Getting paid is the hole. Not the tender.

Most construction AI aims at tenders and take-offs. Pensum is being built for the month where the money actually gets decided.

Join The Ledger and the checklist comes straight back. Twelve checks on one page, to run on the next application before you send it. Free, yours to print and pass on, and useful whether Pensum ever turns out to be for you or not.

Then you're on the list. Not a newsletter and not a queue. You tell me what your payment month actually looks like, I read it, and you go to the front when there's room.

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One field, and the checklist comes straight back.

Who is building this

There's no company story here, because there's no company story. There's one Quantity Surveyor and the same job, done since 2005.

2005Working as a QS since. Twenty-one years on the same job, not adjacent to it

750+Small construction businesses worked with

£200k to £10mThe turnover band those firms sit in. The size this is being built for

10 years+Main contractor side, various sectors. The other side of the table

£200mLargest project value worked on

5,000+Payment applications produced

That's five thousand monthly cycles, not five thousand opinions. Everything Pensum does comes out of the same twenty-one years.

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Your email address is the whole requirement. The checklist comes straight back, and everything else is asked afterwards.

One field, and you're on. Everything else is asked afterwards and none of it is compulsory. The list isn't sold or shared.

Step 2 of 2

You're on. Your place is held whatever you do next. The rest decides how quickly I can be useful to you, and the last question is the one I read first.

Your name

Where are you based?

Phone (optional)

1 Which best describes where you are now?

2 What would you want to be different?

3 What have you already tried?

4 What would suit you best?

5 Anything else you want me to know?

Absolutely anything. The more specific, the more use it is. A clause you're stuck on, a contractor who never pays on time, the bit of the month you dread.

In a hurry? Skip the queue and talk to me directly. Worth it if the problem is the next application rather than the one after it.

What it's being built to do

None of this is live yet. It's what the product is for, so you can judge whether it's worth your details.

Read your contract once, then hold you to itEvery date the contract creates, worked out and tracked. Told before a deadline, not after it's gone.

Less of each application argued overBuilt the way the contract says it has to be built, with the backup attached, so there's less to cut.

Not dependent on one personA QS who leaves takes the contract in their head with them. This keeps it written down and running.

Days a month backThe monthly cycle is the target. Set against your own terms rather than a generic template.

The QS certifying your application isn't your enemy.

They cut what they can't verify, on a deadline, with whatever you sent them. Pensum is about giving them less to cut.

Straight about where this is. The twelve workbooks are finished. The thing described above is being built and isn't finished. The Ledger exists so you hear first, not so you can buy today.