Insights

The questions construction owners search for at 11pm, answered by a QS.

Short, specific, and written from live contracts. Each one ends with the template or the step you can take tomorrow.

Payment

You missed the pay-less notice date. What now.

What the Construction Act requires, what a compliant notice contains, and the three things to do in the 48 hours after you realise it has gone.

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Variations

How to price a variation as a subcontractor so it actually gets paid.

Notice, record, price, agree, in that order. The one-page variation sheet 369 uses and why the photo matters more than the email.

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Tendering

The exclusions list that stops a package quote becoming a blank cheque.

Why a quotation without explicit exclusions is a blank cheque, and the template that turns exclusions into priced options.

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Cash flow

A cash-flow forecast from your programme in 20 minutes.

Spread the value, lag the receipts, lead the payments. The spreadsheet and the AI prompt that build it.

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AI

What AI can do on a tender this week, and what it cannot yet.

Take-off, clarifications, risk register, bill descriptions: where it saves days, where a QS still has to sign it off.

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Marketing

Five photos a week from site is a marketing department.

How a job-photo content engine works, what to photograph, and what it did for enquiries in the first 90 days.

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