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Five places your hours and dollars leak.

We find them in almost every company we look at. The audit tells you which three pay back most in yours.

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See the five Where the hours and dollars leak.
The company flow in Big Dog OS: bids, contracts, operations, invoices and cash, with one step slow in Operations
Phone home screen: Morning, Sam. Three need you.

In a bid business, you can only bid it right if you know your real cost. Your real cost lives in your daily reports.

When they are late, retyped or wrong, money gets counted wrong, and some of it never gets billed at all.

Shift to invoice

One daily report. Everything else follows.

Your crew sends the daily the way they already do. It is typed once and checked, and the same numbers carry through to the dashboard, payroll, billing and job cost.

  1. 01

    Big Dog OS on a phone camera: a muddy handwritten drilling shift report on a clipboard, page found

    Field input

    A WhatsApp message, a photo of the paper daily, or a file. The crew writes what they did, in their own words.

  2. 02

    The night shift report for Rig 4, matched to the rig log: 386 meters, an 11.5 hour shift and 46 crew hours, ready to approve

    Daily report

    Typed once and checked against the rig log. Your supervisor approves it instead of retyping it.

  3. 03

    The operations dashboard: Rig 7 is down, everything else is drilling, with meters drilled today, rigs drilling and crew on shift

    Dashboard

    Meters, rigs and crews on one screen the same morning, not a day later.

  4. 04

    Meters drilled, cost per meter and money owed, with five shift reports and a rig invoice waiting for approval

    Payroll, billing and job cost

    Hours go to payroll, meters go on the invoice, and every job shows its cost per meter. Nobody types it again.

The five places

  1. 01

    Daily reporting

    The daily, written once. Timesheet, cost sheet and invoice follow from it.

    The daily report, written once
    The shift-to-invoice flow with reports waiting at the shift boss
  2. 02

    Cost and margin

    Know what each job earned yesterday, not next month.

    Know what the job earned yesterday
    Two projects compared on cost per meter and margin
  3. 03

    Safety and compliance

    Records that keep themselves, ready for the inspector.

    Safety records that keep themselves
    The safety page with the day shift talk ready
  4. 04

    Knowledge

    Ask your own documents in plain words. Every answer shows its source.

    Ask your own documents
    What Big Dog learned this week, and from whom
  5. 05

    Bids

    Bid the next job off what the last one really cost.

    Bid off the last job
    A project opened to show its meters and cost

The return

Hours back. Money billed.

We run our own companies on it first. Then the audit puts hours and dollars on three activities from your own numbers, and you decide from there. Want a number today? The Field Tools work it out from your crew size and rates.

What your retyping costs Reporting Chain Cost tool. Every equation cited.
  • 20hA week, per supervisor, can go to paperwork. That is where we look first.
  • 4,871Emails read and sorted by Big Dog in our own companies.
  • ~860hOf work done in that same count. Estimated from minutes per task.

Our own companies, counted October 17, 2026.

Dan Gauerke on camera, explaining how the daily report gets fixed

Start with the daily report

Most of the leak starts in one place.

Dan wrote the daily at the face after twelve hours, then chased crews for it from the office. Here is how your supervisors get off data entry and back on the job.

Fix your reporting

Each one connects to what you already run. Nothing to rip out. Your people approve every draft before it goes anywhere.

Next step

Find out which three pay back most in yours.

A 20-minute call. We ask how your daily report moves today, and tell you straight if AI fits.

Book a call A 20-minute call. We tell you straight if AI fits.
See Big Dog OS Slide by slide, the deck Dan shows owners.

We sign your NDA before we see anything. Rather write? dan@bigdogmining.com