Your Single Source of Truth for Every Survey Job

The Problem: Job Details are Everywhere and Nowhere at Once

A project’s information is scattered across spreadsheets, notebooks, and email threads. The crew in the field can’t find the control points from a job done last year. The project manager doesn’t know if the job is over budget until it’s too late. Bidding on new work is a guessing game because you can’t easily reference the actual costs of similar past projects.

When your job data is disorganized, you waste billable hours, make costly mistakes, and leave money on the table.

The Solution: One Place for Every Job Detail

Job Book’s Job Database is the central hub for all your project information. It’s a clear, simple, and powerful system designed to give everyone in your firm—from the field to the office—access to the data they need, right when they need it.

It connects every piece of the puzzle: the client, the schedule, the crew’s time, the budget, and the final invoice.

How This Helps Your Firm

• ✅ Track Everything in One Place: Store job status, legal addresses, PO numbers, accounting codes, rate sheets, client terms, and notes—all tied directly to the job.
• ✅ Connect to Your Existing Files: Link jobs directly to your folders in Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or SharePoint. Give field crews instant access to the files they need, right from their phone.
• ✅ Monitor Job Profitability in Real-Time: See your budget “burn” as work happens with live updates from Daily Work Records, not weeks later when you’re doing invoicing.
• ✅ Find Past Jobs Instantly: Use the integrated Job Map to see all past and current jobsites. Quickly locate previous work, and site details to plan more efficiently.
• ✅ Standardize Your Bidding & Billing: Assign specific rate sheets to jobs or clients, ensuring every proposal and invoice is consistent, accurate, and profitable.
• ✅ Unlock Powerful Insights with Smart Filtering: Use “Job Scopes” (e.g., Topographic Survey, Construction Layout) and “Categories” (Energy, Municipal, Residential) as powerful tags. Filter, search, and run reports to understand exactly where your most profitable work comes from.

Why Job Book’s Job Database is Different

Other project management tools are generic. Job Book is built from the ground up for the specific, demanding workflows of land surveying and engineering firms.

• Geospatial at its Core: We don’t just have address fields; we have a Job Map. Visualizing where your work is, both past and present, is a fundamental part of our system.
• Flexible for How You Work: Our system handles the billing types you actually use: Time & Materials (T&M), Fixed Price, and internal non-billable jobs. Customize job numbers to match your company’s format—use prefixes for estimates (E26-01-021-A) or any system you prefer.
• Connects the Field to the Office: When a crew member fills out a Daily Work Record on their phone, the data (hours, equipment, materials) immediately updates the job’s budget “burn.” This gives project managers a live view of job costs.
• Data That Improves Your Bids: By tracking actuals against estimates, you build a historical database of true job costs. This feedback loop is critical for creating more accurate, competitive, and profitable bids in the future.