Solhunde AI Consulting for Western Canadian Industrial E&I Contractors

AI Consulting

Solhunde

AI Consulting for Western Canadian Industrial E&I Contractors.

A different angle on what’s possible.

Calgary, Alberta nathan@solhunde.com (403) 561-9384
  • 15 years inside Western Canadian industrial finance
  • Founder-led by a CPA. AMII credential badge AMII-trained
  • CFO-level judgment, not just technical capability
  • Every engagement. No handoffs.

The Problem

Three ways your margin leaves the building.

I spent a decade as Director of Finance at a Western Canadian industrial E&I contractor, and the part of the job I liked best was touring the branches. Every trip made the same thing clear. There was a gap between what the field knew and what Corporate saw. Somewhere in that gap was the money.

01

Rate Sheet Leakage

Every field ticket leaves small lines on the table. Premium hours billed straight-time. Travel not captured. Consumables missed. Over a year it adds up to six figures earned and not billed.

02

Manual Estimating

Spreadsheet bids assembled under deadline pressure, with yesterday’s prices and last year’s labour assumptions. Sometimes you lose work you should have won. Sometimes you win at the wrong price.

03

Field Ticket to Invoice Lag

Tuesday work. Friday ticket. OpenInvoice queue. Rejection. Resubmit. DSO climbs. The bank conversation gets uncomfortable.

What We Build

Start with an MSA Margin Check. Build out from there.

We find the revenue you earned and did not bill. That is the free first build.

The Wedge • Free First Build

MSA Margin Check

Payroll-to-ticket reconciliation against your MSA rate sheet. We cross-reference hours worked, premiums earned, and line items claimed against what was actually billed. The output is a specific dollar figure of revenue earned and not billed, with the flagged jobs that produced it.

Sample Output $60,175 unbilled revenue across 9 flagged jobs. Illustrative. Actual findings scoped to your data.

Mission Control

The ongoing visibility layer. MSA Margin Check trend over time, job-level margin, cash flow, crew utilization. Built on your data, for your operators.

Estimating & Bidding

Structured take-off and pricing workflows. Reusable templates for common project types. Win at the right price, not the wrong one.

Invoicing & OpenInvoice

Automate the field ticket to invoice path. Shrink DSO by getting clean invoices out the door faster, with fewer client rejections.

Inventory, SCM & Fleet

Visibility into what you own, where it is, and how it is being used. Inventory turns, fleet utilization, supply chain signal.

Dashboards, automations, and AI-assisted workflows are how we build these. The pain is what we solve.

Who This Is For

Built for industrial E&I contractors who are tired of running their business on spreadsheets.

What You Do

Industrial E&I. Oil and gas, power generation, mining, utilities, heavy industrial. Two baskets: daily field tickets on MSA rate sheets (85 to 90 percent of revenue), and competitively bid projects.

Where You Are

Western Canada. Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan. Calgary, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Fort McMurray, Kamloops, and the 50 other places your crews actually work.

What You Look Like

Owner-operated or operator-led. $10M to $100M in revenue. 30 to 300 employees. Real project controls. Real margin pressure.

If this sounds like your shop, read on. If it does not, we are probably not the right fit, and there is nothing wrong with that.

How We Work

Name the bottleneck. We build the first deliverable. The first build is free.

  1. Scope

    First conversation, in person when possible. Coffee, beer, or at the shop. You tell me where the money is stuck.

  2. Confirm

    As many conversations as it takes to get clarity. Align on scope, data, success metrics, timeline.

  3. Build

    We build the first deliverable. If it delivers, we talk about what comes next. If not, you walk away with something useful at no cost.

  4. Scale

    When the first build proves out, plan what comes next. Retainer or project-based. Terms scoped to the work.

Every engagement is founder-led. The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it.

The Founder

Nathan Holt, CPA

15 years inside Western Canadian industrial finance.

“The part of the job I liked best was touring the branches. Sitting across the desk from branch managers, listening to them complain about Corporate. That is where I learned the shape of this business.”

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Ready to see a different angle?

The first conversation is about your business, not mine. I want to understand where your time, your people, and your cash are getting stuck. If there is work I can do that you would find useful, the first build is free.

(403) 561-9384