Sound Familiar?
You check the bank balance to know if you made money
You had a busy month but payday felt tight and you're not sure why. The bank balance tells you what happened. It doesn't tell you why.
Tax season arrives like an ambush every year
Receipts in a box, reconciliations months behind, and your accountant asking for things you can't find. It doesn't have to work this way.
You're winning more jobs but the profit isn't following
Revenue is up. Stress is up. Margin is unclear. If you can't see which jobs are making money and which ones aren't, you can't fix it.
If any of these sound familiar, you're not alone, and it's not your fault.
Most contractors never had anyone build their financial infrastructure correctly in the first place.
What I Do
Every engagement is construction-specific, flat-rate, and built around how your jobs actually work.
Keep the IRS and DOR off your jobsite
Monthly Bookkeeping & Compliance
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Clean books, reconciled accounts, and tax-ready financials delivered monthly.
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Payroll processing and compliance advisory.
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W9 management, 1099 filings.
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Sales tax & nexus advisory.
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Fast, consistent, professional communication.
Stop guessing: Know your exact profit on every job
Advanced Construction Accounting
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Bill recording and payments.
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Invoice creation and collection.
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Cash flow advisory.
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Job costing calculation.
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Work-in-process management.
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Budgeting & forecasting.
QuickBooks Cleanup
- Behind on your books? I'll rebuild your QuickBooks from the ground up and hand you a clean, organized, financial foundation
Service Packages
The Foundation Tier
Best for solo contractors and newer builders grossing up to $300k who need flawless tax compliance and clean financial baselines.
- Monthly bookkeeping and bank reconciliations
- 1099 subcontractor tracking
- Receipt management support
- Email & text support with a two-day response guarantee
The Foundation Tier keeps your compliance airtight so you can focus on the field.
The Growth Tier (Most Popular)
Best for growing contractors grossing $300k to $1.5M who need job costing and profitability tracking.
- Job Costing & Profitability Tracking
- Expanded reconciliations
- Payroll Processing
- Monthly 30-Minute Financial Review Call
This is the tier most contractors wish they'd started sooner.
The Enterprise Tier
For established contractors grossing $1.5M-$5M requiring full outsourced financial infrastructure.
- Full Controller Services
- Unlimited account reconciliations
- Advanced payroll management
- Weekly Cash Flow Forecasting
- Priority communication within 24 hours
You've built something significant. This tier protects it.
Not sure which tier fits? Every engagement is custom-quoted based on your transaction volume, active job count, and current financial health. The discovery call is free, takes 30 minutes, and you'll leave with a picture of exactly what you need, whether you hire me or not.
40 Years of Financial Clarity
A specialty contractor with more than four decades in the trades came to me in a situation I see more often than you'd think — losing money year over year with no clear explanation why, tax returns consistently filed late, and an accounting relationship that left them in the dark more often than not.
They weren't a bad business owner. They were a great tradesperson who had never had a financial infrastructure built correctly around them.
What I did: Starting from their most recent tax return as a baseline, I rebuilt their QuickBooks from the ground up — reconciling every account, establishing a clean and optimized chart of accounts, and getting every transaction properly classified. Then I built a repeatable weekly workflow covering transaction recording, accounts payable, and receipt management so the books would stay clean going forward without heroic effort every month.
Results: Their last two tax returns were filed on time — the first time that had happened in over a decade. They now have week-over-week visibility into their actual profit, are intentionally paying down long-standing debts, and are actively expanding their margins for the first time in years. Most importantly — when they have a question about their finances, they get a real answer. Not silence, not guesswork, not a call that goes unreturned.
Forty years in business is a long time to not know where your money is going. It's never too late to fix it.
REAL RESULTS
The majority of my cleanup and compliance work was completed under a professional NDA through a public accounting firm, which I honor fully. Here are two anonymized results I can share.
Two Bookkeepers In,
Still Flying Blind
A luxury condo builder came to me after two previous bookkeepers had already tried and failed to make sense of his finances.
More than halfway through one big project, he had no idea where he stood on his budget.
His situation was genuinely complex. Projects ran 12 to 24 months. He had costs flowing in from his general contractor's notoriously messy spreadsheets and bidding documents, plus a layer of costs entirely outside the GC relationship.
With investors to answer to and fortunes of his own money invested in the projects, he needed clarity.
Understanding each project’s true standing was going to take detective work, and he needed someone willing and able to do the unglamorous work of tracing every dollar back to its source. So that’s what I did.
What I did: I went through every project transaction by transaction — sorting each one into its correct category instead of accepting the messy buckets they'd been dropped into. I took ownership of the follow-up work nobody wanted to do, chasing down missing information directly with his employees, his vendors, and his associates until the numbers actually reconciled.
Results: In under three months he had Work-in-Process reporting he could finally trust — a first, after two previous attempts. The fog lifted. He could look at any project and know where it stood, not guess.
Double charges and outstanding credits were raised to his attention and he was given the opportunity to chase reimbursement for them.
Just as important, I built systems so this wouldn't happen again. Clean categorization, defined data collection points, a process that doesn't fall apart when a 12-month project hits month seven.
Forty years in business is a long time to not know where your money is going. It's never too late to fix it.
Matthew Thomas
Four years ago I was working a dead-end job at a local scrapyard, managing a team of six people — lost, but searching for work I could truly connect with.
I took a chance freelancing on Upwork while teaching myself bookkeeping, and ultimately landed a position at a public accounting firm where I spent four years training under a CPA in construction-specific accounting — cleanups, compliance, job costing, and the financial infrastructure work that genuinely changes how a business operates.
What I found in that work was a pattern. Contractors who were great at their trade — skilled, hardworking, winning jobs — were losing money they didn't know they were losing. Not because they were bad at business. Because nobody had ever built their financial infrastructure correctly in the first place.
Now I do it on my own, exclusively for construction businesses in New England.
I work with a small number of clients at a time so every engagement gets my full attention. You won't get passed to a junior bookkeeper or lost in a queue. When you have a question, I answer it.
45+ Cleanups Completed
4 Years Under a CPA