Meet Riverside, a job at Summit Steel Erectors — our demo company. Its target margin is 18.17%; at 49% done it’s running at 2.6%, and the app already has it marked Over pace with half the job left to fix. The same app shows who on the crew is reviewed well, qualified and trained — the people to build around.
Tour the app
Riverside, start to finish, in 12 stops — the bid, the crew, the money and the people. Scroll to play it, or jump to any stop.
01 · Estimate
Sections and line items stack up — labor, material, equipment, subs — each with its cost, markup and margin. Pricing marks Riverside’s $721,053.40 of cost up by $124,091.02, to $845,144.42 before contingency.
02 · Schedule the bid, then convert
The Scheduling tab lays each phase on a calendar from its hours and crew size, and flags overtime before you commit. Once the estimate is approved, Convert to job turns it into a live job.
03 · Schedule
On the schedule board Riverside opens into its seven phases and the crew on it — and the active phase opens into its tasks and who’s assigned.
04 · Clock-in to hours
Vic taps Start shift now on his phone and picks Riverside. Every clock-in posts hours to the job as they’re worked — 1,316.3 logged on Riverside so far.
05 · Change orders
The owner asked for a rooftop equipment screen. Price the change order line by line — labor, material and equipment, at cost and at price — and approve it right on the job.
06 · Materials & hard costs
Purchase orders and receipts post against the budget they belong to. The rooftop screen wall was budgeted at $8,600.00 — it’s $1,180.00 over, and you see it while the job is still running.
07 · Phase detail
Delivery & Staging has 39h 28m logged so far. Its margin is 4.9% against a 16% target, and its tasks show who’s on them.
08 · Financial dashboard
Cash, receivables, margin at completion against your target, and the jobs at risk. Midtown is flagged for a projected loss of $31,140.62 while there’s still time to act.
09 · Peer reviews
When Vic clocks out, the app picks him to rate a coworker from today’s shift. Workers never see who rated them; managers do — this is his manager’s view. It adds up: his crew rates Vic’s skill 4.4 / 5.
10 · Manager scores
Managers score each worker too. Vic: 5 / 5 safety. Cody: 2 / 5 leadership — someone to coach now, not someone you find out about at closeout.
11 · Skills & certifications
Skills are submitted and approved worker by worker, and the credential report checks a job’s crew against the certifications you pick — verified, self-reported, expired or missing. On Riverside it shows Luis Ortiz’s fall-protection card has expired.
12 · Training
A video library — 18h 47m 51s of courses on rigging, cranes, fall protection and steel erection — plus your own company courses, with each worker’s progress tracked.
WHAT YOU JUST SAW
“I find out a job lost money after it's done.”
Live margin on every job, while it is still running
Stop 08“My crew's hours never match the job.”
The crew clocks in on their phones, against the job
Stop 04“Change orders get done but never billed.”
Every change order tracked against the contract — approved, pending or draft
Stop 05“I don't know who my best people are.”
Crewmates rate each other at the end of a shift
Stop 09Every screen on this page is the real Worker Efficiency app — the web dashboard and the Android app on a real phone — captured from Summit Steel Erectors, our demo company, filled with sample jobs, crews and costs. The totals, margins and warnings are the app’s own math on that data. Your jobs run on the same math from the first clock-in.
// The whole system
One system, 13 modules, one set of numbers. Most arrows are things the app already does — the estimate literally becomes the job, and a phone clock-in literally becomes labour cost. The people arrows are decisions it helps you make: the reviews and credentials it collects show who to staff next.
The whole map
Plan
Build the bid the way you actually price work — sections, line items, six cost types, your own markup.
One click converts an approved estimate: sections with labor become phases, the rest become cost groups, and the bid is frozen as the baseline you get measured against.
People
Who is on it, and when — against the hours the estimate actually bought, not a blank calendar.
Where the numbers come from. The crew clocks in on their own phones, starts and stops tasks, and fills forms on the jobsite — a form filled with no signal saves on the phone and sends once the signal is back.
