The paperwork isn't the work. It just takes as long.

Penni Tech automates the document work that eats your week — certified payroll, submittal registers, change orders, closeout. Built for contractors and small businesses across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Washington, DC
Based in the District, working across the DMV
SAM Registered
Active small business entity, UEI Q3VTL5SPSU83
Fixed Price
Scoped, built, and live in three weeks

The Jobs Nobody Wants to Do Twice

These are the tasks that don't make you money but can't be skipped. They're also the ones a machine handles better than a person — because a machine doesn't get tired at page 300.

Submittal Registers

Specialty trade contractors on commercial and institutional work
Right now

A project engineer reads 400 pages of specifications and types every required submittal into a spreadsheet. One to two days per project. Miss one and it turns into a back-charge or a schedule delay.

After

The spec goes in, the register comes out — every submittal with its section reference, type, and stated deadline, and the long-lead items flagged. Minutes instead of days, exported straight into Procore or your existing log.

Certified Payroll

Anyone working Davis-Bacon or prevailing wage projects
Right now

Every week, on every job, somebody rebuilds WH-347 forms by hand from timecards. It has to reconcile exactly to payroll. Errors hold up payment and invite a closer look you don't want.

After

Timecards in, WH-347 out — reconciled, formatted for the awarding agency, ready to file. Every project, every week, without somebody's Friday disappearing into it.

Change Orders & Closeout

Document tracking from request through final payment
Right now

Documents live in email threads. Nobody's certain what's approved, what's still outstanding, or which missing piece of paper is holding up final payment on a job you finished two months ago.

After

Every document tracked from request to approval with a status anyone on the team can check. Closeout packages assemble themselves from what's already been collected.

Not a contractor?

The same thing applies anywhere documents move by hand. We build closing package assembly for title and settlement companies, and dues invoicing, renewals, and member record workflows for trade associations. If your team retypes information that already exists somewhere else, there's usually something here.


What You're Actually Getting

We're a small shop in Washington, DC. That's a real limitation and a real advantage, and it's worth being clear about both.

You work with the person building it

No account manager, no handoff to a team you never meet. The person on your first call is the person writing the code and the person who picks up when something needs fixing.

We build our own software

SAM Dashboard is a business management platform we built and run ourselves. We're not reselling somebody else's tool with a markup — we build what your workflow actually needs.

SAM registered small business

Registered and active, UEI Q3VTL5SPSU83. If you work public or federally funded projects, we already understand the paperwork that comes attached.

See it before you commit

Our submittal tool is built and running today. Send us a spec from a job you're bidding and we'll run it live on a screen share. No slides.


Start With One Thing

Not a platform, not a transformation, not a retainer. One workflow that's costing you real hours, automated and handed over.

The Automation Pilot
One workflow. Scoped, built, tested against your real documents, and in your hands.
Scope
One workflow
Timeline
Three weeks
Price
Fixed, agreed up front
Being early is worth something. We're taking a limited number of pilot clients at reduced rates in exchange for permission to write up the results as a case study. You get a better price and more of our attention than you would later. That's the trade, and we'd rather say it plainly than pretend the rate is a coincidence.

Four Steps, No Surprises

1

Twenty Minutes

Tell us the task that eats the most time. We'll tell you straight whether it's worth automating — including when the answer is no.

2

Fixed Scope

One workflow, a clear deliverable, a fixed price and a date. In writing before any work starts.

3

Build & Test

We build against your real documents and your real process — not a clean demo version that falls apart on contact.

4

Handover

It's yours. We train whoever runs it, document how it works, and stay reachable when something changes.


What's Eating Your Week?

Tell us the task, and we'll tell you whether it can be automated and roughly what that would take. Twenty minutes, no pitch. We reply within one business day.

Bring Us a Spec and We'll Run It

Send a specification from a job you're bidding. We'll build the submittal register live while you watch.

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