Ask a contractor why their job costs are late and you'll usually hear it's the system. On QuickBooks, the answer is to move up to a real ERP. On Sage or Foundation, the answer is that it wasn't configured right, or the team needs training, or it's time to look again.
Scott Franchini of RedHammer has been inside enough construction back offices to notice the pattern: the same problems show up on every system. Because the gap isn't inside the ledger. It's between the field and the ledger, and no accounting system was built to close it.
He's joined by Zack Kelly, who ran Home Builders Financial Partners for years and used Adaptive as a customer long before joining the company. Two people who've actually lived inside construction back offices, not a product walkthrough.
We'll get into what genuinely is a software limitation and what isn't, what's worth fixing before you consider a migration, and how construction teams are using AI to close the gap on whatever system they're already running. Live examples, including free tools you can take home.
Relevant whether you're on QuickBooks and wondering if you've outgrown it, or on Sage or Foundation and wondering why month-end still takes three weeks.
What you'll take away:
How to tell a real software limitation from a process or staffing problem that follows you to any system
Which back office gaps exist on every accounting platform, and why
Whether your current system can be extended before you consider replacing it
How AI and automation close field-to-ledger gaps on QuickBooks, Sage, and Foundation alike
What an ERP migration actually costs, measured against layering onto what you have
Who it's for: Owners, CFOs, controllers, and office managers at construction companies, on any accounting system.