Example 02 · Run · Building firm
A dashboard that answers “are we profitable on this job?”
A building firm knows its turnover but not which jobs actually make money. This puts quoted price, hours, materials and subcontractors in one view, and lets the owner ask “what if our labour really costs £38 an hour?”
Illustrative scenarioWorking demo
What the customer sees
Before
The numbers lived in the quoting spreadsheet, the accounts package and the site diary. Working out one job's margin took an afternoon, so nobody did it.
Built in a day
A dashboard over sample job data with a target margin, a labour-cost what-if and a plain-English summary of where profit is leaking. Built with AI in under a day.
What it's for
Spot underpriced types of job before quoting the next one, and give the owner figures they trust in a two-minute weekly check.
The important bit
Built in a day. Going live takes more.
Before real customers relied on this, it would need:
- A live feed from the accounts or job-management system instead of sample data
- Agreement on how hours are recorded, so the figures mean something
- Logins, so only the right people can see margins
- Backups, and a record of which figures changed and when
- A check that the sums match what the accountant gets
- A plan for when one of the source systems changes
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