Less paperwork between the site and the office.
Monkeylab builds software and provides technology advice to small and mid-sized businesses in British Columbia, starting with construction. We connect the tools you already pay for and take over the repeat work between them.
You talk, we listen, and you get a one-page summary of where the time goes. No pitch deck.
Six places we look first
Most contractors we talk to are not short of effort. The time goes into moving the same information from one place to another. On the free call we go through where it happens in your company, and you get a one-page summary of what we found.
- Bids
- Project paperwork
- Field reporting
- Billing
- Compliance
- Systems
Four kinds of work
We build around how your company already runs. Each job starts with one workflow and stays small enough to finish.
Web applications and internal tools
Portals, dashboards and apps shaped to your process, so your team stops working around software that was built for someone else.
Operations automation
The repeat work between your tools, such as copying, chasing and reformatting, handled for you. A person approves anything that matters.
Systems integration
We connect the tools you already pay for so information moves once instead of being retyped. Where it helps, we add AI to read, sort and draft, with limits you set.
Technology and operations advisory
A second opinion from someone who has run IT at scale: technology and automation planning, vendor selection, and a review of how work moves through your company. Advice that often leads to the build work above, and sometimes does not need to.
Start free, stay small
Each step is optional. You can stop after the first call and keep the summary.
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Free workflow assessment
Twenty minutes on a call. You walk us through how a job runs. Within a day you get a one-page summary of where the time goes, using your own numbers.
No cost -
One workflow, fixed scope
We pick the fix that matters most and agree scope and price in writing before any work starts.
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Keep it running
If it earns its keep, we look after it and take on the next workflow on a monthly plan.
We do not quote savings before we have seen your numbers.
Built for teams of 10 to 200
Big enough to have real process, too small to have an IT department. That is where a few connected tools save the most time.
Construction
General contractors, specialty trades and developers. We start with estimating, project paperwork, field reports and billing.
- Commercial, industrial and institutional builders
- Residential builders with a strong back office
- Specialty and trade contractors
Accounting and professional services
Practices where client documents, deadlines and follow-up eat into billable hours.
- Accounting and bookkeeping firms
- Small professional practices
Greater Vancouver · Fraser Valley · Sea to Sky
A small studio, on purpose
Paul leads a team at Monkeylab. Before starting it, he spent 25+ years working across a range of industries. As Head of IT on the senior leadership team of a wireless-carrier franchise with more than 125 stores across eight states, he set the IT strategy, managed the budget with the CFO and CEO, and led more than 35 staff and 10 vendors. Monkeylab brings that experience to smaller companies in two ways: advice on technology and operations, and hands-on building when something needs fixing.
You deal with the person doing the work. That keeps projects small, quick to start and easy to explain.
Tell us how a job runs. We will show you where the hours go.
No pitch deck. We ask questions, you answer in your own words, and you get a one-page summary the next day. If there is nothing worth fixing, we will say so.