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 Your job costing system, built around how you run projects.

Field entry, cost codes, the cost reports your teams act on, the job forecasts they create, and a month-end that ties out.

We learn how you run all of it. Then we make your systems fit. 

 By the time you know a project is losing, it's 60% built. 

  Most civil budgets are at least 30% labour and equipment.

Lose 10% there and you're down $30,000 for every $1M you build.

 What we hear from clients

01

Spreadsheets and best guesses

It works until it costs you. Your forecast drops at month-end without warning. Job costing says one thing and accounting says another. Your WIP report is your best guess.

02

Burned by software before

Too big, too rigid, or your team wouldn't use it. You use 20% of what you bought and pay for 100% of it. The parts that would actually help you never got set up.                                       

03

Not willing to gamble again

Another long rollout your teams have to absorb. Another big price tag without any proof. Nobody will show you it working on one of your jobs first.                                                 

 Where We Come In

 We advise on all 3 and we build in all 3. We start by making what you already own do more.

 Job Costing Systems

 The system your project teams run the project on. We set it up around how you actually build, then add the reports and forecasts it won't do on its own. 

Works for Civil GCs, subcontractors and trades that live in the field.

 

Finance Systems

 Where forecasts are easily integrated at month-end, you get a consistent WIP report, and a clear picture of your project (and company) financials.

ERP rollouts, accounting integrations, and reporting that pulls from both sides.

 

 Custom Solutions

When nothing fits how you job cost, we build the pieces that are missing. Forecasting tools, field entry apps, every system in one report. 

 If your team can use Excel, they can use what we build. 

Don't see your problem above? Good. Tell us about it.

Systems we've built.

Before BuildMetrics, our co-founder Jonny spent 14 years at a large civil contractor. Estimator and project manager for 10 years, then Project Controls Manager across every operating company, then Director of Innovation and Technology. The work below is his.

Job costing systems for multiple companies. Each one had different requirements. The same pieces every time: weekly cost reporting the PMs ran their jobs off, a forecasting tool built per company because the software wouldn't do it, field entry simple enough that hours and quantities came in right, and a month-end that closed without anyone rebuilding reports it in Excel.

500+ staff onto one job costing system. Field & office staff, payroll, and finance all moved over and trained. 3 months of planning and technical work, 1 cutover day, and a robust training program.

An ERP rollout across 650+ employees and 5 operating companies in 10 months. Integrated 5 existing systems, built the projects side and month-end process, created most of the training and ran most of the sessions.

Live cost reporting across 5+ source systems. Weekly job cost visibility for project managers and management, alerts on bad data, and a running view of which cost codes lose money on every project.

We've also built purchase order, inventory, QC, and work order systems for contractors and fabricators.

How We Work

 

  1.   Start with a free discovery call.

You show us where your business is getting held up. We map 2 problem areas and tell you what we'd focus on first. You get a plan for what to fix & in what order. The plan is our proposal.


  2.  We learn your job costing system.

We sit with your PMs, your supers, and the people entering the numbers to map how costs are tracked on your project


  3.  We make it fit

We will roll out or improve the system, connect what you have, build what's missing. Small scope first, so you see it work on a real job before you commit to more.

Construction people who build tech.

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Jonny Ketchum

Co-Owner, Construction Solutions

I'm Jonny, I'm a Civil P.Eng. and I've spent 14 years in civil construction. Estimator and PM for 10 years, then Project Controls Manager, then Director of Innovation & Technology.

I've coded costs, chased missing timecards, and sat in meetings explaining the latest overruns. I decided to build systems that companies could use for everyone, instead of just one project.

                                                                             

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Dylan Deppiesse

Co-Owner, Technology 

I'm Dylan and I worked in sheet metal for 7 years before I ever touched data.

Since then, I've spent 8 years as a data analyst, most recently leading the data team at Unbounce. I build with the tools you already use, starting with Excel and Google Sheets.

My job here is making sure the number you need is in front of you when you need it.

 

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Sawyer Marsh

Co-Owner, Finance

Hey, I'm Sawyer. As a CPA, I've worked with 50+ companies through M&A and audit, which means I've spent a lot of time looking at what a set of books says next to what the business is actually doing.

I'll help your business understand where the issues are and where you need to focus to keep more money in your pocket. I'll show you how to increase your bottom line without a major overhaul of your system.

 

You work with the 3 of us. Same people at the meetings that are on the project.

About

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We advise civil contractors on the job costing systems they run, then build what those systems can't do. Sometimes that means getting more out of software you already own. Sometimes it means building the piece that doesn't exist.

Most of our work is with self-perform civil and site contractors, often running more than one operating company. We also build for specialty trades and fabrication shops.

We'd rather spend a month learning how you run projects than a year building you the wrong thing.

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