Layer takes a trade contractor from the blueprint to the last invoice. Measure the drawings, price the scope, run the crew from their phones, and watch actual cost land against the estimate while the job is still open.
The job is one thing. Layer keeps the drawings, the crew and the money attached to it, so nobody rebuilds the story from three apps and a spreadsheet.
Draw the takeoff on the plan sheet. The same measurements price the estimate, shape the crew sheet and set the target the health meter is judged against.
Foremen run the day from a phone: who is on which scope, for how long, with the photos to prove it. Time lands on the scope the moment it is logged.
Actual cost per square foot against the estimate, per scope, updated every day. See the plaster running hot while there is still time to move people.
Seven steps, one record. Each one hands the next exactly what it needs.
Every quantity is drawn on the sheet it came from, tagged to a scope and a level, and stays clickable for the life of the job.
The takeoff becomes an estimate without retyping. Your service items, loaded labour rates and material prices do the arithmetic.
Foremen get a crew sheet for the day, not a timesheet at the end of the week. Hours land on the scope they were spent on, and photos become evidence attached to the job.
Because hours land on a scope and material comes from the book, Layer knows what each scope actually costs every day. Not at the end of the month.
Scaffold, forms and gear are tracked by item, by location and by job. Rental contracts bill monthly from what is actually out.
The safety binder lives with the project it belongs to. Workers' tickets, daily forms and the documents an inspector asks for are one tap from the crew sheet.
Nothing is trapped. Payroll, rental billing, estimates and invoices go out as files or straight into the books.
Layer is being built with a small group of trade contractors on real jobs. Access is by invitation, and a person reads every request.
No self-serve sign-up. We set up your company, invite the first owner, and they invite the team.
Pilot terms are agreed per company. Submitting a request does not create an account.
No. Layer runs in the phone's browser and installs to the home screen from there, with push notifications. There is nothing to find in an app store and nothing for IT to manage.
A plan set as a PDF and a job you are about to run. Takeoff happens in the first sitting. Crew sheets start the day your foremen sign in on their phones.
No. Layer is the job side: takeoff, estimate, field time, cost and rentals. Estimates and invoices push to QuickBooks Online, and payroll and billing leave as exports.
Roles and capabilities are set per company. A foreman sees the crew sheet and the job; the office sees pricing, health and billing; a client sees only the portal link you send.
On Layer's servers in Canada, backed up daily. It is yours: export it any time as CSV or XLSX.
Terms are agreed per company during the pilot. There is no public price list yet, and nothing is charged on a request.
Tell us about the work you want to run on Layer. A person reads every request. If it fits, we set up your company and invite the first owner.