Industry one-pager
Contracting and construction
You find out what a job really made when the final certificate is paid. That is two years too late to act on.
What it costs you today
- 01
The real margin on a project is known after the final account is settled.
By then the tender for the next three jobs of the same type has already been priced off the same wrong assumptions. A cost overrun you learn about at final certificate has already been repeated.
- 02
Retention is released when someone remembers it, or when the subcontractor asks.
Half at practical completion, the balance at the end of the defects liability period, per contract, per subcontractor, across years. Money released early is money lent for free, and money forgotten on the receivable side is money you simply do not collect.
- 03
The site raises a non-conformance and the subcontract it belongs to never hears about it.
An NCR that does not become a back-charge is a cost you absorbed on behalf of somebody you are still paying in full. It also means the same subcontractor gets awarded the next package on a clean record.
What the system does about it
Tender and BOQ estimating that becomes the budget
The priced bill of quantities you tendered with is the baseline the project is then measured against, line by line. Cost to date and cost to complete are read against the item that was priced, not against a cost centre that resembles it.
Payment certificates measured cumulatively
IPCs are cumulative to date the way the industry actually certifies them, with advance recovered pro rata and retention deducted at the contract rate. The certificate, the invoice and the ledger are the same number by construction rather than by reconciliation.
Retention released on dates, not on memory
Retention is held in dated tranches — practical completion, end of defects liability — on both the receivable and the payable side, so what is due to you and what is due from you both appear before somebody has to ask.
Site quality connected to the commercial position
Non-conformances raised on site carry the root cause, the corrective action and the subcontract they belong to, so a quality event on Tuesday is a commercial entry on Tuesday.
Built for this, not adapted to it
Movinti — We did not adapt a generic ERP for contracting — we built the contracting system and have been running it with UAE contractors since. Seventeen modules on Odoo 19, covering the commercial chain, cost and buying, site and materials, and the compliance layer underneath.
Businesses we do this for
Bluespark MEP
MEP contracting
50+ Subcontractors managed on it
Platinum Contracting
Main contractor — Saudi Arabia
Onesta
Fit-out contracting
Next step
Thirty minutes on the phone. We tell you whether we can help and roughly what it takes — before anyone talks about scope or price.