Getting paid on a public job: the clock is in your contract, not in the Town's mood
When a municipality sits on a pay application, the answer is usually already in the documents you signed. The real payment clock, what a set-off has to say in writing, the interest nobody invoices, and the one-page ledger that ends most arguments.
The one record that wins a quantity dispute
On unit-price work you are paid on actual quantities, and the engineer's count is only final until better data shows up. What a daily quantity register has to contain, and the two traps that make most of them worthless.
What to automate first in a contracting business
Most owners guess wrong on this. The answer isn't the task you hate most — it's the handoff that keeps failing. How to find it in your own week, and the four questions that tell you whether a job is worth automating at all.
What AI is actually good at on a construction job — and what it isn't
An honest inventory from a company that builds this software. Four things it does better than a person, three it does badly, and the one failure mode that will cost you money if nobody's watching for it.
The hidden cost of a manual takeoff
The hours are the obvious cost. They're not the expensive one. What actually hurts is the bid you didn't submit — and the way takeoff load quietly caps how much work a company can chase.