Most systems show you the gap.
We fill it.
Live margin on every project — and when the programme is two bricklayers short, we place them onto that same job. Built by people who have run building sites, not just spreadsheets.
“Which one are you?”
Brick, VORDO
See the margin early enough to act.
Labour lands against the budget the day it is worked. When the programme is short, we place the trade onto that same job.
- Live margin per project
- Every site on one screen
- Trades placed on demand
Find work. Get paid.
Work near your postcode. Your hours saved as proof. Your invoice made for you.
- Free to join. Free always.
- Jobs near your home
- We never take a cut of your rate
Companies pay for the platform and for the trades we place. Tradespeople pay no commission on their rate, because the fee sits on top of the day rate rather than coming out of it. That is why good trades stay on it.
Why I built this.
I run a construction company, and before that I was on the tools. What this does is what I needed myself.
Read it instead
I run a construction company, and before that I was on the tools. So when I tell you what this does, I am telling you what I needed myself.
For years I ran jobs the way everybody runs them. Paper hours. Phone calls on a Friday. Everything else was on spreadsheets that I typed in myself, at night.
What used to beat me was simple. I only knew what a job really cost me after it was finished. By then it is too late to do anything about it.
And I lost days on the phone. Who turned up. Who got paid. What is left. The same questions, every week, to the same people.
Then I looked at what is out there. One tool for timesheets. Another for the programme. Another for invoices. Different logins, different subscriptions, none of them talking to each other.
And the ones made for construction were built for an office, by people who had never stood on a site. So I built it myself. Six years of my own mistakes.
What it does is one thing. The hours a man logs on site and the cost on your project are the same record. So I see my margin the same morning.
Not in March, when the job is already finished. And I see who is on every site without driving there. Nobody chases anybody for their hours any more.
And it is all in one place. The project, the people, the hours, what it costs, the invoice. One account. Not four subscriptions that never agree with each other.
I am not here to sell it. It worked for me, and I recommend you try it. Subscribe, and I look forward to hearing what you think.
Three ways to solve this.
Two of them are not us, and both are the right answer sometimes. Here is what each one actually does, and what it leaves you holding.
A project tool
The kind you have already been demoed
Good at
Drawings, programme, documents, snagging. If your problem is coordination, these are genuinely good and you should use one.
Leaves you with
Finding the people yourself. It can tell you that you are two bricklayers short on Monday. It cannot do anything about it.
Right when
You are fully staffed and the problem is keeping the job organised.
A labour agency
The number you ring when you are short
Good at
Bodies on site quickly. When you are desperate on a Friday afternoon, this is what works.
Leaves you with
A cut taken out of the rate, a worker who knows nothing about your job, and no record you own afterwards.
Right when
One-off cover, and you do not need the hours to join up with anything.
VORDO
Both, on one record
Good at
Running the job and staffing it from the same system, so the hours a worker records and the cost on your job are one number rather than two you reconcile later.
Leaves you with
A smaller pool than a national agency. We are early, and we say so — see below.
Right when
You want to stop carrying the gap between your software and your labour supply yourself.
Plenty of companies run a project tool and an agency side by side, and that works. The only thing we do differently is stop those two being separate.
Three steps. That is the whole of it.
Nothing here asks you to throw away what you already use. It adds the join between the hours worked and the cost on the job.
- 1
You set it up on a real project
Register, then add a job you are running now. Your own numbers, not a demo — so what you see afterwards is your site, not our sample data.
- 2
The site checks itself in
Two taps from the man on the job. The hours land against the project as they happen, so nobody is reconstructing a week on Friday afternoon.
- 3
You see the cost the same day
Not in March. And on the day you are short, you post the job and the rate you will pay, and we place the trade onto that same project.
One check-in. Both sides get the same record.
A worker taps in once. That single action is what pays him and what costs you — so there is nothing left to reconcile at the end of the month.
Elmwood Rd
Elmwood Rd — brickwork
LiveExample job. Your own figures are the ones you enter.
Tap in on site
Know the margin while you can still change it.
An overrun you see in week two is a decision. The same overrun in month four is a loss.
Live margin per project
Labour lands against the budget the day it is worked.
Every site on one screen
Who turned up, what it cost, what moved. No van needed.
