PAVING: THE ESCALATION CLAUSE DOT GIVES YOU AND PRIVATE WORK DOESN'T

Public versions tie pay adjustment to a monthly published liquid-asphalt index: WSDOT triggers at a 5 percent move from the base price, Ohio adjusts against its monthly asphalt cement price, and the adjustment runs both directions. The private-work fix is carrying the same structure into your own bids: a dated AC price basis and an index-tied adjustment clause.

Yes, as its own division. Crack seal, striping, and sealcoating run different crews, margins, and sales cycles, and they're the recurring counterweight to a seasonal paving calendar. Blended books hide whether the annuity is funding the iron or the iron is starving the annuity.

Three tiers, and which one you are in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. Core is where you stop guessing: job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a monthly meeting that ends in decisions, while your bookkeeper keeps doing the books. Executive is where you stop touching the books, because we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Strategic is where every job shows its margin while it is still running, because the job costing and WIP platform is set up and managed for you. No payroll. No scope gaps.

Sixty days. We migrate your books back to the start of your last taxable year, set up ControlQore, and build your job costing structure from scratch. Fully operational in two months.