What slips at month-end
Different buildings, the same slips. On every project.
Whatever you build, many trades work at once and report in many groups, and nothing is totalled until month-end. The same four things slip on every project.
Missed in the valuation
Small work, posted one photo at a time.
Tiling in a few flats, light fittings in a zone, pipe supports in an area: done a few at a time, each posted among hundreds of messages.
At month-end some are missed, and they wait for next month's valuation.
Checklists and tests
Proof signed on site, lost in a group.
Pre-pour checklists, pressure tests and NDT reports are signed on site and photographed into whichever group is nearest.
When you need them, before paying a subcontractor, for the handover file or the warranty inspector, each one is hunted across groups.
Contract triggers
Events nobody reads as contractual.
An area not given, information from the design team arriving late, client-supplied items held up.
Each can trigger a clause that needs notice: forthwith under JCT, within eight weeks under NEC4, sooner under many amendments. Late notice weakens the claim, or loses it.
Material cost
Loads from many suppliers, delivery notes everywhere.
Concrete, steel, glazing and pipes arrive from many suppliers, each load with a delivery note photographed into a stores group.
Checking each supplier's invoice means finding delivery notes spread across groups.
What Velora picks up
What your site groups already carry, on any building project.
Velora reads text, voice notes and photos in the groups your teams and subcontractors use today, and files each update by the way your site refers to place.
Progress by location
Work done by block, floor, flat, zone or area, with photos.
Quantities
Concrete, blockwork, finishes, steel and pipework in the units your site posts, each marked with how it was arrived at.
Checklists and tests
Pre-pour checklists, pressure tests, NDT reports and inspection records, when they are posted.
Delays
Areas not given, information awaited, work stopped, with the floor or area each one holds.
Instructions and changes
The Contract Administrator's or architect's instructions and changes made on site, logged with date and place.
Deliveries
Materials by supplier, with their delivery notes, including items the client supplies.
Repairs
Leaks, cracks and rework reported on site, so a repeat repair shows up, with the dates to recover it from the trade that owns it.
Gangs and commitments
Gangs on site by trade, and who promised what, by when.
Site teams change nothing. Velora joins each group as one more member.
What each team gets
Every team gets its part of the project.
Your QS gets the month's quantities in a report, contract triggers reach whoever you choose, project directors see every floor and package today, and leadership sees every project. Nobody has to ask site for an update.
This month's quantities, ready for the valuation.
Work done is matched to your BoQ or activity schedule and totalled for the month. Each total opens into the floors, flats or areas, dates and photos behind it, with the checklists and test records it needs, and missing ones are followed up on WhatsApp once you switch follow-ups on. Velora tracks quantities; your QS applies rates and finalises the application.
See Billing IntelligenceThe contract triggers that are easy to miss.
Not just extensions of time and LADs. An area not given or late information, but also work held by another package or a defect to correct: each is logged with its place and the date it was first posted, matched to the clause it may trigger, such as a Relevant Event under JCT or a compensation event under NEC4, and whoever you choose is alerted the same day, whether that's site, your commercial team or your contracts manager, then reminded until it's dealt with. Your team decides what goes to the client.
See Contract IntelligenceEvery floor and package, every day, without the calls.
Progress by location, the delays holding each area, deliveries by supplier and commitments followed up, from the groups your teams and subcontractors already post in. Daily, weekly or monthly reports are drafted from the same record, ready to review and send to your client.
See Field IntelligenceEvery project in one view.
For the managing director or commercial director running projects across sectors: the blockers that have waited longest for a decision, by project, and, where Billing is on, which quantities are still waiting on proof.
See Portfolio IntelligenceGetting started
What we'd need to start a pilot.
A pilot runs on one project and its live site groups. Your site teams don't change how they post.
A spare WhatsApp number
Linked to Velora and added to your site groups as one more member. No personal chats are connected.
Your site groups
The groups where progress, checklists, deliveries and delays are posted today, including your subcontractors' groups.
Your scope
The bill of quantities or activity schedule, and the project's blocks, floors or areas. Loaded once.
A sample chat export lets us test on your own messages before going live.
See it on your own project.
Talk to us about your project and we'll set up a pilot against its live WhatsApp groups and your bill of quantities or activity schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from building project directors and QSs.
Residential blocks for housing associations, build-to-rent, student accommodation and private developers; commercial buildings such as offices, schools, hospitals and hotels; and industrial projects such as factories, plants and warehouses. Wherever work is valued monthly against a bill of quantities, contract sum analysis or activity schedule, and site teams report on WhatsApp.
No. Each project is set up with the way its site refers to place: block, floor and flat on a residential scheme, floor and zone on a commercial building, area and grid on a plant. Updates are filed against those.
Yes. Scope is loaded from the document that holds it, a bill of quantities, a contract sum analysis or an activity schedule, and work done is matched to its lines and totalled for the month. Velora tracks quantities; your QS applies rates and finalises the interim application.
Yes. Velora reads text, voice notes and photos in English, Polish, Romanian and the other languages your teams use, including photos of checklists, test certificates and delivery notes, and keeps each original message with the record it created.
No. Velora joins the groups your teams already use as one more member and reads what they post today. There is no new app and no form to fill.
We run a discounted pilot for the first three months on one project: the full product, with no long-term commitment.