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Pain · Cash flow

Cash crises rarely
arrive from nowhere.

They build when a job ate margin and nobody noticed, when applications and costs drift apart, when a retention nobody chased becomes the £42k you actually needed in May. Unibuild ties site reality to financial reality so you see pressure while you can still act, not when the bank calls.

Live project P&L 30-day forecast Retention chase log HMRC-ready
§ 01Where cash leaks

Eight leaks.
Most of them quiet
until they aren't.

Construction cash is timing plus truth. Both suffer when the numbers lag the site. Each leak below is a specific moment we have seen on every firm we've onboarded.

Silent margin
Labour and plant creep, do not land on the right cost code until the job is almost done.
≈ 2-4% margin
Variation drift
"Just crack on, we'll sort the paperwork." Three months later, no signature, no pay.
£14k unbilled
App vs site
What you billed should match what you built. Disconnects create disputes and delayed payments.
15-day slip
Retention slip
Retention chased six months after handover. Half of it the client has already deducted.
£25k stuck
CIS twice
CIS deduction worked out twice, once wrong. Subbie short-paid. Confidence gone.
Penalty risk
Tender blind
"Should we bid on this?" Capacity, margin and cash unknown. Decided by gut.
Bad bid risk
Director's question
"Are we making money on Beech Lane?" Bookkeeper says ask in March.
Decision blind
Subbie pile-up
Five AfPs land Friday. Three need pay-less notices. Window closes by Wednesday.
Contractual risk
§ 02What the platform does

Visibility is not a forecast.
It is operational fact,
tied to money
.

01

Verified hours on cost

QR clock-in posts to project labour cost by code, not a paper timesheet rounded the wrong way. Margin moves the same minute.

ModuleWorkforce
02

Variations & programme

Scope changes recorded where the team works. Quote, sign-off, P&L move together. Nothing slips between "do it" and "bill it".

ModuleProject
03

Retentions, watched

Auto-applied at the contract percentage on every AfP. Release dates on the calendar, chase email pre-drafted. Most firms recover an unbudgeted five-figure retention in year one.

ModuleFinancial
04

CVR & WIP, live

Cost-value reconciliation moves with every variation, every cost line, every hour. Forecast final account on the dashboard, not in a spreadsheet on the 28th.

ModuleFinancial
05

30-day cash forecast

Pulls from quotes out, AfPs queued, retentions due, supplier payments scheduled. The number the FD looks at on Monday morning.

ModuleFinancial
06

The maths, plugged in

Stress test your assumptions on the homepage ROI calculator. Honest number, no email gate.

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Next step

See the pressure
before the bank does.

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