CDO is real-time labor-compliance software for California roofing and construction crews. It checks every GPS clock-in, times every meal break to the minute, and flags a missed break while the crew is still on the roof — not months later in a demand letter.
CDO Intelligence: 7 unresolved exceptions before Thursday's payroll close — triaged by what costs you money first.
A 65-person crew generates about 300 clock events per day — clock-in, lunch-out, lunch-in, clock-out. No office can review that honestly. So nobody does — until the lawsuit. CDO reviews all of it and brings your team the exceptions, with context and a recommended action.
Weekly clock events reviewed by CDO — not by your office
Exceptions surfaced for human judgment — with context and a recommended action
California meal-break premium owed per missed break, per workday, per employee
Do the math the way a plaintiff's attorney would: one missed meal break = one hour of premium pay. One missed break per worker per week across a 65-person crew comes to about $108,160 a year — before penalties. CDO catches them while the crew is still on the roof.
Move the sliders to match your operation. The estimate is deliberately conservative — it excludes PAGA penalties, waiting-time exposure, and attorney fees.
Assumes $32/hr average loaded wage · one missed meal = one hour of premium pay (CA §512) · CDO by crew size: $29 (1–10), $39 (11–40), $49 (41+) per user per month. Full calculator with the 3-year lookback
The hard part of compliance is that it asks your office to review a thousand events a week and your crew to remember rules nobody handed them. CDO moves that work to where it belongs: one tap in the field, everything else automatic, and a short list of decisions for a human at the end.
Clock in on a phone with gloves on. GPS confirms the job site, the meal clock starts counting, and the time card begins writing itself — in English or Spanish, whichever they read.
Inside the geofence or not. Meal started before the fifth hour or not. Overtime crossing a threshold. Each check runs the moment the event lands — not on Friday, when it is already a liability.
The thousand clean events never reach you. What reaches you is the short list that needs judgment — each one carrying its evidence, the law it touches, and a recommended action.
Hours to the minute, premiums already priced, exceptions already resolved — exported in the format your payroll provider takes. Nothing posts until a person signs off.
Days, not months. No setup fees, no implementation project, no consultant. Your crew onboards from their own phones, and CDO imports the customer and job history you already have — so week one starts with your data in it, not an empty database.
A wage-and-hour claim is won or lost on documentation, and the days that sink a company are the ordinary ones nobody wrote down. This is what CDO files at the end of every shift — each line written by the device that recorded it.
Not one line of this was typed by hand. Every entry was written by the device that recorded it, and every later correction is itself a dated, signed entry. Ask for the demo and we will run it against a week of your own jobs.
Crews, names, faces, addresses, conversations and figures in the product illustrations on this page are illustrative.
The moment a worker taps clock-in, CDO is already asking the questions a wage-and-hour attorney would ask — and answering them with GPS, the geofence, and the device clock. Every shift becomes a clean, to-the-minute, defensible record. No reconstructing it later. No guessing.
One tap on a hot phone with gloves on. GPS confirms the job site, the meal-break clock starts counting, and the time card writes itself — to the minute, in the worker's language.
Meal closed — 30 minutes, on time. No premium.
Short meal — flagged for a premium decision.
Tap the screens — they work
56dp touch targets, high-contrast dark theme. Designed for a roofer at noon — not a desk.
Geofence verification confirms every punch happened at the right job site. Off-site patterns surface automatically.
Device timestamp is authoritative. Never rounded down, never shaved — the math a wage-and-hour audit wants to see.
Every prompt, break attestation, and exception flow ships in English and Spanish. Pick once; CDO remembers.
Meal-break law, drive-time exposure, prevailing wage, the conditional-waiver trap — CDO doesn't just track them. It catches violations in real time, drafts the resolution, and lays down the audit trail.
First meal before hour five. Second before hour ten. Conditional waivers tracked, voided when the day crosses 12 hours, and premium pay pre-filled into payroll.
