It's like having a labor attorney on every timecard — watching the job site live.
CDO is real-time labor-compliance software for field-services crews. It verifies every clock-in by GPS, tracks every break to the minute, and flags a problem the moment it happens — while the crew is still on the roof, not after the demand letter. Built on Claude. Bilingual by default. California-built.
CDO Intelligence: 7 unresolved exceptions before Thursday's payroll close — triaged by what costs you money first.
Most systems record the day. CDO judges it as it happens.
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.
Were they inside the geofence at clock-in?
Verified against the job-site boundary, not a self-report.
✓Inside the fence — verified 7:02 AMDid they clock in on the freeway?
Off-site and in-transit punches surface instantly.
⚑Off-site punch — exception createdWhat time did they actually reach the job?
Arrival captured, drive-time exposure flagged.
✓Arrival 7:14 AM — drive time loggedWas the meal taken before the fifth hour?
§512 checked live; a premium is pre-filled the instant it's owed.
⚑Meal at 5h 12m — premium pre-filledHow long was lunch — really?
Tracked to the minute, before and after the break.
✓31 minutes — cleanDid they leave the site early?
Clock-out location and time matched to the schedule.
✓Clock-out on site — matches scheduleThursday's tear-off,
confirmed on Monday.
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.
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.
Full Tear-Off — 2168 Canyon Drive
Thursday · 6:30 AM
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."
Same system.
Three very different texts.
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.
Something always comes up.
Now it comes straight to you.
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.
Full Tear-Off — 2168 Canyon Drive
Tear-off complete ✓Amanda · 1 photo · broken sprinklerJeff · fix photo + note — filed to job ✓
"Hey Eddie — 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?"
It reads the whole day. You sign off on six lines.
One assistant for the whole company. The roofer, the foreman, HR, and the owner all talk to the same brain — and it answers each of them in their role, in their language. When money moves, it drafts; a human approves.
Drafts the paperwork, never signs it
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.
A morning brief, not a dashboard
Every day at 5 AM the owner gets the day in plain language: who's where, what's flagged, what's owed — by email, text, or voice.
Every action audited
Each proposal, approval, and undo lands in an immutable 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.
A record the company can defend — and the crew can trust.
The same to-the-minute truth that shields you from a six-figure PAGA claim is what guarantees your crew is paid for every minute they worked. One system, two kinds of protection.
Defensible by design
- An immutable, time-stamped record built for PAGA, DLSE, and class-action defense
- Meal & rest premiums caught and resolved before they stack into six figures
- Buddy-punching, off-site, and freeway clock-ins flagged automatically
- Certified-payroll-ready on prevailing-wage jobs
Paid right, every time
- Paid to the minute — no rounding, no shaving, ever
- Every hour they worked is proven, not argued
- Breaks they missed are paid automatically, not "forgotten"
- Their whole time record, in their own language
Put one crew on CDO. If, in the first month, it doesn't catch exposure your current setup is missing — money you're losing or risk you couldn't see — we'll refund you.
1,500 clock events a week. Six need a human.
A 65-person crew generates 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. Two a day across a 65-person crew compounds into six figures a year — before penalties. CDO catches them while the crew is still on the roof.
Run your own math
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 at $29/user/mo. Full calculator with the 3-year lookback →
Clock in. The paperwork happens by itself.
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.
Built for gloves and sun
56dp touch targets, high-contrast dark theme. Designed for a roofer at noon — not a desk.
GPS does the paperwork
Geofence verification confirms every punch happened at the right job site. Off-site patterns surface automatically.
Pay to the minute
Device timestamp is authoritative. No rounding, no shaving — the math a wage-and-hour audit wants to see.
Spanish is not a setting
Every prompt, break attestation, and exception flow ships in English and Spanish. Pick once; CDO remembers.
Real screens. Real workflows.
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.
One shift. Zero paperwork.
Clock-in verified
GPS + geofence confirm the crew is inside the boundary. No signed form, no punch.
Incident filed from the tailgate
Photo, GPS pin, and signature — attached to the shift record, not a paper trail.
§512 watch, quietly
CDO reminds the foreman the meal is due by 11:58. Break logged on time — premium avoided.
