About PaperTight
A story about files, and the chase they create.
PaperTight is document-control software for contractors: packages, an approval queue, version history, and a client portal that end the chase.
If you run projects with subcontractors, you already know the shape of the day. It isn't the work — it's the paperwork about the work.
Timesheets, invoices, gate passes and onboarding forms arrive as email attachments and WhatsApp forwards, from a dozen companies, on no particular schedule. Before you've done anything useful, you've spent an hour just finding what people sent you.
So the files pile up. One is named FINAL, another FINAL_v7, and nobody is quite sure which one the client actually saw.
Approvals live in inboxes, where they quietly get lost. A spreadsheet becomes the tracker of who sent what — and by Friday the tracker is already a small, hopeful work of fiction.
You could blame the files. Plenty of software has tried to — replace the spreadsheet, replace the PDF, move everyone into a shiny new form.
But Excel and PDF are the contract language of contracting. Your clients want them, your auditors expect them, your subcontractors already work in them. The answer was never to replace those files. It was to get them under control.
So we built PaperTight — a thin layer of control that sits over the files you already use.
A package gathers the document slots for one company and one period. Everything submitted lands in a single approval queue. Version history keeps every revision, so nothing is ever overwritten, and a client portal lets each company see only their own documents.
Your files stay the source of truth. The chasing is what disappears.
Today, PaperTight runs monthly billing packs, gate passes and onboarding — the same recurring document sets that used to live in a dozen inboxes.
Auto-Gen creates each company's package on the 1st, the readiness bar shows exactly what's still outstanding, and the Company Vault holds the permanent documents that don't belong to any single month.
Who it's for
Built for teams running recurring packs
The kinds of contracting and staffing teams PaperTight was made for.
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