Your back office runs on paper. It doesn't have to.
Crude HR helps oilfield, industrial, transportation, and manufacturing businesses across Texas and the surrounding energy markets replace manual back-office processes with practical automation, custom apps, and fractional HR support. Less admin work, more visibility, no added headcount.
Bring one manual process, spreadsheet, approval chain, or paper workflow. I'll review where it breaks down, what can be simplified, and whether automation or a custom app makes sense.
Manual work is quietly your most expensive department
Field-heavy businesses run on tickets, timesheets, approvals, and compliance docs. When those live on paper and in inboxes, the cost shows up as admin hours, delayed invoices, and problems nobody sees coming.
Paper rides around in trucks
Field tickets, JSAs, and timesheets are filled out on location, then spend days traveling before anyone in the office can act on them. Some never arrive.
Everything gets typed twice
The office re-keys field data into spreadsheets, then into payroll, then into billing. Every handoff adds hours of admin time and another chance for an error.
Approvals stall in inboxes
Bonuses, purchases, and sign-offs wait on whoever is hardest to reach this week. Nothing escalates, nothing is tracked, and payroll cutoffs get missed.
Nobody can see the work
Unbilled jobs, pending tickets, and compliance gaps stay invisible until they become fire drills at month-end or during an audit.
Three ways to get the paper out of the process
Built for oilfield, industrial, transportation, and manufacturing operations across Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the Permian Basin — with the field terminology (JSAs, company-man sign-off, day-rate crews) generic software leaves out.
From the wellsite to the balance sheet, one flow
This is the pipeline I build most often. Capture the work where it happens, route the approval automatically, and let one clean record feed payroll and billing.
Field Ticket Captured
Hands log hours, equipment, and materials on location. GPS stamped, priced from the rate book, signed on glass.
Approval Routed
The ticket goes straight to the supervisor and client rep. No truck rides to town, no lost carbon copies.
Payroll and Billing Split
One approved record feeds both sides. Payroll hours to the pay run, billable line items to the invoice.
Finance Sees It Same Day
Revenue on the books the day the work happens, not three weeks later when the paper shows up.
Want to click through it yourself? Try the live field ticketing demo
Workflow examples and build concepts
Honest framing: these are the workflows I build and the scenarios I see most, shown as capability rather than client history.
Digital field ticketing
Paper tickets take days to reach billing and get re-keyed by hand.
A mobile ticketing app with rate-book pricing, GPS stamps, digital sign-off, and supervisor approval.
Same-day ticket visibility, zero re-keying.
Bonus and payroll approval
Variable pay approvals live in email threads and miss payroll cutoffs.
Automated routing with escalation rules and a timestamped audit trail feeding the pay run.
Approvals in hours, a clean trail for every dollar.
Onboarding automation
New-hire paperwork delays start dates and leaves compliance gaps.
Digital packets, automatic task routing to IT and payroll, and a live checklist per hire.
Field-ready on day one, documents complete.
See the process, the operating problem, and the proposed result
Clearly labeled prototypes and anonymized professional experience—without invented client names or performance claims.
Built by someone who has run the back office in the field
Brittany Sutton spent 15+ years leading HR and operations inside oilfield services, transportation, and manufacturing companies. She has scaled workforces, cleaned up payroll and compliance processes, and lived the paper problem firsthand. Crude HR pairs that operator experience with practical automation and custom app development.
“The old systems of paper were scrapped, and Brittany had the entire set of historical records — totaling tens of thousands — and the entire department converted to electronic documents within weeks.”
Straight talk on process and automation
One process. One call. A clear answer.
Bring one manual process, spreadsheet, approval chain, or paper workflow. I'll review where it breaks down, what can be simplified, and whether automation or a custom app makes sense.
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