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The AI implementation firm for mining, heavy civil, geotechnical and drilling

Your margin is hiding in your daily reports.

We build AI systems that save time and money where it matters most. So you make more money and get your time back.

Book a callA 20-minute call. We tell you straight if AI fits.
Watch the presentationThe deck Dan shows owners. Sound on.

United States. Australia. Colombia.Ten years underground.30+ years combined.

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It starts in a wet field book.

End of a 12-hour shift. He's tired, he's wet, he wants to go home.

He writes what he did, in his own words. That page is the only record of what your crew did today.

Then the office types it again. Into the timesheet. The cost sheet. Payroll. The invoice.

Up to 20 hours a week, per supervisor, on paperwork.

A field notebook of handwritten daily report entries, wet and muddy, on a steel tailgate
  1. Timesheet
  2. Cost sheet
  3. Payroll
  4. Invoice

01 / 05 18:42

Sent.

The crew sends the daily the way they already do. A voice note, a photo of the paper sheet, a text.

02 / 05 18:51

Checked.

Big Dog reads it and asks back that night, while he still remembers. "How many hours on the 336 for the ditch work?" "3.5." Done.

03 / 05 05:10

Matched.

The daily, the timesheet and the cost sheet come from that one entry, so they agree. No more "make sure it hits 12" by hand.

04 / 05 05:12

Billed.

The hours land on the invoice draft. Click any billed hour and see the daily it came from.

05 / 05 06:58

Known.

By morning you see it: what got done, what it earned, and what needs you.

Written once. Typed zero more times.

Fix your reportingDan shows how the daily report fixes itself.

One system. Every number in one place.

Big Dog OS connects to what you already run. Nothing to rip out. Nobody learns new software.

See how Big Dog OS worksSlide by slide, the way Dan shows owners.
Big Dog OS morning view for a demo company: revenue against plan, margin, cash, and the two projects that need the owner

Morning view

Yesterday against plan, what you billed, and what needs you. Before your first coffee.

Big Dog OS flow view for a demo company: night shift reports waiting three days at the shift boss review

Flow

Which step is slow, who it is waiting on, and what money it is holding.

Big Dog OS comparing two demo projects: meters per shift, cost per meter against the bid, and margin trend

Money

Cost, margin and cash, from the daily report to the bank.

Big Dog OS safety view for a demo company: the day shift talk built from the night reports, open hazards, workplace exams and inspections due

Safety and MSHA

Incidents, inspections and your MSHA record, ready when the inspector walks in.

Big Dog OS reading a demo supplier invoice line by line, each answer lit against the row it came from

Knowledge

Ask your own documents. Every answer shows where it came from.

The same daily, two ways

One week the crew gets paid. The other, they wait.

Without

  1. End of shiftHe handwrites the daily. Wet page, 12 hours in.
  2. That nightHe emails it in, or sends a photo of the page.
  3. Next dayThe office types it in by hand. Timesheet, cost sheet, payroll.
  4. That weekThe office calls him back to check it. He is on shift.
  5. PaydayPayroll backs up. The crew doesn't get paid that week.
Ya this is a real issue we face daily.
Office manager, underground drilling contractor, Canada

With Big Dog Mining

  1. End of shiftHe sends it the way he already does. A photo, a voice note, a text.
  2. That nightIt is typed once and checked. Anything missing, Big Dog asks him while he still remembers.
  3. Next dayThe timesheet, the cost sheet and payroll come from that one entry, so they agree.
  4. That weekThe hours land on the invoice draft, with the daily attached.
  5. PaydayPayroll and billing go out on time.
Oh wow. Did it just populate all that now?
Owner, underground drilling contractor, Canada

Where the margin goes

In a bid business, you can only bid it right if you know your real cost.

Your real cost is in the daily reports. So is money you already earned and never billed.

Three things that never get billed

  1. 01Standby hours nobody wrote down.The rig waited on the client for two hours. The daily says "standby" or says nothing.
  2. 02Rental days nobody tracked.The light plant went back a week late. The invoice from the rental yard did not.
  3. 03Extra work done on a handshake."While you're here, dig that ditch." Done, never priced, never invoiced.

Big Dog OS reads every daily for all three, and puts them on the invoice draft with the daily attached.

What the retyping costs

Hours you get back. Money you stop losing.

  • up to20ha week, per supervisor, on paperworkUp to 1,040 hours a year for each one.
  • 58.3ha month of typing and compiling, for two rigs on two shiftsWhat the Reporting Chain Cost tool shows for its own example inputs.
  • $24,500a year, those same hours at $35 an hourThe same tool and inputs, over 12 months. Before a single unbilled standby hour.
Book a callBring your numbers. A 20-minute call.
Work out your ownWhat your retyping costs, from your crew size.
Try the Job Cost and Margin toolSee what each job really earns.

Built for the companies that move the earth.

Pick yours.

All industriesEvery kind of company we build for.

Three steps. You can stop after any of them.

  1. 01

    Find the money.

    A diagnostic audit of how your jobs really run. We find your three highest-return activities, in hours and dollars, from your own numbers.

  2. 02

    Prove it.

    The top one, built and running on your own server or cloud account, on your own data. You judge it on results.

  3. 03

    Run it.

