Certified payroll, prevailing wage, AIA billing, lien waivers, receivables and job costing — the construction paperwork QuickBooks makes you fight, Charlie just does. By voice, from anywhere.
QuickBooks wasn't built for prevailing wage. So the certified payroll gets done by hand, in a spreadsheet, on a Friday night — and one missing fringe line is the #1 thing that triggers a Davis-Bacon audit. Charlie generates the WH-347 from the hours your crew already clocked, statement of compliance and all, while you talk.
One seat replaces the certified-payroll software, the billing spreadsheets, and a chunk of the bookkeeper.
The complete filed form — day-by-day grid, deductions, net pay, statement of compliance — generated from the hours already clocked. SSNs masked by default.
Davis-Bacon and state prevailing-wage packs, wage determinations per job, fringe on all hours, the daily-8 / weekly-40 OT triggers handled for you.
G702 / G703 pay applications with retainage and carry-forward, drafted then frozen on certify — the math done right, every draw.
Conditional and unconditional, progress and final — the correct statute-cited waiver for your state, generated on demand.
Who owes you, how much retainage is held, and every pay-app and lien deadline tracked so nothing slips past its date.
Labor and receipts roll into real job cost and WIP. Receipts post as expenses and certified pay apps post as invoices — synced to QuickBooks Online.
The complete Department of Labor certified-payroll form: the day-by-day hours grid, deductions, net pay, prevailing-wage check, and the statement of compliance an auditor asks for. Charlie builds it from the hours your crew already clocked — SSNs masked by default, full export permissioned and audited.
Every all-in-one contractor app does invoices and scheduling. Almost none of them do a compliant WH-347 with a statement of compliance — the exact document a prevailing-wage job demands and an auditor asks for. Charlie generates it by voice, from the hours your crew already clocked. That's the gap, and it's the one that costs you a contract if you get it wrong.
Certified-payroll software runs $200–600 a month. A construction bookkeeper runs $350–1,200. Office Manager is $149 and does the compliance work both of them charge for — and answers you out loud.
Charlie isn't a slide deck. He runs on the same voice and speech AI behind the biggest names in the business — and Ground Up AI was selected into their startup programs to build him.
The natural voice you hear is ElevenLabs' AI speech — awarded to Ground Up AI through their grant program.
Real-time speech recognition so Charlie hears you clearly over a running jobsite.
Bank-grade, US-based cloud built to scale from one shop to thousands.
Not enterprise accounting squeezed down to fit you. Charlie was built on real jobsites, for the contractors and office managers doing prevailing-wage paperwork at night because they were running the job all day.
$149/mo, no setup fee, no contract. Connect QuickBooks in a couple of clicks.
By talking to you — your crew, your states, your wage determinations. No onboarding call.
"Generate this week's certified payroll." "Draft the pay app for the Smith job." Done.
Start with Office Manager on its own, or run your whole shop on Full Charlie. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, your data comes with you when you upgrade.
No — it works with it. Keep your books in QuickBooks Online; Charlie handles the construction-specific compliance QuickBooks doesn't (certified payroll, prevailing wage, AIA billing, lien waivers) and syncs receipts and pay apps across. Best of both.
Yes. It's the complete Department of Labor WH-347 — day-by-day hours grid, deductions, net pay, and the statement of compliance — generated from the hours your crew clocked. SSNs are masked by default; a full export is permissioned and audited.
The engine is state-agnostic with wage-determination packs — federal Davis-Bacon plus state packs (Washington and Oregon today, more as clients need them), each statute-cited, with the right OT trigger for that jurisdiction.
No. You talk to Charlie the way you'd talk to your office manager — "generate this week's certified payroll," "draft the pay app." Everything also works by tapping through the forms if you prefer.
Yes. It's $149/mo on its own. Add estimating, scheduling and the field tools anytime by upgrading to Full Charlie — no migration, your data stays put.
Yes. Data is isolated per company on US-based servers, encrypted at rest, and PII like SSNs is masked by default with every reveal access-controlled and audited.