Know your margin before you send the invoice, not weeks after
Field Forge tracks the real cost of every job as it happens — labour hours, materials, and expenses — against your estimate, so you can see the profit on a job while you can still do something about it.
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24
Active Jobs
12
Quotes Sent
£28.4k
Revenue (MTD)
7
Scheduled Today
Job Pipeline
£1,185
Avg Job Value
+8%
32%
Profit Margin
+2%
£4,220
Outstanding
3 invoices
Recent Activity
Boiler service completed at 14 High St
Quote #Q-0047 sent to Apex Build Ltd
Invoice #INV-0093 paid: £1,820
The problem it solves
You find out if you made money weeks later
The job finishes, the invoice goes out, and only when the last supplier bill and timesheet land do you learn whether it was profitable. By then the next three like it are already priced the same way.
Labour and materials leak margin quietly
An extra half-day here, a materials price that crept up there. None of it is dramatic, but across a year of jobs the gap between quoted and actual is where the profit goes.
Your estimates never improve
If actual costs are not captured against the job, you can never compare them to what you quoted, so every estimate repeats the last one’s mistakes instead of learning from them.
How it works
- 1
Start from the estimate
When a quote converts to a job, its costed lines carry across as the estimate. Every job then tracks estimated cost against actual cost in one place, so the baseline is set from the numbers you actually quoted.
- 2
Actuals build up as work happens
Engineers’ logged hours are valued at their hourly cost and flow into the job’s actual labour cost. Materials, expenses, and — where enabled — approved supplier-invoice costs post against the job as they are incurred, so the picture updates through the job rather than at the end.
- 3
See margin live and act on it
A running summary shows estimated vs actual cost and the resulting margin while the job is open, so an overrun surfaces in time to have the conversation, add a variation, or adjust the next quote. Every figure is calculated deterministically — the AI never edits a cost.
What you get
- Estimated vs actual cost tracking on every job
- Labour hours valued at hourly cost, fed from time tracking
- Materials and expenses captured against the job
- Live profit-margin summary while the job is open
- Estimate carried over automatically from the accepted quote
- Purchase-order and supplier-invoice costs bridged onto job actuals
- Deterministic figures — AI proposes, the system calculates