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Site and crew software for subcontractors.
Sites, crews, RAMS, plant, certifications and timesheets in one system. Built for a company running fifty people across sites that all want reporting in a different format.
Book a conversationWhat usually goes wrong
At fifty people across a dozen sites, the job stops being the hard part. The hard part is knowing who is where, whether their tickets are in date, whether the RAMS for that site are the current version, and getting fifty timesheets in by Monday.
- Certifications expire quietly. A CSCS or IPAF ticket runs out and you find out when somebody is turned away at the gate.
- RAMS exist in several versions. One in the office, one on the van, one the main contractor has, and no certainty which is current.
- Timesheets arrive late from fifty people. Every week, chased by hand, and payroll and applications both wait on it.
- Nobody can say where the crews are. Not without three phone calls, and by then it has changed.
- Every main contractor wants a different report. The same information, reformatted by hand, over and over.
What we build instead
Bramall Sealants is one of the systems on our home page. It is illustrative, but the shape is real, and every part of it below is a screen that exists.
Sites and crews on one screen
Who is where today, what is left on each site, and what is starting next week.
Tickets that warn you first
Every certification with its expiry, flagged weeks ahead rather than at the gate.
One current version of the RAMS
Issued, acknowledged and recorded, so there is no argument about which one was in force.
Plant you can find
What is on which site, what is due a service, and what has quietly not come back.
Timesheets that come in
Submitted from the phone on site, approved by the supervisor, chased automatically when they are not.
Reports in their format
The output each main contractor wants, generated rather than retyped every month.
Why not one of the off-the-shelf ones
The large construction platforms do all of this and more, and if you want an off-the-shelf answer they are the serious ones. They are also priced accordingly, take months to roll out, and expect you to work their way. At fifty people that trade is worth thinking about properly.
| Team size | Typical per-seat tool | Over three years |
|---|---|---|
| 5 people | around £60 a seat | about £11,000 |
| 15 people | around £60 a seat | about £32,000 |
| 30 people | around £60 a seat | about £65,000 |
The question is not whether the licence is cheap. It is what you are working around every day, and what that costs you in evenings.
How it works
We learn how you actually run. Usually a couple of calls. If it suits you we will come and spend a day watching the work move through the company.
You see it before you pay anything. We build the opening screens in your branding, with your words for things and demo data in them. Not a finished system, enough to see the shape of yours and tell us where it is wrong.
Then we build the real one. The monthly starts and takes three to six months depending on how much system there is. Every fortnight you are told where it is up to. One fee covers building it, running it, hosting it and improving it.
Worth a conversation about what your Mondays look like?
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