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Every general contractor,a rock-solid file.
You coordinate dozens of trades, and in front of your client, you answer for every one. Even for what you never laid with your own hands. Here is the file that makes you unassailable, from the first meeting to handover.
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Software shouldn't just help you run your business. It should strengthen your credibility with the best clients, and protect your interests the day a job gets tense.
Where a job tips over
On a building site, the risk isn't in the quote.
It's in everything that happens between the signature and handover. Four moments decide whether a job ends as a recommendation or a dispute. Each one is settled in advance, while it's still a line in a file.
The subcontractor who lets you down
A botched lot, a tradesman who walks off mid-job. In front of your client, you are the one responsible, and the law sees it no other way: a subcontractor letting you down excuses nothing. Without the record of who did what and when, you fix it at your own cost, then fight alone to recover from him.
The delay pinned on you
The schedule slips. Part of it is on the client, part on something outside your control. But if nothing is written down, the penalties land on the original deadline, as if the whole delay were your doing.
The variation that was never signed
“Could you add this?” You do it, the relationship is good, we'll sort it out later. At handover, the invoice surprises them, and that extra work appears nowhere in the contract.
The handover that drags on
Until it is signed off, your guarantees don't start, your final payment waits, and the smallest reservation can reopen the whole job.
None of these moments is fate. Each one becomes harmless the moment it's written down at the right time.
Trust is won before the signature.
Handing a whole project to a single company is, for a client, an act of faith. He can't judge your masonry from a plan, so he judges what he can see: the clarity of your documents, the way your past jobs were run, the seriousness of your exchanges. At a similar price, the company that shows its work and its track record wins over the one that's just a signature at the bottom of a quote.
Your public page and your gathered projects don't manufacture that rigour. They make it visible, for those still hesitating to trust you with their project.
The day it gets tense, everything is already in place.
The rigour that wins you the job is the same that covers you when a site goes wrong. Every decision made, every client approval, every variation, every subcontractor contract and its insurance: gathered and ordered, from the first meeting to handover.
You no longer dig through emails, texts and notebooks. You open the file, and it tells the job exactly as it happened. That's what turns a dispute into a formality, and what makes your claim against the subcontractor at fault genuinely solid, instead of a case lost in advance.
One single way of working, two benefits: it wins you the job, then it protects you on it.
Several sites, one clear head.
A general contractor never runs one site at a time. Your teams, your subcontractors, your hours and your margins per site sit in one place, up to date. You see where the money goes while the job is running, not three months after handover.
And on site, everything is captured from the site itself, even where there's no signal.
What we get asked
The questions you're already asking.
Is a general contractor liable for its subcontractors' defects?
Yes. In front of your client, you answer for the whole works, including the lots handed to subcontractors. You can then recover from whoever was at fault, provided you have the file that proves it in black and white.
What happens if a subcontractor causes a delay?
Him letting you down is not a case of force majeure. The delay falls back on you in front of the client, unless you can show, file in hand, what comes from him, from you, or from an outside event.
Why formalise every variation?
Extra work that isn't written down changes neither the price nor the deadline in the contract. Without a variation, you expose yourself to a contested invoice and penalties calculated on the original schedule.
Do I have to replace my quoting software?
The quote isn't the end, it's the first brick of your file. We start from the quote-contract and hold the thread through to handover, where your real risks lie.
Does it hold up if I run several sites at once?
That's exactly what it's for. Sites, teams, subcontractors and margins are run together, and each site keeps its own file.
Do I need to be a large company for this to be useful?
No. A three-person general contractor carries the same liability as a large one. When you're few, protection matters even more.
The common ground
What secures your project doesn't depend on your trade.
The principle is the same across every job you take on: the agreement holds from the quote, the proof files itself as the work goes, the handover closes cleanly. That's what we call a Secure Contract.
See it on a key phase: During the job →
Your next jobs deserve a rock-solid file.
You coordinate another trade? The file holds for all of them →
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