Most contractors don't find out until it's too late — after the hours ran over, the materials blew the budget, and the cheque's already been cut. Dashpot tracks your time, materials, and costs while the job is still happening, so you're in control instead of catching up.
You quote a job with a number of hours in your head — then have no way to track whether you're on pace or bleeding time. Your guys text you their hours, scribble them on paper, or just tell you on Friday. By the time you know a job ran over, it's done and the money's gone.
Timesheets lets you set an hours budget per job and see exactly where you stand while the work is still happening. Your crew logs time in 30 seconds from their phone — no app to download, no password to remember. When payday comes, you export a clean CSV and upload it straight to your payroll system. No retyping, no math, no chasing guys for their hours on Thursday night.
You set a budget for materials at the start of a job — then have no idea where you stand until the invoices pile up. Your guys text you what they need, half the messages get buried, and nobody's tracking what anything costs. You find out you blew the budget when your accountant tells you.
Material Tracking gives you a live picture of what you've spent on materials against what you budgeted — job by job, in real time. Every request is captured with a cost, every delivery is tracked, and you can see exactly where your material budget stands before it's too late. Your bookkeeper gets a clean CSV export ready for your accounting software.
One job that runs over by 20 hours at $85/hour is $1,700 gone. One material budget that blows by $2,000 because nobody was tracking it is $2,000 gone. That's not a bad month — that's a normal one, for a contractor without visibility.
Dashpot is $120 CAD per month. Every tool. Your whole team. No per-seat fees, no modules to unlock, no surprises. That's $4 a day — less than a coffee — to know exactly where every job stands.
Most contractors make it back on the first job they catch before it runs over.
You're good at what you do — framing houses, renovating kitchens, pouring foundations. Running the business side is a different job, and most software makes it harder, not easier.
I started Dashpot because I was the small contractor trying to stay above water. Lost material requests that cost me tens of thousands. Quotes I forgot to follow up on. No idea whether a job made money until it was long over. I looked for a tool simple enough to actually use on a job site and couldn't find one — so I built it.
Dashpot is built for contractors doing $2M–$10M a year who don't have time to learn software, don't want to pay for features they'll never use, and just need to know where they stand.
Each tool solves one problem and solves it completely. No bloat, no training manuals, no consultant to set it up.
Your crew uses phones, not laptops. Everything runs on any device, loads fast on bad cell service, and takes seconds to figure out.
$120/month covers everything — all tools, unlimited people, no tiers.
You'll reach a real person who understands construction. No ticket queue. No three-day wait.
Proudly Canadian
We're a small Canadian team. We understand Canadian construction - the weather delays, the supplier relationships, the way things actually work on the ground.
When you work with Dashpot, you're working with people who get it. Not a Silicon Valley startup that's never set foot on a job site.
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