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Workyard

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Velocity6.3

Workyard bolts embedded fintech and a plain-English time assistant onto its construction workforce app

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◆Current state
Workyard is expanding beyond time tracking on two axes: embedded fintech (Business Checking, expense cards with automatic balance top-up, in-app ACH funding, QuickBooks expense export) and AI (a Time Assistant that cleans up a full pay period of time cards from plain-English instructions). Core workflow features — professional PDF reports, QuickBooks overtime mapping, Smart Forms — continue in parallel.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is a workforce-operations platform for construction that owns the money movement (banking, cards, payroll export) and is layering AI onto its most tedious admin tasks. The fintech buildout is deepening from spending toward automated cash management, while the Time Assistant signals natural-language automation of back-office review. Both reduce the manual click-work that defines the category.
◆Prediction
Expect the Time Assistant's natural-language editing to extend beyond time cards to other review-heavy surfaces, and the Business Checking/expense-card stack to gain more automated cash-management controls.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Expense Cards: Minimum Balance Auto-Top-Up

    Adds automatic minimum-balance top-up to Workyard Business Checking for expense cards, so admins set a threshold and refill method and cards stop declining — deepening the embedded cash-management stack.

  2. 4d ago

    Clean up a whole pay period of time cards using Time Assistant

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    The AI move in Workyard's arc: a Time Assistant that edits a whole pay period of time cards from plain-English instructions, replacing hundreds of clicks with a sentence.

  3. 10d ago

    Professional Reports: view any form submission as a client-ready PDF

    Adds a client-ready Professional Report PDF view for any form submission (daily reports, JSAs, pre-trips), removing manual reformatting before work goes to a client or GC.

  4. 17d ago

    QuickBooks payroll exports now map overtime automatically

    Automates overtime mapping inside the QuickBooks payroll export, removing a manual configuration step each pay period — incremental payroll-integration polish.

  5. 1mo ago

    Timecard Autofill in Smart Forms

    Pulls timecard hours automatically into Smart Forms so crews don't re-enter labor data, keeping timecards as the source of truth — a workflow-dedup improvement.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Fund your Workyard Business Checking (Expense) account directly from the Workyard app

    Lets customers connect an external bank via Plaid and fund Workyard Business Checking with in-app ACH transfers, an early building block of the embedded-fintech stack.

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