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SALUS · For Specialty Contractor Executives & Owners

Growth multiplies risk. SALUS protects your reputation — and your cash — at scale.

Safety gets delegated. Its consequences don't. Every new site puts your name on work you'll never personally watch — and your margin in disputes you'll never see coming. SALUS deploys your standards and controls at every GC's site without growing the back office, watches every project for the one about to go sideways, and turns crew-level field facts into the proof that defends the business when growth gets contested.

LMS runs 170+ sites and 600 employees on one platform — and absorbed $180K a year of admin work without a single new hire.

The line items nobody budgetsLast 12 months
  • Backcharge you couldn't disprove$42K
  • Extra work that never got billed$18K
  • Admin hire to keep up with site #13$60K/yr
  • The project nobody flagged in timeMargin ↓
  • Experience-rating drift at renewalPremium ↑
  • Journeyman who walked$50–120K
Industry estimate, $100M specialty contractor$3M–$18M/yr leak
35–125 dispute events a year
Not wrong — just unprovable
06Leaks · One audit

The margin doesn't vanish. It leaks. Watch each one get plugged.

01
The leak
Overhead
Where the money drains
Every new site adds forms, certs, audits — and eventually, a hire
What it costs
Back office grows with revenue
Standards at scale

One standard, every site, zero new back office.

What got you to $100M was a few people who know everything. What breaks at the next level is that they can't be everywhere — so growth quietly buys administrators. SALUS encodes what your best people know and deploys it to every crew: pre-populated hazard controls give your newest apprentice the same risk mitigations your veteran foreman would write. Programs, forms, and workflows push company-wide in minutes; Rosie adapts them for the new province or the new GC and grades every site against your standard, continuously.

01 ·

170+ sites, no new admin

LMS absorbed what they calculated as three assistants' workloads — $180K a year — into the platform.

02 ·

100+ projects, one safety pro

A department of one covers a whole portfolio because the system enforces the consistency presence alone can't.

03 ·

New province, new GC — same week

Rosie drafts the site-specific program from your master and the requirements that apply. Mobilization stops waiting on paperwork.

04 ·

Graded, not guessed

Every site scored against your standard continuously — underperformers flagged with reasons, not anecdotes.

Plugged · operating leverage, not software
  1. 01/06

    The leak audit · plugged

  2. Same crews. Same headcount.

02
The leak
Disputes
Where the money drains
Backcharges eaten, extra work unbilled, delay claims that die unproven
What it costs
$3M–$18M/yr at $100M revenue
The receipts

You weren't wrong. You just couldn't prove it fast enough.

A $100M specialty contractor faces an estimated 35–125 commercially material dispute events a year. Most are lost not on the merits but on the evidence — the facts lived in a foreman's memory and died at the end of the shift. Don't take the AI's word for it; look at the documents.

01

The backcharge, answered

The GC says your crew damaged the corridor. Rosie assembles the response from facts your crew already captured: the timestamped photos, the signed FLHA, the orientation records, the condition flagged at 9:17 AM. Delivered the same afternoon — while the meeting that decides it is still on the calendar.

Backcharge claim — Corridor damage · $42,000Received 1:12 PM
Claim
Your crew damaged finished drywall — Level 3 corridor
The record
Corridor photographed at crew sign-out — undamaged, 3:42 PM
Context
FLHA signed · orientation current · access flagged 9:17 AM
Response
Evidence packet delivered 3:41 PM — same day
Not an argument. A record.Claim withdrawn
02

The record that builds itself

Every scan, form, photo, and voice note carries worker, task, time, and location context automatically. Field facts become contract-ready proof — not because anyone did extra paperwork, but because capture is how your crews already work.

Field data flows into a live Trust Portal and becomes contract-ready proof of readiness and compliance — certifications, orientations, training, and verified activity
03

Evidence at deal speed

Disputes are won in the first 48 hours, when the packet shows up before positions harden. What took a week of email archaeology is a 30-second pull — for the delay claim, the damage dispute, or the extra-work ticket your PM needs to bill.

A portfolio overview report builder generating a report in 30 seconds, with tabs for sites, workers, actions, and incidents
LMS Reinforcing: "Pick a job and tell me what you'd like to see — I can show them within 30 seconds." Insurance documentation review went from two full days to 1 hour 45 minutes.
Plugged · your field data already contains this
  1. 02/06

    The leak audit · plugged

  2. Same crews. Same headcount.

03
The leak
The blindside
Where the money drains
The project quietly going sideways — incident, schedule, and margin at once
What it costs
Found out at month-end
Rosie · Risk intelligence

Know which project threatens the quarter — before it does.

