Excavation & Site Prep
No ReKeying — Know If a Job Made Money Before You Close It
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. No ReKeying means every cost is captured live so you always know your margin before the invoice goes out.
Uncle Steve on job cost tracking in excavation & site prep
The Excavation & Site Prep Industry at a Glance
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.
Excavation & Site Prep Industry Data & Research
Key statistics shaping the excavation & site prep market today.
- $30 billion annual cost of underground utility damage
- — Common Ground Alliance, 2024
- On-time locate delivery rate is only 30–70% across state 811 centers
- — CGA DIRT Report, 2024
How Job Cost Tracking Actually Looks in Excavation & Site Prep
The Scenario
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.
The Real Impact
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.
Does This Sound Like Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation?
- !Cannot tell if a completed job made or lost money until weeks later
- !Materials used in the field don't match what was ordered
- !Labor hours are estimated, not measured — and the estimate is always off
The Cost of Doing Nothing
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.
What Excavation & Site Prep Companies Typically Use
These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the job cost tracking gap. That's what we build.
Excavation & Site Prep Operational Challenges
- 1Every grading and excavation job starts with a locate ticket
- 2Morning ticket distribution is a paper shuffle
- 3No real-time visibility into which locates are complete
- 4Wait time for outstanding locates burns crew and equipment hours
Compliance & Regulations
- A811 mandatory notification before excavation
- BOSHA excavation safety (29 CFR 1926 Subpart P)
- CState-specific locate ticket validity and positive response
- DStormwater/erosion control documentation
How We Fix Job Cost Tracking for Excavation & Site Prep — No ReKeying
Map Your Workflow
We study exactly where job cost tracking happens in your excavation & site prep operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.
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.
Prove It Before You Pay
You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the job cost tracking problem, you don't pay.
Get No ReKeying for Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation — Free Prototype
Tell us about your operation and we'll build you a working solution — no commitment, no credit card.
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