What's missing between the site and the balance sheet.
What we've seen on contractors' sites:
Nothing connects them.
Three jobs. Three ways it slips.
Work done on site has to reach this month’s bill, with its proof.
80 checklists to close every month, on each of five sites, and every client wants its billing package in the same last week. The follow-up starts late, and from memory.
On a highway, hundreds of patch repairs, each a photo with a chainage and a size, collated by hand against one BOQ item.
Work is done. Revenue is earned. Cash still waits.
- Site work
- Proof
- Scope check
- Bill
Site events trigger contract clauses. Nobody is watching for them.
A podium waterproofing joint leaks and the crew reseals it as a routine fix. Nobody notices it's the third repair on the same joint, which under a typical EPC GCC (NTPC's Cl. 27.8, for example) lets the client deduct the cost directly.
Miss the trigger, and the money comes off the bill — or stays held in retention.
- Event on site
- Clause triggered
- Noticed too late
- Money lost
Reported on site the same day. Then lost in the group.
The barbending supervisor flags it in the BBS group: the client's nominated subcontractor still hasn't cleared the yard. One message among seven WhatsApp groups.
Every load of material arrives as a photo of a challan or weighbridge slip. By month-end, nobody has totalled what each vendor delivered.
The site reported it. Nobody connected it in time.
- WhatsApp message
- Logged
- Acted on
On one project, he heard the site had been blocked from a phone call, after the client review. On another, the team rebuilds the month's work done from WhatsApp chat before every bill.
Late visibility means slower decisions.
Because the commercial impact of what happens on site should be clear the same day — not pieced together by hand, and never a surprise.
Who this is for
Built for whoever answers for the money on your projects.
Billing and cost heads, project controls, commercial managers and the MDs who run it themselves. Every bill and every claim depends on what happened on site, but it reaches you at month-end, after the bill has gone and the notice window has closed.
Towers, townships, commercial buildings or plants — you run the whole project, but see only what each site chooses to report.
- Checklists, level surveys and lab results pile up until the month-end crunch
- EOT and notice windows are easy to miss across a portfolio
One view across every site and package: missing checklists chased as the work happens, EOT and LD exposure flagged before deadlines close.
Roads, rail, pipelines, power lines — sites run for kilometres, and every quantity comes with a chainage or location.
- A notice to rectify, sent as a photo of a letter, starts the time limit
- Deliveries by vendor — the challan trail the client checks for royalty
Every quantity, delivery and notice recorded by chainage or location, with photos, so bills carry their proof and no time limit lapses.
One scope across many sites — and proving what was done, when and by whom is still manual.
- On rate contracts, the client wants proof of every job, not attendance
- Snags closed on site but never proven — so retention stays held
Every job and every closed snag on record with its photos and checklists, so the bill is substantiated and retention isn't held for want of proof.
PMCs & Outsourced Project Managers
You're contracted to deliver, but see the sites only through visits and WhatsApp chats.
- Every client report built by hand from chat history and calls
- Commitments tracked in your head, with no record of who agreed to what
One trail across every site: client-ready reports, commitments tracked to closure and EOT flags.
What Velora does
Billing. Contracts. Field. Portfolio.
Velora reads every site update against your project scope and main contract, then flags what needs action to the person who owns it, and rolls every site up into one view. Your team reviews and decides.
Bills certified faster, because every line carries its supporting documents: quality checklists, level surveys, lab results and photos.
Less chasing: Velora collects them and follows up on missing ones on WhatsApp.
EOT and rectification notices, deadlines, and LD or penalty exposure on your main contract, flagged as site updates trigger them.
Each flag comes with the likely clause, the deadline and the proof to raise it on time.
Know what was built and used, every day: progress, blockers, manpower and deliveries (by vendor), tracked from site updates.
The same record feeds your bills and the regular reports for clients and leadership.
Every site rolls up into one daily pulse, ranked by what needs your attention: focus today, follow up, and watch.
Behind it, a live dashboard across the portfolio: site health, pending checklists, potential entitlements and risk.
A record you can defend: every update traces back to the WhatsApp message and site photo it came from.
Before and after
What changes, starting week one.