Truck-start, on-site arrival, on-site departure, and home arrival treated as distinct events under Morillion v. Royal Packing.
Hours are tagged to the job at the punch, so prevailing-wage work is already separated by job when you need to report it.
Every flag, every resolution, every employee acknowledgment — captured, time-stamped, and exportable when you need to answer an audit, an agency inquiry or a claim.
CDO auto-detects whether each person is speaking, reading, or signing in English or Spanish — and renders both side by side when compliance demands it. Every form, message, and acknowledgment stored in both languages for the legal retention period.
"Heads up — your second meal break is due in 18 minutes. Want me to remind your foreman?"
CDO writes the prompt for the office, captures it for the audit trail, and translates it for the field in real time.
«Atención — su segunda comida vence en 18 minutos. ¿Le aviso a su capataz?»
Translation is automatic. A person reviews it before it becomes an official document.
Try it on this page. The EN / ES toggle in the corner runs the same idea — flip it and every word follows you.
The same to-the-minute record that shields the company from a six-figure PAGA claim proves to the crew they were paid for every minute worked. One system. Two kinds of protection.
First-month guarantee: if CDO isn't useful in your first month, tell us within 30 days of your first invoice and we refund that month's subscription fees. Guarantee terms
One assistant for the whole company. The roofer, the foreman, the office and the owner each ask in their own words and their own language, and each sees only what their role allows. It runs on leading AI models from providers such as Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, chosen per task. When money or a schedule would change, it drafts and a person approves.
Jobs, invoices, schedules, premium pay — the assistant proposes a complete draft with prices resolved and flags raised. Nothing is written until a human taps Approve.
Ask for the day in plain language — who's where, what's flagged, what's owed — instead of reading a dashboard.
Each proposal, approval, and undo lands in an audit log. The AI is an advisor with a paper trail — not an actor.
AI proposes. A human approves. Every time. That's the architecture, not a promise.
CDO iMessages your contractors and your homeowners from a real iPhone at your office — auto-drafted from the job record, approved by a human, and filed where it belongs. No apps. No portals. Blue bubbles.
Crews, names, faces, addresses, conversations and figures in the product illustrations on this page are illustrative.
On the left, the iPhone on your desk. On the right, the Mac running your CDO CRM. Watch one Thursday tear-off get confirmed — three days out.
Amanda · Reply + 1 photo — filed to job ✓
"Be careful with this one — inspect the driveway BEFORE you drive on it, and take note of the grass damage on the left so it's documented. I don't want it to crack and us get blamed."
The contractor gets logistics. The homeowner gets an introduction. The foreman gets the note — inside the CDO app. All three drafted from the same job record.
The homeowner texts a photo like any other message. The office turns it into a task in the CDO app. The fix comes back as a photo — on the same job record.
Amanda · 1 photo · broken sprinklerNate · fix photo + note — filed to job ✓
"Hey Ray — I don't know if it was the truck, but this sprinkler head by the driveway is broken. Should I send this to the roofing company, or to you?"
Start with what you need — add the rest as your operation grows. Every capability is bilingual and designed for construction from the ground up — not adapted to it.
GPS on 4 events · paid to the minute
A timestamp tells you when. CDO logs when and where — GPS on every clock-in, clock-out, lunch start and break return, paid to the minute and rounded up in the worker's favor. Then it reads the pattern, so the exceptions come to you instead of waiting to be found. Your crew sees the same record you do.
Conflict checks · message history
Putting a name on a job is not dispatch. CDO holds the whole picture — conflicts caught days before a crew is ever sent, foreman-to-crew history kept, and every message logged. Who showed up, who switched sites, who keeps finishing first.
Schedule board · live fleet map · drive time
Your other tools tell you somebody was at the site. CDO tells you where exactly, at what time, how long the drive took, and whether that route has been getting longer. The schedule board, the live fleet map, shift trails and geofenced punches sit beside the job itself — and the patterns surface before you think to look.
