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Construction and engineering

Head office runs on software. The field runs on paper, phone calls and photographs sent to someone's personal number. Job costing gets assembled after the job is finished, which is roughly when it stops being useful.

Common systemsProcore · Sage · QuickBooks · custom
Frequent triggerA job that lost money
OnsiteAvailable nationally, including site trailers

What we see most.

Tick what applies. The count changes what we'd recommend, and sometimes the recommendation is to wait.

What we do here.

Across all three layers, because problems in this sector rarely stay in one.

Knowledge and process

Field documentation, safety and close-out

The gap between office and field is where margin disappears. Documentation that works on site has to work with gloves on, offline, in the rain.

  • Daily reporting that isn't typed twice
  • Safety and compliance records by site
  • Drawing and revision control
  • Close-out package assembly
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Job costing, change orders and integration

Costs arrive from five directions — labour, subs, materials, equipment, change orders — and are reconciled monthly. Getting that to weekly changes what you can act on.

  • Job costing that arrives during the job
  • Change order tracking and approval
  • Integration between estimating, PM and accounting
  • Subcontractor document management
Web and revenue

Project visibility and bid presentation

Owners and clients increasingly expect a view of their project. Most firms in this sector have websites that predate that expectation entirely.

  • Client project portals
  • Bid and qualification materials
  • Accessibility compliance for public work
  • Document sharing with owners

The systems you probably run.

Each has a page on Champion1 covering what typically breaks and what we do about it.

ProcoreSage 300 CREQuickBooksAutodeskBluebeamMonday.comSharePointCustom estimating

Who we usually work with.

And the sentence that tends to start the conversation.

Owner / COOOwns margin per job“We found out we lost money in month four.”
Project ManagerOwns schedule and change orders“Nobody signed off on that but we built it.”
Safety / Compliance leadOwns site records“An inspector is coming and I'm in four inboxes.”
EstimatorOwns the bid“Our costings are based on jobs we never properly costed.”

What it looks like in practice.

Construction · 95 staff · 6 weeks

A two-year implementation with no end in sight

The assessment recommended keeping the vendor and changing the contract. Both sides agreed within a fortnight, which surprised everyone including us.

6 wks
to a signed reset

Straight answers.

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The capabilities this sector reaches for most.

Get off paper“Filing cabinets, carbon forms, binders on the shop floor.”See the numbers sooner“Month-end takes a week to assemble by hand.”Recover a failing project“Past deadline, past budget, no end in sight.”

Tell us what's breaking.

We'll tell you which part of this we'd put on it, roughly what it costs, and whether it's worth doing at all — including when the honest answer is that you don't need us.

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