Use Cases / Construction / Change Orders
Construction · General Contracting
Find the approved work you haven’t billed.
Every change order lives in seven places, on six job sites. See how Praxis turns one brief from the president into a governed dashboard that shows the extra work the client approved and nobody has billed yet.
Industry Construction
For Executives, Finance, Operations
Length 1:35
General contractor · Six active jobs · June month-end
How much extra work has the client approved that we haven’t billed?
The president asks it at the monthly commercial review. Nobody can answer before Monday.
A site instruction. A quote. An approval. An invoice.
Every change order lives in seven places, on six job sites.
One brief. Seven sources. One governed model.
Construction Commercial Control
As of Jun 30, 2025
Approved value and unbilled exposure over time
JanJunBilling and approval queue
- C006Fictional Project 4$35.25K
- C104Fictional Project 2$28.7K
- C028Fictional Project 1$26.9K
- C077Fictional Project 1$18.8K
Approved value and unbilled exposure over time
Approved extras not yet billed
$497.6K
About half of the $992.9K in change orders the client approved, still unbilled at June 30.
In January it was $41.5K.
Approved extras, billed halfway, then stopped.
Billing and approval queue · as of Jun 30, 2025
Approved valueNet invoiced
Change order C077 · Fictional Project 1
Pick any month-end. See only what was known then.
Approved by the client$37.4K
Invoiced, net of credits
Approved, not yet billed
Every exception has a reason, an action and an owner.
The dashboard flags it. Your project directors make the call.
Confirm invoice timing; link the next progress invoice to the approved change order.
Route the latest revision to the accountable approver.
Record dated supporting evidence before relying on the change.
Delivered in weeks, not quarters.
Read the story as text
- The question. A general contractor with six active jobs, at the June month-end. How much extra work has the client approved that we haven’t billed? The president asks it at the monthly commercial review. Nobody can answer before Monday.
- Seven places. Contracts hold the base contract value. Change orders hold the trade, cause and amount. Approvals show what was submitted, revised and approved. Site instructions come as quotes, drawings and emails. Job costs cover labour, materials and subcontractors. Progress invoices hold invoices and credits. Follow-ups show who chases what. A site instruction, a quote, an approval, an invoice: every change order lives in seven places, on six job sites.
- One brief. One brief. Seven sources. One governed model. The president’s brief: protect margin, resolve change orders, bill approved extras. Contracts, change orders, approvals, site instructions, job costs, progress invoices and follow-ups come together in one governed model, for every job and every month-end.
- Commercial control. The Construction Commercial Control dashboard, as of Jun 30, 2025, with five pages: executive overview, project and cause, evidence and authority, billing follow-up, and confidence and reconciliation. 120 visible changes, $992.9K approved value, $497.6K approved and unbilled, and 99.2% evidence coverage.
- Approved, not billed. $497.6K of approved extras are not yet billed. That is about half of the $992.9K in change orders the client approved, still unbilled at June 30. In January it was $41.5K.
- The billing queue. Approved extras, billed halfway, then stopped. The billing and approval queue, as of Jun 30, 2025, lists each change order with its approved value, net invoiced amount and unbilled amount. The largest: C006 on Fictional Project 4, $35.25K unbilled; C104 on Fictional Project 2, $28.7K; C028 on Fictional Project 1, $26.9K; C077 on Fictional Project 1, $18.8K. The management action for each is to invoice the approved work.
- Any month-end. Pick any month-end and see only what was known then. Change order C077 on Fictional Project 1 was approved by the client for $37.4K. At Mar 31, nothing was invoiced and $37.4K was approved but not yet billed. At Apr 30 and Jun 30, $18.6K was invoiced, net of credits, and $18.8K was still not billed.
- Every exception. Every exception has a reason, an action and an owner. The dashboard flags it; your project directors make the call. Billing follow-up on C031: approved value remains above linked net invoicing, so confirm invoice timing and link the next progress invoice to the approved change order. Decision pending on C073: no approval or rejection on record at month-end, so route the latest revision to the accountable approver. Evidence gap on C109: no supporting document recorded by month-end, so record dated supporting evidence before relying on the change. Each one is owned by a project director and needs review.
- The claim. One brief from the president. Seven job-site record sources. One governed commercial dashboard. Delivered in weeks, not quarters.
- Overstand Praxis. The business engineering system: from business intent to verified outcomes. A fictional general contractor; project names and figures are illustrative.
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