FOR SUBCONTRACTORS

Do the work. Get paid for all of it.

Capture labour, plant, progress, delays and instructions as the work happens. So when a delay, an extra or a valuation is questioned, you hold a dated, structured record, and get paid for what you actually did, not just what you can remember.

The founding pilot is free. No card required.

Today’s daily record, SAT 22 AUG 2026: labour, plant and progress captured as it happens.

The daily record

Everything that happened on site. In one place.

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ONE DAILY
RECORD.

A completed Site Chronicle daily diary on a phone
labour section of a Site Chronicle daily diary
plant section of a Site Chronicle daily diary
materials section of a Site Chronicle daily diary
photos section of a Site Chronicle daily diary
delays section of a Site Chronicle daily diary
instructions section of a Site Chronicle daily diary
work completed section of a Site Chronicle daily diary
The exported Site Chronicle diary PDF

READY WHEN COMMERCIAL NEEDS IT.

The old way

What it replaces

The same battered paper diary, failing the five handoffs every paper record has to survive.

Mon: do Thu + Fri

The diary gets done

Thursday and Friday, written from memory on Monday.

The old way, in six steps you can page through: the paper diary gets written days late, chased for a signature, photographed badly, buried in a group chat and filed nowhere. Months later nobody can say what happened on a given day.

The problem isn’t doing the work. It’s getting paid for all of it.

FROM THE RECORD TO THE MONEY
  1. 01

    Logged on the day

    Labour, plant, progress, delays and photos, captured as it happens.

  2. 02

    Flagged as commercial

    Standing time, an instruction or an extra surfaced as a recoverable event.

  3. 03

    Acknowledged by the client

    A dated record the other side has seen. Much harder to deny later.

THE DISPUTE ROOM

£184,320 rejected. The records exist. Find them.

An illustrative construction dispute you can actually play. The same evidence, found twice: once in a normal filing system, once in Site Chronicle. Your time against your own filing.

Payment assessment · Application 14

Novamere Construction Group Ltd · Weston Gate Phase 2

To: Wrenford Civils & Groundworks Ltd · 24 July 2026

There is insufficient contemporaneous evidence to substantiate the labour and plant resources claimed in connection with the instructed drainage diversion (SI-042). The sums claimed are not agreed.

Instructed diversion, SI-042£184,320.00Certified: £nil

Illustrative scenario — fictional companies and figures

Five pieces of evidence, buried where your records actually live. The clock is running.

How it works

Diagnose. Prove it. Roll out when it’s earned.

The pilot is where the value is demonstrated. The company rollout is where it becomes your standard.

  1. STEP 01

    Free Evidence Health Check

    Identify what your current records are failing to prove.

    Get the free Health Check
  2. STEP 02

    Free 30-Day Founding Pilot

    Implement Site Chronicle on one suitable live project and measure the improvement.

    See how the pilot works
  3. STEP 03

    Paid Company Rollout

    Standardise the evidence system across projects and teams.

    What happens after the pilot

The product

Everything the evidence needs, nothing it doesn’t

Fast for the crew, structured for the commercial team, reviewable months later.

01
The top of a completed Site Chronicle daily diary on a phone

Fast site diaries

A full day (labour, plant, materials, progress, weather, photos) logged in minutes on a phone, with yesterday’s crew copied forward in one tap.

02
The labour table of a Site Chronicle daily record: names, trades, hours and person-hours

Labour & plant evidence

Who was on, what ran, hours and fleet numbers: structured records you can search and total, not scribble you can’t.

03
A delay record with its cause, times, responsible party and the labour and plant affected

Delays & extras you can substantiate

What happened, when, who caused it and which labour and plant it affected: the contemporaneous basis for substantiating a compensation event or a variation, recorded on the day.

04
Site photographs attached to the daily record with captions

Contextual photographs

Photos attach to the day, the delay or the record they evidence, captioned, not lost in a camera roll.

05
Sending a client representative a secure review link for the daily record

Client acknowledgement & comments

A client representative can acknowledge, comment on or dispute the daily record from a link. No app, no login.

06
The management dashboard summarising diaries, delays and progress across a project

Management reporting & exports

Live project visibility for the office, and one-click PDF, Excel and timesheet outputs for the commercial team.

See how the whole platform works

Proof

Built and proven on live UK projects

Site Chronicle is in daily use on live UK subcontractor projects, refined against the practical requirements of site teams and commercial managers. Here is what that looks like in practice.

PROJECT 01

£300,000

Increase in the certified amount

An interim application of ~£1.5m was initially certified at ~£1.2m. One week of contemporaneous diaries (labour, plant and progress recorded as the work happened) supported the valuation, and the certificate was revised to ~£1.5m. The diaries did not replace the contractual valuation; they gave the commercial team an immediate, structured record to support the amount applied for.

  • PROJECT 01
  • ONE WEEK OF RECORDS
  • PAYMENT ASSESSMENT
  • CONTEMPORANEOUS EVIDENCE
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PROJECT 02

£350,000

Additional instructed work claimed and paid

Additional work was raised on site with no instruction reference. Because Site Chronicle requires instructed work to be linked to an instruction, the site team flagged the gap, and the commercial team secured the instruction before the work accumulated. The next ~12 weeks were recorded against it: activities, labour, plant and every hour, on client-signed daily records. ~£350,000 was claimed and paid in full. The records supported the valuation but did not, by themselves, determine contractual entitlement.

  • PROJECT 02
  • 12 WEEKS
  • INSTRUCTED WORK
  • CLIENT SIGN-OFF
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  • ALREADY IN DAILY USE
  • LIVE UK PROJECTS
  • MEASURED FROM LIVE USE
of continuous daily site recording
3 months+
of labour hours captured on the day
Tens of thousands
of site photographs held as evidence
Thousands
of daily records built by site teams
Hundreds

Figures reflect genuine platform usage to date. Customer and project details remain confidential.

Built from decades of construction commercial and claims experience.

Built from direct commercial experience

Site Chronicle was created by a construction commercial and claims specialist supporting subcontractors across UK infrastructure and civil-engineering projects.

Site Chronicle is designed specifically around the evidence subcontractors need to substantiate labour, plant, progress, instructions, delay, disruption and change.

Why Site Chronicle exists

Choose your next step

Put one live project forward for the founding pilot, or start with a free review of your existing records.

Paid rollout terms are agreed with each company at the end of the pilot, based on its team, projects and implementation requirements.

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