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A work tracker for general contractors

The goal: Finish jobs on schedule and on budget, with every crew working safely and every piece of equipment where it's needed.

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, project managers and safety leads at general contracting firms

What it looks like for general 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

Jobs on scheduleActive jobs whose current milestone is on or ahead of the baseline date.Assumption: Baseline is the schedule agreed at contract; approved change orders move it.

Cost to complete vs budgetProjected final cost against budget, per job.Assumption: From the latest job-cost report; committed costs included.

Shift inspections doneScaffold and fall-protection checks logged before the shift, as a share of shifts worked.Assumption: Counted from daily logs; a missing log counts as not done.

Cards on the work tracker

Get the competent person's scaffold check logged before Monday's shiftSite superintendent · due Mon · Job: Riverside clinic
Return the idle rented excavator or move it to the next jobEquipment manager · due Wed · Excavator R-12
Update the cost to complete after the steel change orderProject manager · due Fri · Job: Elm Street retail

Records you already keep

Job-cost reports
Daily logs and inspection checklists
Equipment lists and rental agreements
Subcontractor schedules

Assets in the register

Job sites
Owned and rented equipment
Crews and foremen
Subcontractors

Questions your team can ask Bifrost

Which jobs are behind their baseline, and by how many days?
Which rented equipment sat idle for more than five days last month?
How many shifts started without a logged scaffold check 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 general contractors

What the records have to show

Each employee on a walking or working surface with an unprotected side or edge six feet or more above a lower level must be protected from falling by a guardrail, safety net or personal fall arrest system.Source: 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1), Duty to have fall protection
Scaffolds and their components must be inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift.Source: 29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3), Scaffolds
OSHA's "Focus Four" construction hazards are falls, caught-in or -between, struck-by and electrocution.Source: OSHA, Construction Focus Four training

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

Does this replace our construction management software?

No. It reads your job-cost reports, logs and equipment lists and puts the goals, the actions and the weekly review in one place. Keep the tools your field team already uses.

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 general 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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