Time saved / File the builder’s emails
File builder emails to the job without retyping them
Forward a builder email to the job address. YourCA reads it and proposes the register entry, with the exact words it read. You press to file it.
Instructions, answers and new drawings arrive by email, mixed with everything else. You read each one, decide where it belongs and type the figures into a register.
- By hand
- 12 h
- In Excel
- 11 h
- In YourCA
- 2 h 12 min
- Saved
- 9 h 48 min
Estimate for a 6-month electrical job with 10 people on it, each month on the job. Set your own job.
The risk it heads off
- An instruction buried in an email is never acted on or priced.Each forwarded email proposes the register it belongs in.
- You cannot find the email that proves what you were told.Every forwarded email stays on the job, searchable.
Step by step
| Step | By hand | Excel | YourCA | What YourCA does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read each email and decide where it belongs | 60 min | 60 min | 15 min | Forward it to the job address. YourCA proposes where it belongs. |
| Type the figures and dates into a register | 40 min | 30 min | 5 min | Fills the entry with the exact words it read. You check and press to file. |
| Find an email again later | 20 min | 20 min | 2 min | Keeps every forwarded email on the job record, searchable. |
| Total, each month on the job | 120 min | 110 min | 22 min |
How to do it in YourCA
Questions subbies ask
- Does YourCA read my inbox?
- No. It reads only the emails you forward to the job address. It never replies or forwards.
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