Why an FDE | BundleBoB

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How the four options differ

Structural differences, not performance claims. The BundleBoB column describes how the engagement is designed to work — we are pre-pilot, so read it as intent, not track record.

	FDE (BundleBoB)	Hire your own	SaaS tool	Consultancy
One named person accountable to your finance leadNot a queue or an account manager	✓	✓	—	Rotates
Construction-native from day oneKnows what a WIP schedule and retainage are	By design	Depends on the hire	Varies	Varies
Stays after go-liveSame person keeps owning it	✓	✓	Support only	Leaves
Reusable work compounds across clientsNext engagement starts further along	By design	—	✓	—
You keep what is built if you leaveConfiguration and mappings are yours	By design	✓	—	Sometimes
Priced as headcount, not per seat or per jobA budget line, not a subscription that scales	✓	✓	—	—
Advisory — a person approves every actionEvery figure traces to a source record	By design	However built	Varies	✓
Recruiting and retention risk is yoursFinding and keeping the person	—	Yours	—	—

Don’t hire us if…

We would rather say this on the first call than the fourth.

•You already have two or more developers who know your ERP schema and will still be there in three years — building it in-house will cost less over time.
•Your field platform and your ERP are already the same product, and nobody is re-keying anything.
•You want a fully autonomous system that acts without a person in the loop. That is not what this is, on purpose.
•You need a signed reference and a track record before you will move. We do not have one yet, and we will not invent one.

We are probably a fit if…

This is the shape of firm the engagement is designed for.

•You are a mid-market commercial GC running a real ERP and a real PM platform that do not talk to each other.
•You have been trying to hire someone for exactly this and cannot find them.
•Month-end is a fight, and the WIP schedule lands weeks after the month it describes.
•You are willing to be an early partner and have a candid conversation about what is and is not built.

Security & data

Plainly: what is in place, and what is only design intent

The engineer will be inside your accounting and subcontractor data. You deserve a straight account of where the controls actually stand today — this is a pre-pilot demo, so most of it is design intent, not implemented and audited fact.

In place now

•A stated design principle that every client’s data is isolated per tenant, and that no client data trains anything shared.
•Advisory-not-autonomous as a hard product rule: a person approves every write-back to your systems.
•A commitment to source-traceability — every figure links to the record it came from.

Design intent — not yet in place

•Third-party audit or certification (e.g. SOC 2). None held. None in progress that we would claim.
•SSO / SAML, SCIM provisioning, role-based access, field-level audit logging — intended, not built.
•Independent penetration testing and a published data-flow diagram — planned before any pilot.
•A named legal entity, a data-processing agreement and stated data residency — not published yet.

When a control moves from intent to implemented, it moves columns here — not before.

Client feedback

We don’t have testimonials yet.

We do not publish a quote until a named person has approved the wording. When a contractor goes on record, their words will replace this section.

Bring us your worst month-end.

Tell us which of the four options you have already tried and where it fell short. We will tell you honestly whether an embedded engineer is the right next move.

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