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Bookkeeping for remodeling contractors

Finally Know If You're Actually Making Money.

Most bookkeeping hands you reports built for your CPA — not for you. We give remodeling contractors the Clarity Brief: interactive charts, each with a simple explanation, that show whether you're making money and exactly where you could make more.

  • Built for remodelers
  • Plain-English reports
  • Job-by-job profit
Clarity BriefReconciled ✓
Revenue$482,900
Job Costs$311,400
Gross Profit$171,500
Most profitable jobRiverside Remodel · 34% margin
↑ 6%

Your numbers should make sense to you — not just to your accountant. Every remodeling contractor deserves to know if the work is actually making money.

Sound familiar?

Your reports were built for your CPA — not for you.

Traditional bookkeeping is designed for tax compliance and the accountants trained to read it. So you get a stack of statements each year and still can't answer the one question that matters: am I making money, and where could I make more?

You get a P&L built for your CPA — not for you to actually use.

The reports are full of jargon, but never answer “Am I making money?”

Job costs are a black box, so profit on each project is a guess.

You find out a job lost money long after it's too late to fix it.

Numbers get reviewed at tax time — not when you could still act on them.

Big decisions get made on gut feel instead of real numbers.

“Am I actually making money, or am I just staying busy?”

You shouldn't need an accounting degree to answer that about your own business. With the Clarity Brief, you don't.
We get it

We turn your books into answers you can act on.

We've watched too many remodelers work harder every year and still not know if it's paying off — buried in reports written for the IRS, not for the person actually running the jobs.

PureMint fixes that. We keep accurate books built for remodeling contractors, then turn them into the Clarity Brief — interactive charts, each with a simple explanation, so a business with a hundred moving parts fits on one screen and you can see exactly where the next dollar of profit is hiding.

See how we help
Clarity, not jargonInteractive charts you can explore and actually understand — no accounting degree required.
Job-by-job profitKnow your margin on every project, not just the whole company.
Built for remodelersWe speak your language: change orders, draws, retainage, and allowances.
Meet the Clarity Brief

Not a report. A dashboard you can actually read.

Every month your books become a set of interactive charts in your client portal — each one clickable, each with a simple explanation. A business with a hundred moving parts finally fits on one screen, so you can see what's happening and follow any number down to the detail.

Clarity Brief

Harborview Dental Group
June 2026
StableJun 1 – Jun 30, 2026

Revenue increased while profitability remained strong.

Revenue held steady against the prior month while direct costs stayed in line, keeping gross margin within its recent range. Net profit comfortably covered overhead.

Revenue$181,991
Project costs$123,754
Operating expenses$46,646
Net profit$11,591
Where every revenue dollar went%$
68.0%Project costs25.6%Operating expenses
  • Project costs68.0%$123,754
  • Operating expenses25.6%$46,646
  • Net profit6.4%$11,591
Total revenue$181,991+2% vs May 2026Last 12 periods.
What came inRevenue by source.
Services$181,991
Project costs$123,754Last 12 periods.
Gross profit$58,23732.0¢ of every revenue dollar left after project costs.
Spent delivering the workDirect costs tied to your projects.
Materials$43,561
Direct labor$39,849
Subcontractors$26,731
Other direct costs$13,613
Total operating expenses$46,64625.6% of revenue went to keeping the doors open.Last 12 periods.
The cost of keeping the doors openOverhead that doesn't belong to any one project.
Admin payroll$19,592
Rent$6,717
Vehicles$6,045
Insurance$5,150
Marketing$4,180
Other overhead$2,491
Utilities$2,472
Net profit$11,591−57% vs May 20266.4% net margin.
How the money flowedRevenue came in, project costs and overhead took their share, and this is what's left.$182KRevenue−$124KProject costs$58KGross profit−$47KOperating expenses$12KWhat's left
Net profit trendWhat the business kept each period.$40K$20K$0K−$20KJul 25AugSepOctNovDecJan 26FebMarAprMayJun
Net profitSame period last year▸ View as table
Cash runwayHow long the cash in the bank covers overhead.
2.7months
$112,230 on hand against $42,229 average monthly overhead.
Owed to youInvoices your customers haven't paid yet.
$50,957
  • $33,632Under 30 days
  • $12,12830–60 days
  • $5,198Over 60 days
Money in motionOther balances that shape your cash picture.
Bills you owe$36,398
Customer deposits held$21,911
Work done, not yet billed$48,920
Owner distributions this period$20,390
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See the takeaway first

A one-line summary tells you what happened this month — “Revenue increased while profitability remained strong” — then the charts below let you explore why.

