For general contractors with one to multiple jobs and a small back office

Your books say one thing. The paper says another.

desq reads every document behind your jobs: every contract, change order, invoice and lien waiver, and checks QuickBooks against them daily. You hear from desq only when a paper needs your decision.

Setup takes about ten minutes. Already have an account? Sign in

Play with a demo account. A made-up builder’s desq, view only.

Example

Invoice 1187 from Ridgeline Electric is in QuickBooks twice on the Harbor St job.

  • Invoice 1187 · received 14 Sep 2026$7,360.00
  • QuickBooks bill · entered 15 Sep 2026$7,360.00
  • QuickBooks bill · entered 22 Sep 2026$7,360.00

Paid once. The second bill was a re-entry, per Dana 23 Sep

The company, job, and people here are made up.

Where the money slips

  • Change ordersA change order gets signed and never billed.
  • Lien waiversA sub gets paid without a lien waiver, and the lien lands on your client’s house.
  • InvoicesAn invoice goes into QuickBooks twice, or gets paid against an agreement nobody signed.
  • W-9sA W-9 is missing when the 1099s are due.

You’re not careless. The paper lives in email, Drive and your PM app, and QuickBooks and your PM app check against their own records, not against the paper. Nobody has time to check every paper against the books.

How it works

desq goes back to the paper for you, every day, and every number desq shows you opens the paper it came from.

  1. Connect what you already use

    Forward email to your unique desq address, share a Google Drive folder (OneDrive is coming soon), and connect QuickBooks. Setup takes about ten minutes.

  2. desq reads and checks

    It reads each document, files it to its job, and checks your books against it.

  3. You hear from desq only when it matters

    A letter arrives each Monday. In between, desq alerts you only when a paper needs a person’s decision.

desq exists because the GC’s ledger can’t be trusted without going back to the source documents.

What it checks

  • Bills and invoicesEach bill in QuickBooks against the invoice behind it, including one entered twice.
  • Change ordersWhether each one is signed, priced, and billed.
  • SubcontractsWhat each sub’s agreement commits you to, against what you’ve paid them.
  • Lien waiversA waiver for each payment that needs one.
  • Pay applications and drawsEach request against the contract’s schedule of values.

Ask desq a question about any job. It answers only from your paper and your books, and shows the paper each answer came from.

Your paper stays yours

  • Read onlydesq reads what you forward, what you share, and QuickBooks. It never writes to your email, your folders, or your books.
  • Originals stay putdesq keeps its own copy of each document to read and cite. The originals stay in your inbox, your folders, your PM app.
  • Where copies are keptEncrypted, in the United States. Your documents don’t train anyone’s model.

The privacy policy says who handles what, and for how long.

Try desq on your own jobs

The pilot is free.* Setup takes about ten minutes.

Questions? Write to hello@desq.ai.

* Pilot accounts receive free access to desq for the first 30 days.