Case Study
The Construction Group
From spreadsheets to a unified platform. In two months.
The Challenge
The Construction Group is a retail fixture installation company. National footprint. 50+ workers in the field at any given time. Projects spanning every major retail chain you've walked into.
When we met them, they were stuck at levels 2 through 4 on the progression. Spreadsheets for labor forecasting. Manual purchase order processing. Inventory tracked by memory and phone calls. Scheduling that lived in someone's head. A dozen disconnected tools that didn't talk to each other.
The operations worked. They'd been working for years. But the manual overhead was enormous. Every project manager spent hours on administrative tasks that should have taken minutes. Information moved through the company at the speed of email. Decisions were made with incomplete data because pulling complete data took too long.
What We Built
A unified operations platform. 182,442 lines of production code. 93 database tables. 12 integrated modules. Over 100 pages of interface. Built in approximately two months by one person.
The Modules
Project Management
Labor Forecasting
Purchase Orders
Inventory Management
Scheduling & Dispatch
Financial Tracking
Vendor Management
Reporting & Analytics
Worker Management
Client Portal
Document Management
AI Operations Agent
The Results
125x
Labor forecast speed
25 seconds to under 200 milliseconds
30x
PO processing speed
15–30 minutes to 30–60 seconds
60x
PO generation speed
2 hours to 2 minutes
98%
Inventory accuracy
Up from 85%
96%
On-time delivery
Up from 82%
95%
Labor utilization
Up from 78%
40–75 hrs
Manual work eliminated
Per week
$555K–$1.1M
Annual value generated
Conservative to full estimate
The Compounding Effect
Month 1
Core platform live. Team onboarding. Immediate wins in PO processing and labor forecasting. The system is learning the company's patterns.
Month 12
AI agents know every workflow. Automated monitoring catches problems before they surface. The system has observed thousands of decisions and understands the business at a level no single employee does.
Month 24
Institutional knowledge is embedded in the technology. The system doesn't just support operations. It drives them. The competitive advantage is permanent. A new competitor starting from zero cannot close this gap.