Variation Evidence Gap Checklist
The eight documents that decide whether a variation survives to the final account, and where they usually go missing.
Get it in your diagnostic →Final Account Readiness Scorecard
Eight questions on how well your live jobs would stand up if challenged. Tick what's true. You'll get a score and see where the gaps sit. Nothing is sent anywhere; it runs in your browser.
Gaps showing up? A Commercial Control Diagnostic reads one of your contracts and turns it into a register where every item is quoted, cited and checked by a person. Book a demo →
The library
Payment Application Evidence Checklist
What to have attached before you submit, so a pay-less notice (the letter that cuts your payment) has nothing to bite on.
Get it in your diagnostic →QS Handover Checklist
If your QS leaves mid-job: where the job stands, captured, so the next person doesn't start blind.
Get it in your diagnostic →Monthly Commercial Control Checklist
The one-page monthly rhythm that keeps the proof on a live job current, instead of rebuilding it at the end.
In progressEvery tool here is about visibility and capture: what the contract says, where the source is, and what needs review. None of it tells you a date to rely on or a sum you're owed; those stay with your QS and commercial team.
Reading on the money side of the job
Written for the people who run subcontracts, from sources we name. No product pitch inside.
Applied, certified, paid: the gap that decides your month
Three figures decide a subcontractor's month. The distance between them is where margin quietly leaks away, and most firms never line them up.
For MDs and commercial managers of specialist subcontractorsThe retention ledger: money with two release dates and no reminder
Retention is deducted automatically and released only when someone asks. A ledger of what's held, where, and when it falls due is the simplest money recovery there is.
For MDs and finance leads of specialist subcontractorsThe time-bar board: the deadlines your contract started counting
Notice windows start counting from events on site, not from when someone reads the clause. A visible board of live windows is the cheapest insurance a commercial team can run.
For QSs and commercial managers on NEC4 and JCT subcontracts