Project controls and commercial management
Programme, progress, subcontractors, variations and margin — visible while the job is still running, rather than reconstructed at final account when nothing can be changed.
What project controls have to cover
Programme and progress
Planned against actual by activity and area, updated from what site actually reports rather than from an optimistic weekly call.
Cost and commitment
Committed cost visible at the moment it is committed, so the position reflects orders placed rather than invoices received.
Subcontractor management
Orders, applications, valuations and payment status for parties who do not use your systems and should not have to.
Variations and claims
Changes priced, submitted and approved while the job runs, with the correspondence attached to the variation.
Valuations and applications
Monthly valuation assembled from measured progress rather than from a negotiation about what feels right.
Margin reporting
Position against estimate during the job, which turns a post-mortem into an intervention.
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A job going wrong should be corrected, not discovered
Where cost is reconciled after the fact, an overrun surfaces at final account — accurate, complete and useless. The job is finished, the margin is spent, and the only remaining action is explanation.
Bringing commitment, progress and variation into one live view moves that forward by weeks. It also improves the numbers, because a position assembled continuously is more reliable than one reconstructed from memory.
- Live position
- Committed cost visible as it is committed.
- Measured progress
- From site records, not from a weekly impression.
- Variations tracked
- Priced and approved during the job.
- Subcontractors included
- Without asking them to adopt your stack.
- Margin in flight
- Against estimate, while it can still change.
- Evidence attached
- Correspondence held against the record.
A unified system for planning and managing the process
The manufacturing planning platform we built connected parts of the process that had previously been coordinated by hand, making capacity and commitments visible in one place — which is what allows a date to be promised, and a position to be reported, with confidence.
Common questions
Does this replace our accounting system?
No. Project controls sit in front of it and post job cost, commitments and valuations into it in the structure your commercial team already reports on.
How do you get progress from subcontractors?
Through a light interface for them and a firm structure for you — applications and progress submitted in a form your systems can use, without requiring them to adopt your tools.
How accurate does progress reporting need to be?
Accurate enough to be trusted, which is a lower bar than perfect. We start with the activities that drive most of the cost and refine from there rather than trying to measure everything at once.
Let's talk about your construction software
Tell us how a job gets priced, won and tracked today, and where the commercial team finds out things too late. We will come back with an honest read on what to build, what to buy, and what a realistic first phase looks like.
