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InteliSense IT, Navigating Change, Delivering Value

Construction

The project looked fine.
Then the final account arrived.

Margin is rarely lost in one decision. It leaks through commitments nobody saw, change nobody resolved and valuations that ran late. We connect estimate handover, procurement, committed cost, change, valuation, billing and cash so the commercial position is current rather than reconstructed.

See how a project should connect

We describe how information connects. We do not give contractual, legal or accounting advice.

Sound familiar?

Six sentences we hear on live projects.

If two or three are true, the issue is commercial visibility rather than effort.

  • We found out the cost at the final account.

    Committed cost is visible weeks after the commitment was actually made.

  • That variation was never signed off.

    Work proceeds on instruction while the commercial position stays unresolved.

  • The estimate is in one place, the project is in another.

    Delivery rebuilds the basis of the price instead of inheriting it.

  • Nobody agrees what this project is actually forecast to make.

    Cost, change and valuation are reconciled by hand before every board pack.

  • We valued late, so we billed late, so cash went late.

    Application, certification and receivable are three disconnected activities.

  • The subcontractor is ahead of their order.

    Commitment, instruction and site progress do not reconcile in one place.

How a project should connect

From the win to the handover, without losing the commercial thread.

Each step either commits cost, changes the scope or decides when you get paid.

  1. Win: Customer, site, scope, commercial model and pricing assumptions held in one place.
  2. Baseline: Approved estimate becomes a project structure, budget and cost codes.
  3. Commit: Procurement and subcontract commitments visible the day they are made.
  4. Build: Site progress, materials, labour and plant captured against the work.
  5. Change: Instruction, variation and claim tracked by commercial status, not memory.
  6. Forecast: Cost to complete and margin explained from live commitment and change.
  7. Value: Application, certification, billing, retention and receivable connected.
  8. Hand over: Completion, defects, documents and assets carried into service.

Evidence and boundaries

What we can show, and where we stop.

Construction has heard enough confident claims. Here is the honest position.

80%

of our business comes from existing customers and referrals.

All customer stories

The best I’ve ever experienced in over 20 years of collaboration.

Programme Manager, Hill & Smith Plc

Where this usually starts

Pick the one costing you most right now.

The starting point narrows the question. It does not choose the platform on its own.

Four decisions

Four points where you can stop, change route or carry on.

Projects continue while a programme runs. The decision points have to be real, and early.

We agree the commercial model before the scope
Gate 1Before commitment

We agree the commercial model before the scope

Construction is not one operating model. Contracting, fit-out, specialist trade, housebuilding and infrastructure all price, value and settle differently.

Confirmed at this gate

  • Project types and contract models you actually run
  • Estimating, project controls and approval authority
  • Procurement and subcontract practice
  • Site working, assets and post-handover service
  • Specialist systems that must remain authoritative
  • The business outcome leadership is asking for

Decision

  • Proceed
  • Narrow the scope
  • Assessment first
  • Transform first

Swipe, drag or use the arrow keys to move between decisions.

Where to start

Tell us how you build, and we will tell you what the situation supports.

A few questions, carried into the conversation so nothing needs repeating.

Question 1 of 4

0 of 4 answered

1. Where are you today?

This is what decides the commercial route. Everything else refines it.

Common questions

Questions construction leaders ask us.

A conversation, not a pitch

Where does the commercial position go dark?

Estimate handover, committed cost, change, valuation, cash or handover. Tell us where it hurts and we will be straight about what would help and what would not.

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