How much time, money, and risk is leaking from your business?
Take this 3-minute assessment for UK construction and trade businesses to see where jobs, paperwork, and cash are slipping.
Takes 3 minutes. No fluff. Just a straight answer.
- See where work goes off track between quote, site, and invoice
- Spot the paperwork gaps that slow cash down
- Find the first fixes that take pressure off the team
If this sounds familiar, money is leaking somewhere
Usually it is not the job itself. It is the chasing, the missed handovers, and the paperwork done at the end of the day.
- Job info lives in WhatsApp, emails, notes, and someone else's head.
- The team turns up and half the brief is missing.
- Variations get agreed on site, then disappear.
- Photos, sign-offs, and certs are missing when the office needs to invoice.
- RAMS and checks are done somewhere, but not easy to pull together.
- Everyone is flat out, but the margin still feels too tight.
What that usually costs you
It is never one big disaster. It is death by ten little headaches on every job.
- More calls, more chasing, more double-handling.
- Return visits that should never have happened.
- Cash sat waiting because the paperwork is not finished.
- Growth that feels like more office stress, not more control.
Pressure test
If a customer challenged a job from three weeks ago, could you pull the full trail in five minutes?
This is where decent trade firms get hurt
Plenty of work does not automatically mean tidy jobs, quick invoices, or strong margin.
Bigger market
Lots of firms. Same mess.
Construction is full of busy firms. The ones that run tighter jobs usually keep more of the margin.
Handover pain
The handover is where jobs get messy.
Things get lost between quote, office, site, sign-off, and invoice.
Paperwork pain
Paperwork done later costs twice.
If photos, forms, and certs are left until later, the office ends up rebuilding the job by hand.
That is why this scorecard looks at the messy middle, not just the finished job.
Not another fluffy business quiz
It is a straight-talking check of where the jobs, paperwork, and cash are getting tangled up.
- Where jobs keep bogging down
- Where the office is doing too much chasing
- Where site paperwork is going missing
- Where money is getting stuck before invoice
- What to sort first
What it checks
Built around the five live categories
Not theory. Just the places trade firms usually lose time, paperwork, and cash.
Job Control
Whether jobs move cleanly from estimate to completion with the office in control.
Commercial Control
Whether estimating, buying, labour capture, and live job costs are protecting profit before it slips.
Compliance Evidence
How quickly and consistently the business can prove safe, compliant delivery on every job.
Workforce & Subcontractor Control
How well the business controls direct labour, skills, competency, and subcontractor compliance.
Financial & Commercial Control
Whether completed work is invoice-ready and cash is visible across variations, retention, and close-out.
How it works
Quick to do. Easy to understand. Useful straight away.
Answer a few straight questions
No management speak. Just how the jobs really run day to day.
See where the trouble is
Get a simple score that shows where the leaks, paperwork gaps and hold-ups are.
Get your next fixes
Walk away knowing what needs tightening before you add more people or more software.
What the better trade firms get right
Nothing clever. Just the basics done properly, every time.
Job info is all in one place
The office and the site team are looking at the same job, not three different versions of it.
The team finishes with proof
Photos, notes, sign-off and certs are done there and then, not chased later.
Invoices go out quicker
The office is not rebuilding the whole job just to get paid.
That is the gap this scorecard helps you spot.
Before you throw more people or more software at it, find out where the real leaks are
In our experience, most trade firms don't need a bigger team or another app. They need to stop doing the same work twice — one version of the job, one place it lives, no rekeying between site, office, and invoice. That's where the time and the margin come back.
Start the ScorecardAbout 3 minutes. Built for UK trade and contracting firms doing £2m–£20m.