Labor hours automation
Labor hours automation: paid vs standard hours, job by job
Labor hours automation compares the hours paid on each job with its standard hours, step by step, so you can see where the extra hours went. It looks at jobs and processes, never individual employees, and our AI agent only reads.
- Proposed
- Switched on by your team
- To a person
Why labor hours are hard to compare
Hours come in on time sheets, shop sheets and whiteboards, and standard hours sit in the routing or the estimate. Comparing the two job by job means pulling both by hand, so it often waits until month end or never happens.
- Hours written on paper, then keyed into a system later
- Standards in routings and estimates nobody revisits
- Overruns found after the job is closed and invoiced
- Setup, run time and rework that can’t be told apart
An example · Labor hours
From time sheets to paid vs standard hours by job.
- Today
Compared by hand, if at all.
- Sum
Hours summed by step, never by person.
- Compare
Paid against standard, step by step.
- Review
Setup ran 6.5 hours over. A person looks.
Example workspace · fictional data
Book a call with the foundersNot a customer result.
The automation compares.
Your team decides.
Paid hours are compared with standard hours on every job, step by step. It reports by job, step and team, never by named employee, as our security page promises.
The automation
- Reads hours posted to each job
- Looks up the standard in the routing or estimate
- Compares paid and standard hours by step
- Flags the biggest gaps
Your team
- Jobs over standard by more than your limit
- Standards that look out of date
- Hours that don’t match a job or a step
- What a gap means, and what to change
Common questions
It compares the hours paid on each job with the standard hours from the routing or estimate, step by step, so you can see where a job ran over.
No. It compares hours by job, step and team, never by named employee. Our reports describe processes and teams, not named employees’ performance.
No. We don’t ask for payroll, HR or bank logins. We read hours posted to jobs in your ERP, or a scheduled report of hours by job that your IT sends us.
Hours usually start on time sheets, shop sheets or a time clock and are posted to an ERP or job costing system such as Epicor, JobBOSS or QuickBooks, where routings and estimates hold the standard hours. Those are examples, not finished integrations. Our agent reads software, not paper: if your hours live only on paper or a whiteboard, tell us on the call.
It is ready for testing. We’re taking on a small number of first projects across Greater St. Louis, where we can meet your team in person. The founders read every request and reply by email.
Start with one conversation.
30 minutes with Bom and Andre, on Google Meet.
- 01You tell us where the repetitive work is.
- 02We say honestly whether we can help.
- 03If we can, we plan a free walkthrough at your site.