Horizontal directional drilling — only
The back office, built for the bore.
Abdiel runs the paperwork side of a directional drilling company: invoices priced on the footage you actually drilled, as-built redlines generated from a field markup, and books that understand rig time, locates, and per-bore cost. One trade. Built end to end for it.
Built one way
Generic field-service software makes you bend a bore into a work order. Abdiel was shaped the other way around — every screen already assumes footage, locates, P-codes and redlines, because that is the only trade it was ever built to run.
Bill the footage you actually bored.
The invoice is built straight off the bore ticket — linear footage drilled, conduit size, crossings, locates, and rig hours, priced from your own rate sheet. It matches what went in the ground to the foot, and it goes out the same day the crew rolls off, not whenever the back office gets to it.
- Footage-based line items
- Price per LF by bore, conduit, and ground condition — the way HDD is actually billed.
- Pulled from the job
- Bores, crossings, potholes, and locates flow onto the invoice — not forgotten on the truck.
- Out the door same day
- Bore done by lunch, invoice sent by the afternoon — cash doesn't wait on drafting.
Cedar Ridge Fiber — Phase 2
Job 0417 · 3 bores
19 Jun 2026
From a field redline to a submittal-ready as-built.
The job every PM dreads: redraw the marked-up print clean, highlight every P-code callout, merge the materials page, export the PDF. Abdiel does it from the crew's markup — automatically.
Abdiel engine
P-codes read, pages merged, coordinates kept true
- Mark up in the field
- Trace the as-drilled bore on the print from a tablet — entry, exit, depth, deviations.
- P-codes read and highlighted
- Material callouts are detected and flagged so reviewers see exactly what was installed.
- Blueprint + materials, merged
- One clean submittal PDF, coordinates kept true to the plan.
Hand drafting
2–3 hrs / sheet
With Abdiel
under 5 min
Books that know what a bore costs.
Most bookkeepers see "construction." Abdiel sees directional drilling — rig time, mud, locate fees, restoration, per-bore job costing. Transactions reconcile daily against a chart of accounts built for HDD, so the numbers are clean enough to hand a general contractor, a bonding company, or a buyer without flinching.
- Per-bore job costing
- True margin by bore — rig, crew, locates, fuel, and product against the footage billed.
- Reconciled daily
- Equipment, locates, fuel, and crew matched and categorized every day — not at tax time.
- Diligence-ready
- An HDD-aware chart of accounts that holds up when a banker or buyer looks closely.
Revenue
$26,070
Cost
$15,940
Margin
38.9%
Per LF
$14.09
Cost breakdown
We don't do generic. We do bores.
Every other tool is built for "contractors" in general and then bent to fit drilling. Abdiel works with horizontal directional drilling companies and no one else — so the software already knows what a bore log, a P-code, a locate ticket, and a redline are before you explain it. That focus is the product.
- One trade, all the way down
- No "construction" abstraction layer to wade through. Every workflow assumes bores, footage, and redlines, because that is all it is built for.
- It speaks your sheet
- P-codes, stationing, depth of cover, entry and exit angles — the vocabulary of an HDD plan set is native, not a custom field you had to invent.
- The workflow fits the work
- Bore ticket → invoice → as-built → books. The exact path a shot takes, with nothing generic wedged in between.
- Made to run from the pit
- Built for a phone in a bore pit, not a desk — by people who treat a wasted hour as an hour lost off the rig.
- No bloat for trades you don't run
- No modules for plumbing, paving, or electrical you'll never touch. The tool stays as focused as your operation.
Run your billing, your as-builts, and your books in one place built for HDD.
One login for your crew and your clients — the app routes everyone to the right place. Built by people who respect the trade, for the people who do the work.