For public-works electrical and specialty contractors
Win the low bid.Keep the margin.
WorksPro prices your bids from your own production history and competitor bid tabs, tracks every job against that bid from the foreman's phone, and builds the pay estimate from field quantities. Built for signal, lighting, EV charging and underground contractors who are done running the company on Excel.
30 minutes, on your own bid and one live job. In pilot now with a Southern California contractor.
The Command Center · live component, sample data
Built for
- Traffic signals
- Street and roadway lighting
- EV charging
- Fiber interconnect
- Ramp metering
- Underground utility
What changes
Excel got you here. It will not tell you which job is fading.
The numbers already exist: the bid, the foreman's hours, the quantities, the payroll. They just live in different files. WorksPro connects them.
Today: A dozen spreadsheets and a gut feel for how the company is doing.
With WorksPro: One screen: backlog, projected margin, productivity, over/under billing and cash tied up in retention.
Today: Bidding blind: last job's unit prices plus a markup guess.
With WorksPro: Bid from your own hours per unit and the winners' range from public bid tabs, item by item.
Today: Fade discovered at closeout, when it is too late to fix.
With WorksPro: Caught weekly. Labor at 58% spent on a job that is 40% complete flags the week it happens.
Today: Pay estimates retyped from the foreman's notes every month.
With WorksPro: Built from approved field quantities through the cutoff, with retention worked out.
Today: The certified payroll scramble at the end of every month.
With WorksPro: WH-347 PDF and CSV exported from the same timecards the foreman already sent.
One system
From the bid to the last retention check.
Six modules that share the same jobs, cost codes, crews and prices, so nothing gets typed twice.
- 01
Owner Command Center
Five numbers for the whole company, then the jobs that need you this week.
Learn more - 02
Bid engine and bid-tab intelligence
Price the agency's item schedule from your own production history and every competitor's bid tab.
Learn more - 03
Foreman field app
A two-minute daily report on the foreman's phone: hours, quantities, photos and the toolbox talk.
Learn more - 04
Job cost, WIP and fade
Earned hours, productivity factor and projected margin per job, updated every week.
Learn more - 05
Pay estimates and retention
Monthly pay estimates built from approved field quantities, with retention tracked to release.
Learn more - 06
Prevailing wage and compliance
Wage determinations, apprentice ratio, deadline reminders and certified payroll export.
Learn more
Bid engine
Most bids are lost on five items.
Public bid results list every bidder's price for every item. WorksPro imports them and shows the winners' range while you price, next to your own hours per unit from closed jobs.
- Your actual hours per unit beside every bid unit
- Winners' range per item, with stipulated and allowance items left out
- Indirects allocated on purpose, not spread evenly
- What-if markup against your last comparable bids
#14Signal standard foundations (8 EA)
Winners $34k–$41k · You $148k
#222" PVC conduit, 1,850 LF
Winners $52k–$63k · You $55k
#27Wire pull, conductors (LS)
Winners $41k–$52k · You $49k
#31No. 5 pull boxes (22 EA)
Winners $24k–$31k · You $27k
What-if markup · last 10 comparable bids
At 8% markup you would have been low on 6 of the last 10 comparable bids.
Sample data
Bid margin
14.0%
Projected
10.9%
Fade
-3.1 pts
Budget spent by cost type · marker = % complete
Man-hours: planned, earned, actual
Sample data
Job cost and fade
See the fade at week six, not at closeout.
Earned hours from installed quantities, actual hours from the field, PF by cost code. When labor runs ahead of the work, the projected margin moves the same week.
0.82
PF on this sample job: 82 earned hours for every 100 worked.
−3.1 pts
Fade from 14.0% bid margin, caught in week six.
Field app
A daily report the foreman finishes before he leaves the yard.
Hours by person and cost code on a tap grid, quantities per bid item, photos, toolbox talk, signature. About two minutes for a crew of four. It saves on the phone and sends when there is signal.
- Crew prefilled from the schedule
- Hours past 8 roll to overtime
- Extra work flagged the same day
- Field crew without logins are always free.
Pay estimates and compliance
Bill what the field installed. Export what the DIR asks for.
