Forge for project controls & financials

Every job. Every dollar. One set of numbers.

This is the page for whoever signs the cheques. Forge builds the claim from the work itself — field hours, shop progress, signed tickets — so the number you bill, the number you certified and the number in job cost are the same number. And the Construction Act clock is counted for you, every day.

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Operational AP/AR, claims and cost control live in Forge. Approved time pushes to QuickBooks Online; your accountant keeps their ledger.

PROGRESS CLAIM 07 · JOB 26-118SOV
THIS PERIOD$412,880
HOLDBACK 10%($41,288) RETAINED
CERTIFIED$398,120 · SHORTFALL LOGGED
LIEN PERIODDAY 47 OF 60
STATUSCERTIFIED · E-SIGNED
SHT 01 / 04 · BILLING & HOLDBACKForge for controls

The claim builds itself. The Act is built in.

The schedule of values seeds from the estimate, approved change orders materialize as their own SOV lines automatically, and each claim computes per-line: percent complete, to date, this period, holdback retained the way the statute says. Nobody re-types a number between the field and the invoice.

  • Consultant certification, handled honestly. Certified figures override claimed, shortfalls get a reason and feed a receivables report — so the gap between what you claimed and what got certified is a tracked number, not a shrug.
  • Ontario Construction Act logic in code. Ten percent basic holdback, the 60-day lien period counted day by day, and release gated on substantial completion plus the statutory declaration being on file.
  • Prompt-payment clocks on both sides. Due dates stamped on approval, overdue flagged — for what you're owed and what you owe your subs.
  • Client e-sign on the claim, on your letterhead, from a token link. Paid closes the loop.
HOLDBACK RELEASE · JOB 26-118$41,288
Substantial completion declaredON FILE
Lien period (60 days)DAY 61 · ELAPSED
Statutory declaration (CCDC 9A)NOT YET FILED
Release claim ready to issueWAITING ON DEC
RELEASE ELIGIBLE · ONE DOCUMENT SHORTThe system counted the 60 days for you. It's been nudging about the stat dec since day 55.
SHT 02 / 04 · COST CONTROLEarned value, honest math

Know a job is going sideways in week two, not month three.

Real earned-value control on every job: CPI from actual cost against earned progress, estimate-at-completion by four methods, variance at completion, and a probability-weighted risk register. Budgets carry cost codes and approved changes; commitments come from real POs.

  • Budget vs actual by cost code, materials against the buy-out, committed vs spent.
  • Division P&L that shows its work — revenue attributed by quote-line mix, labour cost at burdened rates, and an explicit "unattributed" bucket instead of numbers that quietly don't add up.
  • Rental billing that re-bills monthly POs idempotently and flags iron kept past its end date.
  • AP and AR with shared aging — current, 30, 60, 90+ — and settlement receipts that can't double-count.
Forge Command model view with live status
Steel fabrication shop

Cost lands where the work happened.

Shop scans, field hours, signed tickets and approved sub invoices all post against the job as they occur. Job cost isn't a month-end reconstruction; it's a running total.

SHT 03 / 04 · SUBCONTRACTOR MONEYTender → T5018

One thread from their first quote to their tax slip.

  • A real tender room. Per-vendor invites with sealed bids, numbered addenda and shared Q&A — no vendor ever sees another's number.
  • Prequalification and risk rating, with COI and WSIB expiries tracked and nudged before they lapse, not discovered at audit.
  • Subcontract POs with agreed rates — ST/OT/DT labour and equipment — logged as commitments against the budget on approval.
  • No-login daily tickets. Sub crews submit time and equipment from a phone; you approve; it lands on job cost at the agreed rates.
  • Approved invoices become AP bills automatically — net of holdback, with the holdback release as its own bill when it's due.
  • T5018 rollup ready for CRA: per-vendor gross paid, the $500 threshold applied, missing business numbers flagged before filing season.
Subcontractor crane crew
SHT 04 / 04 · THE NAG ENGINE19 daily motors

The system chases what humans forget.

Every morning, nineteen motors sweep every job and nudge the right person about the thing that's about to cost money: holdback receivables coming eligible, rentals due to re-bill, COIs about to lapse, welder continuity expiring, RFIs blowing their response window, transmittals never returned, quotes waiting on a follow-up, clocks left open, closeouts aging. Each nudge de-duplicates and re-arms when dates move — so the reminders stay sharp instead of becoming noise. On top of it, a daily brief written from a deterministic sweep of your data, and Ask Forge for plain-language questions — read-only, under each person's permissions, with pricing walled from pricing-blind roles.

Put one job's money through it.

Seed the SOV, run a claim cycle, watch the holdback clock and the cost curve. If the numbers aren't cleaner than what you have, walk away with your export.

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