Construction labor cost consulting
That starts with labor costs built from real payroll data. Accurate, by job, every pay period.
300+
Implementations
The number that hits your P&L is the same number that left your bank account.
Observation 01
They know what last week cost. Not at month end — every pay period. Labor flows to the job as it happens.
Every tax, every benefit, every deduction is included. The cost on the job matches the cost that left the bank.
The P&L is not a project someone builds. It runs automatically as a byproduct of how the business already operates.
Most job costing captures gross wages. Taxes, benefits, and workers comp are real costs that leave the bank account every pay period — but they never make it to the job. Every margin calculation and every bid is built on that incomplete number.
Even when the data is right, the P&L is usually something someone builds at month end. By the time the numbers are ready the job is finished and there is nothing left to do about it.
Both problems have to be solved at the same time. Complete data and a P&L that runs automatically every pay period.
The methodology
Your payroll system already knows the true cost of every hour worked. Keeney Advisory connects it to your jobs — fully burdened, correctly allocated, without anyone touching it.
Payroll runs. Every tax, benefit, and deduction calculated precisely.
True cost of labor — fully burdened — applied to each employee.
Costs flow to the right jobs automatically, by employee and work type.
P&L updates every pay period as a byproduct of normal operations.
Investment$1,500 to $2,500
Understand where your visibility gaps are and what it would take to close them. Covers your business, labor costs, systems, and growth goals. Produces a written plan.
Investment$5,000 to $15,000
Connect payroll to accounting. Automated labor cost allocation by job, every pay period. Setup, configuration, and integration across your payroll and accounting systems.
Investment$1,000 to $2,500 per month
Ongoing support as your business grows. As you add crews, change systems, or expand into new markets, the data keeps flowing correctly.
Not sure which is right? Book a 30-minute call.
Free tools
Most contractors underestimate their true labor cost by 30 to 50 percent. Enter your workforce, see the fully burdened cost of every employee, and download the full analysis as an Excel workbook.
Open the CalculatorFive questions based on the discovery framework used in every Keeney Advisory engagement. Takes fifteen minutes. Produces a clear picture of where your visibility gaps are.
Coming soon300+
Implementations
6yr
Building Dapt
“The contractors who grew deliberately were the ones who could see their numbers.”
The founder
Jim Keeney founded Dapt in 2020 to solve one problem: connecting payroll to accounting so that labor costs flow to the right jobs automatically. Over six years and 300-plus implementations across ADP, Paychex, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Business Central, and JobTread, a clear pattern emerged.
Keeney Advisory is the consulting practice built from that experience. The focus is construction — contractors who want to build a business that learns and grows with every job.