The Dashboard
There's always a gap between what you bid and what you're actually spending. Most contractors don't see it until month-end. By then the money's already gone. We close that gap every day, while the job's still running and you can still do something about it.
If we don't find at least 2% in recoverable margin in the first 90 days, you get a full refund. We've never had to pay one out. The waste is always there. We just see it before you do.
You've got estimating software, project management software, accounting software. None of them talk to each other while a job's running. They all show up later, after the money's been spent. By then it's too late to do anything about it.
Here's what that looks like in practice. Your bid says concrete should cost $380K. The field's burning through $12K a day. On track or not? Nobody can say. Until the monthly report shows up and you find out you're $47K over. That's gone now. You can't go back and get it.
That's the gap we close. Every day the job's running. Before the money walks out the door.
Why You Can't See It
Every contractor I talk to says they've got their costs tracked. Then ten minutes in they tell me about the job that went sideways last year and they never saw it coming. Both can't be true. Either the tracking's working or it isn't.
Budget. Actual. Variance. That's it. It doesn't tell you why you're over. It doesn't separate a $500K scope change from a $500K overrun. Your report treats them the same.
The overrun started Tuesday. By Friday it's been bleeding for four days. By the time it hits a monthly report it's been bleeding for three weeks. A $30K problem became a $300K problem because nobody saw it in time.
A 2% creep across 15 cost codes doesn't jump out on any single line item. But on a $15M project that's $300K. No human reviewing a spreadsheet catches that.
If concrete is trending 6% over at 40% complete, what does that mean at 100%? Your current tools can't answer that. Ours can.
What It Does
It looks at your estimate, your schedule, your materials list. If something's tight or misaligned, it flags it before day one. You get to fix it before the crew shows up.
Open it any time and you see every dollar across every line item. Green if you're on track. Yellow if it's tight. Red if you need to act today. Not a monthly snapshot. Today.
Tracks what's getting wasted. Flags a supplier running late. Tells you if switching to another vendor would save you money. Before you sign the next PO.
If a task is running behind, you'll know. So will every downstream task it affects. With a dollar number attached to each one.
This is the part that makes it different from anything else out there. The dashboard doesn't just say "you've got a problem." It says: "Pre-order your steel now. $8K in carrying costs. Or wait and you'll pay $75K in delay costs later." You make the call. We just lay out what each one actually costs.
The Math
If the dashboard catches one mid-size overrun in a year, you've already made 16x back on what you paid. Most contractors catch more than one. The numbers are easy to run.
What a 10% overrun costs you on a $4M project
What you keep per year on a $50M portfolio at 2% improvement
Return on what you paid us
Fifteen minutes on the phone. No slides, no scripted pitch. We pull up the dashboard and walk you through what it'd show on the kind of jobs you're already running.
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