Built by a crew, for crews
Every back office program we could buy assumed you'd be sitting down managing the work. We built one for the folks leading from the front.
We couldn't find what we needed
So we bought three programs and used a slice of each one, off-label, until we had a workflow that held together. Keeping it standing took real effort, and even then it was serviceable, not good. Nothing we were paying for had been built for a crew that spends its day on site.
Your next hire shouldn't be a bookkeeper
Orthodox Masonry is a small crew with no office staff — the people running the business are the people on the wall. We were at the pinch point every shop this size hits: the more meaningful work we wanted meant running the business in an orderly way, and standing up that much overhead instead of hiring another craftsman was the sticking point. We didn't want to make that trade.
Craft translates
If you spend your working life as an exacting craftsman designing beautiful things, it turns out that carries over to making other things — software included. There is a language of well-appointed craft and design, and it doesn't stop at the edge of the trade you learned it in.
So we built it
When someone with software experience joined the crew — in this new era where AI has put custom software within reach of a small shop — we took the chance to bake the workflows we'd honed over the years into one system. It integrates every tool we needed and supersedes the ones we'd been renting: field-focused, robust, structured but flexible, a whole-company platform that works for everyone from the guy running the compactor to the guy running payroll.
— The Orthodox Masonry crew