Our story

Built in the yard,
not a boardroom.

Grafa started on a Southland earthworks site, with a pile of crumpled day sheets and a Friday-night argument about machine hours. We thought there had to be a better way. So we built one.

1.2M
machine hours logged
300+
contractors on the tools
0
paper sheets needed
30s
to log a day from the cab
Why we made it

Hours were going missing

Every earthworks outfit runs on machine hours, yet most still capture them on paper that gets rained on, left in a ute, or totalled wrong at the end of the month. Subbies running four tractors and a couple of diggers had no clean way to submit, and contractors had no clean way to check.

Grafa fixes the messy bit in the middle. Operators log straight off the hour meter, sheets roll up under each subcontractor's company, and approvals happen the same day, while everyone still remembers what ran where.

No hardware, no training day, no clipboard. Just the hours, captured and totalled, ready for payroll.

What we believe

Made for how sites really run

Fast beats fancy

If it takes longer than scribbling on paper, nobody uses it. Every screen is built to be done in seconds, gloves on.

The numbers are sacred

Machine hours are money. We don't round, we don't guess, and we keep an audit trail on every single reading.

Built here, for here

Made in Aotearoa for the way Kiwi contractors and subbies actually work, not bent out of some overseas timesheet app.

Get in touch

Talk to a human

Questions about rolling Grafa out across your subbies? We'll walk you through it, with no sales script.

Email
hello@grafa.co.nz
Phone
0800 GRAFA
Yard

Invercargill, Southland
Aotearoa New Zealand

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