How a Maryland Construction Company Saved $315K in One Year

A family-owned heavy civil contractor in Frederick, MD was struggling: slow bids, unreliable cash-flow forecasts, and local senior talent costing $60–$90/hour they couldn’t sustain.

In under a week we placed three Eastern Time remote professionals who felt like in-house staff:

• Senior Financial Analyst (PowerBI + forecasting)
• AP/AR & Accounting Executive (US-GAAP)
• Business Analyst who automated bid-to-closeout workflows
• CRM (MS Dynamics developer)
• AI Business partner (to implement workflow in Microsoft CoPilot studio)

They joined daily Teams calls, met the same security standards, and delivered instantly.

After twelve months the owner crunched the numbers:

• Spent with JIKA: ~$186,000 total (all-in)
• Local equivalent cost: over $500,000
• Net savings: $315,000 in year one

Change-order pricing improved 18%, books closed on time, and the owner finally got his weekends back.

His words: “I was wrong about remote talent. These people know construction and their own better than most locals we interviewed — and they cost half as much.”

Today the company runs five JIKA team members and still pays less than one senior local hire used to cost.

Maryland-quality talent. Half the price. Zero risk. That’s the new normal.