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What It Is

Cyanic Job Book is a vertical project management platform from Canada-based Cyanic, built for land surveying companies. It is not a generic task board; instead, it is designed around surveying workflows such as clients, projects, legal addresses, field crews, labor/equipment/materials, rates, costs, WIP, and invoicing. Its goal is to improve project visibility while reducing missed billables and administrative work.

Core Features

The platform’s core modules include a CRM/client database, project database, rate tables, timesheets and Daily Work Records, LEM and invoicing, budget estimates, project maps and historical project search, expenses, reporting, and health and safety records. A key highlight is that field staff can enter labor time, equipment, and materials from their phones; once approved by a project manager, the data flows directly into project costing, payroll, and billing. Project maps, legal address search, and historical project data are also well suited to helping surveying firms estimate jobs and review past work. Newer modules include task and crew scheduling, leave management, and asset management.

Pricing and Integrations

The Standard plan costs $40/employee/month, billed based on the number of active employees at the end of each month and charged by credit card. Enterprise requires contacting sales and adds custom workflows, ERP integrations, white labeling, API access, custom endpoints, SSO, ZTNA, and more. Among add-on modules, task and crew scheduling costs $10/employee/month, asset management costs $1/asset/month, and leave management is free for a limited time. Invoices can be exported to accounting systems such as QuickBooks, Sage, and Xero, while project files can be linked from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or SharePoint.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths lie in deep industry fit: it covers the full loop from field records to invoicing, supports role-based permissions and approvals, provides real-time cost and utilization reports, and includes training, email and phone support, plus a 60-day money-back guarantee. Limitations include the lack of publicly disclosed security and compliance details for the Standard plan, such as SOC/ISO certifications, encryption, backups, and data residency. API access, SSO, and ERP integrations are mainly available on the Enterprise plan; per-employee pricing may become costly for larger teams; and its usefulness outside the surveying industry is limited.

Best Fit and Access from China

Cyanic Job Book is best for small and midsize land surveying companies looking to replace paper timesheets, Excel files, whiteboard scheduling, and scattered documents. It is especially suitable for teams that need real-time visibility into project profitability and want to reduce missed invoicing. Access from China is unknown, and the website and service do not disclose support for Chinese language, local payment methods, or mainland China deployment. If network access, payment, or compliance are hard requirements, local tools such as 明道云, 伙伴云, or 飞书项目 may be worth evaluating, though surveying-specific workflows would likely require substantial customization.