    We run it, improve it and add the next one, with a mining engineer on your side. If we ever part ways, it keeps running. It is yours.

Start with step oneA 20-minute call first. Then the audit.
How we workFind the money. Prove it. Run it.

Ask us the hard questions.

Owners, finance, IT and the field have asked us all of these. Pick who you are.

All 25 questionsData, cost, crews, IT and trust.

Data and IP

Will our data train someone else's AI?
No. The AI is Claude on Amazon Bedrock. AWS states your content is not used to improve the base models or shared with any model provider. It runs in your own cloud account, not ours. AWS, Amazon Bedrock data protection
Do we end up leasing back our own know-how?
No. Everything we build lives in an account you own and pay for. Stop working with us and you keep all of it.
Where does our data live?
In your own cloud account, processed in the AWS regions we set for you. We read from where your files already are, like SharePoint and email.
Who can get in?
You, and us only through an access role you grant. Every action we take is logged. You can remove us with one click.
Is it encrypted?
Yes, in transit and at rest, with a key held in your account. Revoke the key and the data is unreadable to everyone, us included.
Do we have to hand over everything to start?
No. We sign your NDA before we see anything. For the audit you can send samples with your rates blacked out.
Do crew messages go anywhere else?
Yes, and we say it plainly. WhatsApp messages pass through Meta and the messaging provider on the way in. Once they land, they live in your account.
What can the AI reach on its own?
Only what you grant. You set the access and can change or remove it any time. A person approves every draft before it goes out.

Money

What does it cost?
A fixed fee for each step, not per seat, agreed before the step starts. What you pay up front is credited toward the retainer. We share numbers on a call, not on a website.
We were quoted a lot more elsewhere. Why is this different?
You commit to the audit first, nothing more. Cloud usage runs on your own bill, so nothing is hidden. You decide after each step.
How do we know it pays back?
The audit puts hours and dollars on three activities from your own numbers. The proof of concept measures them on your own data. You decide from results.
What if we stop paying?
It keeps running in your account. You own it.

What we already have

We already use a general AI assistant.
Good, keep it. Ours knows your reports, your jobs and the way you work, and it does the repeat work, like matching the daily to the invoice. Not just search.
We already have software for that.
We do not replace it. We connect to it so nobody types the same number twice. If a tool you own already covers the job, the audit says so.
We tried AI. Some of it flopped.
Common. Most AI never gets wired into the business. The audit finds the few places where it pays and skips the rest. You see that list before anything is built.

People and the field

Our crews will not use a new app.
They do not have to. A voice note, a photo of the paper sheet or a text, same as now.
Is this replacing my people?
No. Your people stop retyping and start checking. They get their time back for work that needs judgment. Nobody gets cut.
We are too busy right now.
That is usually the reason to start. The audit needs one project's documents and a few short interviews.
We are small.
Small is fine. If we do not see a fit, we tell you on the first call.
We are a consultancy, not a contractor.
Same problem, different paper. Inspection reports, proposals and timesheets are where your hours go. That is what we find and fix.

Trust

Why would mining people do AI?
Because we wrote the daily reports. Dan is a Virginia Tech mining engineer who spent ten years underground in Australia, the United States and Colombia. Ben spent twenty years in heavy civil, underground and mining. 30+ years combined.
Who else uses it?
We run our own companies on it, and we are building it with an underground mining contractor now. We do not name clients, the same way we would not name you. We show you the system on made-up data first.
We got burned by a vendor before.
That is why we do not sell you a software license. You commit to the audit only, you own what we build, and you see what it finds first.
What if you disappear?
It runs in your own account, so it keeps running. Lock us out and it stays yours.
IT needs to sign off.
Bring them in. We walk them through the access role, the key you hold and the log of everything we do.

We run our own companies on it first.

Head of safety, former federal inspectorHarrison Western

I've worked for them inside the government and they do not have anything like this, that's for sure.

Scott Chest

  • 10years undergroundDan wrote the dailies before he fixed them.
  • 30+years combinedDan and Ben, mining, underground and heavy civil.
  • 65+companies automatedBefore Big Dog Mining, in Dan's AI consultancy.
  • 4,871emails read and sortedIn our own companies, counted October 17, 2026.
  • about860hours of work doneSame count. Hours are an estimate from minutes per task.
  • 274,330MSHA records analyzedInjuries and illnesses across 13,514 mines, 2000 to 2026.
  • 16field toolsEvery equation cited to the handbook and page.
How we count
You guys are light years in front of me.
AJ, Kiewit
The analytics are better than I've ever seen.
Project manager and superintendent, underground drilling contractor, Canada
I've seen other systems and I really don't think that they're as good as this one has the potential to be.
Owner, underground drilling contractor, Canada
Safety wise, I definitely see the value in everything here.
Scott Chest, Head of safety, former federal inspector, Harrison Western
The fact that the AI agent can get the information for us right away is amazing.
Office manager, underground drilling contractor, Canada
It's important that we have someone that can show us how to use it. We wouldn't have been able to do this.
Owner, underground drilling contractor, Canada

Make more money. Get your time back.

Talk to the people who wrote the daily reports.

A 20-minute call. We ask how your daily report moves today, and we tell you straight if AI fits. If it does not, we say so on the call.

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We sign your NDA before we see anything.