Gate-locked to clock-in · UETA/ESIGN · onboarding on a phone
Your crew is still getting paper at the tailgate and chasing signature links the rest of the week. CDO ties the pre-shift form to the clock-in itself. Incident reports filed the moment they happen; pay stubs, W-2s and verification letters on demand, no HR ticket. A new hire onboards on a phone.
25+ CA topics · audit-ready
Safety software nobody opens protects nobody. CDO puts training in the flow your crew already uses every morning — 25+ California OSHA topics, tailgate sign-offs, e-signatures and expiry alerts on the clock-in screen. If a citation lands, the trail is already built.
Estimates · invoices · payroll export · scorecards
Gut feel promotes the wrong man and raises everyone at once. CDO measures instead — output per hour, on-time rate and exceptions, per crew and per person, every week — and keeps the money beside it: estimates and invoices, and payroll exported from approved hours. Incentive pay on those scorecards is coming soon.
Start with Timecards and Jobs & Field. Add Workforce, Forms & Docs, Safety, and Books & Scorecard when the operation calls for it. Same platform, same engine — your CDO just takes on more.
No abstract illustrations. This is what your office manager and your superintendent actually see.
The week at a glance. Every foreman, every crew, every job — drag work onto a row and the crew is dispatched. One click on AI Optimize and CDO proposes the schedule for you.
Every crew, live on satellite. Geofenced job sites, GPS-verified clock-ins and outs, on-site time per worker — the map and the time records on one screen.
The compliance matrix. Every worker against every required certification — heat illness, fall protection, first aid — current, due, or expired at a glance. Cal/OSHA-ready without the binder.
Today's priorities: 7 unresolved exceptions before Thursday's payroll close. Valley Ranch Roof is over budget by $3,100 — recommend submitting a change order. Rain forecast Wednesday may affect 3 outdoor jobs.
The attention queue. CDO triages the morning for your office manager: missed breaks, geofence violations, pending invoices — sorted by what costs you money first.
Most field-services companies stitch the workforce together across three platforms — a CRM for jobs, a time-tracking app for the crew, a safety platform for OSHA. Three contracts, three logins, three bills. CDO collapses the workforce side of all three into one.
a field-service CRM, a time-tracking app and a safety app, each priced and billed on its own
per user / month — workforce, compliance, and safety in one bill
CDO replaces the workforce stack — your accounting and payroll providers stay.
Invoices and customers sync with QuickBooks Desktop, and hours, premiums, and exceptions go out to your PEO or payroll provider as a payroll-ready file. No double entry. No re-keying. No surprises on payday.
CDO syncs customers, items, and invoices with QuickBooks Desktop, hosted through Right Networks.
QuickBooks Online is coming soon, along with a QuickBooks App Store listing for one-click install.
CDO generates a payroll-ready CSV or XLSX for your provider. Meal-break premiums, overtime, and drive-time adjustments pre-calculated and labeled before they leave the system.
Direct API push to the major payroll and PEO platforms — a generic adapter, so every new provider is an implementation, not a rebuild.
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The back office doesn't switch a thing. CDO sits between the field and your existing financial stack — it doesn't replace it.
Pick the tier by the size of your crew. The intelligence engine is identical in all three — what changes is how much of the operation it runs. No setup fees, no per-clock-event billing, no annual contract. Prices are per active user per month, plus applicable taxes, billed monthly. The subscription renews each month until cancelled, and a cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing month.
CDO uses leading AI models from providers such as Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, chosen per task. The AI proposes; a person approves before anything is written to your records.
First-month guarantee: if CDO isn't useful in your first month, tell us within 30 days of your first invoice and we refund that month's subscription fees. Guarantee terms
CDO (Chief Digital Officer) is a real-time labor-compliance platform for field-services companies — roofing, construction, and the trades. It verifies every clock event, meal break, and job by GPS as it happens and surfaces only the exceptions that need a human decision.
