RidgelineKnows
Operations & automationThe Lowcountry to Myrtle Beach and beyond

Construction & trades.You bid it and you build it. Chasing your own money shouldn’t be a third job.

Every draw that sits an extra month is your money in someone else’s bank account — and on a builder’s margin, one kicked-back pay app or one mispriced job eats the profit from the next three. The jobsite runs all day; the paperwork waits for night. I build systems that handle the office side while you’re on the site side.

Let’s TalkHow I work
The proof, live

You will see what it saves.

Every client gets a private portal: what ran, what it saved, and the math behind the number. You will never wonder what you’re paying for. And when something breaks — things break — you see it caught and fixed, not silence.

The dashboard here is sample data. Yours shows your numbers, counted conservatively, with the arithmetic visible.

Everything’s running normally.Sample data
10.2 hrsreclaimed this month — the math behind it, one click away
~117 hrs · ~$5,600 since we started, counted conservatively
Draw package assemblySOV + waivers + photos · 1 missing waiver flagged
Field-to-books job costingLive across 5 jobs · one trending over
Punch-list routing9 items by trade · 3 closed today
Caught & fixed
Jul 3Flagged a draw package missing one sub’s lien waiver before it went out.
Jun 11Caught receipts posted to the wrong job and re-coded them.
In progressPay-app roll-forward from last month’s schedule of values
What eats the week

Sound familiar?

01
A draw gets kicked back over one missing lien waiver.
The pay app has to tie out to the penny, every sub’s waiver attached, photos included — one gap and the whole package bounces, and you wait another month to get paid. Meanwhile South Carolina’s 90-day lien clock doesn’t pause.
Common
02
You find out a job lost money after it’s done.
Hours and receipts ride around in the truck, get keyed in days later, and land uncoded. The overrun that could have been caught in week three shows up at closeout instead.
Common
03
Bids get built at the kitchen table, at night.
Plan set, highlighter, spreadsheet — then five subs to call and their numbers to line up. Hours per bid, several due the same week, and most of it spent on jobs that go to someone else.
Common
04
Punch items live on a sticky note, and your retainage waits.
Walkthrough notes get transcribed, sorted by trade, and emailed from memory. Until every item is verifiably closed, five or ten percent of the contract sits in someone else’s account.
Common
“He gave me my Tuesday mornings back.”
— Nobody yet. This space is reserved for my first construction & trades clients, and I intend to earn it.
How it works

Four steps. Clear terms.

  1. A free conversation. Phone or in person. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so and point you to someone better suited.
  2. A paid assessment. I map how your operation actually runs and write down exactly where the time goes. The document is yours to keep either way.
  3. A fixed-price proposal. Defined scope, one price, no hourly meter running.
  4. The build, and after. Built once, to fit your operation exactly. Monitored after hand-off, with a monthly plain-language report of what ran and what it saved. Automations nobody watches break silently; mine don’t.

The longer version, and the work behind it, is on the home page.

Let’s talk

A first conversation,
at no charge.

If something on this page sounded familiar, the next step is a conversation. Write a few sentences about what is going on. I’ll read it before we talk.

By phone
843-425-7030
Leave a message and I’ll return your call within a reasonable time — sometimes right away, sometimes a few hours, sometimes the next business day.
By email
hello@ridgelineknows.com
Replies within two business days.
Based in
Myrtle Beach, SC
Serving the Lowcountry to Myrtle Beach and beyond — and clients across the country.
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