CASE STUDIES

Real construction firms. Real numbers.

How contractors, fleets, landscapers and infrastructure teams use Forth Systems platforms to cut admin, lift utilisation and get paid faster — without replacing the people who run the job.

GROUNDWORKS & CIVILS// Edinburgh

From six phone calls to one tap: how a mid-sized contractor cut plant-hire admin by 80%.

A Lothians groundworks firm replaced six daily ringaround calls with a single live marketplace post — and stopped losing afternoons to chasing Hiabs.

<2hr

MEDIAN MATCH TIME

−80%

PLANT-HIRE ADMIN

Caledonian ContractorsGoMuc + NoPrint

OWNER-DRIVER FLEET// Forfar, Angus

Killing dead mileage: how a tipper fleet turned empty runs into billed hours.

An Angus-based owner-driver operation joined the GoMuc supply network to fill empty backloads, lifting weekly utilisation by more than a third.

↑35%

DRIVER UTILISATION

−42%

EMPTY MILEAGE

Angus Tipper HireGoMuc

COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPING// Newbridge, West Lothian

From spreadsheets to a single operational backbone: a landscaping firm gets its evenings back.

A West Lothian landscaping contractor moved quoting, scheduling and dockets onto Landscape Flow — and stopped running the business on WhatsApp.

−70%

QUOTE TURNAROUND

QUOTES SENT PER WEEK

Lothian LandscapesLandscape Flow + NoPrint

ENERGY & DATA-CENTRE CIVILS// Central Belt, Scotland

Programme intelligence for a data-centre build: cutting re-plan time from days to minutes.

An infrastructure contractor delivering data-centre and substation civils used Eleki to turn fragmented site data into a live programme intelligence layer.

2 days→15 min

RE-PLAN TIME

↓63%

PROGRAMME SLIPPAGE

NorthGrid InfrastructureEleki + NoPrint

COMMERCIAL LEGAL SERVICES// Edinburgh

How an Edinburgh law firm cut contract review from 4 hours to 22 minutes with a Document AI + workflow stack.

A Leith-based commercial law firm deployed a Document AI pipeline and an approval workflow to triage inbound contracts, extract clauses and route reviews — freeing 1,900 fee-earner hours in the first quarter.

4hr → 22min

CONTRACT REVIEW TIME

1,900

FEE-EARNER HOURS SAVED / QTR

Waverley Legal PartnersForth Copilot

THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS// Glasgow

How a Glasgow 3PL replaced its overnight ops desk with AI agents — 24/7 booking, zero after-hours staff.

A Glasgow-headquartered 3PL wired AI agents into its TMS, email and phone so quote requests, booking confirmations and exception handling run overnight without a human on shift.

3h 40m → 6min

QUOTE TURNAROUND

94%

AFTER-HOURS BOOKINGS AUTOMATED

Clyde Freight SolutionsGoMuc

DROP KERB & VEHICLE CROSSING PERMITS// Scotland · UK-wide

One input, eleven outputs: how a drop kerb contractor built a £50k pipeline from zero with no admin team.

Kerbco replaced the entire manual drop kerb permit chain — quoting, permit fees, Street Manager, council references, utility drawings, crew certification and compliance packs — with a single automated sequence triggered by one enquiry form.

£0 → £50k

NEW PIPELINE BUILT

11 → 1

MANUAL STEPS PER JOB

KerbcoKerbco + Roadplan

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