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OPERATING EXPERIENCE · CONNECTED SOFTWARE

CREATE ROOM TO LEAD.

IAC works alongside your team to improve daily operations. We’re building OVERLYN to connect trade contractors and field operations around the way you work.

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Who it’s for

Many trades. Connected operations.

Built around the way your operation works. For trade contractors and field service businesses that need their people, projects, equipment, and business information connected—from the field to the office.

  • Plumbing
  • Electrical
  • HVAC
  • Concrete
  • Flooring
  • Siding
  • Roofing
  • Masonry
  • Drywall
  • Painting
  • Sitework
  • Specialty Contractors
  • Field Services
  • Trucking & Transport
OVERLYN Platform in development

See the business
behind the work.

Lead it with confidence.

OVERLYN is being built to connect your whole operation—from winning work and delivering projects to understanding business performance.

Our starting point is crew dispatch and field time, connected through one shared Core.

One Day with OVERLYN

Chapters:

A closer look at the workflow

Choose a stage to explore its screens and short previews.

A clear plan for the day.

Development preview

Build the crew plan, resolve assignment gaps, and publish the day’s work from one place.

Silent

People & operating environment

Every crew, asset,
and hour matters.

Clear handoffs keep work moving between the yard, the field, the project team, and the office. OVERLYN is being built to connect that work across trade contractors and field operations.

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Access & hoist operations: Urban facade and access contractors coordinate equipment, operators, and site windows where timing affects the whole job.

OVERLYN Connected Platform Architecture

Every part of your
business. Connected.

Start with the modules you need. Connect through one Core. Shape the system around how your business works.

OVERLYN Platform Vision · In Development. Explore each app and its stage of development.
Commercial, Planning & Field Execution
Resources, Cost, Billing & Intelligence
Central Foundation

OVERLYN Core

Shared Foundation · In Development Standard Settings · Supported Configuration · Scoped With IAC

The required shared foundation for people, customers, sites, jobs, permissions, and history.

Connected Through Core & Your Business Logic: Workflows, roles, approvals, and cost structures are shaped through standard settings, supported configuration, and extensions scoped with IAC.

Optional Existing Systems · Planned Connections

Plan connections around the systems you keep.

Existing CRM: Optional Commercial Intake Handoff Existing Payroll / HRIS: Approved Time Packet / Draft CSV Export Existing Accounting / ERP: Separate Reviewed SOV & Billing Handoff
Modules, lifecycle & development stages
Shared Operational Record

One shared Core across all 13 application areas.

The platform vision connects one shared record across all 10 stages, from first inquiry to closeout, so customer, site, and job fundamentals can carry forward without re-entry.

10-Stage Connected Job Lifecycle Entered Once · Shared End-To-End
  1. 01Inquiry / Bid Invite
  2. 02Opportunity & Estimating
  3. 03Award & Scope
  4. 04Job Setup
  5. 05People, Resources & Purchasing
  6. 06Planning & Field Execution
  7. 07Separately Reported & Approved Work
  8. 08Cost & Changes
  9. 09SOV & Billing Handoff
  10. 10Closeout

Your Business Logic

3 Configuration Tiers

Configured around your operation: Standard settings handle everyday structure; supported configuration adapts workflow stages, approval rules, and cost structures; deeper extensions are scoped with IAC.

01 · Standard Settings 02 · Supported Configuration 03 · Scoped With IAC

Cross-Platform Responsibility

Built Into Core

Shared foundation governance: Platform reliability, security, permissions governance, and operational hardening are built across the shared foundation rather than sold as a separate app.

Reliability Security Permissions Governance Operational Hardening

Initial Entry Point · Prototype

Dispatch: Daily crew and truck whiteboard scheduling, look-ahead planning, qualification checks, and published schedule revisions.

Time & Approvals (Workforce & Time Approvals Prototype Workflow): Foreman mobile crew plan and actual-hour confirmation, digital sign-off, superintendent day validation, and draft CSV payroll entry preparation.

Planned Module

CRM & Inquiries: Customer context, site history, opportunities, and commercial intake into operations.

Project Management: Awarded scope, job phases, change tracking, documents, and closeout visibility.

Purchasing & Equipment: Vendor purchase orders, subcontractors, owned equipment, fleet vehicles, specialized assets, and rentals.

Safety & Documents: Worker certifications, site credentials, and controlled project documentation.

Automation & Insights & BI: Configurable cross-department workflow actions, exception alerts, and executive decision support.

Planned Module · Planned Concept

Job Costing & SOV & Billing: Planned-versus-actual labor and cost visibility, change impacts, and reviewed Schedule of Values progress-billing preparation.