Approved daily-report quantities fill the monthly estimate through the cutoff. The same timecards carry classification and apprentice hours, so certified payroll is an export, not a project.
| Item | Contract | Prev. | This period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62" interconnect conduit | 1,850 LF | 760 | 220 | $8,360 |
| 8Pull box (No. 5) | 22 EA | 10 | 4 | $2,880 |
| 11Signal standard foundation | 8 EA | 2 | 2 | $9,400 |
| 15LED luminaire, 135 W | 18 EA | 0 | 6 | $7,140 |
- Work this period
- $27,780
- Retention (5%)
- −$1,389
- Amount due
- $26,391
Sample data
How it works
Bid, win, build, bill, learn. Then bid again, sharper.
Each step hands its numbers to the next, and the last one feeds the first.
- 01
Bid
Price the agency's item schedule from your hours per unit and the winners' range on every item.
- 02
Win
Record the bid results. A won bid becomes a project with its budget in one click.
- 03
Build
Foremen send hours and quantities from the field. PF and fade update every week.
- 04
Bill
Pay estimates fill from approved quantities. Retention tracks to release.
- 05
Learn
Closed jobs become production history for the next bid.
Every closed job makes the next bid sharper
Built around the rules
California public works, already in the math.
5%
Retention cap on most California public contracts
PCC 7201
60days
To release retention after completion
PCC 7107
1:5
Apprentice hours to journeyman hours, per craft
Labor Code 1777.5
$10k
Sub-listing floor, or ½% of the bid if greater
PCC 4104
5days
Working days to give notice of a bid mistake
PCC 5100–5110
Who it's for
Self-performing contractors who win public work by low bid.
Pricing
Priced by seats. Published on this page.
Annual billing gets 2 months free. Field crew without logins are always free.
Crew
$299/ month
$249 a month billed annually
10 users included
Run every job against its budget, from the field report to the pay estimate.
Contractor
$599/ month
$499 a month billed annually
30 users included
Everything in Crew, plus the tools that win the next bid and keep your surety happy.
Enterprise
Custom
For larger and multi-division contractors
Custom user count
For larger contractors with several divisions, custom roles or an integration to build.
Questions
Straight answers.
Including what WorksPro does not do yet.
Something else? hello@workspro.agntc.io
What is WorksPro?
WorksPro is job cost and bidding software for electrical and specialty contractors who win public work by low bid: traffic signals, street and roadway lighting, EV charging, fiber interconnect, ramp metering and underground. It covers bids, the foreman's daily report, job cost and fade, pay estimates, retention and prevailing-wage compliance, and replaces the spreadsheets most of that lives in today.
Who is it for?
Self-performing contractors, usually 15 to 100 people, whose work comes from public bid boards: Caltrans, counties, cities, transit agencies and school districts. The owner, PMs, estimators, the office and foremen each get their own view. It is not built for general contractors managing a roster of subs.
What does it cost?
Crew is $299 a month with 10 users. Contractor is $599 a month with 30 users and adds the bid engine, bid-tab intelligence, certified payroll export and WIP reports. Enterprise is custom. Annual billing gets 2 months free ($249 and $499 a month). Field crew without logins are always free.
Does WorksPro file certified payroll with the DIR?
No. WorksPro tracks wage determinations, classifications and apprentice hours, and exports certified payroll as a WH-347 style PDF and a CSV. You review it and file through DIR's eCPR system and any portal your agency requires.
Does it replace my accounting system?
No. WorksPro is the job and bid side. Actual costs come in from your accounting system or payroll as an Excel or CSV import, mapped to job, cost type and cost code. A QuickBooks sync is planned for Phase 2.
Do my foremen need a phone app from the store?
No. The field app runs in the phone's browser and can be added to the home screen. Drafts save on the phone, and reports queue when there is no signal. Only the foreman needs a login. Crew members on the report are free.
Can I bring my old bids and jobs?
Yes. Item schedules paste in from Excel, actual costs import from CSV or Excel, and you can import historical bid tabulations, including bids you did not submit, to seed the competitor ranges.
Is WorksPro live?
WorksPro is in pilot with a Southern California public-works electrical contractor as of October 2026. Demos are open. Items marked Phase 2 on this site are planned and not in the product yet.
Bring one bid and one live job. We will show you both in WorksPro.
30 minutes, on your own bid and one live job. No slides.