For electrical project managers
Run the job. Not the paperwork.
Change log, chases the RFIs, and drafts the pay app — Mission diagnoses the operating constraint before prescribing the build.
Your day
You manage the job one email at a time.
Across five to ten active jobs, the management you’re good at gets squeezed between logs, pay apps, and chasing ship dates.
- Pricing, sequencing, negotiating
- Negotiating change orders, calling next week’s manpower, reading whether a job is bleeding or just billing behind, and the engineering judgment behind every RFI.
- Logging, reconciling, chasing, compiling
- Re-keying the same change into the log, the drawings, and the pay app; reconciling field hours; building AIA billing; chasing vendors and the engineer.
What it costs
The paperwork sets the ceiling on how many jobs you can carry.
Project teams lose about 35% of the week to non-productive admin. For a PM, that 35% lands squarely on the logs and the billing.
The week goes to hunting documents
PlanGrid/FMI puts non-productive admin at 35% of the work week — about 14 hours hunting documents, fixing version control, and re-keying.
You are the RFI log
Chasing the engineer for overdue answers and mirroring the GC’s log into your own Excel runs 4–6 hours a week — submittals add another 3–5.
A late pay app moves a whole billing cycle
A late or under-billed AIA pay app pushes the contractor’s payment out a full billing cycle, straining the line of credit.
Directional patterns from the trade and from operator interviews — not Mission results. Your numbers get established in the assessment.
Where the constraint often shows up
It runs the logging, chasing, and compiling. You keep every call.
The agent drafts and propagates; nothing is priced, answered, or sent without you. You stay the single throat to choke — with the busywork gone.
- Keeps the change-order log
When an RFI answer or field change lands, the agent drafts the entry and propagates it across the change log, the cost letter, and the pay-app draft — then flags it for you to price and approve.
- Chases RFIs and submittals
It watches the Procore/PlanGrid logs, drafts overdue-RFI follow-ups to the engineer and submittal nudges to vendors, and surfaces a daily “what’s stuck and aging” list. You keep the technical answer.
- Reconciles labor against budget
Each week it ingests field hours by cost code, reconciles against estimated units, and produces the percent-complete and productivity draft — flagging codes trending over.
- Assembles the AIA billing
Monthly it compiles the G702/G703 draft from cost data, the change log, and stored materials — ready for your sign-off before it goes to the GC portal.
The result
The change order gets billed. The pay app goes out on time.
The agent keeps the books current so you catch the productivity slide early — instead of finding the money already gone.
Running eight jobs out of one spreadsheet
- Changes re-keyed by hand into four places — and some never get billed.
- Labor numbers land days stale, after the money’s already gone.
- AIA billing is a monthly all-nighter against the deadline.
The log is current and the billing drafts itself
- Every field change is logged, propagated, and queued to bill.
- A weekly productivity read flags the job that’s starting to slide.
- The pay app is drafted and waiting for your sign-off.
Safe by default
Nothing is priced, answered, or sent without you.
The agent drafts, reconciles, and chases — every change order, RFI answer, and pay app waits for your approval before it leaves.
- Connected
- Works inside the tools you already run on — email, calendars, sheets, your CRM, your portals.
- Approved
- Anything risky or off-mission is held for your sign-off before it touches data or goes out the door.
- On mission
- You set the assignment once. The work stays on it for days and weeks without drifting.
- Observable
- You always have a clear view of what ran, what changed, and what needs a call — no transcript spelunking.
Manage the job, not the log.
Thirty minutes on your week, and you leave knowing what the seat is really costing.
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