2

Click into any number

Every chart is interactive. Follow the thread from the big picture down to a single job — revenue, margins, where every dollar went — without waiting on a spreadsheet.

3

A simple explanation on each one

No chart stands alone. Each comes with a plain-English note, so a complex business with a lot of moving parts is easy to read at a glance.

A month at a glance

Your whole month, in a few honest charts.

This is the shape of a Clarity Brief: the headline numbers, how revenue and costs moved, and exactly where every dollar went — each one you can read in seconds.

Revenue, year to date$471,000↑ +18%vs. same period last year
Average gross margin36%↑ +4 ptsacross all active jobs
Net profit, year to date$76,400↑ +22%what the business actually kept
Revenue vs. costsLast 6 months · $ thousands
Revenue Costs
JanFebMarAprMayJun
Where every revenue dollar goesThis month · share of revenue
  • Labor31%
  • Materials28%
  • Subcontractors14%
  • Overhead11%
  • Net profit16%

Sixteen cents of every dollar stays in the business — and you can see exactly why.

Inside your Clarity Brief

Which jobs actually made money?

This is the kind of view you get every month. Company-wide profit hides the truth — job-level margins show where you're winning, which project quietly ran into the red, and where to raise your price next time.

What we do

Accurate books, turned into clarity.

From day-to-day bookkeeping to year-end prep — one team keeping your numbers accurate, then distilling them into a Clarity Brief you can actually use.

The Clarity Brief

Interactive charts with simple explanations that show whether you're making money — and where you could make more.

Job Cost Tracking

See which jobs make money and which quietly lose it — while you can still act on it.

Monthly Bookkeeping

Your books kept current every month, so you're never behind.

QuickBooks Online Management

Set up and maintained the right way for a remodeling business.

Bank & Credit Card Reconciliation

Every account reconciled so your numbers actually match reality.

Accounts Payable & Receivable

Stay on top of what you owe and what's owed to you.

Payroll Coordination

Payroll handled in step with your books and your team.

QuickBooks Cleanup

Untangle a messy file and get back to a clean starting point.

Catch-Up Bookkeeping

Months (or years) behind? We'll get you current.

Year-End CPA Preparation

Hand your CPA everything they need — no last-minute panic.

How it works

Getting to clarity is simple.

Three straightforward steps to move from guessing to knowing.

01

Schedule a Discovery Call

We'll learn about your business, your current bookkeeping process, and exactly where you're feeling the pain.

02

Get Your Books in Order

We clean up whatever needs cleaning up and establish an accurate, reliable bookkeeping process built for construction.

03

Get Your Clarity Brief

Every month we keep your books current and open up your Clarity Brief — interactive charts, each with a simple explanation, showing whether you're making money and where you could make more.

What's at stake

Two ways to run a growing remodeling business.

With reports built for compliance

  • You work harder every year but never know if it's paying off
  • Reports are built for compliance, not for you to use
  • Profitable jobs are impossible to tell from the losers
  • Money leaks out of jobs you never had a way to see
  • Growth just means bigger decisions made in the dark
  • Tax season turns into a stressful scramble

With PureMint in your corner

  • You know — not guess — whether you're actually making money
  • You can read your own numbers without a translator
  • You see which jobs are profitable while you can still act on it
  • You spot where to raise margin before it costs you
  • Your CPA has everything they need at tax time
  • You make big decisions with confidence, not gut feel
Free download

The Remodeler's Profit Guide

A practical guide to the numbers every remodeling contractor should know — job costing, cash flow, and how to read your books to see whether you're actually making money.