Fringe remittance to the funds
Pension, vacation, health & welfare and training, worked out from the same logged hours the certified payroll comes from.
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The estimate, the contract, the crew’s hours, certified payroll and the GC’s pay application — all in one place, so the same numbers don’t get typed in three times.
- Framing & drywall
- Plaster
- EIFS
- Ceilings
- Fireproofing
The paperwork it produces
Pay applications
G702/G703-style, off the schedule of values
Certified payroll
WH-347, from hours the crew already logged
Fringe remittance
One sheet per local, for the month
Change orders
Numbered; the sum moves only on approval
RFIs
Numbered, dated; overdue is never stored
Submittals
Every revision kept, none renumbered
Daily field reports
Crew from the day's hours, weather fetched
T&M tickets
Signed on site, frozen at signing
An example of Ask C Stream, on made-up jobs and names. Someone types: Raise an RFI on Northgate Clinic TI — which head-of-wall detail at the rated corridor? A card headed Raise an RFI shows Job, Subject, Question, Date sent, with Cancel and Open the RFI form buttons. After a tap on Open the RFI form, the RFI form opens with those fields filled in. A tap on Save RFI saves it as RFI 4, a draft. Then someone types: Log 8 hours for Luis Ortega on Northgate today A card headed Log hours shows Job, Person, Date, Hours, Pay type, with Cancel and Log hours buttons. Nothing is written until the tap on Log hours. After the tap the card reads Done: Logged 8 hours for Luis Ortega on Northgate Clinic TI, 2026-09-21.
The old way, and the C Stream way
The old way
- The estimate lives in one file, the contract in another, and the job cost gets rebuilt from scratch
- Certified payroll is assembled by hand from timesheets, one WH-347 at a time
- A pay application means retyping the schedule of values into the GC's own AIA forms
- Retainage is tracked in a spreadsheet somebody has to remember to update
- RFIs and submittals live in an email thread until somebody loses track of one
The C Stream way
- One estimate becomes the contract, the budget and the job cost — entered once
- Certified payroll generates from the hours your crew already logged
- AIA-style pay applications build straight from your schedule of values
- Retainage withheld and released per job, calculated from the job itself
- RFIs and submittals are numbered, dated and never reissued
Getting paid
The pay application is the document that decides whether you make payroll this month, and on most jobs it is built by retyping your own schedule of values into the GC's forms. Here it builds itself out of the job.
- A G702/G703-style summary and continuation sheet, off the schedule of values already on the job
- Retainage held and released per job, calculated from the job rather than remembered in a spreadsheet
- It refuses to bill a line past its scheduled value, and says what to do instead — an approved change order, or stored materials now installed
Retainage
Northgate Clinic TI
Outstanding balance
$24,970.50
Withheld and not yet released
- Total withheld
- $36,970.50
- Total released
- $12,000.00
Application for payment #4 — Northgate Clinic TI
Westbrook Builders (GC) · Application date Aug 31, 2026
Contract sum to date
$567,100.00
Total completed & stored to date
$369,705.00
Retainage to date
$36,970.50
Total earned less retainage
$332,734.50
Less previous certificates for payment
$212,454.00
Current payment due
$120,280.50
Balance to finish, including retainage
$234,365.50
| Line item | This period | Total to date |
|---|---|---|
| Metal stud framing — L2Scheduled $184,000.00 | $36,800.00 | $165,600.00 |
| Drywall hang & finish — L2Scheduled $212,500.00 | $53,125.00 | $147,725.00 |
| Acoustical ceilings — L2Scheduled $96,400.00 | $19,280.00 | $19,280.00 |
| Fire-rated shaftwallScheduled $74,200.00 | $14,840.00 | $37,100.00 |
Certified payroll, from hours already logged
Every week, for every worker, on every prevailing-wage job — name, classification, hours by day, rate, fringe. It is assembled from timesheets by hand almost everywhere, and a wrong one is not a clerical problem.
- A real WH-347 sheet: seven dated day columns, straight time and overtime on their own rows
- Fringe rates by craft and effective date — pension, vacation, health & welfare, training
- If something is missing it tells you it is not ready to file, and names the field — rather than printing a form that is wrong
Form WH-347
U.S. Department of Labor · Payroll · Northgate Clinic TI · week ending Aug 29, 2026
U.S. Department of Labor
Payroll
Form WH-347
- Name of Contractor or Subcontractor:
- Northgate Interiors, Inc.
