Blog for contractors

Job costing, progress billing, retainage, certified payroll. The things that decide whether a job made money, written by someone building the software for it.

• Why is my construction business profitable but broke?

  Your P&L shows a profit, your bank account is empty, and your books are not wrong. Where the money actually went, with worked numbers.

  7 min read

• How to calculate percent complete on a construction job

  Cost-to-cost, worked through with real arithmetic — including the estimate revision that quietly takes back revenue you already booked.

  6 min read

• What is retainage and when do you actually get paid?

  Five or ten percent of every invoice, held for a year — often more than your entire profit on the job. The mechanics, and what it does to your cash.

  6 min read