Courses the crew actually watches — your own videos alongside the platform catalog.
Proof, tracked. What each worker is qualified for, and when it expires.
360° feedback from the people who share the scaffold — skill, behavior and productivity, each scored out of 5 with an optional comment, collected on the phone after a shift.
Costs
Build any form once. The crew fills it on the phone and it files itself against the job.
Hours become labour cost at each worker’s real rate. Nobody re-types anything.
Ordered vs received — so committed cost shows up when you order it, not when the invoice lands.
Assign it, use it, maintain it — and rentals and crew trucks bill their daily rate to the job every night.
Profit
Hours, materials and equipment land on one ledger: budget against actual for every cost type, while the job is still running.
The company view: which jobs make money, which need attention, and where the year is heading.
Plan
Build the bid the way you actually price work — sections, line items, six cost types, your own markup.
Labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, fee and other — each cost type gets its own total, with contingency, tax and discount on top. On Summit’s Riverside bid, $721,053 of direct cost becomes an $881,197 contract price at an 18.2% margin.
Every bid sits in one list by status — draft, pending, approved, converted — with what’s pending and what’s aging counted up top. Convert an approved bid and sections with labor become phases, the rest become cost groups, and the bid is frozen as the baseline. Search “Riverside”: Converted, at $881,197.
Plan
One click converts an approved estimate: sections with labor become phases, the rest become cost groups, and the bid is frozen as the baseline you get measured against.
Every job opens on the same three numbers: gross profit to date, budget used against work done, and the contract. On Summit’s Midtown Parking Structure, 50% of the budget is used at 30% done — so the job is flagged Over pace.
Price the extra work, submit it, and approve or reject it — with no side spreadsheet. The tab keeps the running totals: on Riverside, $21,126 approved, $4,426 waiting on a decision and $3,120 still in draft.
Open a change order to see the scope it adds — labor, material and equipment lines, at cost and at price. Approving it updates the contract, the phase budgets and the tasks together.
People
Who is on it, and when — against the hours the estimate actually bought, not a blank calendar.
Group by people, jobs or crews, then layer on conflicts, availability, capacity load and tasks — one schedule that answers who's free, who's double-booked, and whether every job's timeline is on track.
People
Where the numbers come from. The crew clocks in on their own phones, starts and stops tasks, and fills forms on the jobsite — a form filled with no signal saves on the phone and sends once the signal is back.
Start a shift, start a task, take a break — on a jobsite, on bad signal, with big touch targets and nothing to learn.
End Shift shows the worker when they started, how long they worked, breaks taken and how many tasks are done or still in progress. Then comes a quick peer review of a crewmate, and the shift is closed.
Profit
Hours, materials and equipment land on one ledger: budget against actual for every cost type, while the job is still running.
Labor, materials, equipment, subs, fees and other — each with its budget, its actual cost and the variance, while the job is still running. Profit is measured against your revenue, not the full contract: on Riverside, $881,197 less $36,053 of contingency held is $845,144.
Every clock-in and cost entry updates the job’s numbers, so you read the margin while there is still time to act. On Riverside: $10,466 of gross profit to date, a 2.6% margin against an 18.17% target — and the budget beside it is already flagged Over pace.
Profit
The company view: which jobs make money, which need attention, and where the year is heading.
Further down Home, Company Overview puts the whole company on six cards — cash, margin at completion, jobs at risk, labor on the clock, billing, and backlog — and each card links to the screen behind it. Summit’s cautious projection is $1,173,044 of profit against a $1,482,263 target.
One tab ranks what needs a decision, worst first — a projected loss, jobs behind schedule, a job heading under its profit target, people booked twice — and each row opens the screen to fix it. Summit has 4 today, led by a $31,140.62 projected loss on Midtown Parking Structure.
People
Courses the crew actually watches — your own videos alongside the platform catalog.
Upload the safety training your crew actually needs — new-hire orientation, fall protection, crane and rigging, welding and hot work — as video lessons, then pick an employee to see how far they’ve got through each one.
