Job costing, WIP, progress billing, and the cash flow discipline that keeps projects — and payroll — funded. Keel runs the finance function for growing contractors.
Since 2006 · 500+ companies served · $360M in client revenue managed annually
A contractor’s books fail differently. Revenue that hits the bank months after the work. Retention held on every invoice. Costs that belong to a job, not a month. A P&L that says you’re profitable while the bank account says you can’t make payroll.
Generic bookkeeping records all of it accurately and tells you almost nothing. To run a construction company you need to know what each job is really costing, where each project stands against its billing, and what cash looks like eight weeks out — before you commit to the next bid.
Keel has run the books for Southern California contractors since 2006 — general contractors, solar installers, painters, plumbers, and specialty trades across San Diego County, Orange County, and the Inland Empire. We know the local landscape: prevailing wage jobs, California payroll compliance, and the subcontractor ecosystems your projects run on.
Headquartered in Oceanside — and because the whole engagement runs through your cloud stack and client portal, we serve contractors anywhere in the country just as well.
Books structured around jobs, not just months.
The reports a construction company actually runs on.
CFO judgment for the decisions that shape the company.
We connect your project management to your accounting so job data flows without re-entry — and the numbers in the field match the numbers in the books.
Buildertrend
Procore
ServiceTitan
QuickBooks
Bill.com
Gusto
A2 Energy
Aladdin's Plumbing
Amalina
Chillers Services Refrigerants
JTC Estates
Mason Reconstruction
Moody Outdoors
Surfside Developers
"Our company has been using DOAAR's services for all of our bookkeeping needs since 2011. Extremely detail oriented, competent, friendly and knowledgeable. Everything you want in your accounting company to know your business is in good hands. We have and will continue to recommend their services to any company that wants good, quality service and peace of mind."
Kelly Johnson · Office Manager, JTC Estates, Inc
Every Keel client works from a live portal — executive summary, standard reporting, controller and CFO views, and workflows, refreshed on your service cadence. The demo shows the full Keel service stack; your portal is tailored to your engagement.
Explore the Demo PortalYes. We work inside the tools contractors already use — Buildertrend, Procore, ServiceTitan — and connect them to QuickBooks so job data and accounting data stay in sync without manual re-entry.
Yes. WIP schedules, job cost reports, and margin-by-job analysis are core monthly deliverables for our construction clients, posted to your client portal.
No. We run most construction clients on QuickBooks, structured properly for job costing, and integrate it with your project management stack.
Value-based and transparent — built from a published service catalog, not hourly billing. Build your own estimate in about two minutes. No contact info required.
A controller, once job volume makes the monthly close and WIP too complex for a bookkeeper alone. A CFO, when the decisions get bigger than the books: financing, bonding capacity, equipment, acquisitions, exit.
A 60-minute call about your projects, your books, and what a finance department would change. Or price it yourself first.
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