Operator · Construction Cost Control

Stop margin leaking through unchecked claims.

Kognify reads every subcontractor progress claim, variation and supplier invoice, measures the quantities and rates against the contract and Bill of Quantities, and cross-checks them against your site records — then certifies what's right and escalates what isn't. Your commercial team reviews only genuine exceptions.

100%
Claim lines verified
every line measured and rate-checked, not sampled
~1%
Escalated to your team
only genuine exceptions reach a person
Days→hrs
Claim to certified
certification in hours, not weeks of QS time
The Problem

On thin margins, every unchecked claim is lost profit.

Over-claimed quantities, inflated variations, duplicated items and out-of-scope work slip through because no one can measure every line, on every claim, across every project. The result is margin erosion you only discover at final account — and cash frozen in disputes while it plays out.

Margin leaks line by line. Over-claimed quantities, inflated variations and out-of-scope items get certified because manual checking can't keep pace with the volume.
Cash is unpredictable. Slow certification delays payment runs and drawdowns, and disputes freeze cash on both sides of the contract.
Your QS team is the bottleneck. Skilled commercial staff spend their days measuring and cross-referencing instead of managing cost and risk.
No single source of truth. Contracts, BoQs, claims, delivery notes, dayworks and prior certificates live apart and rarely reconcile.
Disputes are expensive. Without a line-level, evidenced trail, back-charges and final-account disputes drag on — and get settled just to end them.
2⁃6%
typical net margin in construction — so leakage on claims comes straight off the bottom line.
80%+
of commercial & QS time often goes to measuring, checking and re-keying — not managing cost.
>1 week
to certify a claim across contract, BoQ and site records — while cash sits and drawdowns wait.
The Board-Level Case

Six ways autonomous cost control changes the P&L.

This isn't a tool for the QS desk. Verifying every claim, variation and invoice against the contract protects margin, releases cash, and de-risks the final account — across the whole portfolio.

🛡️

Protect project margin

Every quantity and rate is checked against the contract and BoQ, so over-claims and scope creep are caught before they're certified — not discovered at final account.

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Stabilise cash flow

Faster, confident certification means predictable payment runs and drawdowns, and fewer disputes freezing cash on both sides.

⏱️

Certify in hours, not weeks

Claims clear continuously instead of piling up at month-end — no pre-valuation scramble.

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Dispute-proof audit trail

Every certification is backed by line-level evidence traced to the contract, BoQ and site records — the trail that ends disputes fast.

📊

Portfolio cost visibility

Committed vs certified vs paid across every project, in real time — without chasing cost reports and spreadsheets.

👷

Scale QS capacity

Your commercial team manages cost and risk instead of measuring — taking on more projects without more headcount.

How It Works

It doesn't just log the claim. It measures it and decides.

The reason certification can be trusted is what happens on every claim, every time. Kognify rebuilds the commercial logic, recomputes the quantities and rates, and checks the claim against site reality — then certifies only what's right. Here is the path each claim takes:

1

📥 Ingest the claim

Pulls in subcontractor progress claims, variations and supplier invoices the moment they arrive — PDF, scan or spreadsheet — and structures every line item.

2

📑 Understand the contract & BoQ

Reads the contract, Bill of Quantities and rate schedule, and builds the logic: what's in scope, at what rate, under what terms and retention.

3

📐 Measure & recalculate

Recomputes quantities and applies contracted rates line by line, checks this-period vs to-date vs previous certificates, and flags over-claims, duplicates and math errors.

4

🔗 Match to site reality

Cross-references delivery notes, dayworks, measured works and prior certifications — catching claimed-but-not-delivered and out-of-scope items.

5

🚦 Certify or escalate

Certifies claims within your tolerance and authority, or pauses and escalates with full reasoning and evidence to your QS or commercial lead.

Outcome of step 05
Certified

~99% — no manual measuring

Recomputed and matched line by line, then passed for payment certification with no QS re-measuring at all.

Escalated

~1% — with the evidence

An over-claim, rate mismatch or missing site record — routed to your commercial team with the exact lines and reasons attached.

Where The Money Shows Up

From a checking burden to a lever on margin and cash.

