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Founding contractor offer · Retention register check · Free

Know what retention is held — and what needs checking now

We take your subcontracts, claims and payment records and turn them into one sourced retention register, with dates flagged for your team to verify and draft requests you choose to send.

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  • No site involvement and no new system to maintain
  • Every amount and date links back to a source record
  • Free for a small number of founding commercial MEP and fire contractors

You keep the register · your team approves every request

Example outputFictional project data
  • Projects reviewed8
  • Dates to review3
  • Draft requests2
One date approaching · fictional project data
Human-reviewed record

Example Health Project

Amount recorded
$18,400 · payment schedule 09
Review date
30 Sep — approaching
Status
Needs review
Example output

What the register looks like

A working control view for commercial and finance teams. Search the register, isolate upcoming actions or missing records, and open any project to trace its amount and review date back to the source.

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Retention DeskCommercial controls · Fictional project data
Interactive-style example · fictional data
Amount recorded$64.1k across 4 active projects
Dates to review3 in the next 120 days
Draft requests1 not sent
Source gaps1 completion record missing
RET-001
Example Health Project$18,400 · 30 Sep · payment schedule 09
Needs review
RET-002
Example Office Fitout$9,750 · 14 Oct · contract + claim 11
Draft prepared
RET-003
Example Plant Upgrade$12,200 · unknown date · one source gap
Missing source
Human decision required

Verification required. Dates, amounts and draft requests remain subject to review by the contractor and its advisers. Nothing is sent automatically.

The exact format is agreed with your team. This example keeps every record connected to source material a person can check.

The operating problem

Why retention becomes hard to track

The release event often arrives long after the project team has moved on.

  1. 01

    The dates sit in old contracts

    Practical completion, defects periods and release conditions are spread across records no one checks every week.

  2. 02

    The register loses an owner

    Staff move on. Spreadsheets age. Amounts and dates stop matching the underlying claims and payments.

  3. 03

    Requests are reactive

    Without a dated action list, follow-up starts only when someone happens to remember the job.

How it works

How the review works

A records exercise. No site time and no disruption to crews.

  1. 01

    Share the source records

    Relevant subcontracts, claims, payment records and final accounts under a confidentiality agreement.

  2. 02

    We build the register

    We trace amounts and dates back to the documents, then flag gaps and items for your team to verify.

  3. 03

    You approve the next actions

    You keep the register and draft requests. Your team decides what is due, what to send and when to seek advice.

What you receive

Exactly what is delivered — and what is not

A focused offer should not turn out to mean a sales call. This is the deliverable, spelled out.

Retention Review — deliverables

What you receive
One sourced retention register — job, amount held, source claim, key dates, releases received and the next action — plus draft release requests.
Who reviews it
Your commercial or finance owner, who verifies the flagged amounts and dates before anything is sent.
Records required
Relevant subcontracts, claims, payment records and final accounts, shared under a signed confidentiality agreement.
How long it takes
Scoped on the qualification call against the number of jobs and the state of the records.
What you keep
The register and every draft request — whether or not you continue with Devy.
Not included
Deciding recoverability, chasing debts or providing legal advice. If your current platform can maintain the register properly, we’ll recommend that instead of new software.
Fit

A narrow offer, on purpose

The work is measured against real records, so the fit criteria matter more than the volume of requests.

A fit if you’re

  • A commercial MEP or fire protection contractor — mechanical, electrical, plumbing, hydraulics or fire
  • Able to share the relevant records under a signed confidentiality agreement
  • A named commercial contact who will review the output
  • Enough completed and live jobs for a register to be worth building

Not a fit if

  • The builder holding your retention is in administration or liquidation — that’s an insolvency lawyer’s job, urgently
  • You’re in a live dispute or adjudication — you need a construction lawyer, not us
  • You’re mostly residential or maintenance — different contracts, different problem
  • You need legal advice, quantity-surveying certification or an automatic entitlement decision
Illustrative example — not a real client result

Closing the site-to-office gap

This labelled scenario shows how Devy reasons about a contractor’s site-to-office trail. It is not a reported client result.

Operating context
An MEP contractor running installation and service crews across concurrent projects.
Previous workflow
Photos and texts reach supervisors; variations are reconstructed at claim time; test records are assembled at handover.
What changes in this scenario
A focused, crew-friendly capture flow feeds the current job and accounting systems and prepares the records needed for office review.

What happens afterwards?

You keep the output whether or not you continue with Devy. If the review exposes a repeatable workflow worth improving, the next step may be configuration, an integration, a focused build — or an Evidence-to-Claim Discovery Week to define the wider system. There is no obligation to proceed.

Related construction workflows

Different starting points into the same capability

Each offer starts with one live record and produces something tangible your team keeps. Start where the pain is sharpest.

See all contractor workflows on the Construction page

Put every retention action in one place

Start with the records you already hold. Keep the register either way. We take on a limited number of reviews at a time and qualify every request by phone first.

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