Case Study: Emery Sapp & Sons achieves unified data, automated reporting and significant time savings with Looker

Scaling data in construction with Emery Sapp & Sons

Emery Sapp & Sons is an employee-owned heavy civil contractor headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, with more than 1,400 employee‑owners working on excavation, utilities, paving, bridges and other complex projects. As the business and number of acquisitions grew, so did disparate data sources and manual Excel reporting—leading to inconsistent metrics, wasted time, and increasing risk of human error across finance, HR and field operations.

They modernized their stack with Fivetran, BigQuery and Looker (including LookML), centralizing on‑prem and SaaS data into unified models and self‑service dashboards. Automated pipelines and prebuilt reports replaced manual work (e.g., saving an accounts payable specialist six hours/month and eliminating a full day/week of payroll reporting), delivered real‑time CFO dashboards, improved AR and ticket prioritization, and increased trust in data—freeing teams to focus on strategic, revenue‑driving work and enabling future telemetry use cases.

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