Divisions: one company, more than one trade

Some companies are really two. A tile company with a flooring division. A mechanical contractor whose plumbing side bids on its own. Until now STrOp saw one organization and one trade declaration, which was fine until two divisions shared a job and nobody could say which sections belonged to whom.

Divisions (Settings → Divisions) fixes that without splitting your company into two accounts. Each division declares its own CSI prefixes, its home state and the states it works. Everything else stays shared: customers, people, licences, settings. Everyone still sees every job.

• A job names its lead division. The project form shows a Division picker once you have one. Single-division companies see nothing new.
• A shared job splits its scope. On the project's Coverage tab, say which prefixes each division owns and who leads that part. STrOp then checks that every section you ticked as priced has exactly one owner, and calls out the ones nobody owns and the ones two divisions both claim.
• The control tower sees it. The States page now lists each division: where it stands on its own, where it works under the company's licence, and where it works with nothing on file. Below that, every shared job and whether its scope is covered.

The part that matters for the paperwork. A division can stand alone in one state and be part of the company in another. Under States, a registration can now be held by a division. Where a division holds its own registration, it is the contractor of record on its jobs there: its own legal name, address and FEIN print on the lien waiver and the certified payroll report, with its own registration number. Everywhere else, the company's do. You set it once; the documents follow.