Grow your profit margin by 20%. Or stay stuck, frustrated, and wasting time.
You decide.
We’ve seen leaders like you break free from the cycle of frustration—and it all starts with small, purposeful steps.
We can show you how and guide your team there. We’re confident because we’ve been there already.
Let me explain…
A look back on 2024
2024 was the year where the magnitude of the harnessing data opportunity came into sharp focus for Aedo. A modest cohort of growth-oriented leaders – trailblazers – were the early beneficiaries. Several of these leaders declared Aedo to be a “forever partner”.
Our intent is to double-down on the concept and playbook of data-powered construction for many years to come. Creating a community of growth-oriented forever partners.
A look at 2024 by the numbers:
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~50 construction companies streamline the flow of the operations data through Aedo on a monthly, weekly, and sometimes daily basis.
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The most frequent data flow is the movement and transformation of time card labor data to payroll – typically eliminating 1–5 days of manual, low-value, and error-prone data work. Annualized benefit for these companies: $15,000-$75,000.
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Many of our clients have taken advantage of the improved availability of this labor data to get better insight into their business: weekly operational overviews, absenteeism management, and lunch and break compliance (avoiding the 6-figure fines that some companies have been hit with).
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Improving the quality and availability of project insight has created major benefits for dozens of our clients. Examples include:
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Quantifying and pricing change-orders: $500,000 annualized savings plus the operational benefits of the dramatically improved change order turnaround times.
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Weekly T&M tag reporting: reducing data-entry efforts by 2 days per week and providing accelerated fidelity into project activity.
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Internal equipment management reporting: where a self-perform company realized they were inaccurately charging project and poorly managing equipment utilization.
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Monthly safety reporting: eliminating 40 hours of manual report development and providing weekly and daily on-demand safety information.
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Self-perform project monitor: improved the performance of the “real-time” monitor from a 4 hour to a sub-10 minute refresh.
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Streamlining and synchronizing field, project, and finance systems to ensure that everyone is operating off the same information.
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Improve WIP reporting and streamlining client billing processes.
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These are just a few proof-points from the past year. Each can be assessed in terms of bottom-line financial impact. And the benefits continue to accrue for these companies with each improvement, year after year.
We demonstrated how to do this “back of the envelope” impact assessment in our 30-minute workshop right before holidays. I’d invite you to check it out – once you understand the simplicity of the Impact Horizon assessment, you can’t un-see the “alchemy of construction data”.
What we learned, and why it matters to you:
Through the work with our clients, we had a number of “ah ha’s!” that fundamentally shifted our approach to working with Aedo clients:
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Construction has a technology problem. A dilemma. We’re stuck in a quagmire. And you can’t solve a technology problem with technology.
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The “fallacy of integration”. Everyone is talking about it. Nobody really understands what it means. Integration as a desired outcome is going to disappoint. Trust me.
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In IT (Information Technology) it’s the “I” that matters, not the “T”. Turning data – “the new oil” – into information that has a benefit and impact is the point.
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Impact and benefit are measured in $$. Creating business outcomes – not technology outcomes – is the objective.
A couple of big “so what’s” from this:
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We envision the emergence of a new function or role inside construction companies focused on harnessing data to create measurable, bottom-line expanding impact: Construction Information Operations or CIOps.
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We’re evolving the Aedo offering to assist in identifying, quantifying, and capturing our clients’ business improvement opportunities.
Our vision for 2025: Aedo as your on-demand CIOps partner, helping drive continuous business improvement with the technology you already have in place.
Think of CIOps as your operations team’s secret weapon, ensuring your data works as hard as your people do.
What if your business could turn every $1 invested into $3 of additional profit? How much would you invest?
That’s not a pipe dream—it’s what Aedo clients are already achieving by making their data work harder than ever. The secret? Small, focused improvements that eliminate inefficiencies, free up your team’s time, and deliver insights that create tangible bottom-line results.
In 2024, we worked with companies who captured over $50,000 (often significantly more) in measurable impact in just two months.
Imagine repeating that six times a year. That’s the start of a compounding cycle—one that can expand your profit margins by 20% or more.
No new tech. No major overhauls. Just unlocking the full potential of what you already have. It’s not about fancy software or grand plans. It’s about solving the right problem, one step at a time.
Every day spent stuck is another day you’re leaving money on the table. Let’s stop that cycle and start building momentum—together.
Or let 2025 be another year of missed opportunities while others move forward.
Stuck, lamenting technology, wasting your team’s time and breaking their spirit wrestling with trapped data, and wishing for better information.
Calling the Trailblazers
Let’s get after it. Together.
Harness your data and get it powering your construction operations.
Small changes, starting now, create big results. The second-best time to plant a tree is today. When is the right time to start building your momentum? Every day spent stuck is another day your profit margin stagnates.
The choice is yours.
Ready to make 2025 the year you grow your profit margin by 20%?
Start today. Let’s talk about how small, focused changes can lead to big outcomes for your business.
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