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MatruOS for a building contractor

Set up the way a building contractor runs: margin on construction contracts (labour plus material) priced per sq ft or by BOQ items; labour-only contracts per sq ft; extra items. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.

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Construction and homeReady when you sign up

  • 10routines on a timetable
  • 2workflows with approvals
  • 3SOPs and checks
  • 4registers of your own
  • 3jobs for your AI team
  • 10licences tracked

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What this solves

What a building contractor deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it

01Today

Cost per site unknown; profit found only at handover. Clients delay stage payments and argue extras.

02In MatruOS

MatruOS sets up 10 routines, 2 workflows, 4 registers and 10 licences for a building contractor, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.

03What changes

The right person is reminded at the right time, approvals wait for whoever decides, and every licence has a renewal reminder. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.

Where you sit

MatruOS starts from how your business earns

Who you sell to, who you buy from, how credit moves and where you sit in the chain decide how your screens, reminders and reports are set up.

  1. Client
  2. building contractor
  3. specialist trades, labour mukadam and material yards

Your customers

  • House owners
  • Small builders
  • Shop and school owners
  • NRI owners through relatives

Your suppliers

  • Building material yards and cement dealers
  • TMT steel dealers
  • RMC plants
  • Brick kilns and block makers
  • Labour contractors
  • Shuttering rental
  • Electricians and plumbers

Credit and cash

Client pays 10-20% advance and stage payments; material yards give 30-90 days; labour paid weekly; client holds 5-10% retention for 3-6 months

Stage payments fund material; the weekly hafta is the constant cash pull. One site's money often funds another until the final bill.

Your screens use your words

  • CustomerClient (owner)
  • OrderSite
  • ItemStage
  • InvoiceStage bill
  • SupplierMaterial yard

How it works

How MatruOS is set up for a building contractor

Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.

  1. Describe the business in one lineFor example "Building contractor", typed when you sign up.
  2. Recognised as a building contractorRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
  3. Bring your dataCustomers, items and balances come across from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others. For Tally, our team helps you move the data while Tally import is checked on the live app.
  4. Approve and runThe AI team prepares the routine work. A person approves anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes.

Your AI team

What the AI team does for a building contractor

Each job goes to a member of your AI team. It reads your own records and prepares the work. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.

Operations head

Builds a per-site cost ledger from challans, hafta and petty cash; compares cement and steel used per sq ft with norm and quote; weekly quote-vs-actual per site

Reads site diary, material challans and bills and labour hafta

Works it out and shows you

Accountant

Totals man-days per mukadam and worker, deducts peshgi, prepares the hafta sheet and UPI list; flags sites that need BOCW registration or cess

Reads site diary and labour hafta and peshgi

Asks you before paying

Accountant

Drafts the stage bill with photos and measurements when a stage is reached, lists extras with client OK, and tracks retention due dates

Reads stage bills and extras and site diary photos

Asks you before sending

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How you run

Your routines, already on a timetable

Each routine has a time, a person and its steps with the checks that matter. MatruOS reminds the right person and keeps the record. Open one to see its steps.

Every day3

  • 7:30 amCuring roundHead mason (mistri) · 2 steps
    1. 1Slabs and columns cast in the last 7-14 days kept wet
    2. 2Days since casting for each pour
  • 8:00 amMorning hajri and material checkSite supervisor (munshi) · 3 steps
    1. 1Count masons, helpers and trades present
    2. 2Check deliveries against challans: cement bags, steel kg, sand brass
    3. 3Photo of today's work face
  • 6:00 pmEvening site report and next-day orderSite supervisor (munshi) · 3 steps
    1. 1Cement bags used and stock left
    2. 2Petty cash spent with bills
    3. 3Material needed tomorrow sent to contractor

Every week2

  • SatWeekly labour haftaContractor (owner) · 3 steps
    1. 1Man-days per mukadam or worker per site
    2. 2Less peshgi recovery
    3. 3Pay by cash or UPI and get signed sheet
  • MonWeekly round of all sites and planContractor (owner) · 3 steps
    1. 1Progress against stage plan per site
    2. 2Cement per sq ft against norm
    3. 3Next week's material and labour

Every month2

  • 1stStage bill when a stage is doneContractor (owner) · 3 steps
    1. 1Stages reached with photos and measurements
    2. 2Extras done with client's written OK
    3. 3Send stage bill and follow up
  • 10thMaterial yard settlementContractor (owner) · 2 steps
    1. 1Match yard bills with site challans
    2. 2Pay yards due; BOCW cess and GST where applicable

Every year1

  • MarYear close, ITR and equipment repairContractor (owner) · 3 steps
    1. 1Site-wise profit and retention list
    2. 2Mixer, vibrator and shuttering repair before season
    3. 3Contractor registration renewal if doing government work

Workflows

Each stage goes to the person who handles it

Work passes stage by stage to the right person. Stages marked for approval wait for the person who decides.

