A system for construction and contracting companies: jobs, crews and documents in one place
Contracting companies work in many places at once. The office, construction sites, the warehouse and field crews need the same information, yet in practice they often exchange it by phone and in spreadsheets.
Typical problems of contracting companies
- the status of work on sites is known mainly from phone calls,
- photos and site reports are scattered across employees' phones,
- it is hard to check which crew is working where and what equipment it has,
- material orders and subcontractor jobs are handled by email,
- management has no up-to-date view of team workloads or delays.
What the system can cover
- Jobs and projects: stages, deadlines, responsible people, statuses.
- Crews and schedule: who works where and when.
- Mobile app for crews: today's tasks, photos, site reports, confirmation of completion.
- Equipment and vehicles: allocation, availability, inspections.
- Documents: contracts, site reports, approval workflow.
- Management reports: work progress, delays, team workloads.
Where to start
You do not have to build everything at once. The best first stage is usually the process that generates the most phone calls and manual work, for example assigning tasks to crews and reporting completed work.
Integration with what already works
Your accounting software, calendars and suppliers' tools can stay. The company system exchanges data with them instead of replacing them.
The rule that decides success
A system for a contracting company has to be convenient above all for the people in the field. If a site manager or a fitter decides it is quicker to call, the data in the system will stop being up to date and management reports will lose their meaning. That is why the screens for crews are designed together with them. If you run a contracting company or a business in a construction-related industry, book a consultation.
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