Your teams still run their sites. What goes away is the manual assembly, the relay up the chain, and the version that's already stale — or already missed — by the time it reaches you.
Work done billed this month, not next.
Executed quantities checked against scope by hand, if at all, so finished work slips off the bill
Work done matched to scope as it happens, and missing documents chased on WhatsApp until they're in
Proof for the bill buried in a thread with four hundred other messages
Quality checklists, level surveys, lab results and photos filed against the bill line they support
Notice windows and LD exposure, seen in time.
A hindrance mentioned once in a site group, and the notice window closes unnoticed
Site events matched to the clause they may trigger, flagged with the deadline for your team to review
Small delays nobody totals, until liquidated damages land on the final account
Delays tracked together against the LD threshold, so you see the exposure building
Blockers closed, deliveries accounted for.
Blockers and commitments mentioned in groups, with no follow-up and no closure
Blockers and commitments picked up, assigned and followed up on WhatsApp until they close
Deliveries and fuel posted as challan photos and daily totals that nobody adds up
Deliveries by vendor and fuel by vehicle collated with their photos, ready to reconcile against cost
The weekly review becomes daily.
Each site's picture reaches you through its PM, in its own format, days late
One daily pulse across every site, ranked by what needs your attention, with the dashboard behind it
Margin rarely goes in one big failure; it leaks across site, bill and contract. Dodge Construction Network's 2024 study of US and Canadian contractors, Not by Design: The True Cost of Poor Collaboration, found that coordination issues erode annual profit margin by 10% on average.
How it works
Set Up Once. Then It Just Works.
Give Velora your WhatsApp groups, your project scope (BOQ, work order or billing break-up) and your contract, once. Billing, Contract, Field and Portfolio Intelligence all work from that same record, whether you connect one site or twenty.
Here's what Velora does:
Captures every update, across every source
WhatsApp messages, voice notes and photos as they happen, in any language, plus the quantities and clauses in your scope and contract. No new app for anyone.
Every update read and filed, for your team to review
Progress, quantities, checklists and contract terms, each tied to the work front, scope item or clause it belongs to. That's the part a general-purpose WhatsApp bot can't do.
Checked against what matters commercially
Against your scope and contract: what's billable, what's entitled, what's at risk.
Flagged to the right person, before it's too late
Bills substantiated, reports drafted, EOT and LD exposure flagged to whoever owns it.
Data Sources
Involved Parties
Velora AI
What You Get
Pricing
Runs on your existing WhatsApp, with nothing for your site team to install.
One plan, every product — priced per project.
- Work done, captured from site
- Matched to project scope
- Every bill line substantiated
- Entitlement flagged, with clause
- Risk flagged before it compounds
- Routed to whoever owns it
- Site visibility, by work front
- Report drafts, ready to review
- Commitments tracked to closure
- Every project in one view
- A daily pulse for leadership and project controls
- Live dashboard across every site
Starting Velora on a site already underway?
Historical Data Migration brings in the site's past WhatsApp chats, so the record covers its history, not just what happens after go-live.
Ask About Migration →Looking just for progress-report drafts?
The free DPR Generator drafts daily progress reports from your WhatsApp group chats. No subscription.
→ Learn more about the DPR GeneratorSee it on your own sites.
Request a pilot and we'll set it up on your live sites and existing WhatsApp groups.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from teams who've seen PM tools fail before.
Every bill and every claim depends on what happened on site, but it usually reaches you at month-end, after the bill has gone and the notice window has closed. Velora connects what happens on site to your bills and your main contract, so work done reaches this month's bill, entitlements reach you while there's still time to raise them, and every delivery is on record by vendor to check their bills against. MDs see the same across every site in one daily pulse and dashboard.
No. Velora works alongside them. It reads the WhatsApp updates your site teams already send and turns them into progress, bill quantities and contract alerts; your PM suite, ERP or Excel trackers stay the system of record.
Billing, Field and Portfolio Intelligence are live. Contract Intelligence is in early access, available as a pilot on your sites.
