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 Underground 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].
Electrical contractors performing underground conduit installation, service laterals, transformer pads, and underground electrical distribution work.
90,000+
US Companies
$1M–$10M
Avg. Revenue
5–25
Field Crew Size
4.8%
Growth Rate
You pulled the permit, called 811, and the marks are on the ground. But where is the record? Locate tickets are printed and filed by project — not linked to work orders.
Objective third-party statistics and research benchmarks relative to job cost tracking and underground electrical workflows.
An underground electrical crew installs a 400-foot duct bank for a commercial development. Conduit, pull boxes, and concrete encasement materials were tracked on paper. Machine time for the saw-cutter was estimated rather than metered. The PM reconciles cost after the POCO acceptance.
Unmetered equipment time and untracked material usage on duct bank work average 10–16% variance from estimated cost — invisible until reconciliation and too late to recover.
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 underground 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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