We modernize back-office operations on Microsoft 365 — digital field tickets, expense reimbursement, and HR & payroll automation that work where the work happens.
Services
Everything we ship runs in the Microsoft 365 you already pay for — no new platforms to license, no data leaving your tenant.
Replace paper tickets with rugged-tablet forms in Microsoft 365. Capture job details, signatures, and photos at the wellsite — synced the moment a signal hits.
Field crews submit expenses from the truck. Approvals, GL coding, and reimbursements flow through Power Automate — closing days off your monthly cycle.
Onboarding, time capture, PTO, and payroll prep — automated end-to-end. Less paperwork, fewer errors, and an audit trail your CFO will actually like.
Why Crude HR
Most consulting firms start with software. Crude HR started with paperwork blowing across a lease road at 2 a.m.
After more than 15 years leading HR and operations support across oilfield services, manufacturing, transportation, and industrial environments, I kept seeing the same problem over and over again: good people were getting worn down by bad handoffs, late paperwork, duplicate entry, and systems that made the office and the field work against each other.
I started Crude HR because most small and mid-sized industrial companies don't need massive enterprise software implementations. They need practical systems built for how field operations really work — systems that are mobile-friendly, simple to use in the field, fast to deploy, affordable for growing companies, and designed around operations instead of corporate buzzwords.
When paperwork breaks down, it is rarely just a paperwork problem. It shows up as invoice delays, payroll disputes, manager burnout, frustrated field crews, and back-office teams trying to reconcile yesterday's work with last week's notes. Crude HR connects those dots and builds workflows that remove the drag without burying your team in another bloated platform.
Field tickets, expenses, onboarding, approvals, payroll support, safety documentation, and operational communication all touch the same thing: whether good people can do the work without being slowed down by bad systems.
Using tools like Microsoft Forms, Power Apps, and Power Automate, we eliminate unnecessary paperwork, reduce administrative burden, improve visibility, and accelerate operational efficiency — often using software you already own.
The goal is simple: help industrial companies work smarter without overcomplicating the way they operate.
Operational warning signs
Paper usually fails quietly first. The warning signs show up in delayed billing, tired supervisors, late-night spreadsheet work, and field teams texting photos because the real process lives outside the system.
Tickets delayed before invoicing
Supervisors chasing signatures after-hours
Expense receipts sitting in trucks for weeks
Double-entry into payroll and accounting systems
Managers updating spreadsheets at night
No real-time visibility into field operations
Field crews texting photos of paperwork
Payroll disputes caused by handwritten tickets
Live Demo
See how tickets move from field technician → approval routing → office visibility → invoice readiness inside the Microsoft ecosystem.
A Crude HR walkthrough for mobile crews, approval routing, and Microsoft 365 operations visibility.
Work Samples
A look at field apps, automation flows, and the operational transformation work behind them.
Revenue leakage map
A practical breakdown of the manual steps that slow tickets, duplicate office work, and hide costly bottlenecks until month-end.
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Operational transformation
Before-and-after process design showing how field capture, routing, approvals, and visibility can live inside the tools your team already uses.
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System overview
End-to-end solution architecture covering the field tech experience, approval routing, dashboard visibility, and Microsoft 365 system handoffs.
Expand System Overview →Microsoft 365 advantage
Your operation does not need another disconnected vendor login. It needs practical workflows built inside the Microsoft environment your people, data, and approvals already depend on.
Tickets, approvals, documents, and workflow history stay within your Microsoft 365 boundary instead of another vendor database.
Power Apps, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, and Power Automate meet supervisors and office teams where they already work.
No heavy SaaS rollout, duplicate user management, or extra system for crews to remember when the job is already moving.
Typical SaaS add-on
Crude HR M365-native
How we work
We map how work really moves between the field, supervisors, payroll, accounting, and HR — including the workarounds your team uses to keep things moving.
We build lightweight workflows inside your Microsoft 365 tenant using SharePoint, Power Apps, and Power Automate with as little operational disruption as possible.
We train the people who actually touch the process, adjust quickly after rollout, and support adoption in the real world — not just the project plan.
About
Crude HR Consulting is an East Texas firm helping oil & gas operators and industrial service companies modernize the work behind the work. We're based in Kilgore, shaped by field familiarity, and built for practical operators who want fewer handoffs, cleaner records, and less administrative drag.
The mindset is simple: no bureaucracy for its own sake, no oversized software theory, and no pretending the field works like an office. If you've already got Microsoft 365, you've already got the platform. We bring the operational playbook.
Contact
Bring the paper trail, spreadsheet handoffs, approval delays, and bottlenecks your team keeps working around. We'll look at where Microsoft 365 can remove friction without turning your operation upside down.
