Pillar Co.
Case Study · Construction operations & efficiency
Omri Zerah

"Knightica pulled our whole operation into one place. For the first time we see real cost-to-complete on every site as it happens, not weeks later, so we catch overruns while we can still do something about them. The manual reporting is gone and my team has its time back. Sharp, reliable, and a real step change for how we run projects."

Omri Zerah · CFO
★★★★★
01 / The Client

Client snapshot

Pillar Co. is a construction company running several active sites at once, with project managers, subcontractors and suppliers moving in step on every one of them. Each project is a moving budget of materials, labor and deadlines, and Pillar delivers them side by side.

Industry
Construction
Scale
Multiple active sites
Teams
PMs & subcontractors
Focus
Margin per site
Cadence
Weekly reporting
Pillar Co. construction site
02 / The Problem

Overruns surfacing weeks too late

Weeks
of lag before a cost overrun surfaced, once it was already expensive to fix.
Scattered
the numbers that decide a project's margin lived in spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads and the project managers' heads.

Numbers everywhere

Budgets, invoices and progress scattered across spreadsheets, chat threads and memory, with no single view.

Hand reconciliation

Budgets, subcontractor invoices, material orders and site progress matched up manually, line by line.

Late overruns

By the time a budget line broke, weeks had passed and the cheap moment to fix it was gone.

Reports by hand

Management's margin picture depended on someone in finance assembling a report manually, every time.

03 / Process & Build
Discovery & Build
Month 1

Mapping the money

Traced how budgets, purchase orders, subcontractor costs and site progress actually flow across every active project.

Month 2

One operations layer

Built the single live view that pulls every site's budget, purchase orders, costs and progress into one place.

Month 3

Automatic matching

Invoices and material orders flow in automatically, get matched to the budget line they belong to, and flag any overrun the moment it appears.

Rollout
Month 4

Sites onboarded

Every active site runs in the live view, with project managers and finance working off the same numbers.

Month 4

Weekly reports live

Automated reports reach management with real cost-to-complete per project, no hand-built spreadsheets.

Month 4

Real-time control

Overruns get caught while they can still be fixed, and decisions run on current numbers instead of last month's.

04 / Selected Workflows
Budgets Purchase orders
System 01 · Wave 1

Site Cost Engine

  • Every site's budget, purchase orders, subcontractor costs and progress in one live view
  • Invoices and material orders matched automatically to their budget line
  • Overruns flagged the moment they appear, not weeks later
  • Project managers and finance working off the same numbers
Reports Alerts
System 02 · Wave 2

Reporting & Alerts

  • Automated weekly reports with real cost-to-complete per project
  • A clear margin picture per site, delivered without anyone building it by hand
  • Alerts the moment a line breaks its budget
  • The finance team freed from manual reconciliation and reporting
05 / Impact by the Numbers
Real time
Cost tracking that used to lag by weeks
Weekly
Margin picture for every site, with no hand-built reports
Days
Returned to the finance team every month
Every site
Budgets, orders and progress in one live view