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We work where the earth gets moved.

Nine kinds of company. One problem: the numbers start on paper in the field and arrive late in the office.

  1. A drill jumbo drilling a round at an underground development heading, lit by its work lights 01 Mining contractors Three sheets lined up by hand until they hit 12. The daily is the only entry. The rest agrees.
  2. An open pit at first light, haul trucks climbing the ramp past the benches 02 Mine operators Contractor invoices you check by hand, or take on trust. Every line traced to its daily before you approve it.
  3. Bridge piers and girders going up over a fresh earthworks corridor at dusk, an excavator and crane at work 03 Heavy civil Handshake extra work that never makes the invoice. Blank T&M hours asked about that night, then billed.
  4. An exploration drill rig on a hillside at night, the mast lit by its own work lights 04 Drilling Delay codes translated by hand, then checked again. Meters and delays coded the same way, every shift.
  5. Core trays of split drill core on a bench in a core shed under a work lamp, a rock hammer and hard hat beside them 05 Geotechnical A full day to draft one inspection report. A first draft in your style. The engineer checks and signs.
  6. Inside a segment-lined tunnel, rail and vent duct running to the lit back-up gantry of a tunnel boring machine 06 Tunneling Advance and support logged at the heading, seen a day late. Each shift's advance on one screen by morning.
  7. A wheel loader feeding a jaw crusher in a hard-rock quarry, a stacker building a stockpile of crushed stone 07 Quarries and aggregates Tickets, plant hours and downtime that rarely agree. Tons made, sold and billed, matched each morning.
  8. Dozers pushing fill across a graded building pad in low evening light, survey stakes in the foreground 08 Earthworks Rental days that arrive on a text and never get billed. Every rental day billed. Yards against plan each morning.
  9. Two engineers leaning over mine plans and cross-sections on a site office table at night, hard hats and a scale ruler beside them 09 Engineering and consulting Hours in one place, the project budget in another. Hours against budget, and reports to check and sign.
Same industry, different business

Three ways to get paid. Three different jobs for us.

  1. 01Mine operator

    Gets paidby the tonne

    • Tonnes
    • Cost per tonne
    • Compliance

    Uses us forContractor invoices checked against the dailies, production against plan by morning, and MSHA records in one place.

    Mine operators

  2. 02Contracting firm

    Gets paidby the hour and the job

    • Billable hours
    • Change orders
    • Margin on each job

    Uses us forThe daily written once, then the timesheet, cost sheet and invoice follow. Extra work caught the night it happens.

    Mining contractors

  3. 03Engineering consultancy

    Gets paidby the hour, per person

    • Billable hours by person
    • Project budgets
    • Reports

    Uses us forHours by person against each project budget, and a first draft of every report from the notes, photos and past reports.

    Engineering and consulting
  • 10years underground (Dan)
  • 20years in heavy civil (Ben)
  • 30+years combined

Dan spent ten years underground. Ben spent twenty in heavy civil, underground and mining. We know what your daily report looks like because we wrote them.

Back on the surface

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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Watch the presentation The deck Dan shows owners. Sound on.
How we work Find the money. Prove it. Run it.

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