Clock-out + signature
The timecard is attested on the phone, in English or Spanish. The day closes clean.
Payroll drafts itself
Hours, premiums, and exceptions pre-filled with context. A human approves — done.
Six capabilities. One platform.
Start with what you need — add the rest as your operation grows. Every capability is bilingual, built on Claude, and designed for construction from the ground up — not adapted to it.
Timecards
GPS on 4 events · zero rounding · pay-to-the-minuteMost time-tracking apps log a timestamp. CDO logs when and where — GPS coordinates on every clock-in, clock-out, lunch start, and break return. No rounding, ever. Then it audits the pattern: punch from the parking lot instead of the gate? 22-minute meal in a 10-hour day? A crew member clocking in for someone who isn't there? Off-site punches, buddy-punching signals, short breaks, missed meals, early walk-offs, and overtime triggers all flag automatically — GPS evidence attached. You see the exception. Your crew doesn't know you're watching.
Workforce
AI-moderated messages · <200msMost dispatch tools let you assign someone to a job and call it done. CDO manages the full picture — scheduling conflicts caught before they happen, foreman-to-crew history tracked, every crew message AI-screened for professionalism in under 200 ms and logged for the record. Who showed up, who switched sites, and who keeps finishing first? All visible from one board.
Field Intel
Live fleet map · shift trails · drive timeYour other tools tell you if someone 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 on Fridays. Live GPS map of your entire fleet, shift trails, geofenced punch validation — and off-site patterns that surface before you think to look.
Forms & Docs
Gate-locked to clock-in · UETA/ESIGN · 45-min onboardingYour crew is still getting paper at the tailgate and chasing DocuSign links the rest of the week. CDO gates pre-shift forms to the clock-in — no form signed, no punch allowed. Incident reports filed the moment they happen. Pay stubs, W-2s, and employment verification on demand — no HR ticket, no wait. New hire fully onboarded on a phone in 45 minutes, signed UETA/ESIGN.
Safety & Training
25+ CA-specific topics · Cal/OSHA audit trailMost safety platforms are the app your crew has installed but never opens. CDO builds training into the same flow they use every morning — 25+ California-specific OSHA topics, tailgate sign-offs, e-signatures, and certification expiration alerts baked into the clock-in. If a Cal/OSHA citation ever lands, your audit trail is already airtight.
Scorecard
Per-job · per-crew · legal CA performance payMost companies promote on gut feel and raise pay across the board. CDO measures it — efficiency, on-time rate, exceptions, and output per hour, tracked per employee and per crew, every week. Pay your best people more — legally, in California — with audited scorecards that satisfy the piecework exemption. No guessing. No violations.
Your pace, your call
Start with Timecards + Field Intel. Add Workforce, Forms & Docs, Safety, and Scorecard when the operation calls for it. Same platform, same engine — your CDO just takes on more.
Built on Claude. The same AI the Fortune 500 runs on.
Three Claude models route by role and task — sub-second responses for the field, deep pattern detection for the office, full strategic analysis for the owner. AI proposes; a human always approves.
In the field
Field worker · ForemanClock in and out with one tap, ask a question and get an instant answer in English or Spanish, start and end breaks, file an incident, and message the crew — every message auto-checked for professionalism.
In the office
Office manager · HRTriage the day's exceptions with a recommended action on each, prep payroll, run compliance review, and catch patterns across weeks of timecards before they turn into a problem.
For the owner
Owner · AdminRead a plain-language morning brief by email, text, or voice, track labor-cost trends and vendor spend, and run what-if scenarios across the whole operation.
Powered by Anthropic. As Claude gets smarter, your CDO gets smarter — at no extra cost to you.
Built for the most aggressive wage-and-hour state in the country.
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.
Meal-break math, automated§512
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.
Drive-time exposure, handled
Truck-start, on-site arrival, on-site departure, and home arrival treated as distinct events under Morillion v. Royal Packing.
Prevailing wage, tagged
Job-level prevailing-wage rates enforced at the punch level. Certified-payroll-ready every Friday.
Audit trail, immutable
Every flag, every resolution, every employee acknowledgment — captured, time-stamped, and exportable for PAGA, DLSE, or class-action defense.