No. Your site teams keep using WhatsApp & documents exactly as they do today. Velora reads what they already post across every group and document — no new apps, no forms, no training. It also works in the language your teams are most comfortable in: English, Hindi, Telugu, Spanish, Arabic and more.
Velora connects to your groups through an existing WhatsApp number (no business API needed) — one number or multiple. We recommend getting separate site-specific numbers though for privacy & enhanced functionality. Velora reads every message for progress, issues, commitments, inspections and deliveries. Nothing changes for your site teams.
All of it. Billing Intelligence captures work done, matches it to your project scope and substantiates each bill line with quality checklists, level surveys, lab results and site photos. Contract Intelligence (early access) flags EOT and rectification notices, deadlines, and LD or penalty exposure on your main contract as site updates trigger them. Field Intelligence covers progress, blockers, manpower, deliveries, material and fuel consumption, and reporting: the site record the others are built from. Portfolio Intelligence rolls all of it up across your sites into one daily pulse and a live dashboard.
All four read from the same WhatsApp groups and documents your team already uses — you don't set up separate sources for each.
Velora tracks which quality checklists, RFIs and level surveys are still open for each work front, and sends a daily digest reminder in WhatsApp to whoever owns them, throughout the month. When a test is reported on site, its lab result is followed up too. Anything not closed carries forward to the next reminder instead of getting dropped.
Nothing sits on someone's to-do list waiting to be remembered — the follow-up happens in the same group they already work in.
Every checklist, level survey, lab result and site photo your team shares in WhatsApp is filed against the bill line it likely belongs to, the same day it's shared, for your billing engineer to confirm.
By the time the monthly bill goes out, each line already has its supporting documents behind it — not buried in a thread with four hundred other messages and reconstructed from memory.
Velora watches your WhatsApp groups for site events that can trigger a contract clause — a materials hold-up, restricted site access, a verbal instruction, a third repair on the same joint, a client's notice to rectify — and matches them against your contract's clauses and LD thresholds, for your team to confirm.
A single delay rarely looks worth escalating on its own. Velora flags when they add up against the schedule, and when a notice window is about to close — before the deadline passes, not at the final account.
Velora is built for contractors paid on measured work — against a BOQ, work order or billing break-up — whose site teams report on WhatsApp. Within those firms, it's for the people who answer for the money: billing and cost heads, project controls, commercial managers and the MDs who run it themselves. That covers general and EPC contractors managing subcontractor packages, infra and utilities contractors building and maintaining roads, rail, pipelines and power lines, specialty and trade contractors (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, waterproofing) proving their own scope, and PMCs running sites on a client's behalf. If your sites run on WhatsApp groups and your bills are raised against measured quantities, Velora is for you.
Both. Every site is structured the same way — work fronts, progress, blockers, commitments, inspections, deliveries, billing evidence, entitlement — so whether you're running one site or fifteen, they all report into the same format.
You see each site on its own, and you can scan across all of them without a call to every PM. The manual work of compiling and comparing is what goes away as you add sites — not the PM on each site.
PM tools ask site teams to change how they work. Site teams go back to WhatsApp within weeks because it's faster and already on every phone. Velora works on top of WhatsApp — not instead of it. Site teams change nothing. Site control builds itself from what they're already saying.
See how Velora compares to Procore, Buildertrend, Fieldwire, and task apps →
No. One plan covers all four — Billing, Contract, Field and Portfolio Intelligence — priced per project. There are no per-user charges, so you can add as many users as you need.
We run a discounted pilot for the first three months — full product, no long-term commitment. See what it surfaces on your own sites before committing to a subscription.
It starts with a short onboarding call to make sure Velora fits how your site runs. From there, we work with your team to align on and upload your site's work front structure, connect your WhatsApp groups, and set up contact roles — then you're live. Your site teams change nothing about how they work.
Yes. Data is stored securely with role based access control, and privacy data is encrypted at rest using AES-256 standard.
What we keep hearing
The more sites you run, the worse this gets.
A 210-day working capital cycle.
Verbal promise, no notice filed. Window closed in 14 days.
Quantities missed. Bills come up short.
200 projects. Leadership flying blind.
Piloted PM app earlier. Abandoned in 2 weeks.