Real Estate & Construction
The buyer pays at slab milestones, but demand letters go out late and inconsistently, which delays the developer's own cash and erodes buyer trust, and the delayed-payment interest the contract entitles the developer to charge is simply never computed, so it is left on the table every cycle. This is usually where we start, because it is the clearest money to recover. Most sales come through brokers, and brokers are where money and disputes leak: a double-brokerage fight over "which broker brought this buyer" is an argument with no record, and brokerage gets paid out on bookings that later cancelled. An infrastructure firm's money is trapped in slow interim-payment certificates (IPCs), price-escalation claims that are due under the contract but never computed and pressed, mobilization-advance recovery, and variations performed but not certified, all while owned plant and a daily-wage workforce burn cash regardless. The recoverable money is real, contractual, and in the firm's own measurement and contract data.
Who has it
Residential and commercial developers carry this as the signature first build, both as the clearest and fastest cash to recover and as the payout side of broker disputes; infrastructure and project-construction firms carry it as the dominant leak, with the larger civil, MEP and EPC contracts close behind; and property-sales and brokerage operations carry the receivable side as a core build, the firm chasing brokerage owed by developers.
What we build
An ageing-receivables view by unit and milestone, demand-letter runs tied to certified slab milestones (letter generated, buyer notified on WhatsApp and email, a reminder ladder, an overdue flag), the delayed-payment interest computed so it can actually be charged, and collections reconciled against the escrow. It is arithmetic on the firm's own ledger. Every broker registered once, every lead stamped with the broker code at first contact so a double-brokerage dispute is answered by a timestamp, not an argument; the brokerage payout reconciled against the booking and the agreed trigger; and payouts on bookings that later cancelled surfaced for clawback. A sweep across the firm's own records that surfaces the money due and slow: IPC value billed vs certified vs received with the certification lag, price-escalation entitlement computed against the contract formula and the published indices, mobilization-advance recovery tracked, and uncertified variations listed with their evidence. The claim or escalation is assembled with its line-level trail; a person presses and signs it.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
The reliable spine
The reliable spine is plain arithmetic on the firm's own ledger: the ageing-receivables view, the demand-letter runs tied to certified slab milestones, the delayed-payment interest computed to the contract, the broker register and timestamp, and the IPC, escalation and variation reconciliation, all run by rules and approvals.
Where AI helps
AI is held to bounded reading and matching of the firm's own paper, reading contractor bills, broker agreements, sale deeds and contract formulae to surface what is due and slow; it drafts the claim or letter for a person, and never owns the number, the approval or the decision to press it.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Demand letters go out on time with the interest clock running; overdue collections come down; previously forgotten interest is recovered; the collections cycle shortens. Double-brokerage disputes are settled by a timestamp; brokerage is paid only on a booking that stands; payouts on cancelled bookings are caught and clawed back. Price-escalation entitlement is computed and claimed instead of forgotten; certification lag and uncertified variations are visible and chaseable; the working capital trapped in slow IPCs becomes a managed number. Brokerage earned is claimed and aged like any receivable; under-payment by developers is caught; sub-broker splits are settled by a record.
Illustrative outcome
Recovering a slice of un-charged interest and tightening the collections cycle is frequently the headline number in the first engagement, with the cycle shortening by about three weeks. Brokerage leakage on disputed and cancelled bookings caught and recovered each cycle. Escalation and variation claims recovered that were previously left unpressed; faster visibility of certification lag. Unclaimed and under-paid brokerage surfaced and recovered; sub-broker disputes fall. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
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