Different Work.
Same Leaks.
Whether you're running sandblasting crews, fabricating structural steel, wiring commercial buildings, or managing multi-trade sites — the profit problem is the same.
You don't know your real margin until it's too late to do anything about it.
The Trade Changes.
The Problem
Doesn't.
Electrical contractors, fabrication shops, coating companies, HVAC installers — different industries, completely different work. But the same five profit leaks show up in every single one of them.
The language changes slightly. The job names are different. The tasks, crew sizes, and materials vary. But the underlying mechanism — costs accumulating faster than visibility — is identical regardless of what you make or do.
You have a visibility problem. And it's solvable.
Real-Time Job Costing for
Coating & Blasting Companies
See your true cost and margin on every blast-and-coat job — while the work is still running.
Coating and sandblasting operations have one of the most complex cost profiles in project-driven work. Consumable usage varies dramatically by surface condition, profile depth, and crew technique. Blast hours don't translate linearly to coat hours. And overtime at the booth compounds fast when sequencing breaks down.
By the time a job cost report runs, the overspray waste is gone, the overtime is baked in, and the only option is explaining the margin — not recovering it.
- Consumable variance — abrasive, paint, thinner usage varies by crew and surface. Most companies track this at month-end, not per job.
- Booth bottleneck overtime — when prep outpaces the constraint, work piles up, urgency builds, and OT gets approved to catch up.
- Stage-to-stage handoff gaps — blast, prime, coat, QC — each handoff is a potential idle time event that burns margin invisibly.
- Multi-job scheduling blindness — running 6–12 active jobs means problems in one cascade into overtime in another before anyone notices.
You're losing it at every handoff you can't see.
Estimate
Estimate
Real-Time Job Costing for
Fabrication & Installation
Know your shop cost and install margin — while the steel is still being cut.
Fabrication shops carry a dual cost problem that most software ignores: shop hours and field installation hours operate on completely different cost models, different crew compositions, and different overtime thresholds — yet they're often tracked together and averaged.
When shop throughput doesn't align with field install schedules, both sides suffer. Fabricated pieces sit waiting. Install crews stand idle. And the margin that looked solid on the quote evaporates between the shop floor and the job site.
- Shop vs field cost mismatch — different crew rates, different burden calculations, often lumped into one blended number that understates the truth.
- Throughput-to-schedule gaps — when fabrication runs ahead or behind installation, idle time appears on both ends simultaneously.
- Rework buried inside labour — re-cut, re-weld, re-fit hours disappear into "labour" with no task-level visibility into what went wrong or how often.
- Material yield variance — steel, pipe, plate — actual yield vs estimated yield drifts quietly across every job running in parallel.
PWP shows you exactly where.
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Real-Time Job Costing for
HVAC Contractors
Service calls, installs, and maintenance — see your real margin on every job type, in real time.
HVAC is one of the most complex labour-cost environments in the trades. You're running service technicians, install crews, and maintenance contracts simultaneously — each with completely different true cost profiles, different overtime exposure, and different billing models.
The install-to-service mix makes it nearly impossible to understand blended company margin from a month-end report. By the time the numbers settle, three more jobs have run — and the pattern repeats.
- Service-to-install cost confusion — different call types carry dramatically different true costs, often tracked as a single blended labour rate.
- Change order discipline — scope expansions on install jobs rarely get priced in real time, leaving revenue on the table on every oversized job.
- Equipment and materials variance — equipment substitutions, extra fittings, refrigerant overages add up fast across concurrent install jobs.
- Seasonal overtime compounding — peak-season scheduling pressure forces overtime decisions without visibility into which jobs can absorb the cost.
are all different. Most companies never know which one is bleeding.
Avg Margin
Avg Margin
Real-Time Job Costing for
Electrical Contractors
Crews across multiple sites, jobs at different stages — see every margin, live.
Electrical contractors run some of the most labour-intensive multi-site operations in the trades. Journeymen, apprentices, and foremen all carry different true costs — yet most companies track labour at a single blended rate that understates what the hour actually costs by 30–60%.
Add change orders that happen mid-project, material prices that fluctuate, and multiple active jobs running simultaneously — and the gap between what you quoted and what you're actually making becomes enormous before anyone notices.
- Apprentice-to-journeyman cost spread — different true costs on the same job, averaged into one number that obscures what's actually happening.
- Change order revenue lag — work gets done before it's priced, documentation lags, and revenue gets recognized weeks after the cost was incurred.
- Multi-site scheduling blindness — crews spread across 6+ active sites means a delay on one creates overtime pressure on all the others.
- Material price variance — wire, conduit, panels — prices fluctuate between quote and delivery. Most companies don't catch the gap until the job closes.
That changes with real-time visibility.
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Real-Time Job Costing for
Multi-Trade Operations
The most complex labour-cost environment in the industry — finally visible in real time.
Multi-trade contractors face every profit leak simultaneously, at scale. Different crews, different cost models, different billing rates — all running on the same project, all tracked in the same system, all averaging out into a blended number that tells nobody the truth about any individual trade's performance.
At this complexity level, the 45-day lag isn't just inconvenient. It's operationally dangerous. By the time the numbers come in, decisions made weeks ago have already compounded across every active job.
- Cross-trade cost blending — electrical, mechanical, and structural labour averaged together hides which trade is over budget and which is on track.
- Inter-trade sequencing dependencies — one trade's delay creates a cascade of idle time across every trade waiting behind it.
- Subcontractor cost control — subs tracked against lump-sum estimates instead of real-time cost vs progress creates billing surprises at every milestone.
- Simultaneous job complexity — running 15+ jobs across multiple trades means problems in one project are invisible until they've already affected three others.
The lack of visibility into it is.
Margin
Attention
The Work Is Different.
The System Is the Same.
PWP maps to your task flow, your crew structure, and your billing model — regardless of trade. The visibility, control, and profit protection are identical.
Same result — profit defended in real time.
Every Company Is Different.
The Fastest Way to Understand This
Is With Your Own Numbers.
We'll walk through it using your real job scenarios — so you can see exactly where your margins are today, and where they're slipping.