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A work tracker for excavation and sitework contractors

The goal: Keep heavy equipment working instead of waiting, finish earthwork on schedule and keep every trench safe.

Say what has to get done this week and the work tracker turns it into cards: one owner each, a due date, the truck, site or machine it touches, and the goal it moves. Your team moves the cards; the weekly review reads them.

Open the free demo A fictional company in your industry, opened in the Console. No card needed.

What you see

Work Tracker in the Watch Tower Console

An illustration of the Work Tracker with sample data: one request turned into cards in To do, In progress and Done, each with an owner and a date. — Tell it what you want done this week; you get cards with an owner, a date and a next step. An illustration with sample data. The demo opens a sample in your industry.

For owners, superintendents and equipment managers at excavation and civil sitework firms

What it looks like for excavation and sitework contractors

The KPIs, cards and questions below are examples of what we set up with you. The names and units are made up.

KPIs, with the assumption behind each

Equipment utilizationHours each machine worked as a share of scheduled hours, per week.Assumption: From hour meter readings logged at day end.

Daily excavation inspections loggedWorkdays with a competent person's inspection logged before work began.Assumption: A missing log counts as not done.

Unplanned downtimeMachine hours lost to breakdowns, per month.Assumption: Counted from the breakdown report to the return to work.

Cards on the work tracker

Move the idle dozer to the subdivision jobEquipment manager · due Tue · Dozer D6-2
Set the trench box before the crew goes below five feet on the sewer runSuperintendent · due Today · Trench box TB-3
Fix the excavator's recurring hydraulic faultMechanic · due Thu · Excavator 320-1

Records you already keep

Equipment hour meter readings
Daily trench and excavation inspection logs
Job-cost reports
Fuel and maintenance records

Assets in the register

Excavators, dozers and loaders
Trench boxes and shoring
Job sites
Operators and competent persons

Questions your team can ask Bifrost

Which machines worked under half their scheduled hours last month?
On which days was a trench entered without a logged inspection?
What did breakdowns cost us in lost hours this quarter?

Bifrost answers from the records in your own workspace and shows how each number was worked out.

How it runs

Work tracker, step by step

Tell us the goal that matters most this quarter, in your words.
We set up the board with you: your people, your assets and the recurring jobs you already run.
Each action becomes a card with one owner, a due date and the assets it touches.
Every week we review the board with you: what moved, what slipped and what's next.

The barriers this crosses

Use: What exactly would I use it for? We name the specific uses by role and by industry: the decision, the calculation, the plan, the brief.
Consistency: Will this still be useful next week? We design AI into the daily system: the Console, the toolkits and the career plan people come back to, with customer success that follows up.

Rules and facts for excavation and sitework contractors

What the records have to show

Employees in an excavation must be protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system, except in excavations made entirely in stable rock or less than five feet deep where a competent person finds no sign of a potential cave-in.Source: 29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1), Protection of employees in excavations
A competent person must inspect excavations, the adjacent areas and protective systems daily, before the start of work and as needed during the shift.Source: 29 CFR 1926.651(k)(1), Specific excavation requirements
Trench excavations four feet or more deep must have a stairway, ladder, ramp or other safe means of egress within 25 feet of lateral travel.Source: 29 CFR 1926.651(c)(2), Specific excavation requirements

A summary for planning work, not legal advice. Check the source for the full rule and any state requirements.

Start

See it on a sample company first

Founding 10

$2,000 for setup and the first 3 months of Watch Tower, then $250/month. Ten places. We set up your team, goals and KPIs, asset register, map and work tracker with you, then review it with you every week.

Hardware implementation is quoted separately. Start with the demo; you can order from inside it.Open the free demo

Questions

Common questions

Do the machines need telematics for this?

No. Hour meter readings and daily logs are enough to start. If your machines already export telematics, we can read the export too.

Is this another project-management app my crew has to learn?

No. The tracker holds only the actions behind the goals you set with us, each tied to a person and an asset you already have. We add your team, set up the first cards with you and review the board every week, so nobody has to build it alone.

Can cards come from what we already track in spreadsheets?

Yes. In week 1 we take in the spreadsheets or system exports you already keep and turn the recurring jobs in them into cards, with a written list of what was there and what was missing.

What does Watch Tower cost for excavation and sitework contractors?

Founding 10 covers setup and the first 3 months in one payment, then a monthly price; the numbers are on this page and on the pricing page inside the demo. Hardware implementation is quoted separately.

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