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 Excavation & Site Prep 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].
Site preparation and general excavation contractors — grading, foundation excavation, utility trenching. Every job starts with an 811 ticket.
40,000+
US Companies
$1.5M–$12M
Avg. Revenue
5–30
Field Crew Size
5.5%
Growth Rate
First shovel = first locate ticket. If your morning routine is printing tickets, sorting by crew, and hoping the locates are done, you're running a paper process in a $30-billion-damage industry.
Objective third-party statistics and research benchmarks relative to job cost tracking and excavation & site prep workflows.
An excavation contractor completes a $75,000 site prep for a commercial pad. Machine hours were tracked on paper daily logs. Diesel fuel was billed to a general account. The PM assembles job cost from four separate sources two weeks after final grade.
Excavation jobs with unmetered fuel and untracked idle time run 12–18% over estimated machine cost. On $1.2M/year in excavation revenue, that is $144K–$216K in unrecovered cost annually.
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.
We study exactly where job cost tracking happens in your excavation & site prep 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.
Step-by-Step Guide
A practical walkthrough of exactly how to eliminate this problem in your operation.
See how industry professionals are using our platform to consolidate systems, eliminate double-entry, and streamline their daily field operations.
"Simply Connected made it much easier to manage everything in one place. Having our systems integrated into a single platform has saved time and eliminated a lot of the back and forth we used to deal with. The team was responsive throughout the process. Everything has worked as expected, and the overall experience has been very positive."
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