The operational win converts straight into a commercial one. When measurement and matching are autonomous and instant, the business gains real control over what's certified, when it's paid, and how much margin it keeps.

Days→hrs

Claim-to-certification cycle, freeing payment runs and drawdowns

100%

Of claim lines measured and rate-checked, so over-claims are caught before certification

1 view

Committed vs certified vs paid, reconciled across the whole portfolio

<1 mo

To a pilot running on your live claims — payback measured in weeks

Proven in Production

Numbers we commit to — backed by the same engine.

This operator runs on Kognify's verification-first engine — precision AI that checks and justifies its own output, already live across finance, utilities, banking and public-sector workloads, and committed contractually.

99.76%
Measured production success rate on the same verification engine.
measured · committed
~1%
Of cases need a person — the rest flows through autonomously.
human review
<1 mo
From discovery to a pilot running in production on live claims.
then onboarding
100%
Of certifications carry a full, line-level audit trail.
every decision
Controls, Audit & Compliance

Auditable by design — evidence for every certificate.

Autonomy without control is a non-starter on a construction contract. Every decision Kognify makes is explainable, logged and traceable, on infrastructure that meets EU standards.

🔐 Azure EU · Dedicated tenant isolation 📋 GDPR · NIS2 · CER · DORA 🔍 Full audit trail on every certification ⏱️ <3-day issue resolution SLA 🚫 No client data trains public models
Owned by Commercial, Not IT

Configured the way you'd brief a new QS.

No IT consultants, no deployment cycles. Your commercial team sets the rules in plain language and sees changes live immediately — so a new contract form or rate schedule is handled without a developer queue.

📝

Natural-language rules

Set tolerances, rate rules, retention and scope logic per contract — written as instructions, not code.

New contract in minutes

A new form of contract or claim template is configured by your team directly — no developer ticket, no wait.

🔗

Contract-aware matching

Logical comparison across claim ⇔ contract ⇔ BoQ ⇔ delivery & dayworks, by item, quantity, code and rate.

💬

Conversational reporting

Ask in free text — "certified vs budget by project this quarter" — and get a breakdown plus chart. No BI project.

🔌

Fits your stack

Integrates with your ERP/accounting, document store, SharePoint and Teams. Webhook hand-off to downstream systems.

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Part of the Kognify Platform

One operator on an enterprise platform — extend to tender intake, procurement and HSE documents from the same foundation.

The Bigger Picture

Start with claims. Extend across the commercial function.

Cost control is the proving ground. Once your team trusts AI to measure, match and certify, the same platform extends to adjacent processes on one governed, audited foundation — and it's the fastest, lowest-risk way to put AI into production with a number attached.

Land

Autonomous cost control in production

A contained, high-value process with clear ROI — proven on your live claims and contracts in under a month.

Expand

More operators, same platform

Tender intake, BoQ cross-checking, supplier onboarding, HSE and compliance documents — on the same audited foundation.

Operators you can grow into — ● live today   ● scoped on request

Supplier invoices read, recalculated and 3-way matched — posted ready to pay, exceptions only to your team.

📄
Content Understanding
Live

Contracts and documents read, key terms and dates extracted by schema and validated to their source.

📜
Regulatory Change Intelligence
Live

New building regulations and legislation mapped to the obligations and reporting they affect.

📐
Tender & Bid Intake
Roadmap

Reads tender packs, extracts requirements, deadlines and scope, and drafts a qualification summary.

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BoQ Cross-Checking
Roadmap

Compares the Bill of Quantities against drawings, specification and prior revisions — flagging gaps and mismatches.

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Supplier & Subcontractor Onboarding
Roadmap

Validates insurances, certifications, licences and prequalification documents — and tracks expiries.

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HSE & Safety Documentation
Roadmap

RAMS and method statements checked for completeness; incident reports read and structured for review.

📑
Variation & Claim Register
Roadmap

Tracks variations and claims end to end — status, value and evidence — reconciled against the contract.

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Retention & Final Account
Roadmap

Reconciles retention releases and final accounts across certificates, claims and payments.

See it certify your own claims this month.

Free POC in under 2 weeks on your real claims and contracts. First pilot in production in under a month, with a dedicated onboarding period tuned to your contracts and rate schedules. See the margin protected before you commit.

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