The projects that blow up rarely announce it — they drift: corrective actions pile up unassigned, near-misses cluster, form quality slides, the schedule slips a day at a time. Rosie reads every form, inspection, and field signal across the portfolio and ranks each project by combined safety, schedule, and margin risk — one all-encompassing assessment, pointed squarely at where the cash leaks next. One project flagged: 436 unassigned corrective actions, a serious open incident, schedule slipping. You hear it from the dashboard while intervention is still cheap — not from the month-end review after it wasn't.

  • Every project ranked continuously — not by gut feel, but by the field data your crews already produce.
  • The 'why' attached: the open incident, the aging actions, the slipping milestones — evidence, not anecdote.
  • Fewer surprises means cheaper fixes: the conversation happens this week, not after the claim, the recordable, or the write-down.
Plugged · flagged while it's cheap
  1. 03/06

    The leak audit · plugged

  2. Same crews. Same headcount.

04
The leak
Experience rating & premiums
Where the money drains
Incidents, weak documentation, and renewals priced on doubt
What it costs
Premium ↑ and bids closed off
Experience rating & insurability

Renewals priced on evidence, not on doubt.

Your experience rating is a tax on everything — premiums, prequalification, which bids you're even allowed to enter. SALUS works it from both ends: fewer incidents, because near-miss reporting jumps 400%+ when friction disappears and corrective actions close in hours instead of weeks — and stronger underwriting evidence, because every cert, inspection, and response is documented as it happens. 🍁 Across the rest of Canada that protects your WCB/WSIB experience rating and your COR standing; ⚜️ in Québec it builds the prevention-program proof behind CNESST tarification and a mutuelle de prévention — the 15–50% premium cut tied to your program and claims. Independent studies point the same way: a meaningful drop in recordable rates flowing into a comparable cut in premiums, with 3–4x ROI in year one.

  • Insurance readiness reports assembled by Rosie in minutes — forms, closure rates, cert compliance, citation history.
  • Leading indicators your broker can take into the renewal: the data behind the premium conversation.
  • Documentation review compressed from two full days to under two hours (LMS).
Plugged · documented as it happens
  1. 04/06

    The leak audit · plugged

  2. Same crews. Same headcount.

05
The leak
Lost bids
Where the money drains
Prequalified-only work that requires proof you can't produce
What it costs
The growth work goes elsewhere
Prequalification, live

The work that defines your future checks your evidence first.

Hospitals, public infrastructure, institutional and public-sector work — the prequalified-only market your growth plan points at doesn't ask if you have a safety program. It asks for the records: an experience rating below the industry baseline, documented systems, verifiable compliance. The Trust Portal answers with a live link — training records, form completion, corrective-action velocity, updated continuously — that any GC or owner can verify without a SALUS account. The prequal binder your estimators assemble the night before the deadline retires.

Stampede: a COR auditor left recommending them to others. On public and institutional prequalification, live verification is becoming the price of admission.
Plugged · one live link, any verifier
  1. 05/06

    The leak audit · plugged

  2. Same crews. Same headcount.

06
The leak
Turnover
Where the money drains
Skilled workers who leave because the office never listens
What it costs
$50K–$120K per departure
Retention is margin

In a skilled-trades shortage, being heard is a benefit.

Skilled-trades turnover runs high, and replacing a journeyman costs $50K–$120K plus the years of apprenticeship behind them. Workers leave companies where the field feels invisible. SALUS closes the loop structurally: the apprentice's hazard report becomes a tracked action with a name and a deadline, and they watch it close. Crews go from "the office never listens" to calling in improvement ideas — because they see changes happen in real time. The company that listens is the company that keeps its people.

Kayden: 100% adoption, zero training — when crews see the loop close, the most resistant worker becomes the advocate.
Plugged · the loop closes, visibly
A Q2 Safety Review screen with a green banner reading 'Concern logged → Corrective Action created'
Leak audit · 06/06 plugged

The growth you booked stops leaking
into admin, disputes, and goodbyes.

Same crews. Same safety team. One capture layer underneath all of it — and Rosie turning the facts into whatever the business needs to prove next.

⚜️ In Québec

Different regime. Same bid weapon.⚜️

In Québec the levers change but the play is identical. Swap your WCB/WSIB experience rating for CNESST tarification and the mutuelle de prévention — a 15–50% premium cut tied to your prevention program and claims record — and swap COR prequalification for Bill 59 readiness, where a formal prevention program and a health-and-safety committee are now mandatory and phasing in through 2026. The bid weapon stays the same: a live, French Trust Portal proving your prevention program and claims record to any GC, owner, or mutuelle manager on demand, with Rosie keeping it current.

