About Stratum
Stratum wasn’t dreamed up in a software company. It was built one rule at a time, inside a civil engineering firm, by the person who had to make payroll, answer the client calls and sign the numbers.
My story
For years I ran my firm the way most owners do. Time in one tool, projects in a spreadsheet, billing in QuickBooks, and the real picture in my head. I found out how a month went three weeks after it ended. When a client called, I had to go find out where their project stood. I was always chasing something: updates from my own team so I could answer the client, the city for review comments, the client for the survey we needed, timecards so we could bill.
I tried the software that was out there. Some of it was built for contractors, some for hundred-person firms with an IT department, and none of it was built for the way a firm like mine actually works: milestones, rounds of review, agencies that take their time, and people who’d rather be doing the work than logging it.
So I started building Stratum for my own firm. Every rule in it exists because something went wrong once. And it gave me my life back. I know how my people are doing. I know our clients are being taken care of. I don’t have to chase anyone to find out, so I spend my time on the work that actually moves the firm forward.
I want that for every owner who’s ever reconciled spreadsheets on a Sunday night.
What we believe
Every figure starts as an hour someone logged. That’s why the numbers are true, and why everyone can see how their work matters.
Backlog, billed, margin: one definition, the same on every screen. If two reports disagree, something is broken.
Hours, invoices and change orders are retired, never deleted. The record is the record.
Stratum is built so the firm runs without you in every decision, and you get your time back for the work only you can do.
AI helps with wording. It never sets your price. A blank fee beats an invented one.
Invite-only, with a real conversation first. No self-serve wizard, and no six-month implementation.
A 30-minute conversation about how your firm runs. If Stratum fits, we set it up with you.
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