Construction Pay-Application Evidence Agent

Construction payment applications sometimes bill the same work twice or include change orders that were never approved. Checking line by line takes the contract administrator hours each month. This agent reads the pay application and reconciles every line against the schedule of values, prior certified amounts and the change register. It links supporting evidence to each line and investigates any discrepancy by amount. Lines that are not supported or not approved are excluded and listed as exceptions with the reason. It then recalculates totals, retention and amount due, and checks that its math ties out before assembling a reviewer workpaper. Certifying progress and approving payment stay with the contract administrator. Edge case: a line billed past 100 percent of its scheduled value is excluded even if evidence exists.