Planned For Later

Estimating & Inventory: Scope takeoffs and labor assumptions informed by historical actual hours, plus yard, warehouse, and jobsite material availability.

Time capture & system handoffs
Time-Capture Ownership Architecture

Clear ownership from scheduled work to approved handoffs.

Planned schedule hours and Reported worked hours stay distinct: a schedule never auto-fills a timesheet, and reported hours require supervisor validation before payroll preparation.

Three Time-Capture Ownership Paths Matched To Your Operation
  1. Path 01Capture & Approve In OVERLYN Time Prototype

    Field teams confirm actual hours in OVERLYN Time and superintendents validate against Dispatch context before payroll preparation.

  2. Path 02Existing App To OVERLYN Time Review Planned Integration

    Intended path would map approved external clock-ins into OVERLYN Time for supervisor exception review against scheduled jobs before payroll export.

  3. Path 03Keep Both In Existing System Planned Integration

    Time capture and sign-off would remain in your existing payroll or ERP tool with an agreed approved-hours handoff into OVERLYN Core.

Schedule Vs. Timesheet Boundary

Core Data Integrity

Explicit supervisor sign-off required: Dispatch publishes the daily crew plan, Foremen confirm or adjust actual worked hours on mobile, and Superintendents validate the day before any time card queues for payroll.

Planned Schedule Reported Hours Supervisor Sign-Off

Distinct Downstream Operational Handoffs · 01

Prototype Workflow

To Payroll Preparation (Prototype Workflow): Approved time packet ready for payroll export and draft CSV entry across validated crew cards, keeping foreman edits locked after superintendent validation.

Validated Time Packet Locked Foreman Edits Draft CSV Export

Downstream Operational Handoff · 02

Prototype + Planned Concept

To Job Baseline & Costing (Prototype + Planned Concept): The Job View prototype structures job phases, planned labor, and remaining hours; planned capabilities would connect validated field hours to cost and margin tracking.

Active Labor Baseline Planned Vs. Actual Planned Cost Context

Downstream Operational Handoff · 03

Planned Concept

To Accounting Or ERP Workflow (Planned Concept): Reviewed SOV progress-billing and T&M change documentation route separately to accounting so payroll and project billing stay distinct.

Reviewed SOV Summary T&M Change Documentation Separate From Payroll

Downstream Operational Handoff · 04

Planned For Later

To Estimating (Planned For Later): Actual hours for future estimating remain linked to the completed job scope so future bids draw on validated field history rather than unverified assumptions.

Actual Hours By Phase Completed Job Scope Future Bid Baselines

Why IAC exists & how we work

Create room to work
on the business.

We combine operating experience and connected software to help owners, leaders, and teams spend less time holding daily operations together—and more time improving the business.

Clearer decisions.

Connect people, projects, field activity, and financial performance while work is underway.

Stronger control and profitability.

Protect labor, equipment, and scope margin through clearer handoffs and better operating decisions.

Growth and continuity.

Build repeatable workflows that support resilience, growth, and leadership or ownership transitions.

Working with IAC

OVERLYN is the platform.
IAC works alongside your team.

Our experience spans field operations, coordination, project management, finance, and leadership. We work with your team to define business logic, configure systems, and support daily adoption.

  1. 01

    Understand the operation

    Trace the handoffs and find where time, information, or accountability gets lost.

  2. 02

    Define the business logic

    Define workflow stages, responsibilities, approval rules, and job structures.

  3. 03

    Implement & connect

    Implement the agreed improvements, with OVERLYN capabilities, extensions, and system connections scoped to their readiness.

  4. 04

    Embed & improve

    Support adoption, review results, and improve the way the operation runs.

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Built for the people doing the work: Software should respect field workers’ time with straightforward crew plans and fast, honest time confirmation.

The build journal

Behind the thinking.
Inside the work.

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Purpose

Why we are building IAC

We are building IAC to turn operational knowledge into systems people can understand, use and improve—and to help those people grow with the business.

Working methods

Making the next action clear

A status label is only a start. A useful operational record also makes ownership, missing inputs and the evidence of completion visible.

Platform development

What OVERLYN needs to get right

Why OVERLYN starts with Dispatch and Time & Approvals on one shared Core—and grows toward a connected business.

Start a conversation

Talk with IAC.

info@iac-ops.com

Tell us where work gets harder to coordinate, where information gets lost, or what you want the business to become. We can explore operational improvements, OVERLYN, or connections around the systems you keep.

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Three useful places to begin

  1. 01

    Where does your team lose time chasing answers?

  2. 02

    Which handoffs depend on one or two key people?

  3. 03

    What needs to improve for greater control, growth, or an ownership transition?

Development preview · Synthetic data

Expanded OVERLYN product screen