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For subcontractors

Get paid properly, without another full-time salary.

Progress claims, variations, notices and contract review, handled by someone who does this every day, for a fraction of a permanent commercial hire. You keep running the work.

No minimum contract. Scales with your workload.

Where subbies lose money

Almost never on the rates. Almost always on the process.

Most subcontractors price the job well and then lose the margin in administration: late claims, unsubstantiated variations, missed notices. It is entirely fixable.

  • Claims go in late, or in the wrong format

    A claim submitted a day late or without the right reference can cost you a full month of cashflow. The rules are unforgiving and they do not care how busy the week was.

  • Variations get done, then never get paid

    The work happens because the site needs it. The paperwork follows weeks later, by which point the entitlement is arguable and the builder has the upper hand.

  • Notices and time bars pass unnoticed

    Delay and disruption costs are recoverable only if you notify in time and in the right form. Most subcontractors lose these on process, not on merit.

  • You sign subcontracts you have not really read

    Forty pages of head contract flow-down, unlimited liability, back-to-back payment terms. By the time it hurts, you signed it eighteen months ago.

  • You do not know which jobs made money until they finish

    Cost tracking lives in the bank balance and a feeling. Two profitable jobs can hide one that is quietly eating both.

  • Another full-time salary cannot be justified yet

    The commercial workload is real but not a whole role, so it lands on the owner at night and gets done last.

What we handle

The commercial work, off your plate

Pick the parts you need. Most start with claims and variations, because that is where the cash is.

  • Progress claims

    Claims prepared, checked against the contract and submitted on time, every month. Payment schedules reviewed and responded to before the window closes.

  • Variations & EOTs

    Variations priced, substantiated and submitted while the evidence is fresh. Extension of time claims prepared with the delay actually demonstrated.

  • Contractual notices

    The notices your contract requires, issued inside the time bar. Nothing preserves entitlement like having written at the time.

  • Subcontract review

    A plain-English read of what you are about to sign, what is unusual in it, what it could cost you, and what is worth pushing back on.

  • Cost tracking & job costing

    A simple, maintainable way to see committed cost, cost to complete and margin per job, without buying enterprise software.

  • Project admin support

    RFIs, correspondence registers, records and the day-to-day contract administration that protects you if a job goes bad.

How to engage

Three ways in

No lock-in, no minimum term on the retainer. If it stops being worth it, stop.

  • Contract review

    Know what you are signing.

    Per contract 3 to 5 days

    A review of a subcontract before you commit, with the commercial risks in plain English and a list of amendments worth requesting.

    Includes

    • Payment terms and security of payment position
    • Liability, indemnity and insurance exposure
    • Programme, delay and liquidated damages risk
    • Variation and claim procedures you must follow
    • A short list of what to negotiate
  • Most common

    Monthly commercial support

    Your commercial function, part-time.

    Monthly retainer Rolling

    Ongoing claims, variations, notices and cost tracking across your live jobs. Sized to how many projects you are actually running.

    Includes

    • Progress claims prepared and submitted
    • Payment schedules reviewed and responded to
    • Variations priced and substantiated
    • Contractual notices issued on time
    • Monthly cost and margin position per job
    • Someone to call when a builder pushes back
  • Claim recovery

    Go after what you are owed.

    Fixed price By scope

    A one-off engagement to build and submit a substantiated claim on a job that has gone sideways: variations, delay costs or a disputed final account.

    Includes

    • Review of contract and correspondence record
    • Entitlement assessment, honestly given
    • Claim built and substantiated
    • Submission and response handling
    • Referral on if it needs a lawyer or adjudication
What changes

The month stops being a scramble

Claim dates stop sneaking up. Variations stop piling up. You stop doing commercial admin at nine o'clock at night.

  • Claims in on time, every month, in the right form
  • Variations submitted while the evidence still exists
  • Notices issued inside the contractual time bar
  • Payment schedules responded to before the window shuts
  • A clear margin position on every live job
  • Someone commercial to call before you agree to something
  • Contracts read properly before you sign them
  • No permanent salary, on-costs or downtime to carry
Getting started

From call to first claim

  1. No cost

    Quick call

    What trade, how many jobs, who you work for, and what is currently causing the most grief.

  2. Week 1

    Look at the paperwork

    We read your current subcontracts and last few claims. Usually there are one or two things worth fixing straight away.

  3. Week 2

    Set up the rhythm

    Claim dates, notice triggers and a simple cost tracker per job, set up so the deadlines come to us rather than to you.

  4. Ongoing

    Run it monthly

    Claims and variations go out on time. You get a one-page position per job. You get on with running the work.

Questions

The usual ones

If you are running more than a couple of jobs at once and issuing monthly claims, there is usually enough here to pay for itself. Below that, a one-off contract review or getting your claim template right may be all you need, and we will tell you that rather than sell you a retainer.

If you want us to, yes. Correspondence, claims and variations can go out under your business with us behind it, or we can stay in the background and prepare everything for you to send. Some clients prefer the builder not to know they have commercial help. Both work.

No, and we are careful about that line. We do commercial and contract administration: preparing claims, issuing notices, assessing entitlement, telling you what a clause means in practice. When something needs a lawyer, such as adjudication or a dispute heading somewhere formal, we will say so and can point you to people who do it well.

Bring it anyway. A lot of rejections are procedural rather than substantive, and a properly substantiated resubmission gets paid more often than people expect. If the entitlement genuinely is not there, you will be told that rather than billed to find out slowly.

No. Most subcontractors we work with run on a spreadsheet and their accounting package, and that is fine. We will make what you have work properly before suggesting you buy anything.

Next step

Send us your last claim and your current subcontract

We will tell you on a short call whether there is money being left on the table. If there is not, that is a useful thing to know too.

Within one business day No obligation, no sales pitch