Keka vs Workyard

Workyard tracks time, location, and expenses for construction and field crews, then pushes reviewed hours into accounting and payroll systems. Two lines of work dominate the recent stream: an AI Time Assistant that handles pre-payroll timecard cleanup conversationally, and a steady widening of the export surface into QuickBooks, NetSuite, and now Acumatica. The assistant has gone from batch edits, to reading crew notes, to reallocating hours across projects and cost codes in roughly a month.

The assistant is being handed progressively higher-stakes decisions. It started by applying mechanical rules like rounding and break flags, then began interpreting free-text notes on flagged cards, and now proposes moves that change which job absorbs which hours. That last step puts it on the job-costing data rather than just timekeeping accuracy, and the review-then-approve gate has been carried forward at every stage. Meanwhile the integration work is what makes any of it bankable: cleaned hours only matter if they leave the system correctly, which explains why time off, overtime mapping, and expense receipts all got export coverage in the same window.

The cleanup loop is now described as complete, so the next moves are likely either approval and payroll steps drawn into the same conversational surface, or the assistant reaching backwards into scheduling and job assignment. More ERP connectors on the Acumatica pattern are the safer bet.