Your techs track materials on paper, hours on a clipboard, and overhead is allocated by gut feel. Job costing happens in a spreadsheet two weeks after the job closed — if it happens at all. Zero Double Entry means every cost is captured live so you always know your margin before the invoice goes out.
Key Finding: Independent workflow analysis indicates that unresolved job cost tracking issues in Electrical operations hinder efficiency. Research shows that Mid-sized contracting operations lose up to 18% of budgeted margins due to post-completion cost reconciliation lags [1].
Licensed electrical contractors — residential, commercial, and industrial wiring, panel upgrades, and maintenance.
90,000+
US Companies
$1M–$6M
Avg. Revenue
5–30 electricians
Field Crew Size
7% annually
Growth Rate
Electrical contractors deal with strict code compliance, multi-phase projects, and AHJ inspections. Panel schedules, wire pull sheets, and as-built drawings on paper get lost between rough-in and trim — and the inspector does not accept 'we had it somewhere.'
Objective third-party statistics and research benchmarks relative to job cost tracking and electrical workflows.
An electrical contractor completes a $45,000 service upgrade for a manufacturing facility. Three electricians tracked hours informally, and wire and conduit were pulled from multiple supply orders. The PM reconciles job cost six weeks later — two months after final payment was due.
Commercial electrical jobs with untracked labor and materials run 10–18% over estimated cost on average. Without real-time costing, profitable and money-losing jobs look the same until month-end.
On average, field service contractors underestimate job costs by 15–20%. On a $200K/month revenue base, that blindness costs $30K–$40K in unrecovered margin per year.
These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the job cost tracking gap. That's what we build.
We study exactly where job cost tracking happens in your electrical operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.
Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A real, functional prototype that eliminates the pain point and works with your existing tools.
You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the job cost tracking problem, you don't pay.
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