Introducing Klees: Construction Time Tracking, Reimagined for 2026

Klees is live. Today we are opening the platform to construction GCs, specialty trades, commercial cleaning operators, and janitorial companies across the U.S. and Canada. This is the post that explains why we built it, what’s in the box, and where we are going next.

If you are an operator running 15-plus field workers, this is the launch you should pay attention to. If you are running a workforce that includes Spanish-primary or Portuguese-primary crew members and your time-tracking app is English-only, this is the launch you have been waiting for.

Why we built Klees

The honest origin story. We came at this problem from two directions over the last 18 months.

The first was watching mid-market construction GCs and cleaning operators bleed money through buddy punching, missed clock-outs, multi-state payroll errors, and “where is the crew” phone calls. The cost was real and recurring. The tools to solve it had been on the market for a decade.

The second was watching the same operators tell us, repeatedly, that they could not get their workforce to use those tools. Spanish-primary cleaners and construction workers were either ignoring the app or being talked through every screen by a foreman who became a part-time translator.

These were two halves of the same problem. The legacy time-tracking apps — QuickBooks Time, ClockShark, busybusy — were designed for a 2012 construction workforce: smaller, more English-dominant, with simpler compliance posture and lighter customer reporting requirements. The 2026 workforce is bigger, more bilingual, runs across more states, and lives under tighter Department of Labor and state-level scrutiny.

The legacy apps were not bad products. They were correct products for the workforce they were built around. They are now the wrong products for the workforce that actually exists.

Klees is what we built when we asked: what does a time tracking app look like if you start from the 2026 workforce as the baseline?

What’s in the box

The core product. Available today on Standard, Pro, and Enterprise.

Crew Clock — 12 workers in 4 seconds

The foreman-led batch clock-in flow that is the operating reality of construction and cleaning crews. The foreman opens the app at the gate, taps Crew Clock, and confirms the assembled crew. Twelve workers in roughly four seconds. See the Crew Clock article for the deep dive.

PinShot — selfie verification with anti-spoof

Every clock-in captures a 1.8-second selfie with an anti-spoof score. Printed-photo and phone-screen attacks are caught. Borderline cases route to supervisor review without blocking the worker at the gate. We cover the anti-spoof model in detail here.

Live Map — every crew, every site, one screen

The dispatcher’s most-used screen. Every active worker shown as a pin, color-coded by status, across every active site. End the “where is the crew” phone calls.

Native EN / ES / PT UI

Every screen, every push notification, every audit-log entry available in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Workers pick their primary language at first login. The dispatcher messages in English and the worker reads in Spanish. Two-way translation built into the messaging thread.

Multi-state payroll consolidation

One payroll close, not five. Klees computes overtime under federal FLSA rules and applies state-specific overtime, meal-break, and prevailing-wage rules per state. The export to QuickBooks, ADP, or Gusto carries clean, state-coded, customer-coded line items.

Geofence time clocks that flex

Set a geofence per site. Pin secondary geofences for staging areas and parking lots. Shift the geofence in one tap when the site trailer moves on a post-construction job. See geofence radius article.

Mileage tracking, IRS-compliant

Logged automatically between geofenced sites at the current IRS standard mileage rate. Audit-grade record. No separate app. See the mileage tracking article.

Offline-tolerant capture

Buildings with no signal still record clock-in and clock-out locally. Entries sync when the phone hits service. No guessing based on the schedule.

Customer-level reporting

Hours-per-customer roll-ups for invoicing. The Customer Locator in the field, plus customer-level reporting in the dashboard. Defensible invoice support without spreadsheet work.

Pricing

Three plans. Honest pricing. No bundle traps.

Plan	Monthly	Per user	What you get
Standard	$32	$7	GPS time, geofence, Crew Clock, bilingual UI, basic reporting, QB connector
Pro	$48	$9	Adds PinShot, anti-spoof, Live Map, multi-state payroll, mileage, customer reports, audit log
Enterprise	$600 flat	100 seats	Adds SSO, dedicated CSM, custom reporting, custom retention

The 30-day free trial includes Pro features. No credit card required. White-glove migration is included for customers moving from QuickBooks Time, ClockShark, or busybusy. Full pricing details on the pricing page.

