make the call if you don't see the pattern.
Crews waiting for materials. Waiting for inspections. Waiting for the previous trade to finish. None of this shows up in your accounting system because idle time doesn't have a cost code. But a crew of 6 at $45/hour sitting for 2 hours is $540. That happens every day across your projects. Over a year, it's hundreds of thousands of dollars that never appeared on a single report.
None of these problems show up in a budget vs. actual report. They're distributed across hundreds of line items, dozens of cost codes, multiple projects, and several different tools. The data exists. It's in your timesheets, your accounting system, your daily logs, your schedule. But nobody's connecting it.
Your PM isn't going to manually cross-reference Procore with Sage, check it against the schedule, calculate idle time from daily logs, and compare supplier delivery performance across all projects. Every day. On top of everything else they do. It's not humanly possible.
Construction margins are thin. Most GCs run at 3-8% net margin. A 2% cost improvement doesn't just save money. It can double your effective margin on a project.
On a $10M project at 5% margin, your profit is $500K. Find 2% in cost recovery and that profit jumps to $700K. That's a 40% increase in profit from the same project, the same team, the same work. The only difference is visibility.
Now multiply that across every project you run this year.
We guarantee 2% cost recovery or you don't pay. It's in the contract. If the tool doesn't find at least 2% in cost improvement opportunities within 90 days, full refund.
We can make that guarantee because we've never had to pay it out. The waste is always there. It's just hiding in places your current tools can't see.
We'll show you where the 2% is. If we can't find it, it costs you nothing.