Improwork
An outside office for trades and industrial firms

We do your office paperwork. Your people stay in charge of it.

Invoices, work orders, POs, certificates and the week's numbers, handled inside the QuickBooks, Sage or job software you already run. Nothing posts until someone in your office says yes.

Pick a time for the free lookSee what it costs

For firms that have ever posted an ad for an office administrator, a bookkeeper or a dispatcher:

Plumbing and HVAC Electrical Roofing and installs Builders and general contractors Machine shops and fabricators Distributors
What we do

Six jobs an office does by hand. We take the typing out of each.

01

Paperwork into the books

Supplier invoices, work orders and POs land in QuickBooks or Sage as a row, with the vendor, the job and the amounts filled in and the original attached. Approving takes a minute. Typing took ten.

02

The dispatch board and the books agree

A job closed in Jobber, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro or Procore becomes an invoice the same day, not at month end.

03

Certificates, clearances and permits

Insurance certificates, WCB clearances, tickets and permits tracked from the documents themselves, flagged weeks before they expire.

04

Getting paid

Who owes what, by job, built from the work orders, with reminders on a schedule you set that stop when the cheque clears.

05

The week's numbers

Billed, collected, owed and margin by job on one page every Monday, from the books you already keep.

06

The files

One folder standard for jobs, vendors and crew paperwork, the drive cleaned up once, every document findable by job number.

Every firm starts with one of the first three, the one costing the most hours, built on your own paperwork. The rest come one at a time, after the first has paid for itself, if you want them.

How it works

Same paperwork, same software, no more typing

Nothing new for the crew to learn and nothing to replace.

The document arrives the way it does now. Email, PDF, a photo from the truck, or paper.

It lands where it belongs, as a row with the vendor, the job and the amounts filled in and the original attached.

Someone in your office checks it and says yes. The row shows which document it came from.

You see the week on one page. Who approved what, and the numbers that used to wait for quarter end.

What it costs

Said next to the number it replaces

The ads trades firms write themselves on Job Bank put an office administrator at $46,000 to $58,000 a year before payroll costs. Most of that pays for typing.

The free look comes first. Then a first working version on your own paperwork, free, before you decide anything. After that, half on start and half once your office has run two weeks the new way. Never hourly.

One piece of the office, built and running (for example, supplier invoices into the books)$1,500 to $10,000
A full build across two or more pieces of software$4,000 to $15,000
Keeping it running, with the Monday numbers page$750 to $4,000 a month
Pay per document instead, where the volume suits it$1.50 to $4 each
Who you are dealing with

Someone who has done this inside a big office

Improwork is run by Matthew Ogunsemi. Before this he spent a year and a half fixing paperwork processes inside a national retailer's operations: the same supplier invoices, POs and matching, at a much larger scale. He does the work himself. You talk to him, not a project manager.

Improwork is new, and we say so.

The first firms get the first working version built on their own paperwork for free. In return we ask to publish what it cost per document and how accurate it was, so the next firm sees real numbers instead of promises. When those numbers exist they will be on this page.

Straight answers

The questions owners ask first

Do you replace our bookkeeper or office person?

No. They approve every entry and keep the judgment calls. What goes is the re-typing.

Which software do you work in?

QuickBooks and Sage for the books; Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Procore and Buildertrend for jobs; Excel, Google Drive and SharePoint for the rest. Something else? Say so on the call.

What do you not do?

Estimating and takeoffs, answering your phones, and your marketing. Nothing needs us on site; it all runs inside the software you already have.

The free look

Twenty minutes on how paperwork moves through your office

  • Not a sales call. We ask where the hours go and listen.
  • If there is an obvious quick fix, we say so and you keep it.
  • If the problem is real, you see a first working version on your own invoices before you decide anything.

Pick a time on the calendar

Or send a note with the form and Matthew replies within one business day. Prefer the phone? Call or text 708-677-7152, or email mogunsemi@improwork.com.

One reply, within one business day. No newsletter, no follow-up sequence.