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Margin Cockpit.

The cockpit view that turns scattered project data into one board-ready picture, run by the team you already have.

Period close in. Board-ready action pack out. Nine working days.

A governed AI workflow that drafts the monthly margin pack; your FD and commercial director review, approve and issue every number.

Send us your worst CVR · we hand back a reconciled margin snapshot, WIP/CNI view and risk register — 30 minutes.
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Inside the packMonthly Margin Snapshot · Margin Bridge · Aged WIP Tracker · Completed-Not-Invoiced+4 more →
The problemIllustrative scenario

QS shows £X. Finance ledger shows £Y. Both work. Neither matches. The board chairs on data three weeks old.

18WDaverage month-end close, and the picture isn’t reconciled

Most teams run the CVR from spreadsheets that disagree with each other. WIP creeps up unseen; completed-not-invoiced work surfaces at year-end, when chasing it is harder. Invoice blockers get raised by the credit controller, months after they happened. The board hears the project is on margin, and finds out at completion it wasn’t.

01 · The workflow · five stages

Five stages run the close: reconcile first, decide last.

Click any stage to expand · inputs / outputs / time / human role

01
Data Ingestion & Reconciliation

The Feed

Pull project, commercial, finance and operational data from source systems. Reconcile differences before close. Flag every discrepancy at WD-2.

- COLLAPSE

01
Stage 01 · Data Ingestion & Reconciliation

The Feed

↓ INPUTS

·QS valuations

·Finance ledger

·Project accounts

·Variation register

·Operational data

↑ OUTPUTS

·Reconciliation log

·Variance flags

·Source-of-truth dataset

⏱ TIME

WD-2

⚐ HUMAN ROLE

Senior QS + FD, confirm reconciliation before close

↗ WORKED EXAMPLEOpen worked example PDF ↓
What stays with your team
01

Competent-person judgement and sign-off — a named person from your firm approves every document.

02

Pricing judgement — rates, margins and commercial positions are yours, never generated.

03

Every document carries a named approver from your firm. Nothing is issued unsigned.

04

Your documents stay confidential — processed by the team you deal with, never training data.

02 · The Proof

One finished close, open for inspection.

Illustrative scenario · modelled figures, not client data

A complete, audit-grade worked example of one monthly margin cycle. The ledger below is the timeline – timestamped from period close to board pack; the gauge is the instrument, firming as each stage lands; the snapshot is the document the steering committee opens.

Worked example — fictional project, real output format

The full Monthly Margin Snapshot – one month’s margin position readout

· Portfolio margin position + bridge· Aged WIP & completed-not-invoiced· Invoice blocker taxonomy· Monthly action log + decisions required
The margin gauge

The whole portfolio's margin, firmed to board-ready.

Illustrative model · worked-example margin, not a live portfolio
6%12%BID BASELINE 9.0%
9.4%The Pulse™ · WD-9 · avg margin FAC
Above bid baseline · 9.0%

Scrub the close, WD-2 to WD-9. The needle is the reconciled forecast at completion, not a spreadsheet guess.

£2.4mEBIT (FAC)
£26mWIP
£924kCNI
+0.4ppMargin bridge · m-on-m
WD-9 board-ready position · March cycle · £42m portfolio
One close cycle, timestamped

March cycle · £42m portfolio · 14 live projects · £26m WIP · WD-2 → WD-9 close

WD-2
WD-4
WD-5
WD-6
WD-9
INWD-2 · 09:00

Period close triggered

Source data pulled · 7 systems

01WD-2 · 14:00

The Feed, reconciliation complete

QS, finance, project a/c reconciled

OUTWD-2 · 16:30

11 variances flagged for review

Δ to QS commentary · WD-3 close-out

02WD-4 · 11:00

The Gauge, margin position calculated

EBIT £2.4m · 9.4% avg margin FAC

OUTWD-4 · 16:00

Margin Bridge published · +0.4pp m-on-m

9 movers identified · narrative drafted

03WD-5 · 10:30

The Drain, WIP, CNI, blockers surfaced

£26m WIP · £924k CNI · 28 blockers

04WD-6 · 11:00

The Shield, variation pipeline reconciled

£1.4m pipe · £186k risk · 14 unclaimed

OUTWD-6 · 16:00

Deductions defence positions logged

£412k held · defence narratives current

05WD-9 · 10:00

The Pulse, action pack assembled

11 actions · 7 owners · audit logged

OUTWD-9 · 16:00

Board pack issued · steering committee ready

QBR narrative + monthly action log

03 · What Comes Out

Fourteen Structured Deliverables. One reconciled dataset behind all of them.

