Finally know what that job actually made you.

The problem

You finished the Henderson job on a Thursday. Collected $4,200. Felt decent. Two weeks later you're looking at your bank account and it doesn't add up.

You spent $900 at the supply house. You drove out there three times — twenty miles each way. You ran two hours over because of drywall that wasn't square. And you gave them a deal because they're a repeat client.

You made something on that job. You think. Probably.

That's how most contractors have been running their business for twenty years. They feel profitable. They find out they weren't when tax season hits.

Why we built it

Every contractor we talked to knew their revenue. Nobody knew their actual margin. The number that matters — what you kept after every cost — was either buried in QuickBooks or just missing entirely. We wanted it on one screen, instantly, in plain language.

How it works

After you log a job in DIRT — materials, hours, mileage, any other costs — the job detail screen shows you two numbers:

1. 1 Net profit: what you actually kept. Revenue minus every cost you logged.
2. 2 Effective hourly rate (EHR): net profit divided by hours worked. If you rate yourself at $75/hr and your EHR came back $48, the job underperformed. If it came back $110, that job type is worth quoting again.

Big green number means you made money. Red means you bled it. No spreadsheet. No accountant. You see it before you send the invoice, so you can catch problems while you can still fix the price. (Example figures — your numbers will vary.)

What changes for your business

Over a year, the contractors who track EHR job-by-job raise their effective rate faster than the ones who guess. You stop repeating the jobs that bleed you.