Field-services companies with 10 to 100+ crew members — roofing contractors, construction firms, and skilled trades. Especially California companies that need wage-and-hour compliance handled automatically instead of hopefully.
Three ways. CDO is real-time — it judges the day while it happens instead of recording it for later. It is compliance-first — California meal-break law, premium pay, and audit trails are the core, not an add-on. And it is one platform — time, crew messaging, safety, HR documents, and scorecards in a single $29–49/user tool instead of three subscriptions. See the Connecteam comparison
CDO uses leading AI models from providers such as Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, chosen per task. The AI proposes; a person approves before anything is written to your records.
A 65-person roofing contractor in California, S&W Roof Tear Off Corp, is piloting CDO alongside its current time system. In the demo we show you what that pilot looks like — what it has caught and what it hasn't.
CDO enforces Labor Code §512 in real time: first meal before hour five, second before hour ten, conditional waivers tracked and voided when a day crosses 12 hours. Missed-break premium pay is calculated and pre-filled into payroll, with an audit trail behind every decision. Read the full meal-break guide
Under California Labor Code §226.7, each workday with a missed, short, or late meal or rest break owes the worker one additional hour of pay at their regular rate. Quiet violations compound fast across a crew — PAGA claims built on them regularly settle in six figures. CDO catches the violation the day it happens, pre-fills the premium into payroll, and keeps the proof. Estimate your exposure
English and Spanish by default, with no setting to configure. CDO auto-detects each worker's language, renders compliance documents side by side in both, and stores every record bilingually for any future audit.
Yes — CDO runs anywhere in the United States. Its compliance engine is built to California's standard, the strictest wage-and-hour regime in the country, and runs each state's actual rules — Nevada's two-tier daily OT, Colorado's COMPS triggers, Washington's fifth-hour meals, New York's spread-of-hours. See your state's rules
CDO costs $29–49 per user per month with no setup fee, and we publish it. Many field-service platforms quote per technician on request and add implementation fees. When you compare, ask whether their quote includes crew time tracking, meal-break compliance and safety records, and set it against the CDO tier for your crew size.
Days, not months — and no setup fees. Crew members onboard themselves from their phones, documents and UETA/ESIGN signatures included, and CDO imports your existing customer and job history so nothing starts from zero.
No — and that's deliberate. CDO syncs customers, items, and invoices with QuickBooks Desktop (through Right Networks), with QuickBooks Online coming soon, and exports payroll-ready files to your PEO or payroll provider. It replaces the workforce stack (time tracking, crew app, safety platform), not your accounting. Your bookkeeper stays.
Yes — the CDO field app (iOS and Android) clocks crews in with GPS geofence verification at the job site, tracks breaks with bilingual prompts, and works with gloves on: 56dp touch targets and a high-contrast theme built for outdoor sun.
Yes. CDO imports your customers, jobs and employees, and it can run beside Connecteam while you compare. During a pilot your current system stays your record for time and payroll; you switch when you're ready. See the Connecteam comparison.
Month to month, cancel any time. The subscription renews each month until you cancel, and a cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing month. You pay per active person per month, plus applicable taxes, so a seasonal crew costs nothing in the months it isn't working. New customers also get a first-month guarantee.
The AI never writes to your records on its own. It drafts, you see the evidence, and you approve, edit or reject. Every proposal, approval and undo is logged, and a missed-break premium is only paid when a person decides it is owed.
Your company is. CDO is software, not legal advice or a law firm. It surfaces the exposure and keeps the record so you can decide with the evidence in front of you; compliance still rests with your company and your counsel.
Your records belong to your company. Payroll-ready exports are built in, and if you leave we export your data for you within sixty days, as our Terms promise. We do not sell it, and AI providers may not train on it.
We run CDO against a real week on a working crew — GPS-verified clock-ins, breaks to the minute, the exceptions it caught — and then show you what it would have found on your own jobs.
Request your demorun the numbers on your own crew first
write to us at team@cdohr.ai
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