Every Tool Your Shop Runs On

Every job breaks into tasks, and your techs track time against each one to the minute — billable or internal, by user. That's where the real value builds: every time you run a job you've run before, MSA keeps the history and shows you the estimate, your actual average, and the one and two sigma spread of your real runs. You stop pricing recurring work from a guess and start pricing from what it has actually taken you. If you build product, that same data gives you true production time per unit instead of a number derived from machine estimates.

Start with what you want the year to look like — profit, expenses, payroll — and MSA works backward to the shop rate that actually gets you there, using your real productivity and hours worked. Not a number you picked, arithmetic. From there you get live progress against weekly, monthly, and annual targets, and job-level profitability that shows tracked time and parts margin on every job against those same targets. You find out which work paid while it's still on the lift, not at tax time.