The moment this business exists to prevent.
Brian knows what a project manager does to a budget when he's behind schedule. He knows what a sub looks like on paper when he's 18% over and nobody has flagged it yet. And he's been in the room when a contractor finds out — three weeks before close — that a job they thought was profitable is going to lose money. That moment is what Builder Ledger exists to prevent.
He's seen contractors do $15M a year and not know which jobs are actually making money. He's seen great operators lose real margin because their bookkeeper was keeping clean records of a slow disaster. The controller layer is what stops that — and it's the piece almost nobody has in place at $1M–$20M.
When you work with Builder Ledger, you're not getting a report service. You're getting someone who has done this job — who understands your PMs, your billing cycles, your surety relationship, and your field realities — and applies that every single month to your specific numbers.