Job costing right by Friday — not quarter-end.
Live margin per job. Retainage, change orders, material variance — netted in real time. You'll know which job is bleeding before the next progress invoice goes out.
- Live margin per job and per project
- Material variance flagged at invoice intake
- Retainage and change-order drift, caught early
- Cash gap forecast 47 days out, no spreadsheet
- SOC 2 Type II in progress
- Read-only. Never touches the ledger
- 5-minute setup, no IT lift
- QuickBooks · Sage 100 native
Trusted by shops, contractors, and fabricators
- Ironway
- Bedrock
- Hightower
- Carter & Sons
- Northline
- Forge
Private beta. Customer names are representative of the ICP and will be replaced with permission.
What founders ask us
“Which jobs are losing money this week, before the change order kills the margin?”
In most shops, the answer comes from the bookkeeper in the third week of the next month — long after the labor and material are gone. CentSight reads every PO, AP bill, and time entry hitting QuickBooks and tags it to the job in real time. The margin number you see Friday is the one the foreman is actually working against.
How it works
Live job costing in plain English.
Step 1: Connect QuickBooks (or Sage 100)
Read-only. No new ERP. No 14-week implementation. CentSight observes the ledger you already use.
Step 2: Every PO, bill, and timecard tagged to a job
If it has a job code, we cost it in real time. No more month-end allocation guesses.
Step 3: Margin slip caught at invoice intake
When a material PO comes in 12% over estimate, you see it Friday — not at job close.
Step 4: Forecast the cash gap 47 days out
Progress billing, retainage timing, AP terms — modeled into a real cash forecast you can stake an LOC draw against.
What shop owners get back
Margins you can act on. Forecasts you can stake a draw on.
11 hrs/wk
Reclaimed from the bookkeeper-to-foreman email chain on job status. Time the PM spends in the shop, not the inbox.
47 days
Average lead time on the cash gap — long enough to draw the LOC, not panic.
+3.2 pts
Median job-margin lift in the first 90 days, from catching material variance before it's baked in.
A founding-member case
One contractor, one quarter, three numbers.
Bedrock Builders, $14M GC. CentSight live week 2.
$112K
unbilled retainage
Found in week three, sitting against three closed projects with the owner. Invoiced and collected the same month.
+3.7 pts
average job margin
From catching material variance on three concrete pours before the next progress invoice.
$340K
credit line saved
Drawn earlier, paid down earlier, against a real 47-day forecast — not a gut call.
Customer case based on private-beta data, used with permission. Results vary by project mix, contract type, and geography.
What founders are saying
What shop owners are saying.
“I used to find out a job was underwater at close. Now I see it Friday. The next change order goes out priced right.”
Ramon Beltran
Owner · Bedrock Builders
“We found $112K of retainage the owner had aged out of mind. Paid for the year in week three.”
Holly Tran
Controller · Hightower Mfg
“Plain English. I asked it 'are we making money this week,' and it told me. That's the whole product.”
Kurt Halloran
GM · Ironway Fabrication
Common questions
Answers, before you ask.
Do you replace QuickBooks or Sage?
How do you handle retainage and progress billing?
What about change orders that haven't been signed yet?
Will this work with our chart of accounts? It's a mess.
Does it work for shops without job codes on everything?
Is founding-member pricing real?
No risk to look.
- Read-only access
- No ERP replacement
- Cancel anytime
- Your books stay yours
Stop closing jobs at a loss you didn't see coming.
Live margin, every job, every Friday. The shop runs better when the numbers keep up with the work.
No credit card. 5-minute setup. Read-only — your books stay yours.