Field change orders vanish
The superintendent asks the foreman for a verbal change. The work gets done, but nothing is written down. Three months later the change order was never billed, and no one knows who authorized what.
Electrical contractors
Every hour on site, every change order, captured without paper
CANOPE follows your crews from one job to the next, captures field directives the moment they happen, and protects your margin on every contract.
The realities of your field
Union hours land on the wrong job
Your electricians move between sites in the same day. Hours, travel time, and union premiums end up on the wrong project — and the journeyman-to-apprentice split becomes a headache on Friday night.
Margin melts on materials
Copper prices move every week. You bid fixed-price, but the real cost of wire and gear only surfaces when supplier invoices arrive — too late to react on a contract you’ve already signed.
CANOPE
CANOPE’s AI, in your field
Timesheets
CANOPE prepares each electrician’s timesheet, splits their hours across the day’s job sites, and applies the union’s rates, travel, and premiums based on journeyman or apprentice status.
Approvals and change orders
The moment a field directive is given, CANOPE captures it, ties it to the right contract, and opens the change order — so no modification gets built without getting billed.
Projects and budgets
CANOPE continuously compares real hours and materials against the bid budget, and predicts the overrun on a fixed-price contract before it eats your margin.
Purchase orders and expenses
CANOPE matches every supplier invoice to its purchase order and job site, tracks the real cost of wire and gear, and flags the price variance the moment it arrives.
Invoicing
CANOPE assembles progress billing by percent complete, applies the holdback, GST, and QST, and freezes the document at production for your contract close-out file.
A day with CANOPE
A Tuesday across three job sites
- 1
7 a.m. — Both crews clock in. CANOPE knows who’s a journeyman, who’s an apprentice, and which contract each one is on.
- 2
10 a.m. — The superintendent asks to relocate three panels. CANOPE captures the directive, opens the change order, and links it to the contract before the first hole is drilled.
- 3
1 p.m. — A crew heads out on a service call. CANOPE switches their time to the right client and starts the time-and-materials ticket.
- 4
4 p.m. — A wholesaler invoice lands: copper is up. CANOPE matches it to the purchase order and warns you that margin on contract B is tightening.
- 5
5 p.m. — Timesheets are ready, hours allocated, change orders staged to bill. You approve at a glance.
Your electricians install. CANOPE handles the rest.