Detect, prove and recover
what you're owed.
Entitlement is buried across months of contracts, programmes, site instructions, correspondence and cost records. Hecato finds it in time to claim it.
- Owners
- Developers
- Contractors
- Subcontractors
- Claims consultancies
- FIDIC
- NEC
- JCT
- AIA
- ConsensusDocs
The engine
Detect. Prove. Recover.
Three steps, run against the contract you actually signed, amendments included. Each one produces something your team can read, check and put its name to.
Contract standard
Hecato is also developed for alternative and region specific contract standards. To find out whether we have built for yours, contact us.
Detect.
Entitlement is found and flagged in real time ahead of deadlines.
- Reads
- The contract and its amendments, the programme, correspondence, instructions and cost records.
- Produces
- An entitlement register. Every change event and variation carries the clause that creates it and the deadline that forfeits it.
- 01
Ground conditions differ from the site investigation report
Physical conditions
NEC4 cl. 60.1(12)Notice due: 4 days - 02
Instructed change to riser layout, levels 4 to 9
Change to the Scope
NEC4 cl. 60.1(1)Notice due: 11 days - 03
Access to the substation interface area not given on time
Access not given by the access date
NEC4 cl. 60.1(2)Notice due: 19 days - 04
Client supplied switchgear delivered three weeks late
Client did not provide by the date
NEC4 cl. 60.1(3)Notice due: 26 days
Deadlines shown are calculated from the executed contract, including the Z clause amendments, not the standard form.
Prove.
Both halves of the claim: that you are entitled, and how much you are owed.
- Reads
- A detected event, the record behind it, and the cost and programme data it touches.
- Produces
- Entitlement established against the clause, then quantum built up line by line on a stated basis.
The Project Manager's instruction changed the riser layout on levels 4 to 9. The Accepted Programme shows the mechanical package pushed 96 days beyond the Completion Date, with no compensating terminal float. A compensation event under cl. 60.1(1) is established.
- 01
Prolongation, time related site costs
96 days at $18,400
$1,766,400
- 02
Disruption, mechanical second fix
Measured mile
$1,412,000
- 03
Additional preliminaries
Allocated, 96 days
$402,600
- 04
Finance charge
Contract rate, 214 days
$118,200
Quantum calculated
Est. value, one detected claim
$0
Recover.
A submission ready claim, served on time and signed by your team.
- Reads
- The proven entitlement and its quantum.
- Produces
- The claim document, contractually compliant and held at the review gate until a person signs it.
- To
- project.manager@northfield-client.co
- Cc
- commercial@contractor.co
- Subject
- Northfield Substation | Notification of a compensation event | NS-CE-0142
Dear Project Manager, We give notice of a compensation event under clause 61.3 in respect of your instruction dated 14 March changing the riser layout at levels 4 to 9. Our quotation is attached, setting out the effect on the Prices and on the Completion Date, with the programme and cost records relied on. We should be grateful for your reply under clause 62.3 within the period stated. Regards
Hecato prepares the notice and the covering message in the form the contract requires. Nothing is sent until a person signs it off.
Sources
The money you are owed is not in any one document.
Entitlement is established by a site instruction, a programme revision and a cost record agreeing with each other. Read separately they say nothing. Read together they are a claim.
01
Detect.
02
Prove.
03
Recover.
DOC-01
Contract
and its amendments
DOC-02
Programme
baseline and updates
DOC-03
Site instructions
and daily logs
DOC-04
Correspondence
email threads
DOC-05
Cost records
labour, plant, sub
Integrations and governance
Connects with your stack. Built for enterprise deployment.
Hecato reads from the systems your teams already run. It does not replace any of them and does not ask anyone to move where they work.
- 01
Common data environments
Contract documents, drawings, instructions, RFIs and the correspondence record.
- 02
Programme and planning
Baselines, revisions and progress updates, so the accepted programme at each dividing date is the one used.
- 03
Cost systems and ERP
Labour, plant, subcontract and applications, at the level of detail quantum has to be built from.
- 04
Document stores
SharePoint, shared drives and project folders, including the amendments and schedules that rarely sit in the CDE.
- 05
Correspondence
Email threads, site instructions and daily logs, which is where entitlement usually first appears.
Integration availability depends on deployment scope. Systems such as Procore, Aconex, Asite, Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject and COINS may be connected as part of deployment.
Governed by
Permissioned access
Teams see the projects and documents their role allows, and nothing else.
Audit trails
Every figure traces to the document, revision and clause it came from.
Human review by design
Claims are held at the review gate. Nothing is served without sign-off.
Data residency controls
Hosting agreed against the restrictions that flow down your main contract.
Deployment in your environment
Available where data classification prohibits an external processor.
Domain expertise
Built by quantity surveyors, claims specialists and finance professionals.
Hecato is built with commercial directors, project executives and practising quantity surveyors working alongside finance professionals who have spent their careers underwriting multi-billion-dollar deals on the strength of the documents behind them.
Questions
What commercial teams ask first.
FIDIC, NEC, JCT, AIA and ConsensusDocs. Our AI agents read the executed contract including its amendments. Hecato is also developing capabilities for alternative and region specific contract standards. To find out whether we have built for yours,
Yes. Hecato reads from the common data environment, the cost system and the planning tool you already run. It is not a replacement for any of them and does not ask your team to move where they work.
Government and defence adjacent work often carries restrictions that flow down through the main contract, including limits on sub-processors and where data can sit. Hecato is built to be deployed inside your own environment where that is required. Hosting, access, retention and integration are agreed as part of the engagement rather than assumed.
Access is permissioned, output is source linked so it can be audited back to the original document, and project data is not used to train models for anyone else. The specifics are set out in writing before any records are shared.
No. The demo runs on our documents. Nothing to pull out of the archive, nothing to clear with legal. You see the output first and decide from there.
See it work
Watch Hecato surface the money buried across your contracts.
- Human sign-off
- Source linked output
- Clause level traceability
- Permissioned access