- Address:
- 2200 Commerce Dr, Reno, NV 89502
- Payroll No.:
- 14
- For Week Ending:
- Aug 29, 2026
| (1) Name and Individual Identifying Number of Worker | (2) No. of Withholding Exemptions | (3) Work Classification | (4) Day and Date Hours Worked Each Day | (5) Total Hours | (6) Rate of Pay | (7) Gross Amount Earned | (8) Deductions | (9) Net Wages Paid for Week | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S 8/23 | M 8/24 | T 8/25 | W 8/26 | T 8/27 | F 8/28 | S 8/29 | |||||||||
Dana Okafor …8130 | Carpenters 1180 — Carpenter Apprentice, 3rd period | S | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | $27.66 + $20.25 fringe | $1,106.40 | $258.90 FICA $84.64 W/H $174.26 | $847.50 | |||
Luis Mendoza …2291 | Carpenters 1180 — Carpenter Foreman | O | 2 | 2 | $49.10 + $25.75 fringe | $2,111.30 | $590.10 FICA $161.51 W/H $428.59 | $1,521.20 | |||||||
| S | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | |||||||||
Ramón Alvarez …4417 | Carpenters 1180 — Journeyman Carpenter | O | 2 | 3 | 5 | $46.10 + $25.75 fringe | $2,189.75 | $612.40 FICA $167.52 W/H $444.88 | $1,577.35 | ||||||
| S | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | |||||||||
| (4) | S 8/23 | M 8/24 | T 8/25 | W 8/26 | T 8/27 | F 8/28 | S 8/29 | (5) Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dana Okafor …8130Carpenters 1180 — Carpenter Apprentice, 3rd period (6) $27.66 + $20.25 fringe(7) Gross $1,106.40(8) Deductions $258.90(9) Net $847.50 | ||||||||
| S | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | ||
Luis Mendoza …2291Carpenters 1180 — Carpenter Foreman (6) $49.10 + $25.75 fringe(7) Gross $2,111.30(8) Deductions $590.10(9) Net $1,521.20 | ||||||||
| O | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| S | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | ||
Ramón Alvarez …4417Carpenters 1180 — Journeyman Carpenter (6) $46.10 + $25.75 fringe(7) Gross $2,189.75(8) Deductions $612.40(9) Net $1,577.35 | ||||||||
| O | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| S | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | ||
Total hours this payroll: 127
Apprentice ratios, on the day you go over
The ratio is enforced per day, so a compliant month does not undo a Tuesday you ran two apprentices to one journeyman. Most systems can only show you an average, which is the one shape of number that hides it.
- Per job, per local, per day, measured in hours — off the hours the crew already logged
- Your local's own rule (1 per 3, 1 per 5) recorded per local, with where it is written down
- Hours with no craft tag are reported as can't-be-judged, never quietly counted as journeyman
Apprentice ratio
Union fringe & apprenticeship · August 2026
1 job went over the ratio. 1 job has days that can't be judged.
Northgate Clinic TI
Carpenters Local 1180 — Northern Nevada
1 apprentice per 3 journeymen · JATC program standards
- 2026-08-24 within ratio · 24 jrny / 8 appr (allows 8)
- 2026-08-26 within ratio · 32 jrny / 8 appr (allows 10.67)
- 2026-08-27 can't be judged · 24 jrny / 8 appr (allows 8) · 8 hrs unclassified: T. Nguyen
- 2026-08-28 within ratio · 24 jrny / 8 appr (allows 8)
Tuesday is flagged on Tuesday. Averaged over the week this crew is inside the ratio, which is how a violation goes unnoticed until someone else finds it. The phone’s time screen runs the same check for today and warns while the crew can still change.
Whether the job is actually making money
Most subs find out a job went wrong when it is finished. Because the estimate, the hours and the costs are the same object here, the answer is available while there is still something you can do about it.
- Budget, current estimate, actual and earned revenue per line item — not one number for the whole job
- Labour costed from the hours logged against the line — base wage plus fringes, plus the employer burden percentage you record
- When some hours are unpriced it says so on the figure, instead of quietly reporting a number it cannot stand behind
Job costing & WIP
Northgate Clinic TI · Estimate step
Contract value
$567,100.00
Actual cost to date
$275,539.20
36 of 2996 logged hours have no craft tag or no effective fringe rate schedule, so they are in this figure at $0 of wages (99% of hours priced).
% complete
63.7%
Over the 100% of contract value that carries a cost forecast, and 97% of cost to date.