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Outputs / cycle
£42m
Portfolio modelled
WD-9
Board-ready
Illustrative worked example
Internal · Built by the Workflow

Operational artefacts

MMS.html
10pp · MARCH CYCLE · BOARD-FACING

Monthly Margin Snapshot

Revenue

£3.84m

Cost incurred

£3.46m

EBIT

£2.4m

FAC margin %

9.4%

WIP closing

£26.0m
PORTFOLIO MARGIN+0.4pp m-on-m
04 · Operational Outcomes

One source of truth.
No surprises at year-end.

Illustrative model · targets, not measured client results
9 WD
WD-0WD-20
Close cycle

Reconciled at WD-2, margin position at WD-4, board pack at WD-9.

100%
0%100%
Variances flagged

QS, finance ledger, project accounts reconciled before close. Differences flagged at WD-2.

0
Yr-end surprises

Picture stays right all year. Year-end adjustments shrink because nothing was hiding.

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Margin signals tracked

Programme slippage, cost trajectory, variation exposure, weak entitlement, flagged in the early-warning register.

Reconciling QS valuations, the finance ledger and the variation pipeline into one margin position used to be the month’s most expensive spreadsheet exercise; AI just turned it into a governed workflow. The contractors who put their monthly close on that system first will be steering margin while their competitors are still arguing about whose number is right.

A margin problem found in week two costs a conversation; found at completion, it costs the margin.

Built with working FDs, commercial directors and senior QSs. Pilot results will be published named, or not at all.

05 · Who does what

The reconciliation is automated.
The forecast stays yours.

In monthly commercial reporting, the judgement calls are the product: the forecast position, stage of completion, what the CVR tells the board. The AI reads, reconciles and assembles across QS valuations, the finance ledger, WIP and the variation pipeline; every one of those calls stays with your FD, commercial director and senior QS.

What BuiltAI Does For You
01

Reads and reconciles project commercial, finance, valuation, operational and variation data from multiple sources

02

Surfaces variances between sources, when QS shows £X and the finance ledger shows £Y, the difference gets flagged

03

Calculates earned value and forecast at completion using consistent rules across the portfolio

04

Builds WIP views by project, ageing band, category and movement vs prior month

05

Identifies completed-not-invoiced work by cross-referencing certified vs invoiced position

What Stays With Your Team
01

Make commercial decisions, that stays with the QS / commercial director

02

Sign off the management accounts, that’s the finance director

03

Approve forecast positions, that’s the commercial director

04

Replace finance-team review of accruals, prepayments and provisions

05

Provide audit assurance, that’s for external auditors

Your documents are processed under your instruction, seen only by the team that works them, never used for model training, and deleted on request.

BuiltAI is run by Dominic Hobson, who has spent his career in construction and M&E delivery — the packs exist because he needed them.

prove it.
06 · Bring Your Worst CVR™

Send us the CVR the board quietly queried last month.

Thirty minutes. The CVR, the finance ledger position, your project accounts. We hand back a reconciled margin snapshot, WIP/CNI view and risk register, board-ready, source-traced, in the format your steering committee uses.

Priced as an annual licence by company size, plus usage credits — the pricing page explains the model. How the pack is priced →

Bring your worst CVR 30-min walkthroughNo slides · No canned pitch · Your document, not ours

You'll deal with Dominic Hobson, Founder, BuiltAI — not a sales team.

Under NDA if you want one. Your document is seen by the team that processes it, is never training data, and is deleted on request.
Margin Cockpit™