Cost Control · Project Coordination · Executive Support
Your Numbers,
Handled.
Executive-level administrative support and specialized cost control for construction businesses — without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Executive-level administrative support and specialized cost control for construction businesses — without the overhead of a full-time hire.
From day-to-day executive support to full financial oversight of your project portfolio — pick the scope that fits, adjust anytime.
Inbox triage and prioritization, calendar gatekeeping, meeting prep and follow-through, and vendor coordination that requires real judgment — not just task execution.
Daily field reports, inspection scheduling, submittal and RFI tracking, and document management — the coordination work that keeps projects on schedule.
Budget tracking, variance and cost-to-complete analysis, monthly WIP reporting, and Change Order Request processing — backed by hands-on portfolio management experience.
Purchase orders, pay application review and approval, and vendor onboarding — managed with the same precision as your project financials.
Reports get built. Invoices get reconciled. Change orders get logged before they become disputes. It's quiet, disciplined work — and it's exactly what keeps a project's numbers honest.
They don't show up as one bad month. They show up as a small overage that repeats until it's a real number.
By the time a job “feels” like it's slipping, the money is usually already spent. We work the other direction — watching the numbers closely enough to catch the problem while there's still time to fix it, and telling you about it in plain language, not spreadsheet jargon.
Tracking tells you what you spent last month. Managing tells you what you're going to spend, and whether the work you've paid for is actually in the ground. We compare those two numbers regularly — dollars out against work completed — so you know where the job is going to land before it gets there.
One sub running a few percent over on labor every single week. A material line that jumped and nobody flagged it. A phase running ahead of schedule that's quietly covering for a phase running behind. These are the things that don't announce themselves — and finding them early is the entire job.
This isn't experience from five years ago. We're doing project controls on active construction work today — the same billing cycles, the same change order conversations, the same cost codes your team is dealing with this week. Nothing here needs to be dusted off first.
General contractor and subcontractor work on one side, complex infrastructure builds on the other. It's an unusual combination, and it means the reporting discipline that large infrastructure programs demand comes with us to jobs that have never had it.
Want to know what your numbers are actually telling you?
Schedule a ConsultationNo one-size-fits-all packages — every engagement starts with a conversation about your business so we can recommend the right fit.
Pay only for the time we actually spend on your tasks, billed by the type of work.
(Carries a 2-hour minimum per request.)
Guaranteed weekly access to specialized cost control support — reserved ahead of time, priced for priority capacity.
Best for: Businesses that want weekly reporting, COR processing, and billing support on a predictable schedule, without competing for hourly availability.
Includes 20 hours of support per month (5 hours a week), reserved in advance, with unused hours rolling over up to 5 hours into the following month.
(Additional hours billed at the standard rate for the applicable tier, $35–$120/hr.)
One agreed price for a defined, one-time deliverable or project.
Best for: A bounded, one-time need — like setting up your document control system, building out a submittal log template, or a one-time project cleanup — rather than ongoing support.
Price is set upfront after we review the scope together.
We get paid only when you get paid — our success is tied to yours.
Best for: Chasing down slow-paying clients, resolving disputed pay applications, and recovering outstanding invoices or retainage.
No recovery, no fee — this is not an hourly charge.
Final pricing is always confirmed in writing based on your specific scope, before any engagement begins.
Dominique founded DD Adams LLC — Virtual Project Manager · Virtual Project Assistant — because she kept meeting small business owners who needed real project and financial oversight but couldn't justify a full-time hire. She built the in-between: cost control and project support, without the overhead.
She's a numbers person at heart, and she can trace exactly when that started. After reading Outliers written by Malcolm Gladwell and taking a statistics course almost on a whim, she built a class project to figure out whether a government furlough would hurt small businesses or actually help them. Watching a real answer emerge from a pile of spreadsheets hooked her instantly — and she's spent her career doing the same thing: finding the one number that doesn't fit, and figuring out why.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, she learned the majority of her business background from her grandparents who owned their own janitorial business. She went from dusting shelves and cleaning offices to bookkeeping and processing weekly payroll. If she wasn't working she was studying or playing softball for her high school or city league. Between the ballfield and the family business, she learned early how to work hard and pay attention to details that matter.
That combination sticks with her today — clients call her dedicated, skilled, smart, organized, and a total go-getter. Her reports can be super detailed or executive level; she knows how to tailor the information to the audience. She has an eye for a problem which tends to get everyone else thinking a little differently.
Based in San Diego, California, she genuinely likes helping business owners feel like they're finally on top of their own numbers.
Research and perspective on delegating your business's admin and financial work.
What the research says about delegating admin work — and what it actually takes to get value out of the relationship.
The cost-and-time math behind the decision — and why it applies just as much to a construction business as any other.
A bank's-eye view of the decision — because at the end of the day, this is a financial call as much as an operational one.
Trends in construction cost control, project financials, and the industry at large.
Material costs, a tightening labor market, and rising weather risk are reshaping how contractors need to manage their numbers this year.
Tell us a bit about your business and where you need support. We'll follow up within 1–2 business days with next steps.