About
Hammr builds an all-in-one construction payroll, time-tracking, job-costing, HR, benefits, and operations platform for contractors. Its differentiation is that the software is purpose-built for construction, supporting field workers, foremen, back-office teams, prevailing wages, union rates, and compliance rather than adapting generic payroll tools.
Market
Hammr competes in construction-focused workforce-management, HR, and payroll SaaS, spanning field time tracking and scheduling through payroll, job costing, benefits, and compliance. It positions itself as an all-in-one solution—effectively “Rippling for the construction industry”—purpose-built for contractors rather than a generic payroll tool. Its differentiation is support for prevailing-wage and certified payroll, union and multi-rate rules, W-2 and 1099 workers, and construction-specific labor costing, replacing paper time cards, spreadsheets, and disconnected providers.
Hammr targets contractor organizations—especially specialty contractors serving government, higher education, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure projects—with complex payroll, workforce, and compliance needs. Its primary users and buyers are business owners, back-office administrators, foremen, and field workers.
At a Glance
Problem
Construction contractors often stitch together generic payroll systems, paper timecards, spreadsheets, and separate field tools that were not designed for construction’s complexity. The result is substantial administrative work, error-prone handoffs, and compliance exposure around multiple pay rates, union rules, prevailing wage, certified payroll, overtime, and job costing. The killer use case is a specialty contractor running multiple crews or government and union projects that needs to convert field hours into accurate payroll, compliance reports, and project costs without expanding the back office.
The pain is economically tangible: Hammr says customers can avoid hundreds of hours of administrative work and cites one customer saving more than 500 hours and $52,000 annually on payroll. The underlying value proposition is therefore not simply payroll convenience; it is reducing labor overhead, avoiding fines and reporting mistakes, and giving owners better visibility into the true cost and profitability of each job.
Product / Service
Hammr is a cloud-based, all-in-one payroll, HR, compliance, and field-operations platform built specifically for construction. It combines multi-rate, union, prevailing-wage, and certified-payroll processing with time tracking, scheduling, messaging, benefits, onboarding, employee records, job costing, and tax filings. Its mobile app captures field time through GPS-stamped, geofenced, offline-ready workflows, supports English and Spanish, and connects the jobsite to office payroll and accounting systems such as Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, Acumatica, Xero, and NetSuite.
The delivery model combines software with high-touch implementation and support: Hammr offers migration, training, a dedicated account manager, and construction-focused phone, email, and chat support. The benefit is a single field-to-finance workflow that reduces manual data entry and payroll processing time while improving field adoption and compliance; Hammr and its Sage Intacct marketplace listing claim administrative reductions of up to 90% for some customers.
Market
Hammr competes in vertical construction payroll and HCM, workforce-management, and field-to-finance software. Its closest overlapping alternatives include construction-focused providers such as Miter and Payroll4Construction, as well as broader payroll and HR platforms such as ADP Workforce Now for Construction and Paycor. Hammr’s positioning is to offer the construction-specific compliance and job-costing depth of vertical tools with a simpler mobile experience, rather than forcing contractors to combine generic payroll with spreadsheets and disconnected field systems.
The company is not pre-revenue: its YC launch profile says it landed its first five paying customers and replaced providers including QuickBooks, ADP, and Gusto for early customers. Hammr’s current website and marketplace profile publish customer testimonials and case studies, including reported savings of 670 hours and roughly $30,000 for Custom Masonry, while the company is listed by Y Combinator as an active Winter 2023 company. Revenue, market share, and independently verified customer counts are not publicly disclosed, so the strongest visible traction is its paying-customer history, active product, customer references, and reported operational savings rather than a disclosed financial scale.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Recent News
Hammr’s case study describes how RTM reduced weekly prevailing-wage payroll preparation from 10–12 hours to about seven minutes after switching from Paychex. The company reportedly saved more than 615 hours and $35,000 annually, while gaining real-time labor-cost visibility and Intuit Enterprise Suite integration.
Hammr partnered with Beneco, part of FuturePlan by Ascensus, to provide contractors with a combined prevailing-wage payroll, HR, compliance, and fringe-benefit solution. The announcement says the offering can reduce payroll taxes and administrative work while supporting certified-payroll reporting and benefits optimization.
RedHammer announced a partnership with Hammr to connect construction payroll, time tracking, and compliance data with job costing, WIP reporting, and financial systems. The collaboration is intended to reduce manual adjustments, improve margin visibility, and strengthen forecasting and monthly close processes.
Hammr announced its partnership with construction-accounting provider RedHammer, giving customers access to accounting, job-costing, WIP-reporting, software-implementation, and turnkey back-office support. The partnership connects Hammr payroll and HR data with systems such as QuickBooks Online Advanced and Intuit Enterprise Suite.
Brek Goin, Hammr’s CEO, appeared in a video interview discussing the company’s construction payroll, HR, and operations platform. The coverage identifies Hammr as a contractor-focused construction payroll and HR business.
Hammr was listed in the Sage Intacct Marketplace as a construction payroll and HR platform integrated with Sage Intacct. The listing highlights payroll, prevailing wage and certified-payroll reporting, HR, time tracking, compliance, and direct synchronization of payroll journals and job costs.
Active Roles
1Business Model
Hammr sells business software to construction contractors through a quote-based model. Marketplace information indicates pricing depends on the modules selected and the number of employees served.