What automations are you building? · Construction Contractors Hub

What automations are you building?

Been heads down building out our full back-office automation stack at Ferguson Brothers and figured I'd share what's actually running (and what's still in progress).

The three streams I'm working on:

Stream 1 — Field time cards → productivity metrics Crew submits time cards in the field → routes into Notion → mapped against our cost code unit table → surfaces productivity rates by trade/task. Goal is to know our actual labour productivity so I can estimate from real numbers, not guesswork.

Stream 2 — Billable receipts → job costing Any receipt that belongs on a job goes through a shared Google Drive folder structure (one folder per job) → automatically routed into JobTread as a cost → tagged and coded → shows up in the budget instantly. No more manual entry at end of week.

Stream 3 — Overhead receipts → QBO direct Company expenses (materials, tools, subs that aren't job-specific) bypass JobTread and go straight to QuickBooks. Keeps the books clean without cluttering job records.

The backbone of all three is Claude + JobTread MCP — Claude has live read/write access to JobTread so I can query job data, build estimates, review budgets, and push records without switching screens.

Still building but the architecture is pretty much locked. Happy to go deeper on any of it.

What are you building?

(written with the help, guidance and tutelage of Claude).

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