The daily report, written once.

Timesheet, cost sheet, payroll and invoice all follow from it. Nobody types it again.

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Big Dog OS shift-to-invoice flow: WhatsApp reports waiting at the shift boss review step, with Remind and Reassign

Big Dog OS on a phone: WhatsApp shift reports coming in to the flow

What happens today

The foreman writes it on paper at the end of a 12-hour shift.
The office types it into a spreadsheet, then calls him back because a line is blank. He has gone home, so the question waits until tomorrow.
Someone lines up the daily, the timesheet and the cost sheet, person by person. 8 plus 1.5 plus 1 plus 1.5, make sure it hits 12.
The same numbers get keyed into payroll and the invoice.
Every retype is a chance to drop an hour you worked.

What happens with Big Dog

Sent.The crew sends the daily the way they already do. A voice note, a photo of the paper sheet, a text.
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.
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.
Billed.The hours land on the invoice draft. Click any billed hour and see the daily it came from.
Known.By morning you see it: what got done, what it earned, and what needs you.

Written once. Typed zero more times.

This is the foreman's whole part: a photo of the page and a voice note, on WhatsApp, from the truck. Big Dog asks back the same night, while he still remembers.

22:31

Big Dogonline

Today

Night shift daily, Rig 422:14

0:2422:15

Got it. How many hours on the 336 for the ditch work?22:16

3.522:29

Thanks. Daily complete. The hours are on the invoice draft.22:31

Message

See which step is slow, who it is waiting on, and what it is holding.

The company flow in Big Dog OS: one step is slow, and it is in Operations — **Flow**One step is slow. It is in Operations.

A night shift report for Rig 4 checked line by line against the rig log — **Matched**Night shift, Rig 4. Matches the rig log.

One project open in Big Dog OS: seven shift reports wait on the shift boss, holding 38,400 dollars of invoicing — **Held**7 shifts wait on Dale. $38,400 cannot invoice until he signs.

Phone: the flow stuck at the shift boss, with Remind and Reassign — Stuck at Dale. The rest flows.

Phone: reassigning the waiting reports to another shift boss — Reassign the reports in one tap.

Phone: the night shift report that matches the rig log — Night shift, Rig 4. Matches the rig log.

Phone: every project, and the two that need you — 50 projects flowing. 2 need you.

What changes

Supervisors stop retyping and start checking.
Questions get asked the same night, while the crew still remembers.
Every billed hour links back to the daily it came from, so disputes end fast.
Your numbers are a morning old, not a day or a week.

The return

Get your supervisors back on the job.

Up to 20 hours a week of their time goes to paperwork. Put in your own crew size and see what your reporting chain costs you every week, in hours and in dollars.

Work out your number Reporting Chain Cost tool. Every equation cited.

20hA week, per supervisor, can go to retyping the daily into the timesheet, the cost sheet and the invoice.
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

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Ten years of writing dailies, and how we fixed them.

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.

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