Your project managers are running jobs
and assembling reports at the same time.
Construction is a margin-thin, schedule-critical business. The difference between a profitable project and an overrun is often the quality of information reaching your team, and how quickly it gets there. When your PMs are spending hours each week pulling data from disconnected systems, they are not managing the job. They are managing the reporting.
LVRGWRKS builds the automation and integration layer that connects your field, finance, and operations data so the right information reaches the right people without anyone having to compile it manually.
Where construction companies lose margin they do not have to lose
Most construction companies in Alberta are running their projects on a combination of project management software, accounting software, spreadsheets, and email chains that do not talk to each other. The field team captures data in one place. Finance lives somewhere else. Subcontractor communications happen in a third system. And your PM is manually bridging all of it.
The cost of that manual bridging is not just labour hours. It is the delay. By the time a cost overrun surfaces through the manual reporting cycle, the window to correct it has often closed. The damage is already done.
Cost overruns discovered too late
When job cost data lives in disconnected systems, overruns appear at month-end reporting rather than when they can still be managed. The job is over before the numbers tell the story. Real-time cost tracking against estimate changes this completely. Your PMs know where they stand on every active project, every day.
Subcontractor coordination overhead
Scheduling, dispatch, compliance documentation, and communication with subcontractors happens across phone calls, texts, and email. At small project volumes this is manageable. As you scale, it becomes a full-time coordination job that produces no value, just status updates that should be automatic.
Reporting that consumes PM time
Project managers are the most expensive operational resource in a construction company. When they spend a significant portion of their week assembling progress reports, compiling cost summaries, and chasing status updates, the cost is not just the hours. It is the job-site attention that is not happening while they are at their desk.
Systems that give your team the information they need without asking them to compile it.
LVRGWRKS builds custom automation and integration systems for construction and general contracting companies across Alberta and Western Canada. We connect your existing tools, your project management platform, your accounting system, your field reporting tools, into a unified operating layer. No rip-and-replace. No new platform your team has to learn. We build the connections between what you already have.
Real-time job cost tracking
Live cost-to-date against estimate for every active project, updated automatically as field data, labour entries, and purchase orders flow through your systems. Overruns surface when they are happening, not at month-end. Your PMs stop compiling cost reports and start managing costs.
Subcontractor coordination automation
Scheduling, dispatch notifications, document collection, compliance tracking, and communication logs, automated and centralized. Your office team stops chasing subs for certificates and updates. The system handles the coordination and surfaces exceptions that need human attention.
Field-to-office data integration
Daily field reports, labour hours, equipment usage, and progress updates flow automatically from the field into your project management and accounting systems. No manual entry. No re-keying. One source of truth for the entire project, updated in real time.
Project leadership dashboards
One view of every active project, schedule performance, cost performance, resource utilization, and critical issues, updated automatically and available without anyone having to build a report. Leadership sees the full picture. PMs get to manage instead of report.
Alberta construction is not a generic market
Alberta construction operates across extreme weather conditions, complex labour agreements, demanding procurement environments, and regulatory requirements that differ from every other Canadian market. Your operating system needs to reflect that reality, not a generic playbook built for a different context.
LVRGWRKS was founded in Calgary and works with construction companies across Alberta and Western Canada. We understand the operational pressures of this market, the margin compression, the labour availability challenges, the documentation requirements from owners and regulators, because it is the environment our clients operate in every day.
We work with general contractors, specialty contractors, and civil construction companies ranging from 20 to 250 employees. If your team is busy but the business is not moving as fast as you need it to, that gap is where we work.
General Contracting
Multi-trade coordination, subcontractor management, owner reporting, and project cost control across concurrent projects.
Specialty Contracting
Crew dispatch, materials tracking, compliance documentation, and labour productivity reporting built around your specific trade.
Civil and Infrastructure
Equipment utilization tracking, daily quantity reporting, contract compliance, and progress billing automation for large-scale civil programs.
Construction Operations Questions, Answered
Can we integrate Procore and our accounting system instead of replacing them?
Usually yes, and that is almost always the cheaper answer. Most construction companies in this band run a project management system, an accounting system and a set of spreadsheets that were never designed to talk to each other. The cost is not the software. It is the hours your project managers spend reconciling them. We build the layer that connects what you already have. Rip and replace is the most expensive answer to this problem and it is rarely the right one.
Why do our project management and accounting systems show different job costs?
Because they were built to answer different questions and nobody decided which one is right. A project system tracks committed cost and percent complete. An accounting system tracks what has been invoiced and paid. Change orders are where the two usually part company, because profit gets calculated differently on each side. The fix is not picking a winner. It is deciding which system owns which number, then making the handoff between them automatic so the answer stops depending on who you ask.
What is a proper invoice under Alberta's prompt payment rules?
It is a defined list of contents, and getting it wrong means the payment clock never starts. Under the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act a proper invoice carries your name and business address, the invoice date, the period the work covers, a description of the work, the amount, the payment terms, the payee's name, title and contact, and a statement declaring it a proper invoice. Proper invoices are due at least every 31 days. Once an owner receives one they have 28 calendar days to pay, and 14 calendar days to give notice if they dispute it. Downstream is where most systems come apart. You pay each subcontractor within 7 days of being paid, but if the owner pays nothing and gives no notice you still owe your subcontractors within 35 days of that invoice going in, whether you were paid or not. Every one of those is a date a system can track from the moment an invoice is created. Most companies this size are tracking them by eye.
Source: Government of Alberta, prompt payment rules for the construction industry. Summarised as at August 2026. The Act was further amended effective 1 April 2025. General information only, not legal advice, and not a substitute for it. Confirm the current requirements and get advice on your own contracts before relying on this.
How much does construction process automation cost?
Engagements run $4,500 to $8,500 per month, capped at $8,500, with no upfront fee and no hardware cost. The retainer is set at roughly a third of the annual value the work creates, so the starting point is what reporting and coordination overhead is costing you across your active projects. The Leverage Audit puts a number on that in 60 minutes, before you commit to anything.
More questions answered on the LVRGWRKS FAQ, including how we price against value rather than hours, what happens to what we build if you stop working with us, and what the first 60 days actually look like.
What would real-time project cost visibility change for your business?
The Leverage Audit maps your current workflows, quantifies the cost of your manual reporting and coordination overhead, and gives you a clear picture of where automation investment makes sense.
60 minutes. No cost. No commitment.
Request Free Leverage AuditOr email directly: jredgate@lvrgwrks.com