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The extra work got signed. It never got billed.

The brain reads your T&M tags, change orders, pay apps and inbox, and tells you which extra work never got billed.

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AI drafts. Your people decide.

What's slipping.

Three leaks the brain watches for at a mechanical or specialty contractor, and the alert you'd get.

  1. Signed T&M tags that never became CORs.

    PushMon 7:00 a.m.Sample

    Dale's crews have 6 signed tags past 7 days with no COR. $18,200 at contract rates. Oldest: Toole Medical, Sept 18.

    Read from: T&M tagsCORsPM email

  2. Approved changes missing from the pay app.

    PushWed 7:00 a.m.Sample

    4 approved change orders aren't on the October pay apps due Friday. $61,300 left off. Biggest: Ridgeview Lab, CO 7.

    Read from: Change ordersPay appsGC email

  3. Retainage nobody asked for.

    PushMon 7:00 a.m.Sample

    6 jobs past substantial completion still hold retainage, with no release request sent. $148,200 held. Oldest: Harbor School, May.

    Read from: Pay appsAR agingCloseout docs

Samples. Yours come from your own records.

It tells you first.

Then it answers what you ask, and drafts the follow-up for your OK.

  1. Push

    The right info reaches the right person, before they ask.

    Sample

    6 a.m. text to the Toole Medical foreman: today's look-ahead, 2 open RFIs, and get today's tag signed before the super leaves.

  2. Ask

    Everything your business knows, one question away.

    Sample

    Did the Toole Medical extra work get billed?

    No. Two signed tags, $8,460, not on any COR or pay app. Source: T&M log.

  3. Act Drafted. You approve.

    Agents answer, chase, and close the loop. You approve.

    Sample

    CORs for Dale's 6 signed tags, drafted with labor, material and photos at contract rates. Dale edits and sends them to the GC.

What it will never do here: price or send a change order, sign a pay app, file a lien, or email a GC on its own.

AI drafts. Your people decide.

You stay in charge.

  • A person approves before anything goes out.
  • Every answer shows its source. Anything unsure gets flagged for a person.
  • Your data stays yours: single-tenant, US-hosted, encrypted, never used for training.
  • You own what we build. If we part ways, we hand it over whole.

Works with what you run.

Reads directly
Clearstory (Professional plan), Procore, Fieldwire (with API access on), Trimble Viewpoint Vista (through your own database).
Reads its reports
Sage 100 Contractor (job cost and AR reports), Rhumbix (time and T&M exports).
From your inbox
GC change order logs, pay app approvals and lien waiver requests.
Also reads
Email (Gmail or Outlook), shared files, spreadsheets, QuickBooks or Xero, and business texts and call recordings from Quo, RingCentral or Twilio. Not personal phones.

Anything that emails a report or exports a spreadsheet works too. You connect each one, read-only to start, and can turn it off any time. Some software only opens its data on higher plans. We check yours on the first call.

Questions mechanical contractors ask us.

My software already does this.

Your project software tracks tags and change orders well. It doesn't read your inbox, QuickBooks or the GC's emails. The brain reads across them and shows where they disagree: the signed tag with no COR, the approved change missing from the pay app.

Will it talk to the GC for us?

No. Your PMs own every GC conversation. The brain drafts the COR, the pay app backup and the retainage request. A PM edits and sends.

Do my foremen have to fill out something new?

No. They keep signing tags the way they do now, on paper or in Clearstory. The brain reads the tag photos and scans your office already saves.

Who at Second Shift sees our data?

Only Mac, plus our machine learning engineer on a complex build, and only what setup or a fix needs. Your data is single-tenant, US-hosted, encrypted, and never used for training. You can see what we connected and turn any of it off.

Contact

How much signed extra work is still unbilled?

Tell us what you run. We'll show you what the brain would catch first.

Mac Earle

You'll work with Mac Earle directly, over screen-share from Miami.

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