Tools for Construction Subcontractors.
BENCHMARKS BY TRADE.
Gross margin, overhead rate, and net profit for 48 trades across 7 revenue bands, each with real-dollar translation for your own revenue.
Gross margin, overhead, and net profit side by side for all 24 SPM trades at a glance. The place to start.
48 trades, 7 revenue bands. What's left after direct job costs, before overhead. Enter your revenue for real dollars.
48 trades, 7 revenue bands. Most subs bid 10 percent while running 18 to 28. See what every point costs you.
48 trades, 7 revenue bands. What survives after gross margin pays overhead. The number that actually pays you.
BILLING & BIDDING CALCULATORS.
The three numbers that decide whether a bid protects your cash or quietly bleeds it.
What to bill on your first pay application so mobilization and early cost do not bleed your cash before the job even gets going.
The extra markup you need to carry a pay-when-paid contract without floating the GC's cash flow problem yourself.
The single most common bidding error in construction. See exactly how markup and margin diverge as your target percentage climbs.
COST & CAPACITY CALCULATORS.
Turn your own overhead, equipment, and balance sheet numbers into a real answer.
The true daily, weekly, and monthly cost to own and operate a piece of equipment, so idle days stop eating your margin.
Enter your actual staffing, facilities, insurance, and software costs. See your real overhead rate in 60 seconds, not the 10 percent you've been bidding.
Single-job and aggregate bonding capacity from working capital, equity, and current ratio, before your surety tells you the number.
Upload your financials and get a 13-month dashboard: revenue, margin, overhead, net profit, and working capital, benchmarked against your trade.
TEMPLATES & TRACKERS.
Ready-to-use spreadsheets for the documents lenders, sureties, and GCs actually want to see.
SOV structuring guide plus a 48-trade example library, non-round percentages that actually sum to 1.0000.
The lender-ready WIP format SPM hands directly to sureties and banks. Contract value, CiE/BiE, percent complete, auto-computed.
One log for RFIs, submittals, change orders, drawings, POs, and to-dos, with Status, Aging, and Cost Risk built in.
The exact spreadsheet SPM uses with clients to see 13 weeks out instead of just this week. Built for subcontractor billing cycles.
Civil, excavation, grading, sitework, underground utility, demolition, paving, concrete, concrete flatwork, masonry, structural steel, SWPPP/erosion control, electrical, framing, waterproofing, EIFS/stucco, drywall, insulation, marine, fiber, telecom, flooring, security system, and interior contractors.