Solhunde
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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.
AI Consulting
Solhunde
Build practical AI workflows for the operating work behind industrial E&I margin.
Founder-led AI consulting for Western Canadian industrial E&I contractors.
Margin leakage, estimating, invoicing, inventory, SCM, fleet, and operating visibility. We name the bottleneck, build the first useful deliverable, and only scale what proves its value.
- 15 years inside Western Canadian industrial finance
- Founder-led by a CPA.
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.
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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.
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Field Ticket to Invoice Lag
Tuesday work. Friday ticket. OpenInvoice queue. Rejection. Resubmit. DSO climbs. The bank conversation gets uncomfortable.
What We Build
Five build lanes. One focused first deliverable.
MSA Margin Check is one entry point. The broader work is operational visibility, workflow cleanup, and AI-assisted tools around the places margin gets stuck.
First Build • Scoped To The Bottleneck
Start where the money or time is stuck
The first build might be an MSA reconciliation, a Mission Control dashboard, an estimating workflow, an invoicing exception tracker, or inventory and fleet visibility. The right answer depends on your shop, your tools, and the pain your operators already feel.
Service Lanes
01-05
Margin, visibility, bidding, invoicing, inventory, SCM, and fleet.
MSA Margin Check
Payroll-to-ticket reconciliation against your MSA rate sheet. Specific deltas, flagged jobs, and a dollar figure your team can validate.
Mission Control
One view of the business: margin by job, AR aging, crew utilization, cash flow, and the operating metrics your team actually uses.
Estimating & Bidding
Structured take-off and pricing workflows. Reusable templates, historical cost signal, and faster revisions under bid pressure.
Invoicing & OpenInvoice
Status tracking, exception flagging, cleaner packages, and fewer dropped dollars across OpenInvoice, Cortex, and client approval queues.
Inventory, SCM & Fleet
Stock visibility across yards and trucks, fleet utilization, maintenance scheduling, and equipment earning-vs-sitting visibility.
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.
How We Work
Name the bottleneck. We build the first deliverable. The first build is free.
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Scope
First conversation, in person when possible. Coffee, beer, or at the shop. You tell me where the money is stuck.
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Confirm
As many conversations as it takes to get clarity. Align on scope, data, success metrics, timeline.
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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.
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Scale
When the first build proves out, plan what comes next. Retainer or project-based. Terms scoped to the work.
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.”
Read more about Nathan
CPA operator
Fifteen years inside Western Canadian industrial finance, including senior operating roles where branch-level margin pressure was visible every month.
Industrial first
Built for E&I contractors, field tickets, MSA rate sheets, OpenInvoice friction, working capital, and the realities of branch operations.
No handoffs
The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it, validates it, and explains the result.
Before We Start
A few reasonable questions before sharing operational data.
What data do you need?
It depends on the first build. We agree on the system exports, spreadsheets, rate sheets, tickets, invoices, or inventory data needed before anything is shared.
What does free mean?
The first focused build is free: one bounded deliverable, one useful output, and a clear conversation about whether there is enough value to continue.
How is confidentiality handled?
Conversations are confidential. If source data is needed, we can start with a mutual NDA and limit the sample to only what is required for the check.
What happens after?
If the first build proves out, we decide whether to scale the workflow, build a dashboard, automate a recurring process, or stop with the findings in hand.
Start with the bottleneck.
The first conversation is about where your time, your people, and your cash are getting stuck. If there is a focused build worth doing, the first build is free.
Talk through your bottleneck (403) 561-9384Or email nathan@solhunde.com