“Can a construction-native payroll and back-office platform displace ADP/Paychex/QuickBooks for specialty contractors by owning prevailing wage and certified payroll?”
Hammr is a YC W23 vertical SaaS company building an all-in-one back-office platform for construction contractors — payroll, prevailing wage, certified payroll, time-tracking, scheduling, HR and benefits. Positioned as a replacement for ADP/Paychex/UKG/QuickBooks in construction, it competes on construction-specific workflows (Davis-Bacon, union rates, multi-rate pay). Embedded finance surface is limited today: payroll tax filings and benefits are packaged, but no evidence of card issuing, banking, lending, or a named payroll BaaS partner.
Hammr integrates with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Sage Intacct, Acumatica, Xero and NetSuite.
Hammr was founded by Brek Goin and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Hammr has raised $625K in total (latest round: Y Combinator W23).
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