Earned revenue
$360,498.46
Billed to date
$369,705.00
Over / under billed
Overbilled $9,206.54
Metal stud framing — Level 2Metal framing / drywall
- Contract
- $184,000.00
- Budget
- $131,008.00
- Current est.
- $136,528.00
- Actual
- $118,269.00
- % complete
- 86.6%
- Earned
- $159,392.18
Drywall hang & finish — Level 2Metal framing / drywall
- Contract
- $212,500.00
- Budget
- $151,937.50
- Current est.
- $158,312.50
- Actual
- $104,568.20
- % complete
- 66.1%
- Earned
- $140,360.00
Acoustical ceilings — Level 2Acoustical ceilings
- Contract
- $96,400.00
- Budget
- $71,336.00
- Current est.
- $71,336.00
- Actual
- $15,938.40
- % complete
- 22.3%
- Earned
- $21,538.38
Fire-rated shaftwall assembliesMetal framing / drywall
- Contract
- $74,200.00
- Budget
- $52,576.00
- Current est.
- $52,576.00
- Actual
- $27,781.60
- % complete
- 52.8%
- Earned
- $39,207.90
Tell it what happened. Approve it with one tap.
Ask C Stream sits in the top bar of every page. Say it in your own words — an RFI to raise, a crew member’s hours, a delivery that came in — and it shows you the exact record it is about to write, with the job, the names and the figures it read from your account. Nothing is saved until you tap.
What you can ask it to do
- Billing
- draft an invoice, log a payment, release retainage.
- Field
- log hours, today's field report, punch items, schedule or move the crew, a delivery, equipment out to a job and back.
- The GC
- raise an RFI, send an email, ask whoever would know, add a contact.
- Estimating
- start an estimate, draft line items, add a catalog line, log a bid invitation, record why a bid was won or lost, track a pursuit, find work out to bid.
It shows you what it's about to do. You tap once to approve.
Protecting yourself when it goes wrong
Every job that ends in an argument ends in an argument about what was asked, when it was asked, and who answered. That record is worth more than anything else on this page — and it is only worth anything if it was kept as it happened, rather than reconstructed afterwards by the side with the most to lose.
Submittals
SUB 12Fire-rated shaftwall — shop drawingsApprovedBuild from revision 2
- R1 · sent Aug 10, 2026 · revise and resubmit Aug 14, 2026 · 4 days
- R2 · sent Aug 21, 2026 · approved as noted Aug 28, 2026 · 7 days
Northgate Clinic TI · 09 21 16 · A-501
Numbered, never reissued
RFIs, submittals and change orders take their number from a counter that only counts up. Delete a row and the number does not come back around — which is the whole point on a document a GC has already been sent.
Nothing stored that can go stale
Overdue, days open and which revision is current are worked out from the dates every time they are shown. A stored flag can disagree with the thing it was derived from, and that disagreement is how somebody builds from a superseded drawing.
Kept as it happened
Daily field reports, site photos and punch lists, dated and attributable, entered from the deck of the building on a phone with no signal — queued and sent when there is signal again.
Everything else it does
The rest of the job, in the same system, so none of it needs a second spreadsheet.
Change orders that move the contract
Numbered from a counter that only counts up, and the line they raise moves with them — so the schedule of values stays the contract.
Your own cost codes, across every job
Phase codes you define, with budget against actual rolled up across all the jobs carrying them — not one job at a time.
Cash flow and what is still owed
What each GC owes and how long it has been owed, retainage receivable, and a month-by-month projection built only from dates already on file.
Lien deadlines, kept in front of you
Preliminary notices, liens, stop payment notices and bond claims. You enter the dates — it sorts them and warns you 14 days out.
Backcharges, on the record
What another trade or the GC is charging you for, numbered and dated, so it is answered rather than discovered in a final accounting.
Safety incidents and OSHA case numbers
Case numbers issued from a counter that never reissues a retired one, because a retired OSHA case number coming back is its own problem.
A phone that works with no signal
Hours, photos, field reports, materials and punch lists from the deck of a building with no bars — queued and sent when there is signal again.
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Not generic construction software
The classifications, the fringe rate schedules and the compliance paperwork are built around union framing and drywall, plaster, EIFS, ceiling and fireproofing work — not bolted on after the fact for a general contractor’s app that happened to add a trade field.
C Stream is new
This is not an established platform with years of customers behind it — it is a new system, built directly with subs in these trades. You will find rough edges, and what you run into gets fixed fast rather than filed away.
That is also why this page shows no customer logos, no count of how many subs are using it, and no quoted endorsements. There is nothing here we could not show you in the product itself.