Make payroll. Know your costs. Keep your profit.
Job costing, project management and CRM for trade contractors, on the QuickBooks Online you already use.
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Make payroll. Know your costs. Keep your profit.
No migration. No big price tag. No trap.
Job costing and QuickBooks are always on. The rest is your call.
Turn off the part you already have, and we connect yours. The price is the same whether you use one module or all of them.
| The job | Use CFOS | Or keep yours | What lands on the job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Books, bills and payroll entries | QuickBooks Online, required | Not an option | Everything is read from and written to your QuickBooks file |
| Job costing, budgets, WIP, over and under billing | Always on | Not an option | Job cost by cost code against the estimate |
| Leads, bids and follow-ups | CFOS bid pipeline | Your CRM | A won bid becomes a job with its contract value |
| Estimating | Import your estimate as the budget | Your estimating software | The estimate becomes the job budget by cost code |
| Change orders, T&M, RFIs and dailies | CFOS project management | Your project management software | Change orders and committed cost on the job |
| Time tracking | CFOS time entry | Your time clock app | Hours by job and cost code |
| Payroll and labor burden | Through QuickBooks Payroll | Your payroll company | Labor dollars with burden on each job |
| Photos and daily reports | CFOS dailies with photos | Your photo app | Photos and notes on the job |
| Pay apps and retention | CFOS billing, G702 and G703 | Your billing software | Billed to date and retention held |
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#1 Best Seller in Construction Industry on Amazon
8 Steps
60 Days
The financial operating system for commercial subcontractors from $1M to $100M. Built from 1,008 published data points and the projects behind them.
CONTROL is an 8 step system for managing a commercial subcontracting business on numbers you can see. Each step fixes one breakdown, from job cost structure through to the monthly cadence. They work in sequence, and most owners install all 8 inside 60 days.
The system, in order
What does industry average look like for your trade and your size?
48 trades, 7 revenue bands, 3 metrics. Pick your trade and put in your revenue.
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What people who read it early said
Contracting isn't easy, and in my early days I made it much harder than it needed to be. But Josh's practical approach—and his proven track record—put simple but powerful concepts in the hands of construction owners. Concepts that, if put in place, will dramatically change the arc of your enterprise—and your life. As I read this book, I thought out loud (and also asked Josh): where were you in the mid-90s when I was struggling to get off the ground and gain altitude?!?! Reading this book and following its concepts is almost guaranteed to make you a more capable contractor.
I wasn't expecting a finance book to hit this close to home. What sets this book apart is that it doesn't stop at diagnosing the problem. Josh gives you real, usable solutions pulled straight from the field, not generic advice, but the kind of guidance that comes from someone who's actually been in the trenches with owners like us. I could barely put it down. It took me right back to when I was building my own crews, facing the same struggles so many of us face when we simply don't know what we don't know. This book doesn't just tell you what's broken; it gives you a way to fix it, regardless of whether you just started or have been doing this the same way for decades.
Know the industry average and the CFOS target for your trade and size? Now see how your own books compare. The Financial Health Snapshot builds a CEO Report from your last twelve months, sets every figure against your trade, and walks you through it on a 60 minute call. SPM The Construction CFO (Sulphur Prairie Management, LLC) is a separate firm, and the same author leads it.
Josh Luebker is a master electrician and former commercial construction project manager who now handles the finance side for contractors. He managed more than 150 projects worth over $2.1B, then founded SPM The Construction CFO (Sulphur Prairie Management, LLC), an outsourced finance and CFO firm for subcontractors doing $1M to $12M. He is the author of CONTROL: C.F.O.S. Construction Financial Operating System, a #1 Amazon bestseller in Construction Industry and Home Improvement Estimating, and publishes free benchmarks for 48 trades at https://runoncfos.com. More at https://constructioncfo.net.
Run On CFOS owns the benchmark reference behind these figures. Gross margin and overhead come from the figures CFMA, Jones Maresca and other sources publish, and Run On CFOS computes net profit as gross margin minus overhead, before taxes. Every edition is checked against the newest CFMA and JMCO releases before it publishes here. Where a figure changes between editions, the older edition keeps its year in the title so a citation to it stays correct.
Within 48 hours of its October 1, 2026 release the book ranked on Amazon:
- #1 in Construction Industry
- #1 in Home Improvement Estimating
- #9 in Financial Accounting
Captured October 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM Central.