[ The platform ]
Five stages,
one set of numbers.
Most contractors run an estimating tool, a field app and an accountant, and nothing carries a figure from one to the next. Every stage below hands its output to the next one — that relationship is the product.
- 01
BID
Estimating and bidding
- 02
BUILD
Field operations
- 03
MANAGE
Contractor management
- 04
CONTROL
Billing and financial control
- 05
LEARN
Intelligence
V1 · BID
Estimating and bidding
Quantities come off the PDF and keep a link to the shape they were measured from. Rates are yours, built up so they can be taken apart a year later. Overhead is recovered from your own annual figures, and margin and markup are both printed because they are different numbers and everybody confuses them.
- In
- A plan set, and your own rates
- What happens
- Takeoff, production assumptions, cost build-up, overhead, margin
- Out
- A versioned estimate and a proposal
- Feeds
- The winning estimate becomes the job baseline
V2 · BUILD
Field operations
A foreman records what happened in the words his crew uses, and never sees a wage. The office approves, and at that moment cost posts to the job in one sealed transaction — approving twice posts once. Production is compared against what the bid assumed, which is the comparison that matters on the day.
- In
- The job baseline, and a crew with a phone
- What happens
- Daily logs: crew hours, machine hours, production, haul loads
- Out
- Actual cost, posted on approval
- Feeds
- Actual cost meets the budget it was bid against
V3 · MANAGE
Contractor management
A purchase order freezes its prices when issued. Receiving posts cost; ordering does not — so the job carries a third figure beside budget and actual. Change orders revise the contract without ever editing the original, because the original is what the customer signed.
- In
- Customers, vendors, subs, and the work in front of you
- What happens
- Purchase orders, receipts, change orders, scheduling, documents
- Out
- Committed cost, and a revised contract
- Feeds
- Commitment and contract both feed the cost position
V4 · CONTROL
Billing and financial control
Percent complete is entered, never inferred from cost, because a job that overran would otherwise bill as though it had progressed. A vendor bill records a payable and matches it against what was ordered and received; it never posts cost. The forecast is three terms and the method is printed above the figure.
- In
- Budget, actual, committed and the revised contract
- What happens
- Progress billing, retention, payments, vendor bills, three-way match
- Out
- Cost position, forecast, WIP and cash position
- Feeds
- The finished job becomes company history
V5 · LEARN
Intelligence
Your own history and nothing else — no industry averages, no data pooled from other companies. Every figure opens to show its method, its sample size, its period and what it excluded. Below three comparable observations EARTHVOQ states no median at all and says why.
- In
- Every completed job, with its hours and its costs
- What happens
- Production medians, cost variance, margin lifecycle, bid patterns
- Out
- A comparison the next estimate can be checked against
- Feeds
- And the next bid starts better than the last one did
Nothing is entered twice, so nothing can disagree
A quantity measured on a plan is the quantity on the estimate, the quantity in the budget, and the quantity the field is measured against. A cost posted by an approved field day is the cost in the forecast and the cost in the history. There is no export, no re-key and no reconciliation step where the two versions drift apart.
Everything, by what you are trying to do
Estimating & bidding
Operations & cost
Financial control
Intelligence
For contractors
13 pages · every one of them is a capability that ships today
Choose where you want to start
The plans follow the stages. Bid is the full estimating product, not a crippled version of a bigger one — and the rest is there when the estimate stops being the thing that hurts.
14 days, no card. Plans from $79 a month.