The one-page brief.

One native system — job cost, union payroll, certified reporting, AIA-style billing, and field operations — sharing one ledger, entered once in the field. Not a payroll app bolted to accounting bolted to a spreadsheet.

The working system of a 90-year-old union wall-and-ceiling contractor in Southern California. First in-house ERP in 1975; rebuilt on modern web and proven penny-exact against the old books before anyone switched.

• 500 paychecks / week
• /$40M receivables
• /3,300+ jobs on system

55 min / report

Certified payroll by hand — plus 3–5 hr per project each week.DOL; practitioners

$19.5–45.5K / yr

Compliance admin across five public projects.industry data

$85K–947K

Davis-Bacon penalty exposure, plus 3-year debarment.DOL

15–25%

True job cost that QuickBooks-class books miss.industry data

Typical specialty-sub net margin runs about 5% — one compliance failure can equal years of profit. (industry data)

1. 01Are certified payroll and union reporting native, or an add-on?
2. 02Is job cost live, or does it wait for month-end?
3. 03Is labor fully burdened in job cost, or raw wages?
4. 04Will your foreman actually use the field app?
5. 05What does adding 20 field users cost?
6. 06Who migrates your history, and how is it proven correct?

1. 01Walkthrough — 45 minutes on your real workflows — controller and owner.
2. 02Scoped proposal — Fixed implementation, flat platform fee. No pressure sequence.
3. 03Parallel run — Reconcile until the numbers match. Switch when you trust it.
4. 04Founding agreement — Flat fee, no per-seat schedule, your data is yours (SQL export).

Book a 45-minute walkthrough. Bring the controller and the owner; we run it against your own jobs.