Most GCs don't catch it until it's too late.
Our Origin
That's how Black Mountain started four years ago. No investors. No office. Just one contractor with an idea and the willingness to outwork everyone.
One truck. One shovel from Home Depot. One rake. Michael Mackrell started Black Mountain Dirt Works with nothing but grit and a phone that wouldn't stop ringing.
Four years of pouring concrete, running excavations, managing crews, and doing whatever the job demanded. Every early morning. Every late night. Every dollar earned in the dirt.
Black Mountain Dirt Works grew into a seven-figure construction company. Not by cutting corners — by knowing the work inside and out.
After years watching money disappear into scattered spreadsheets and late reports, the answer was obvious. Build the tools that contractors actually need — from someone who's been in the field. Black Mountain Technologies was born.
Black Mountain Dirt Works is still running. Still pouring. Still digging. Michael runs both companies — one hand in the field, one hand building the technology. That's why our tools work. We're not guessing at construction problems from a desk. We're still living them. Every single day.
The Problem
By the time you see a monthly report, the money is already spent. A small overrun on one project can quietly cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most contractors don't catch it until it's too late.
What a 10% overrun costs on a $4M project
Hidden waste per year for a typical $20M contractor
How old your report is by the time you read it
How It Works
No complicated setup. No six-month rollout. You bring your project data, we show you where the money is going.
Upload your budgets and costs from QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, or a simple spreadsheet. Whatever you have works.
Your dashboard shows every project, every cost code, every dollar — updated in real time. Green means on track. Red means take action.
The tool flags overruns before they blow up. You get a heads-up with enough time to fix it — not a surprise at month-end.
The Tools
Two tools for two different sizes of contractor. Both do the same thing — show you where your money is going.
For larger contractors — $100M+/year
Connects what you bid to what you're actually spending — in real time. You see the overrun forming before it costs you real money. Nobody else does this.
For mid-size contractors — $10M–$100M/year
Know where every project stands without calling anyone. Budget, spent, forecast — all in one place. Reports your accountant and bonding company will actually accept.
Built For
Whether you're running 5 projects or 50, if you've ever been surprised by a cost overrun, these tools are for you.
Industrial, commercial, and institutional builders managing multiple active projects worth $2M–$20M each.
Residential and commercial contractors doing $10M–$100M/year who need real cost visibility across 3–20 projects.
$100M–$500M+ contractors running complex portfolios where a 2% margin improvement means $1M+ saved per year.
See It Work
No signup needed. No sales call. Just see what the dashboards look like.
Interactive demo coming soon.
Where Construction Is Headed
Construction creates a huge amount of data every day — budgets, invoices, schedules, change orders. Most of it sits in spreadsheets and never gets looked at twice. We're changing that.
A small cost creep across 15 line items is invisible when you're reviewing a spreadsheet. Our tools catch it automatically.
Instead of finding out a project is over budget at month-end, you get a heads-up days or weeks before it becomes a real problem.
We don't just tell you something is wrong. We tell you what your options are and what each one costs. You make the call.
The Details
No. Our tools sit on top of whatever you have — Procore, Sage, QuickBooks, Buildertrend, Excel, Google Sheets. Nothing changes on your end. We just connect it all.
Most teams are up and running within a week. You bring your data, we handle the rest.
Canada. Your data stays in Canada on secure, encrypted servers. We don't share it with anyone.
The tools track your improvement over time. You'll see exactly how much better visibility has saved you — in real dollars.
Tell us about your business and we'll tell you which one fits. If you're not sure, that's exactly what the first call is for.
What's Next
Cost tracking is where we started because that's where contractors lose the most money. Here's what's coming next.
Direct links to your accounting and project management tools. Your numbers flow in automatically — no exports, no uploads, no extra work.
The more projects you run, the smarter the tools get. They'll start to recognize which subtrades run over, which materials cause problems, and which patterns lead to delays.
See how your costs compare to the market. Know if your concrete costs are 12% above average before you bid the next job.
15 minutes. We'll show you what the tools look like with your kind of projects. No pressure. No pitch deck.
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