General Construction

No ReKeying — Every Tech Arrives Knowing the Full History of That Unit

When a tech arrives at a site, the unit's full service history should be in their hand — not in a binder in the machine room or in a retired tech's memory. No ReKeying means every field entry becomes a permanent digital record linked to that specific equipment serial number.

Uncle Steve on equipment service history in general construction

The General Construction Industry at a Glance

General contractors and specialty trades — remodeling, renovation, and new build projects.

750,000+

US Companies

$1.5M–$10M

Avg. Revenue

10–50 workers

Field Crew Size

4% annually

Growth Rate

GCs coordinate dozens of subs, phases, and inspections. Daily logs, safety reports, change orders, and draw requests on paper create a documentation nightmare — and when a dispute lands in arbitration, the paper trail decides who pays.

General Construction Industry Data & Research

Key statistics shaping the general construction market today.

Bad data costs the global construction industry $1.8 trillion per year, with 14% of all rework directly caused by inaccurate information
FMI/Autodesk Harnessing the Data Advantage Report, 2024
Rework consumes 5–10% of total project costs — the median is 9% when including indirect costs
CURT/CII Construction Rework Study, 2023
35% of construction professionals' time is spent on non-productive activities: searching for information, resolving conflicts, and fixing errors
Autodesk/FMI Productivity Report, 2024
$177 billion is lost annually in U.S. construction due to rework, data searches, and communication breakdowns
Trimble Construction Research, 2024
70% of contractors have no formal technology roadmap, and 65% cite uncertain payback periods as the chief barrier to digital adoption
Deloitte Digital Adoption in Construction, 2025

How Equipment Service History Actually Looks in General Construction

The Scenario

A construction company owns 12 pieces of equipment. When a skid steer breaks down on a job site, the foreman calls the shop to ask what was done to it last. Nobody knows — service records are in a folder somewhere at the shop.

The Real Impact

Equipment breakdowns without service history cost $800–$4,000 per incident in diagnostic time, expedited parts, and rental equipment while the unit is down.

Does This Sound Like Your General Construction Operation?

  • !Techs arrive with no knowledge of what was done to the unit last time
  • !Service history is split across paper binders, emails, and one person's memory
  • !Repeated diagnostics on the same unit because nobody documented the root cause

The Cost of Doing Nothing

Arriving without unit history adds 45–90 minutes of diagnostic re-work per service call. At $100/hour and 3 such calls per tech per week, that is $15K–$23K/year in wasted labor per technician.

What General Construction Companies Typically Use

BuildertrendCoConstructProcoreQuickBooks

These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the equipment service history gap. That's what we build.

General Construction Operational Challenges

  • 1Change order management across multiple subs and phases
  • 2Daily logs and safety documentation required by OSHA and owners
  • 3Retainage tracking and draw schedule documentation
  • 4Coordinating 5–15 subcontractors with overlapping schedules

Compliance & Regulations

  • AOSHA 1926 construction safety standards and daily documentation
  • BState contractor licensing and bonding requirements
  • CPrevailing wage documentation on public projects (Davis-Bacon)
  • DLocal building department permits, inspections, and certificate of occupancy
Common roles:GC OwnerProject ManagerSuperintendentOffice Manager

How We Fix Equipment Service History for General Construction — No ReKeying

1

Map Your Workflow

We study exactly where equipment service history happens in your general construction operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.

2

Build a Working Prototype

Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A real, functional prototype that eliminates the pain point and works with your existing tools.

3

Prove It Before You Pay

You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the equipment service history problem, you don't pay.

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