Fund the job in escrow.
Pay contractors on sign-off.
Brunch is how you hire and pay the crews and contractors you bring on-site. Fund the job in escrow up front, release payment phase by phase as each milestone is approved, and pay subcontractors the moment the work is signed off — with a double-entry ledger and a complete audit trail behind every dollar.
- SOC 2 Type II
- Escrow-backed payouts
- Pay on sign-off
- Audit-ready ledger
Active job
Maple Street renovation
Chat, escrow, and milestones for the whole job.
Escrow coverage
$0.0k
Milestones released
0
Avg. approval time
0.0d
Daniel Okafor
Product engineer
Phase 2 is complete — I've attached the site photos and the inspection sign-off.
Looks good. Walking the site now to confirm before I release payment.
Perfect. The crew can start the finish work as soon as this phase is released.
Milestones
3 activeSite prep & demolition
$1,800
Released
Framing & rough-in
$3,400
Submitted
Finishing & handover
$3,200
Funded
Next action
Review the submission and release Framing & rough-in.
Trusted by construction, trades, and field-service teams that pay crews on sign-off
For electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, carpentry, landscaping, and field-service crews
- Ironclad
- Summit Builders
- Keystone
- Meridian Works
- Rampart
- Copperline
- Bedrock
- Highline
- $480M+
- Funded through escrow
- 120k+
- Milestones released
- 14,000+
- Crews paid
- 60+
- Countries supported
Escrow and milestone payments for contractors and crews — in one system
Brunch replaces the patchwork of invoices, spreadsheets, and ad-hoc transfers with one auditable workflow — from funding the job in escrow to paying your crew on sign-off.
Escrow & milestones
Release payment only when the work is approved
Fund the job in escrow and release payment milestone by milestone. Your crews see the cash is secured before the first day on site and get paid the moment each phase clears sign-off — with no deposits at risk and no invoices to chase.
- Release payment on sign-off
- Instant, traceable payouts to your crew
- Refunds and cancellations built in
Escrow balance
Secured$24,000.00
Ledger & reconciliation
A double-entry ledger as the single source of truth
Every deposit, hold, release, and payout posts as a balanced entry. Close the books faster with reconciliation that ties each dollar back to a job, a phase, and the person who signed it off.
- Balanced double-entry postings
- Per-job and per-crew cost attribution
- Export to your ERP
Ledger
balanced ✓
Approvals, disputes & audit
Governance that scales across crews and job sites
Route approvals by role, resolve disputes in-platform, and keep an immutable record of who signed off on what and when. The controls your auditors expect, across every crew and job site, without the spreadsheet sprawl.
- Role-based approval routing
- Structured dispute resolution
- Immutable, exportable audit trail
Audit trail
Approval routed to site lead
R. Okafor · 09:41
Milestone signed off on inspection
R. Okafor · 09:44
$8,000 released from escrow
System · 09:44
Payout initiated
System · 09:44
Contracts & job scope
Turn a job scope into funded milestones in minutes.
Real-time messaging
Keep job updates and sign-offs in one thread, not five inboxes.
Global payouts
Pay contractors and crews in 60+ countries with local rails.
Roles & permissions
Give ops leads, PMs, and approvers exactly the access they need.
See the job, the crew, and the payment in one place.
Brunch keeps the job moving: your crews chat, submit each phase with photos and sign-off, and get paid the moment you approve — while you always see what is funded and ready to release.
Victor Adeleke
Founder & engineer
Daniel Okafor
Product engineer
Ajayi Israel
Founder & engineer
Daniel Okafor
Product engineer · typing
Phase 2 is complete — I've attached the site photos and the inspection sign-off.
10:42
Looks good. Walking the site now to confirm before I release payment.
10:45
Perfect. The crew can start the finish work as soon as this phase is released.
10:47
Current phase
Framing & rough-in
$3,400 held in escrow
Site prep & demolition
Released
Framing & rough-in
Submitted
Finishing & handover
Funded
Escrow for contractors: fund the job, pay on sign-off
One workflow the client and the crew can both trust. Fund the job in escrow, release payment on approval, and track every dollar in a double-entry ledger — no prepayment risk, no chasing invoices.
Scope the job
Break the job into funded milestones with clear budgets, scope, and sign-off criteria — agreed by the client and the crew before a dollar moves.
Fund escrow
The client funds the job into escrow, where it is held securely and shown to the contractors. Crews see the money is secured before they start — no prepayment risk on either side.
Approve & release payment
Inspect each phase, approve the completed work, and release payment on sign-off. The double-entry ledger records every deposit, hold, and payout automatically, leaving a full audit trail behind every dollar.
The controls to fund escrow and release payment across every job site
Run contractor payments across dozens of crews and job sites without loosening your standards. Brunch pairs bank-grade escrow and milestone releases with the governance, access controls, and audit trail that multi-site operators rely on.
Security by default
Data encrypted in transit and at rest, isolated tenancy, and continuous monitoring across the platform.
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA aligned, with data-residency options and DPAs for regulated teams.
Immutable audit logs
Every approval, release, and payout is recorded and exportable — the trail your auditors ask for.
Role-based access
Granular permissions for owners, site leads, and approvers, with SSO (SAML) and SCIM provisioning.
Scales with you
From a single job to crews across thousands of job sites, with 99.99% uptime and predictable performance.
Integrations & API
Connect your ERP, identity, and payment stack — plus a REST API and signed webhooks.
Pay your crews faster, with cleaner books
Contractors and multi-site operators use Brunch to fund jobs in escrow and pay subcontractors on approval — no prepayment risk, no chasing invoices, cleaner books.
Meridian
“We moved eight-figure subcontractor spend onto Brunch in a quarter. We fund each job in escrow up front and release payment the moment a phase passes inspection — the prepayment risk our crews hated is gone, and the double-entry ledger closed the reconciliation gap we used to spend a week on every month.”
- −38%
- Time to pay crews
- $24M
- Job spend in escrow
- 100%
- Audit coverage
Halcyon
“Milestone sign-offs give our project managers control on every job without slowing a single crew down. Payment disputes dropped to near zero.”
Project Manager
−72%
Payment disputes
Vantage
“Onboarding a new sub and funding the first phase of their job now takes minutes, not a purchase order.”
Director of Operations
3.5x
Faster onboarding
Works with the tools your job sites already run
Provision crew access from your identity provider, sync every escrow deposit, milestone release, and payout to your accounting and field-service software, and trigger workflows with a REST API and signed webhooks.
Pay contractors on sign-off, not up front
See how crews, subcontractors, and the clients who hire them use Brunch to fund the job in escrow, release payment on approval, and track every deposit, hold, and payout in a double-entry ledger — with a full audit trail behind every dollar.
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