Who this is for, specifically

We built Klees with five operator profiles in mind:

1. GCs with 20-100 field crew running mixed self-perform and subcontracted work, often multi-state, with bilingual workforce.
2. Specialty trades — roofing, HVAC, electrical, concrete — running 15-50 person crews where job-costing accuracy is the margin.
3. Commercial cleaning operators running 25-500 cleaners across multiple metros, predominantly Spanish-primary and Portuguese-primary workforce.
4. Janitorial operators with multi-state contracts where consolidated payroll and PinShot identity verification are the operating need.
5. Post-construction cleanup crews moving between active GC sites with flexible geofences and customer-level invoicing.

If you recognize your operation in any of these, Klees was built for you. See the industries hub for the per-vertical playbooks.

The migration story

We do not expect operators to switch on faith. The migration playbook is documented and predictable:

1. Week 1: Data import via CSV from the existing tracker. Customers, sites, crews, foremen, cost codes, historical rates.
2. Week 2: Foreman training in EN or ES cohorts. Each foreman walks Crew Clock, Live Map, PinShot, Customer Locator.
3. Week 3: Rolling per-crew cutover. PinShot rollout one site at a time. Edge cases surfaced and resolved.
4. Week 4: Full payroll integration. First end-to-end payroll close on Klees.

Most operators are fully migrated and through their first clean payroll close within 30 days of starting the trial. The Alta Janitorial case study documents this in detail — hundreds of customer accounts across five states migrated in exactly this cadence.

Where we are going next

A short preview of what is on the roadmap for the next six months:

• Native ADP and Gusto integrations alongside the current connectors
• Equipment time tracking — clock equipment usage to job and customer like worker time
• Sub-foreman role tier for larger crews where the head foreman delegates batch-clock-in authority
• Spanish and Portuguese audio prompts in the worker app for hands-busy clock-in confirmation
• Customer-facing read-only portals for high-trust GC and customer relationships
• Expanded prevailing-wage handling for state-specific public-works compliance
• Native Canadian payroll for cross-border operators

We will ship these on the schedule the customer base needs. Operators on the platform get the roadmap visibility and the design-partner channel for what comes next.

What this launch means for the industry

The honest take. The construction and cleaning time-tracking category has been served by a small set of legacy products for a long time. Those products did their job. They are not the right products for the 2026 workforce.

We do not think Klees is the only company that should be building for this workforce. We think the category needs more attention to the bilingual reality, the identity-verification gap, the multi-state compliance surface, and the dispatcher operating model in cleaning. We are building what we wish existed when we were the operators living with these problems.

If you are a competitor reading this — build more. Build better bilingual support. Build real anti-spoof verification. Build dispatch that works at 30 sites a day. The customer base needs all of it. We will keep building our version.

If you are an operator reading this — start a trial today. See whether Klees works for your crew. Run it parallel to your existing stack for two weeks. Make the decision on data, not on marketing.

How to get started

Three paths in. Pick the one that fits your timeline.

1. 30-day free trial. No credit card. Pro features. Live in five minutes. Start here.
2. Walkthrough call. Talk to a Klees field-ops engineer who has worked with operations like yours. Book one here.
3. Migration consult. If you are on QuickBooks Time, ClockShark, or busybusy and want a scoped migration plan, we will scope it. Same link.

FAQ

Is Klees available in Canada?

Yes. Available today in the U.S. and Canada. Native Canadian payroll integrations land in the next quarter.

What does the trial include?

Pro features for 30 days. PinShot, Live Map, multi-state payroll, mileage, customer reporting, audit log, EN / ES / PT UI. No credit card.

Do you offer a discount for paying annually?

Yes. Roughly two months free on annual prepay across all plans. Detailed on the pricing page.

What if we are mid-contract with QuickBooks Time?

Start the Klees trial in parallel. Most QB Time contracts allow non-renewal with 30 days notice. We can scope a migration that hits your QB Time renewal date precisely. See the QB Time renewal article.

Are PinShot and bilingual UI add-on costs?

PinShot and anti-spoof are included on Pro and Enterprise. Bilingual UI is included on every plan, including Standard. No upcharges.

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