Stop losing money on projects.
Hecato finds potential entitlement hidden across your contracts and project records, quantifies what it may be worth, and builds the evidence to help you recover it.
Detect entitlement while the project is live
Hecato reads contracts and project records continuously to identify change events, instructions, delay events and other circumstances that may create contractual entitlement.
- Access delay detected
- Design change identified
- Changed scope identified
- Late information detected
- Variation identified
- Notice deadline approaching
Quantify the commercial impact
Connect entitlement to the programme, costs and project records to understand the potential time and money at stake.
- Access delay+ $0
- Design change+ $0
- Additional scope+ $0
- Disruption+ $0
- Programme impact+ $0
- Further change events+ $0
Turn entitlement into recovery
Hecato assembles the contractual basis, project evidence, chronology and quantum into the materials commercial teams need to pursue recovery.
- Contractual basis established
- Evidence linked
- Chronology assembled
- Quantum supported
- Notice prepared
- Claim package ready
See what you may already have missed.
Run Hecato against a completed project. We identify potential entitlement, reconstruct the supporting evidence and quantify where value may have been left unrecovered.
Potential entitlement identified
Value on the completed project that the record supports but was not recovered in full.
Unidentified change events
Compensable events in the record that were never notified or claimed.
Earlier identification
How much sooner each event could have been recognized and notified.
Findings linked to source
Every finding traced to the exact document, page and date.
Measured on your own completed project record during the completed-project review.
Claims leakage compounds quickly.
- Stage 01
Missed event
A compensable change occurs but is not recognized.
- Stage 02
Late or weak notification
Entitlement becomes harder to preserve.
- Stage 03
Under-substantiated claim
Evidence and quantum are assembled too late or incompletely.
- Stage 04
Under-recovery or dispute
Cash is tied up and project margin leaks.
Hecato intervenes at the event, not the dispute.
From project record to claim-ready output.
Hecato reads contracts, correspondence, programme data, site records and cost information so your commercial team is not relying on one person spotting every entitlement event by hand. The result is a consistent, source-cited route from event to recovery.
- 01Contract and project records
- 02Identify change event
- 03Determine potential entitlement
- 04Assemble evidence
- 05Quantify impact
- 06Draft notice or claim
From project record to defensible report.
Claim received
Claim 4417 · Delay and quantum, Cedar Point Data Center · hearing in 90 days
The contemporaneous record, built and organized.
Contracts, programmes, correspondence, site records and cost data are read and structured into one traceable record, each item indexed to its source and date.
Notice of delay to mechanical first fix, issued and acknowledged within the contractual window.
Valuation of prolongation preliminaries for the period in dispute, with supporting build-up.
Entitlement, delay and quantum, tested against the contract.
Findings are checked against the substantiation the contract requires and the forensic schedule analysis frameworks (AACE 29R-03 and the SCL Protocol), so gaps in the evidence base surface before they surface in cross-examination.
Critical-path delay of 56 days measured to the data hall milestone, contemporaneous as-is method (AACE 29R-03 reference).
Programme revisions and site records reconcile across the delay window.
Extended general conditions quantified at the daily rate for the substantiated delay period.
Cost ledger and the GC staffing schedule support the time-related build-up.
Disruption claim for mechanical works lacks contemporaneous productivity records.
Substantiate or qualify before the report is served.
Your analysis, drafted into your report.
Each finding is drafted into your own report template with its citation attached. Nothing enters the report until your team reviews, amends or adopts it.
Held for your team's review
Your team reviews, amends or adopts each finding. Your team keeps the judgment, methodology and sign-off. Nothing is served until it is signed off.
The evidence is never in one document.
The proof behind a finding is a programme revision, a cost ledger entry and a piece of correspondence that only mean something read together. The record is already yours. Hecato assembles the evidence chain across it, cited to source, so your team can stand behind the findings.
Value first, then consistency, ease and credibility.
Recover value that would otherwise be missed
Surface compensable events as they occur, protecting project margin and cash flow and reducing the cost of claims escalating into disputes.
Systematize your commercial know-how
Records are read against the requirements of FIDIC, NEC, JCT, AIA and ConsensusDocs, and bespoke forms, so entitlement is identified consistently across every project, not only where an experienced reviewer happens to look.
Less manual review, less administration
Hecato does the reading across contracts, emails, site records, programmes and cost data and assembles evidence in your own templates, freeing commercial teams for judgment and negotiation.
Better-supported, more defensible submissions
Every finding links to its exact document, page and date, so claims are well evidenced and counterparties can engage with them earlier and more constructively.
Works around the systems you already use.
Hecato reads from the document, email, programme and evidence systems your team already uses, including Procore, SharePoint, Outlook, Primavera P6 and your document management system, then returns source-cited work product to the formats and workflows they already use.
Source-cited outputs are delivered in Word, Excel and PDF. Integrations are configured as part of the deployment.
Upload and go
Upload claim records directly, individually or in bulk, and receive source-cited outputs in your existing templates. Team plans require no system integration.
Configured to your stack
Enterprise deployments connect Hecato to project platforms, document stores, email, scheduling systems and ERPs, so documents arrive and approved outputs return without changing where your team works.
Permissioned access
Role-based access, so people see the claims and documents their role allows and nothing else.
Source-level audit trails
Every finding traces to the document, page and section it came from.
Human approval by design
Nothing enters a report or submission until your team approves it.
Data-handling controls
Handling and regional-hosting controls agreed against the restrictions that flow down your contract.
Deployment controls
Configurable deployment controls for teams with heightened data-classification requirements.
What construction teams ask us.
Hecato does the document assembly, cross-referencing and substantiation work: pulling contemporaneous records, mapping them to the contract's requirements, and building the evidence base. Your team keeps the judgment, methodology and sign-off. Nothing enters a report or submission until your team reviews and adopts it.
Every extracted fact, figure and record links back to its exact source document, page and date, so the substantiation behind a finding holds up under scrutiny and cross-examination.
Hecato is contract-aware across AIA, ConsensusDocs, FIDIC, NEC and JCT, plus bespoke amendments, and reflects the substantiation approach each form requires. On methodology, you keep full discretion to select the protocols and methods that fit the matter, with Hecato providing a methodological reference to AACE 29R-03 and the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol. You select and own the method; Hecato does the document-heavy build beneath it.
It supports the document-heavy substantiation both rely on: assembling the contemporaneous record for quantum, and the program and event chronology for delay, so the two can be reconciled against the same source base.
Yes. It builds and tests the evidence base the same way whether you are advancing a claim or defending one, and the same way for a claim run in-house or one run by an external adviser.
Contracts and amendments, programs, correspondence, site records, cost data, payment applications, instructions and notices. Every finding traces back to the record it came from.
Hecato connects with the systems commercial teams already run on, including Procore, Primavera P6, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace, mainstream accounting software and internal shared drives. Integrations are configured as part of the deployment, and where none are needed, files can be uploaded directly.
Start with a review of one completed project, run on your own records, with scope and success measures agreed before it begins.
Prove it before you deploy it.
Start with a completed project. Hecato analyzes the existing record and shows where it would have identified, substantiated or quantified entitlement differently - before you commit to a wider deployment.
See how much you could have recovered- Source-cited outputs
- Commercial team sign-off
- Human review before submission
- Secure handling of project data
- Scoped retrospective review before wider deployment