#26 Optimizing Progress Reports Through SMS feat. Ashley Kielbratowski (Harbr)

Build Our Future Podcast

If you don’t have good systems in place to streamline progress reports, they are often out of date by the time they get completed. Ashley Kielbratowski joins us today to talk about how she is helping solve this problem with the help of an unlikely technology – text messaging. Ashley is Co-Founder and GCO at Harbr which allows teams to handle communication, progress reporting, and invoicing via SMS. Ashley gives us an idea of her background and how she partnered with Dave Kim and began building out Harbr’s initial offering using a site rather than an office-centric approach. We talk to Ashley about what the app does, how to use it, and how it helps the entire vertical of a job from the back office to site supervisor and subcontractor. Ashley helps us understand what the onboarding process looks like and the benefits it presents to many different sectors of construction. Toward the end of our conversation we talk about what is in store for Harbr and Ashley shares some exciting optimizations they are making to streamline invoicing so that payments can be more accurately processed. Tune in and hear about how you can upgrade your progress reports and financials using one of the most basic and well-understood technologies that exist today!