Trades when you are short
You ask, we place. Only for the days actually worked.
Free through your first project. You hear the price before the pilot starts, not after.
Put VORDO where you can reach it.
VORDO opens in a browser. Nothing to install from an app store, nothing to update. Add the icon once and it opens like any other app — on a phone, and on a computer.
The three taps
Do them on app.vordo.tech, not here — the icon has to come from the system, so it opens straight into your own account.
iPhone
Safari- 1Open app.vordo.tech in Safari
- 2Tap the Share button
- 3Tap "Add to Home Screen"
It has to be Safari. Chrome on an iPhone has no "Add to Home Screen".
Android
Chrome- 1Open app.vordo.tech in Chrome
- 2Tap the three dots, top right
- 3Tap "Add to Home screen"
Computer
Chrome or Edge- 1Open app.vordo.tech in Chrome or Edge
- 2Click the install button in the address bar
- 3Click "Install"
It opens in its own window, with no browser bar. Firefox and Safari on a Mac have no install button — use a shortcut below instead.
Sign in first, then add the icon. That way it opens on your own jobs rather than on a sign-in screen.
Or take the files
For a computer with no install button, or for setting the icon yourself.
Shortcuts — double-click one and app.vordo.tech opens
The icon itself
The icon is the same one in the corner of this page. It is VORDO’s logo — use it to link to VORDO or to point at it, not as your own.
Where we work, and what we place.
Anyone in England, Scotland or Wales can register today. Placement is densest where the work is, and these are those places.
Fulham, London. The system works anywhere in the UK.
Every trade
We place bricklayers first, because that is what our companies are short of now. Every other trade can register today.
- BricklayerPlacing now
- Groundworker
- Carpenter
- Plasterer
- Dryliner
- Roofer
- Scaffolder
- Steel fixer
- Electrician
- Plumber
- Tiler
- Painter
- Plant operator
- Labourer
Where we work
A worker puts in a postcode and sees what is close. A company tells us where the site is and we place near it.
- London
- Birmingham
- Manchester
- Leeds
- Glasgow
- Liverpool
- Bristol
- Sheffield
- Nottingham
- Southampton
- Leicester
- Newcastle
- Cardiff
- Edinburgh
- Milton Keynes
- Reading
Where we are, honestly.
VORDO is early. We are building the trade side and the company side at the same time, because one is worth very little without the other. We would rather tell you that than imply a network we have not built yet.
What is real today: the platform runs projects, records hours from site check-in, and builds invoices from them. We place bricklayers first, and every other trade can register now.
Questions
What is VORDO?
A UK construction platform with two sides. Tradespeople find work near their postcode and get their hours and invoices handled. Companies run their projects, see their margin as it moves, and get trades placed when they are short.
Who pays?
The company. Tradespeople pay nothing to join, nothing to find work and nothing when they get a job. Our placement fee is charged to the hiring company, calculated on the day rate and added on top of it, never taken out of it. Paid extras for tradespeople, such as deeper reporting, are sold separately and are optional.
Where in the UK do you work?
Across England, Scotland and Wales. A worker puts in a postcode and sees what is near them; a company tells us where the site is and we place trades close to it.
Is this an agency?
No. An agency finds people and then knows nothing about the job. VORDO runs the project the work happens on, so the hours a worker logs and the cost on the company’s P&L are the same record.
What does it cost a company?
The platform is free through your first project, then a flat monthly subscription. Trades we place are charged separately, as a small percentage of the day rate and only for days worked. You hear both numbers on the first call.
Do I have to replace what I already use?
No. Keep the spreadsheet and keep the project tool. If either works, it stays. VORDO adds the join between the hours worked on site and the cost on the job, which is the part neither of them does.
Is the data mine?
Yes. Project costs, labour and payments export to Xero and to a spreadsheet. You can cancel whenever you like, with no notice, and your data leaves with you.
My lads will never use it.
It is two taps on a phone they already own — one when they arrive, one when they leave. They use it because it is what builds their invoice and shows them when they are getting paid. If it were only a monitoring tool for you, they would be right.
How long before I see anything?
The first day the site checks in. We set it up on a project you are already running, so there is no data to migrate and nothing to wait for.
So — which one are you?
Either one takes about a minute.