Bilingual by default. No setting to toggle.
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, permanently.
"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, dual display, and dual storage handled by the Language Intelligence Layer. No human in the loop.
Try it on this page. The EN / ES toggle in the corner runs the same idea — flip it and every word follows you.
Stop paying for three tools. Start running CDO.
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.
per technician / month, as commonly reported — before the time-tracking and safety add-ons
per user / month — workforce, compliance, and safety in one bill
Published starting prices for leading field-service platforms, 2026. CDO replaces the workforce stack — your accounting and payroll providers stay.
Replaces the workforce stack. Keeps your accountant.
Hours, breaks, jobs, and exceptions flow from CDO into QuickBooks in both directions — and out to your PEO or payroll provider as a payroll-ready file. No double entry. No re-keying. No surprises on payday.
QuickBooks
Two-way syncCustomers, jobs, employees, time entries, and payroll items flow both directions. QuickBooks Online for Starter and Pro; Desktop via Right Networks for Enterprise. Every sync logged and reversible.
QuickBooks App Store listing for one-click install, plus deeper QB Time integration for customers who want CDO timecards inside QB on day one.
Your PEO or payroll provider
Payroll-ready exportsCDO generates the file your provider accepts — CSV, XLSX, or PDF. Meal-break premiums, overtime, drive-time, and prevailing-wage 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.
Gusto · QuickBooks Payroll · ADP · Paychex Flex · Prism HR · isolved · Asure · Vensure
The back office doesn't switch a thing. CDO sits between the field and your existing financial stack — it doesn't replace it.
Promote your CDO as you grow.
Three tiers, the same intelligence engine, escalating capability. Per user, per month. No setup fees, no per-clock-event nickel-and-diming, no annual contract required.
- CDO Time, Crew, Field
- All Claude models included
- 1–10 crew
- QuickBooks Online integration
- Email + CDO Help
- Everything in Starter
- + CDO Docs, CDO Score
- All Claude models included
- 11–40 crew
- QB Online + Desktop
- Email + chat + guided setup
- Everything in Pro
- + CDO Safe, full API, white-label
- All Claude models included
- 41–100+ crew
- QB Desktop (Right Networks)
- Phone + Slack + dedicated rep
Try it. If it doesn't catch real exposure in your first month, it's on us.
Straight answers, no sales call required.
What is CDO?
CDO (Chief Digital Officer) is a real-time labor-compliance platform for field-services companies — roofing, construction, and the trades. Built on Anthropic's Claude, it verifies every clock event, meal break, and job by GPS as it happens and surfaces only the exceptions that need a human decision.
Who is CDO for?
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.
How does CDO handle California meal-break compliance?
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 immutable audit trail behind every decision. Read the full meal-break guide →
Does CDO replace QuickBooks?
No — and that's deliberate. CDO syncs with QuickBooks in both directions 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.
Is CDO really bilingual?
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.
How much does CDO cost compared to ServiceTitan or BuildOps?
CDO runs $29–49 per user per month with no setup fees, published openly. Legacy field-service platforms don't publish pricing at all — independent analyses commonly report roughly $250–300 per technician per month to start, plus implementation fees, and they still need a separate time-tracking app and safety platform on top.
What AI does CDO use?
Anthropic's Claude — the full model family (Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus), matched to each task automatically: instant answers in the field, deeper work on payroll and compliance, owner-level analysis up top. Every plan gets all of them — you never pay for a smaller model. AI proposes; a human always approves before anything is written to your books.
Can my crew clock in from their phones?
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.
What is the penalty for a missed meal break in California?
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 →
Does CDO work outside California?
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 →
How long does CDO take to set up?
Days, not months — and no setup fees. Crew members onboard themselves from their phones in about 45 minutes, documents and UETA/ESIGN signatures included, and CDO imports your existing customer and job history so nothing starts from zero.
How is CDO different from ServiceTitan, BuildOps, or a time-tracking app?
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 →
Watch CDO run a real week.
20 minutes.
We'll show you CDO live on a working crew — GPS-verified clock-ins, breaks to the minute, the six exceptions it caught this week — and exactly what it would catch on your jobs.
Request your demowrite to us at team@cdohr.ai