Job tracking for contractors

Every job, every dollar, one screen.

Built for small contractors looking to grow — margin and schedule flags are automatic, five minutes a week to maintain.

No spam. A few emails as we build, then a heads-up when it's ready.

MarginKept job board showing every active job with automatic On Track, Watch, and At Risk flags
The problem

Excel can't watch every job at once. You end up finding out too late.

01

Jobs slip because nobody's watching all of them at once.

Fifteen tabs, fifteen job folders, one PM. Something's always a week behind before anyone notices.

02

Margin fade shows up 45 days later on the WIP report.

By the time the report tells you a job's bleeding, the money's already gone.

03

Repeat work goes to whoever called the customer first.

No system means no follow-up — and no follow-up loses jobs you already earned.

How it works

One screen. Every job. Flags that set themselves.

Real screens from the working prototype.

Every job, one screen.Health status flags itself — WATCH or AT RISK, with the reason attached.
MarginKept job list showing On Track, Watch, and At Risk flags on active jobs
Automatic health rules.Margin under 10%? Behind schedule? MarginKept says so before you have to ask.
Expanded job card showing margin, schedule position, and the reason it's flagged
Next call, sorted.Jobs rank by days since you talked to the customer. Top card is your next call.
Jobs filtered and sorted by days since last customer contact
Company rollup.Backlog, blended margin, and billings — one view for the whole book of work.
Company view showing backlog, blended margin, monthly billings chart, and workload by PM

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Why I'm building this

I've spent my career running mechanical and industrial projects — estimating, managing jobs, and closing out the ones that go sideways. MarginKept isn't a guess at what contractors need. It's the tool I wanted on my own jobs: one screen, no manual flags, no digging through a WIP report to find out the margin's already gone.

— Josh, MarginKept

Want in early?

We're onboarding a small group of contractors before general release.