Steelhead Automatic Plating Job Cost Reports
Every Monday, WebRun opens Steelhead, reads last week's finished jobs with the employee time logged against each process step, compares that labor cost to the quoted price, writes a profitability line for every job into a Google Sheet, and posts you a Slack summary of the winners and the money losers.
How do I find out which plating jobs are actually profitable?
WebRun builds your plating profitability report every Monday. It reads each finished job's per-step labor time from Steelhead, compares that cost to the quoted price, writes a margin line for every job into a Google Sheet, and posts a Slack summary of the biggest money losers, so you can reprice the jobs that quietly lose money.
- Money-losing jobs surface every Monday instead of at year end
- Margin is built from real per-step labor time, not gut feel
- Repricing conversations start with the customers behind the worst margins
Built for plating shop owners · anodizing shops · metal finishing managers · estimators
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
gosteelhead.comin a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys. -
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Steelhead Technologies - read job cost and time
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WebRun opens Steelhead to read each job's cost and time. - Open Steelhead and list every job completed last week
- For each job, read the employee time tracked against each process step
- Capture the quoted price, part count, and total labor hours for the job
Done when Every completed job has its labor time and quoted price captured.
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Google Sheets - build the profitability sheet
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WebRun writes each job's margin into the profitability sheet. - Open the profitability workbook and add a row per finished job
- Calculate labor cost from hours times your loaded rate, then margin against the quote
- Sort the sheet so the thinnest and negative margins land at the top
Done when Every job has a margin line and the sheet is sorted worst first.
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Slack - summarize winners and losers
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WebRun posts the weekly profitability summary to Slack. - Post a short summary: total jobs, average margin, and the biggest money losers
- Name the customers and part numbers behind the thinnest margins
- Leave it for the owner to review. Never send pricing to a customer
Done when The weekly profitability summary is posted in Slack.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
Where does the cost figure come from?
From the employee time tracked against each process step in Steelhead, multiplied by the loaded labor rate you set. WebRun does not guess. It uses your real logged hours and your rate.
Will it change any of my quotes or prices?
No. WebRun only reads jobs and writes a report to your Sheet and Slack. It never edits a quote in Steelhead and never sends pricing to a customer. Repricing stays your call.
What if some jobs are missing time entries?
It lists those jobs separately as incomplete so you can see which steps were not clocked, rather than reporting a misleadingly high margin on partial data.
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