CONSTRUCT
Post-contract cost management, always reconciled.
The app quantity surveyors run their live schemes on. Change control, valuations, certificates, cost reports and cash flow on one record, with programme, meetings, site reports, risks and completion alongside, and every action attributed.
JCT & NEC aware · RICS-aware reporting · Full audit trail
WHAT'S INSIDE
Everything post-contract, handled in one place.
Each workspace writes to the same scheme record, so the cost position, the registers and the reports agree by construction rather than by reconciliation.
Change control
Change control that reconciles itself.
Instructions, anticipated variations and claims live in three linked registers with sub-elements, statuses and reasons for change. Values roll straight into the projected outturn, provisional sums and contingency, so the cost position and the registers can never disagree.
- Instructions, variations and claims with agreed, anticipated and rejected states
- Provisional sum expenditure and contingency drawdown tracked automatically
- Bulk-upload up to 50 PDFs; each is read and reviewed before it is saved
- NEC-aware: instructions become compensation events where the form demands it
Valuations & certificates
Interim valuations and certificates, done to the letter.
Build each valuation from gross valuation through deductions, retention and payment due, single-rate or sectional. Issue the certificate with named Prepared, Checked and Approved sign-off against a point-in-time snapshot, and let the recommendation letter ask the Employer's Agent for the notice.
- Sectional retention and cash-flow period assignment
- Prepared / Checked / Approved certificate workflow with a frozen snapshot
- Email reminders ahead of every key valuation date
- Pre-filled from an uploaded valuation, reviewed field by field
Cost reports & sign-off
Cost reports your clients sign off with confidence.
Generate branded, RICS-aware cost reports from your own templates and a cover editor. Route each through a named approval chain with e-signatures, a live review PDF, an action timeline and a raise-a-query loop, then reconcile report to report with a movement analysis and its reasons.
- Movement analysis with reasons for change, report to report
- Multi-step sign-off with digital signatures and a document-first review
- Historic reports imported and read by AI, so the series is complete
- Uploaded and generated reports side by side in one comparison
Cash flow & fees
The commercial position, month by month.
Forecast cash flow against actuals with a self-healing S-curve that respects your milestones and manual edits. Track professional fees against budget and purchase order through a proper invoice ledger, and see where the live forecast final account sits today.
- Monthly cash-flow forecast versus actual, with milestone periods
- Fee schedule, invoice ledger and spend against PO
- Live forecast final account on the dashboard, portfolio and PDF
- My Dashboard: everything waiting on you, across every scheme
Programme, meetings & site
The delivery record, kept alongside the numbers.
Upload the contractor's programme and read it into a Gantt with milestones. Turn meeting notes into drafted minutes with actions routed to tasks. File site reports and let AI lift progress, issues and the photograph worth keeping, so the cost story has its context to hand.
- Programme extraction with working-day durations and section bars
- AI-drafted minutes, editable, with actions that become tasks
- Site reports read for progress and issues, linked to risks and tasks
- Project team directory and check-ins
Risk register
Risks scored, simulated and fed by the record.
A shared register with probability and impact scoring, expected cost, mitigations and ownership. Pre-contract risks arrive with the scheme and are labelled as such; AI suggestions draw on the programme, meetings and change control; Monte Carlo puts a range on the exposure.
- Probability × impact with expected cost and mitigated position
- Monte Carlo simulation across open risks
- AI-suggested risks from the scheme's own documents
- Risk-adjusted forecast on the portfolio dashboard
Completion
Practical completion, defects and the final account.
A guided completion workspace records practical completion, the defects period and the final account in the right order, only marking the scheme complete once the record supports it. Completed schemes keep their full history and stay searchable.
- Practical completion and making-good certificates, dates checked
- Final account built from the reconciled change registers
- Defects status and close-out checklist
- Completed schemes retained with their audit trail intact
Insights & Ask Area
Answers from the record, not from memory.
The insights engine runs automatic, non-benchmarked checks for priority risks, missing data and figures that no longer agree. Ask Area answers questions about outturn, movement, valuations and risk from the scheme's own registers, with the source cited.
- Cited answers grounded only in the scheme's data
- Missing-data and reconciliation checks
- Portfolio health score and attention list across every scheme
- Connect your own AI agents through the MCP integration
CLIENT PORTAL
Give clients a live window — on your terms.
Enable a firm-branded portal on any scheme and choose exactly what your client sees. Share a real-time dashboard or a controlled point-in-time snapshot — disabled sections never leave our servers.
- Live or scheduled snapshot dashboards
- Section-by-section control, enforced server-side
- Your logo, colours and theme throughout
- Email invitations with last-viewed tracking
BEFORE THE CONTRACT
Schemes arrive from Plan & Procure with the contract data pre-filled.
Publishing a scheme carries the appointed contractor, contract sum, form of contract, team roles and preliminaries into Construct's contract draft. The pre-contract risk register comes with it, labelled as such, and the audit trail runs unbroken across the handover.
Ready to run your schemes on Area?
Join the practices moving their pre-contract and post-contract work off spreadsheets and into one live, audited record.
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