Know where you stand
on every job.
Estimate. Actuals. Progress. Drift. Connected — so you know where you're bleeding before it's too late.
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Most contractors check the boxes.
Almost none connect the dots.
You run the same four practices every contractor does: an estimate, time cards, some form of progress tracking, and a record of what went wrong. The practices are fine. The problem is they live in four different places — so the one question that actually matters mid-job never has a clean answer: are we making money on this project, right now?
Connect those four — so production reconciles to the estimate and drift explains the gap — and you close the distance between a 2–3 point margin and a 10–15 point one. The best in the industry have done it manually for decades. BlackHyve makes it the default.
Production is
the score.
What did we bid. What have we spent. What did we actually put in place today. Most contractors have the first two. Production is the third — work installed, measured against the estimate, updated daily. Without it, you're running blind until the job closes.
Drift is
the explanation.
Every bid assumes eight conditions: access, quality, sequence, information, material, tools, leadership, team size. When one breaks, your crew slows and margin bleeds. Internal drift, you fix. External drift, you document. Either way, the record gets written the day it happens.
"I ran a $25M mechanical company. By the time I was done, we had 200 people across five states. I was doing everything the industry said to do — weekly reports, time cards, a good super in the field. I was checking every box. And every single closeout, I'd find out we'd lost three or four points on a job I thought we were winning."
It wasn't just one job. It was every job. I'd sit through closeout and find out where the money actually went, and by then it was gone. Somebody asked me once whether I was making money on a scope mid-job, and I realized I couldn't tell them. Not really. Not until it was over.
The problem wasn't my crews, and it wasn't the scope. It was that none of what I was tracking was connected. My estimate lived in a spreadsheet, my time cards lived in payroll, and progress lived in the super's head. And drift — access blocked, materials late, trades stacked — that just got handled after the fact, if it got handled at all.
I was checking every box and still scrambling. The gap wasn't in any one practice. It was in the connections between them.
That's why I built BlackHyve.
Ryan Haught
CEO & Co-Founder, BlackHyve
Stop checking boxes.
Start connecting the dots.
In one week you'll see production against bid and drift explaining the gap — on a real project, with your numbers.