Worker Efficiency’s own courses sit on the WE Training tab — switch them on in Settings → Manage Courses. Summit runs the OSHA Courses (5 courses) and the Ironworker and Fabricator Courses (9 courses), and picking a worker shows their platform and company training together.
Open any worker and their Platform Training tab shows every course with lessons done and percent complete. Luis Ortiz has finished the Aerial & Scissor Lift Operators Course, 11 / 11 lessons, and is 75% through Fall Protection for Construction.
People
Proof, tracked. What each worker is qualified for, and when it expires.
Set up the skills your work runs on — welding certifications, rigging and signaling, equipment operation, fall protection, ironworking — then review what each worker submits and track when every credential expires.
People
360° feedback from the people who share the scaffold — skill, behavior and productivity, each scored out of 5 with an optional comment, collected on the phone after a shift.
Skill, behavior and productivity, each scored out of 5 by the crew they work with. Vic Romano’s 12 reviews average 4.4 for skill, 3.8 for behavior and 4.2 for productivity.
Scores trend per worker over time, so a real pattern shows and one bad day does not define anyone. Managers see every review, who left it and any comment; the worker never sees who reviewed them.
Costs
Build any form once. The crew fills it on the phone and it files itself against the job.
Daily safety inspections, crane pre-lift checks, weld inspections, incident reports — your own templates, versioned and tagged, built from scratch or from the template library. The crew fills them in the field, and the ones marked Approval Required wait for sign-off.
Costs
Hours become labour cost at each worker’s real rate. Nobody re-types anything.
Pick a person, a crew or a job and a date range, and the timesheet pulls their approved hours shift by shift, ready to export for payroll — Ken Tanaka's last 30 days come to 7 shifts and 50:52:00 working. The same hours, priced at each worker's rate, are the labour cost on the job — nobody re-types anything.
Costs
Ordered vs received — so committed cost shows up when you order it, not when the invoice lands.
Committed cost shows the moment you order; actual fills in as it is received — both against the budget for that cost group, which flags itself when it runs over. Riverside’s rooftop screen wall: $8,600.00 budgeted, $9,780.00 ordered, +$1,180.00 over.
The reusable catalog: every item you buy, with its code, unit, cost, markup and vendor — define it once and drop it into estimates and change orders instead of re-typing it every bid. Search “Wide-Flange” and Summit’s W-beams come up, each at a 15% markup from Nucor.
Name, category, unit, cost and markup — and before you save, the form shows what the item sells at and the margin that leaves. Add a cost code, a preferred vendor, or your own fields such as grade or finish.
Costs
Assign it, use it, maintain it — and rentals and crew trucks bill their daily rate to the job every night.
Status, next service date and ownership for every machine, with the problems counted up top — of Summit’s 21 machines, 2 need maintenance and 2 rentals are overdue. Rentals and crew trucks bill their daily rate to the job every night.
They clock in and out on their phone — that is the whole job. No forms to remember, no timesheet to fill in Friday night. The foreman sees the crew board, you see the money. Crews that hate software use it because it replaces paperwork instead of adding it.
A punch clock tells you hours happened. Worker Efficiency connects those hours to the job they were spent on, prices them against your estimate, and shows you the margin moving while the job is still open. Time tracking is the input — job profit is the answer.
Standard is $2 per user per month; Premium is $5. A 10-person crew on Premium is $50 a month. The pricing page has a slider so you can see your exact number — no sales call required.
Create the company, invite your crew by email, and create your first job. Your first margin number shows up as soon as the first shift is clocked against it.
Both. There is no company-size tier: every seat is $2 or $5 a month (seats come in packs, up to 200) with unlimited jobs on either plan, so a 12-person shop and a 200-person GC pay the same rate and run the same app. Roles scale with you — workers, managers, general managers and admins, with crews grouped under their managers.
Set up your first job this afternoon. Your crew clocks in tomorrow. You read the ledger by end of week.
