A fractional controller gives your construction company the financial oversight of a full-time controller — job profitability, WIP, and cash flow watched every month — without the $195K+ cost of hiring one. Builder Ledger does it exclusively for contractors doing $1M–$20M.
No contract · Month-to-month · Starting at $2,000/mo · Direct access to Brian
A fractional controller is an experienced financial controller who works with your company part-time — typically a set number of days or hours each month — instead of as a full-time employee. You get the same monthly close discipline, reporting, and financial oversight a larger company gets from its controller, at a fraction of the cost, because you're only paying for the slice of their time you actually need.
For contractors, the role is specific: watching job-level profitability while jobs are still open, keeping the WIP schedule accurate and bonding-ready, forecasting cash 12 weeks out so payroll and draws never surprise you, and flagging margin fade early enough to fix it. It's the layer between your bookkeeper, who records what happened, and your CPA, who files last year's taxes — the person watching your numbers right now.
Most $1M–$20M contractors have outgrown bookkeeping-only financials but can't justify a full-time controller at $130K–$160K in salary before benefits, recruiting fees, and ramp time. A fractional controller closes that gap: senior-level oversight, productive from month one, on a flat monthly retainer.
Estimated profit and margin on every active job — updated monthly while you still have time to act, not after the job closes.
Banker and surety-ready WIP — over/under billing on every job, reconciled every month, so your bonding and credit lines hold up.
See cash gaps before they happen — AR aging, payroll, draws, and billing timing in one rolling view.
Flagged the moment a job starts tracking below your target margin. Catch it while you can still fix it.
Billing gaps quietly strangle contractor cash flow. We find them in the first weeks and keep them from coming back.
45–60 minutes reviewing everything together. Every finding explained, every decision backed by numbers.
Records daily transactions and keeps the books clean. Essential — but they're not analyzing job profitability or flagging a slipping job. That's not their role.
Files taxes and looks at last year's numbers. By the time they see a problem, it has already happened — and you've already paid for it.
Connects the field to the financials in real time — job by job, month by month. The same oversight as a $195K–$250K first-year full-time hire, starting at $2,000/mo, month-to-month.
Great fit if you run 2+ active jobs at a time, already have a bookkeeper posting transactions, see revenue rising while cash stays unpredictable, finish jobs unsure where the profit went, or need a clean WIP for bonding or a bank line of credit.
Probably not the right fit if you're a solo operator on one job with no bookkeeper yet, you need day-to-day bookkeeping or data entry, you're looking for tax prep, or you want a full-time controller on your payroll. Above $20M with multi-entity complexity? Reach out — those engagements are scoped custom.
We review your setup — books, software, active jobs — and tell you honestly what's missing and where you're at risk. Zero obligation. 45 minutes.
We connect read-only to your existing software — Procore, Sage 100 & 300, Plexxis, QuickBooks, Foundation, Viewpoint — and set up job tracking and WIP templates. Most clients are fully live within 18 days.
Reports, alerts, and a monthly call to review everything together. Better decisions. Margins improve. Cash stops being a mystery.
Book a free consultation. We'll look at your jobs, your WIP, and your cash position — and tell you honestly what we see. No pitch. No commitment. Just a clear picture of where you actually stand.
No credit card · No commitment · No contract ever · You talk directly to Brian