Operations consulting for excavation companies
Operations consulting for excavation and site-work companies.
Machines that cost money whether they move or not, jobs that change once the ground is open, and a schedule that depends on weather, permits, and locates. We look at where the hours and the change orders go missing.
Where the money leaks
Six places a excavation company loses money without noticing.
None of these show up on a P&L. They show up as a slow month nobody can explain.
Change orders that never got written
The customer asked for ten more feet of trench on site. The operator did it. Nobody billed it.
Machine hours nobody tracks
The excavator sat on a job for two days waiting on a locate. The rental clock did not wait.
Permits and 811 locates on sticky notes
A job gets scheduled before the locate clears, and a crew shows up to a yard they cannot dig.
Quotes built from memory
Every estimate starts from scratch, so two similar jobs get two different prices and neither one covers fuel.
Subcontractor and hauling costs that land late
The dump fees and the trucking invoices show up after the customer has already paid, and the margin was a guess.
Photos on three phones
Before and after, the utility strike that was not yours, the finished grade. Scattered across whoever was there.
What the Blueprint looks at
The whole path of a job, not just the software.
- How a job goes from quote to scheduled, and what has to clear first
- How changes on site get captured and billed
- Machine time, rental time, and who watches the clock
- How estimates are built and whether costs are real
- Where photos and job records live
- What the office types twice
The Operations Blueprint
$1,500
Fixed. Paid up front.
- You send a few things you already have
- about 90 minutes, a call or a visit
- A written report in 7 business days
- One findings meeting
- $750 back toward an implementation
Where we come from
Septic installs are excavation jobs.
Our founder's company digs. Drainfields, tank sets, repairs: permits, locates, a machine on a trailer, and a customer who wants to know why it cost more than the quote. We have lived the change-order problem. The Blueprint looks at yours from that side of the fence.
FAQ
Answered Before You Have to Ask
Tell us how your excavation company runs.
Four minutes on the form. We will tell you straight whether we can help and what it would cost.
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