Excavation

You are moving dirt, not pushing invoices. The software has to keep up.

Locates on Monday, trenching Tuesday, backfill Thursday, rough grade Friday. Every site has its own access challenges, utility conflicts, and soil conditions. The bid you wrote last week is based on what the site looked like from the road.

Jobkore runs from the phone. Quote on the fly, invoice from the machine, and collect online before the next dump truck shows up.

An excavation bid is dig, haul, grade, and compact — each priced.

Yards excavated is not the same as yards hauled off. Grading is not compaction. Lumping them into one price hides the work and hides the scope. Build the estimate in sections — locates, cut, haul, backfill, grade, compact — with line items and yardage under each.

The GC understands your number. The homeowner sees where the cost lives.

Change orders for what is under the dirt.

You start cutting and hit a boulder field. A buried tank. Wet clay that will not compact. An unmarked utility. These are real costs that were not in the original scope, and if you do not document them, you eat them. Write a change order against the bid with the added scope and price, get the signature, and invoice it when the work is done.

Mobilization deposit, progress draw, final at rough grade.

Equipment does not mobilize for free. Jobs run long. You bill a deposit to move in, a progress draw when you hit a milestone, and a final when rough grade is done and the inspector signs off. Pull every invoice from the same estimate so you always know what is billed and what is open.

Hank AI™ drafts the bid before the locate tickets clear.

You walked the site, measured access, photographed grade lines, and noted the soil type and obstacles. Hand those notes to Hank AI™ and in seconds the estimate is structured — locates, cut, haul, backfill, grade. Your numbers go on top. You leave the site with the bid ready to send.

Hank never invents yardage, rates, or margins. It organizes what you measured.

Paid by card or bank transfer. No platform fee from us.

Send the invoice with a payment link. Stripe processes at their standard rate. Jobkore adds nothing on top.