Enquiry to handover

  1. 1Plan seen and estimate givenContractor (owner)
  2. 2Agreement signed and advance paidContractor (owner)Needs approval
  3. 3Excavation footing and plinthHead mason (mistri)
  4. 4Steel checked before slabStructural engineerNeeds approval
  5. 5Slabs cast and curedHead mason (mistri)
  6. 6Brickwork plaster and finishingHead mason (mistri)
  7. 7Snag list closed and handoverContractor (owner)
  8. 8Final and retention paidContractor (owner)

Weekly labour payment

  1. 1Daily hajri recordedSite supervisor (munshi)
  2. 2Weekly totals and peshgi worked outSite supervisor (munshi)
  3. 3Hafta sheet approvedContractor (owner)Needs approval
  4. 4Paid and signedLabour mukadam

Registers and SOPs

Your registers and standards

Registers hold the fields this trade records. SOPs carry the steps and checks, so work is done the same way every time.

  • Site diary (hajri and material)

    Date · Site · Masons present · Helpers present · Other trades present · Cement bags received · Cement bags used · Steel kg received

  • Stage bills and extras

    Site · Status · Date reached · Bill amount · Extra item details · Client agreed extra · Received · Retention held

  • Labour hafta and peshgi

    Week ending · Site · Mukadam or worker · Man-days · Rate per day · Gross · Peshgi recovered · Net paid

  • Material challans and bills

    Date · Site · Supplier · Item · Quantity · Challan number · Bill amount · Paid

  • Concrete and slab casting

    Safe, strong slabs and columns

    5 steps with checks

  • Materials acceptance

    Right material, right quantity

    4 steps with checks

  • Site safety and worker welfare

    No accidents; workers registered

    5 steps with checks

Items and licences

Your first bill is right, and no licence lapses

Starter items arrive with unit, HSN and GST rate. The registrations this business usually needs are listed with a reminder before each one expires.

ItemHSNGST
House construction with material (works contract) · sq ft99541118%
Labour-only construction (single residential unit) · sq ft9954110%
Shop or commercial building construction · sq ft99541518%
Compound wall construction · running ft99541118%
Repair and renovation work · sq ft99547218%
  • GST registrationGST department (GSTN)
  • Udyam (MSME) registrationMinistry of MSME (Udyam portal)
  • Government contractor registrationPWD, CPWD or the state works departmentIf it applies
  • Contract labour licenceLabour department (Contract Labour Act, or Labour Codes)If it applies
  • PANIncome Tax Department
  • TAN (tax deduction account number)Income Tax DepartmentIf it applies
  • PF registration (EPFO)EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Organisation)If it applies
  • ESI registration (ESIC)ESIC (Employees' State Insurance Corporation)If it applies
  • Professional tax registrationState professional tax officeIf it applies
  • Other licence or contractIf it applies

Your people

The people who run it, each with their own login

Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.

Contractor (owner)Estimates and quotes, agrees stages, buys material, runs sites, collects stage payments, pays labour.
Site supervisor (munshi)Daily hajri, material in and out, photos, petty cash, measurements.
Head mason (mistri)Layout, shuttering and steel checks, slab casting, masonry and plaster quality.
Labour mukadamBrings gangs, distributes hafta, recovers peshgi.
Structural engineerChecks reinforcement before casting, signs stage checks.

Not covered yet

  • Sending messages, bills and reminders on WhatsApp from MatruOS is not live yet. Today they go by link, QR code or email, and from your own phone in one tap.
  • Live bank and UPI feeds are not connected yet. Upload a bank statement and MatruOS reads it into payments for you to confirm.

Questions people ask

How long does it take to set up MatruOS for a building contractor?

Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Building contractor". MatruOS picks this business type and sets up everything on this page in a few minutes. You then get a 7-day free trial, no card needed.

Do I have to type all of this in?

No. The routines, workflows, registers, items, licences and AI team on this page arrive already set up. You change what is different in your business, and bring your customers, items and balances from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others, with our team's help for Tally data.

Can I change the routines and workflows?

Yes. Every routine, workflow, register and SOP is yours to rename, retime, switch off or add to. MatruOS keeps the rest of the system in step with your changes.

What does the AI team do without asking me?

It runs routine checks and prepares drafts. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval. The one exception you can choose is payment reminders, which go out on their own once you have checked them and switched them on.

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