Hours you find out about at closeout
Labor is the number that kills an electrical job, and it shows up in accounting weeks after the foreman knew.
Construction // AI for electrical contractors
AI for electrical and fire alarm contractors: labor against estimate on every job, without chasing foremen.
How an electrical contractor uses AI: labor hours against estimate per job, WIP without the spreadsheet, license and certification expiry alerts, and a phone that always gets answered. Omadli Group, Boston.
Works on Procore, Sage, QuickBooks, BuildOps, ServiceTitan. Nothing gets replaced.
How do electrical contractors use AI to track labor against estimate?
Electrical contractors use AI to see labor hours against the estimate on every open job without chasing foremen for numbers. Omadli Group connects the time data already in Sage, QuickBooks, isolved, or Procore to the estimate and the cost codes, refreshes it on a schedule, and puts an agent on it that flags the job whose hours are climbing against plan while it is still recoverable, not at closeout. The same data layer produces the WIP report with over and under billings, tracks license and certification expiry by electrician with alerts before a lapse, and matches crews to jobs by certification and location so nobody is double-booked. For the phone, Vickie answers 24/7, books inspections and service calls, and routes emergencies to the on-call electrician; FireGuard, the live demo agent at (978) 717-0012, is a fire alarm service receptionist. Omadli Group is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a dashboard averages about 18 days to go live.
AI for an electrical contractor, at a glance
| Labor vs estimate | Hours against plan per job and cost code, from Sage, QuickBooks, isolved, or Procore, flagged when they drift. |
|---|---|
| WIP | Over and under billings and estimate to actual, on a schedule, no spreadsheet. |
| Licenses and certifications | Expiry alerts per electrician; crews matched to jobs by certification and location. |
| Phones | Vickie books inspections and service, routes emergencies to on-call. Live fire alarm demo: (978) 717-0012. |
| Systems | Sage, QuickBooks, isolved, Procore, BuildOps, ServiceTitan, Microsoft 365. |
| Time to live | About 18 days to a dashboard; 22 days for Vickie. |
The problem
What goes wrong in a electrical office today.
Licenses expire quietly
A journeyman's license lapses, a tech lands on a job without the certification it needs, and the schedule breaks.
Inspections need a phone answered
The inspector or the facility manager calls while the crew is in a ceiling.
Three uses
What AI does for electrical contractors, in order of payoff.
01
Labor vs estimate, weekly
Payroll hours joined to estimates and cost codes; the agent flags drift while the job is open.
02
License and certification tracking
Expiry alerts and crew matching by certification, location, and availability.
03
Emergency routing
Vickie qualifies the call and routes true emergencies to the on-call electrician, day or night.
Your software
Which systems does this connect to for electrical contractors?
Each one has its own page: what we pull, three automations, and how write-back works.
| Software | What it holds | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Procore | Project management for general and specialty contractors: budgets, commitments, change orders, RFIs, daily logs. | Procore with Omadli |
| Sage | Sage 100 Contractor, Sage 300 CRE, and Sage Intacct Construction: construction accounting, job cost, payroll. | Sage with Omadli |
| QuickBooks | QuickBooks Online and Desktop: accounting for smaller contractors, often with job costing done in classes or in Excel. | QuickBooks with Omadli |
| BuildOps | Service and project management for commercial HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical contractors: dispatch, service agreements, quotes, job costs. | BuildOps with Omadli |
| ServiceTitan | Field service software for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical service companies: dispatch, memberships, pricebook, invoicing. | ServiceTitan with Omadli |
What the work finds
One proof point.
On one construction company's open jobs, labor in one trade sat $326,168 over budget while another sat $372,955 under, so the company total read healthy and neither was corrected until the data was split by trade. Amounts identified, not recovered.
Questions electrical owners ask
Straight answers.
Use the hours you already collect. Omadli joins payroll or time data from isolved, Sage, or QuickBooks to the estimate and cost codes in Procore, BuildOps, or Sage, reconciles it to closed jobs, and refreshes weekly. An agent flags the job where hours are running ahead of percent complete and names the PM. No new data entry for foremen.
Yes. Omadli builds license and certification tracking with expiry alerts, and manpower scheduling that matches jobs to crews by certification, location, and availability, so a tech never lands on a job without the card it needs.
No. Omadli connects read-only to the systems you already run and builds on top of them. Nothing gets replaced, and your team keeps working where they work today.
A dashboard averages about 18 days from kickoff to live, measured across our builds. Vickie, the AI receptionist, goes live on your number in 22 days. The Automation Blueprint that comes first is priced from $5,000 per scope.
Omadli Group is based in Boston, Massachusetts, meets Greater Boston contractors in person, and delivers builds and agents remotely for contractors across the United States.
Where to start
Three ways in.
Other trades
Bring one job that lost money.
A 30-minute call with Zulfiya Forsythe, CPA. We look at how the numbers moved between your systems and tell you what to build first.