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Run the whole company from one screen. Get your evenings back.

Hardpan connects every call, dollar, machine and crew hour, then puts AI to work on it. More jobs won, every job priced from real cost, and nothing waiting on you at 9 p.m.

Cedar Works Overview: Needs attention, Active jobs, Leads and Money ahead.
Needs attentionIt tells you what needs you
Money aheadCash you can act on
Calls by sourceWhich ads became jobs

Works with what you already run

Right now, you're the system.

The Sunday-night spreadsheet.
Leads re-typed from voicemail.
The QuickBooks catch-up.
“What did that job actually make?” Still no answer.

Hardpan is the layer that was missing. You stop being the glue.

Know what every job actually made.

Hours × burdened rate, materials, machine time and fuel against what was collected. Margin per job, not per year.

Ridgeline site prep, $86,400 contract: margin $32,280 at 37%, recorded cost $54,120, collected $60,000 and remaining $26,400.

Know what a day actually costs you.

A skid steer might cost $550 a day to run. The company behind it costs another $500: insurance, trucks, the shop, the office, the loan payments. Most contractors estimate from the first number. Hardpan shows you the full number, built from your actual spend, so you bid from cost instead of hope.

Company day rate: $1,870 per day, made up of machines $780, labor burden $640 and overhead $450.

See which marketing dollar became a job.

Call or text → lead → estimate → won → paid, by source. Answered-live rate.

Leads with first-time callers, estimates booked, work won, calls by source and answered-live rate.

Cash you can act on.

Bank feeds, Jobber payments and the drafts you already know about, in one forecast. Budgets that measure against real spend.

Finances Overview cash in bank, coming in, going out and Next 14 days.

Every machine tracked.

Hours, idle, fuel and location from your machines' own telematics (Cat VisionLink). Cost per hour, per machine. Which one is losing money sitting idle. Loan drafts already in the forecast.

CAT 308 engine hours, idle, fuel rate, jobsite location and engine-hours chart.

A crew that runs itself.

GPS-verified clock-in on their own phone, one tap. Photos and receipts land on the right job automatically. Hours ready for payroll. No timesheets.

Crew Home with Today and the Clock in control.Oak Ridge job with photos and saved receipt.

Your crew doesn't learn a new system. They tap Clock in.

Hire and onboard without the paperwork.

Applicants sorted by fit, W-2/1099 documents, agreements signed on the phone.

Hiring pipeline with applicants in New and Contacted, fit ratings, experience, Call and Pass.

The AI you keep hearing about. Already set up for a company like yours.

You don't need a consultant, a prompt, or a month to figure it out. Hardpan runs a team of AI agents built for this trade. One reads every call and text and turns it into a lead. One matches deposits to invoices. One watches the machines. One screens applicants. Each does the grunt work, then hands you the decision. Nothing changes in your business until you tap Confirm.

  1. Connect your invoicing, your bank and your machines.
  2. Hardpan reads everything that comes in.
  3. It proposes the lead, the match, the classification, the plan
  4. You confirm in one tap. It learns from what you chose.
Review queue proposes matching a Willow Creek deposit to an invoice, with Confirm match and Dismiss.

Ask it anything.

It has read every job, invoice, deposit, machine hour and text in your business, and it gets sharper the longer it runs.

Advisor answers what is still pending from last week’s invoices, with invoice and bank-deposit evidence chips.

Built in the field.

Built by people who are in the business.

We know the pains because they were ours first. We run our own company on Hardpan, every day.

Running every day at a multi-crew excavation company. Not a demo.

Your books stay where they are. Hardpan is the intelligence layer on top.
Every bank transaction gets matched to a receipt, a job and a machine as it clears, so month-end is a review, not an archaeology dig. Your accountant keeps QuickBooks. The forty 'what was this?' questions every month stop.

The operating system for contractors who run fleets and crews.

Who it's for

Built for contractors who run fleets and crews: excavation, land clearing and forestry mulching, grading and site work, hauling, septic, paving, utilities. Runs on Jobber and QuickBooks today. On something else? Tell us what you run. The integrations are custom.

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Early-access pricing: one flat monthly price per company. No per-seat fees for your crew.

Want to see it running on a real company first? Talk to the founder →