CNESST tarification & the mutuelle

The same field capture builds the prevention-program proof a mutuelle de prévention rewards — a 15–50% premium cut tied to your program and claims performance.

Bill 59 readiness

A formal prevention program and a health-and-safety committee, phasing in through 2026 — documented as a byproduct of daily work, kept in French.

A French bid weapon

A live Trust Portal in French proves your record to any GC, owner, or mutuelle manager — without a SALUS account on their end.

Same play. Québec rules.

Trust Portal · live in French
The real business

What's left is the company you set out to build.

Chase the bid you actually want, not the one that's easy to defend later. Promote the superintendent who's ready. Walk a site because you chose to, not because something broke at 2 a.m. The margin the leaks were quietly taking — and the weekends spent reconstructing what happened — was never the business you set out to build. SALUS gives it back.

Growth

Bid bigger work and open new provinces without bolting on back office — the standard travels with every crew.

Margin

The quiet leaks — missing proof, blown prequals, disputed backcharges — closed before they ever reach the P&L.

Reputation

You're the contractor whose record wins the dispute, passes the audit, and gets invited back to bid.

Two company owners walking a commercial jobsite together, back where the business gets built
Back to building the business
Why it holds up

You've bought safety software before. This bet runs the other way.

The last platform became a dashboard nobody opened, because the field never fed it. SALUS starts with field adoption — earned by giving crews time back — and every business outcome on this page is downstream of that. No adoption, no receipts. That's why adoption comes first.

01

Crews capture

One QR scan, voice, photos, 20+ languages, offline. Faster than paper — which is why adoption holds without policing.

02

SALUS connects

Every fact carries worker, cert, task, site, and time. One record across every project and province.

03

Rosie delivers

Dispute packets, insurance reports, prequal proof, and site grades — drafted in minutes, approved by your people.

Crew-level facts in. Margin protection out.

FAQ

Asked by owners, answered straight.

Where does the $3M–$18M leak number come from?
It's an industry estimate for a $100M specialty contractor facing 35–125 commercially material dispute events per year — backcharges, unbilled extra work, delay claims, damage disputes. Your number is knowable: count last year's disputes and what you conceded because the proof was slow. That's the baseline a demo can be measured against.
How does this protect my experience rating in the rest of Canada — and work under CNESST in Québec?
🍁 Across the rest of Canada, fewer incidents and documented diligence protect your WCB/WSIB experience rating and your COR standing — the surcharge that follows every bid, and the rebate that drops to the bottom line. ⚜️ In Québec, COR doesn't apply: the same capture builds the prevention-program proof behind CNESST tarification and a mutuelle de prévention (a 15–50% premium cut tied to your program and claims), and supports Bill 59 readiness — a formal prevention program and a health-and-safety committee, kept in French. Either way, the record is a byproduct of the daily work, not a separate reporting burden.
What's the realistic ROI, and how fast?
Independent studies point to 3–4x ROI in year one and more by year two, driven by reductions in recordable rates and the insurance premiums priced on them. Customer-reported figures point the same way: $180K/yr of admin absorbed (LMS), $750/day in recovered foreman time (Brice), insurance reviews compressed from two days to under two hours.
The field ignored the last platform we bought. Why would this be different?
Because adoption is the product. Crews interact through one QR scan — no logins, in their language, offline — and the FLHA that took 30–40 minutes takes 10. LMS crews produce 250+ forms a day voluntarily; Kayden reached 100% adoption with zero training. Every receipt, report, and grade on this page is downstream of that adoption, which is why we lead with it.
Does this replace our safety director or admin staff?
No. It absorbs the clerk-work — compiling, chasing, formatting, binder-building — so the people you have cover more sites without burning out. A single safety professional now covers 100+ projects well. Growth without the next admin hire is the model, not cuts.
We're expanding into new provinces. Does the program keep up?
That's where Rosie earns her keep: describe the new job and she drafts the site-specific program from your master and the requirements that apply — new province, new GC, new scope. Standards deploy company-wide in minutes, and every site is graded against them continuously.
How does this fit with Procore and our existing stack?
SALUS owns crew-level capture and syncs upstream. Contractors turn the Procore integration on in days and eliminate double-entry. Your project system stays the system of record — it just finally receives complete, timestamped field data.
For specialty contractor executives & owners

Grow the business. Not the back office.

Bring your last backcharge, your renewal package, or the prequal you almost missed — and watch what your field data already contains, in a 15-minute demo.

One standard · Every site · Same headcount · Proof on demand