You bid it one way.
You built it another.

The distance between them is drift.
And it's killing your margin.

See how to track it What is drift?

What you bid

1,200

hours

$84,000

labor budget

What you're burning

1,580

hours (projected)

$110,600

at current pace

380 hours of drift = $26,600 walking out the door

Production requires conditions.

Just like life requires oxygen.

When they're maintained, crews produce. When they break, every hour lost is money that was never in the bid. That's drift.

See the full framework

8 conditions for production

Access

Materials

Tools

Equipment

Info

Sequence

Leadership

Team Size

Access • +12 hrs

"Drywall crew still has debris in the corridor. We can't get to our area."

Capture it. Document it. Get paid.

Your guy in the field hits record. Describes what's happening. That's it. We handle the rest.

01 — Field

Capture it when it happens

Recording...

"We're here with 2 guys instead of 5. Area 3 still has drywall debris blocking access..."

Voice note. Offline capable. No forms.

02 — Auto

AI extracts the drift

Condition Access Issue

Crew Impact -3 workers

Hours Lost +24 hrs

Est. Cost Impact $1,680

Transcribed. Categorized. Cost-estimated.

03 — Office

Create the change order

Change Order #047 Ready

Access delays (Area 3) $4,200

Material staging issues $2,800

Crew remobilization $1,400

Total $8,400

Three clicks. Documentation attached.

Track what's happening → Document every impact → See hours vs. estimate →

One guy with a phone can out-paper 10 guys in the trailer.

You don't need more people doing admin. You need better documentation from the field.

Customer Results

$50k

drift captured

days

person crew

Documentation that used to take hours now happens in the moment it occurs.

I ran a plumbing and heating company across Wyoming and the Dakotas. I know what it's like to walk into a trailer knowing you're right—and lose anyway.

The GC has the documentation. The GC has the schedule. And somehow, it's always your fault.

I built BlackHyve because I was tired of losing arguments I should have won. Tired of guessing whether we were making money until the job was over. Tired of the pit in my stomach every time someone asked about hours or costs and I had to say "I'll get back to you."

Not because you need more software—but because knowing where you stand is how you take control of your story.