Budget tracking and material logs for small site managers – simple, under $30/mo
Small construction business owners are burdened by Procore's high costs and excessive complexity for project management with teams under 10 people.
SiteLedger tracks materials, expenses, and budgets in one dashboard for tiny construction firms. Scan receipts, log deliveries, and forecast overruns without Procore's enterprise pricing. Keeps owners profitable with instant variance reports.
Small construction business owners managing teams under 10 people
Receipt OCR scanning + auto-categorization, hyper-focused on cost control for solo-to-10 teams
professional/edgy
Project budgets vs actuals visualization
Log deliveries, usage, and remaining stock
Camera OCR for receipts and categorization
PO management and payment logs
Notifications for budget overruns
Project remaining cost projections
Simple progress billing
PDF/Excel budget summaries
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | Yes | |
| company_name | text | Yes |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| owner_id | uuid | No |
| total_budget | int | No |
| current_spent | int | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| project_id | uuid | No |
| vendor | text | No |
| amount | int | No |
| category | text | No |
| receipt_url | text | Yes |
| date | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| project_id | uuid | No |
| item | text | No |
| quantity_delivered | int | No |
| quantity_used | int | Yes |
| cost_per_unit | int | No |
Relationships:
/api/projectsList budgets
/api/expensesAdd scanned expense
/api/materialsLog material delivery
/api/dashboardBudget variances
/api/reportsGenerate export
10 expenses/mo
None
None
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 60 | 6% | $105 | $1,260 |
| Month 6 | 350 | 14% | $1,400 | $16,800 |
Track materials, scan receipts, stay under budget – Procore power without the price tag.
Target Reddit r/Construction 'budget tips' threads with free audits. Cold email 30 owners from Yelp construction pages. Partner with local supplier for referrals.
Integrations
Cost-focused features buried
Budget-first, OCR edge, tiny price
Job costing
Complex for small teams
Simpler scanning, lower cost
Aggregated cost data for benchmarking small projects
Inflation hits materials hard; AI OCR mature and cheap
OCR accuracy varies
Manual edit fallback, improve with user data
Receipt privacy
GDPR compliant, local storage option
Success: 90% want scanning
Success: 80% accuracy self-reported
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