Hey Ovo,
where’s the margin going?
Ovo watches every project in your book. Catches every delay, every variation, every back-charge the PC tries to push. Surfaces margin slips before month-end — across every project, in real time. So one PM can carry three times the project load without burning out.
AU/NZ construction subbies using Siteovo
Four ways margin leaves the project — without anyone meaning to.
Every chat thread between your PM and crew has dollars in it. Variations agreed verbally. EOT events nobody had time to flag. Back-charges the PC sends you that you can’t defend without the receipts. Siteovo catches all four.
Unclaimed delay / EOT events
Other-trade delays, late deliveries, programme slips happen in real time on site. Ovo flags every one as it occurs in the chat and starts the time-bar clock — so the formal notice goes out before the window closes.
Unbilled variations and extras
Directed extra scope captured from chat the moment it’s agreed. Auto-priced against your subcontract’s schedule of rates. Surfaced for PM approval before it’s forgotten by month-end.
Absorbed PM and Foreman overhead
Hours your PM and foreman spend on chat coordination, material chase, RCP distribution and safety admin. Siteovo automates the bulk — you stop subsidising the PC’s coordination work.
Back-charges being pushed at you
Every chat message timestamped and tagged to the right task. When the PC tries to push a cost back to you, the evidence trail is in your pocket — defensible, not absorbed.
Siteovo recovers 95% of claimable events from chat — with the defensive evidence trail for disputed back-charges. See it in action on the GM Fire case study →
Four numbers you should know before 9am.
The same questions on a Monday morning, every Monday morning. Siteovo answers them automatically, in real time, across every project. Clear visibility on every active job, before you ask.
What's in claim
Live total of variations + extras submitted this period across every project. Drill into any number to see the line items and the source chat behind each one.
What's approved-unpaid
Approved by the HC, awaiting payment. Aged by days. Surfaces anything sitting longer than your payment terms allow — before your cashflow gets squeezed.
EOT exposure
Total value of EOT-eligible delays across the book, grouped by which HC is the cause. See where your team is carrying schedule risk that hasn't been formally claimed yet.
Margin health per project
Live margin vs tender for every project. Trending up or down. Anything outside ±2% lights up. Surface a QCH-Stage-2 issue on a Monday morning, not at month-end.
Every project. Every claim. Every dollar. In one view.
You don’t need to log into anything project-specific. The owner dashboard pulls live state from every active project — the schedules, the variations, the extras, the EOTs — and rolls it into a single executive view.
- ›Click any number → drill to the line items behind it.
- ›Click any line item → jump to the source chat that created it.
- ›Filter by HC, by region, by PM, by trade package.
- ›Audit trail is immutable. Every variation defensible against dispute.
Before Siteovo. After Siteovo.
- ×Three PMs to ring. Three different stories. Two get back to you Wednesday.
- ×Margin status is “feels OK” until month-end claim comes back light.
- ×$340K of approved-unpaid claims sitting somewhere, you don’t know which projects.
- ×EOT exposure on QCH-2? PM thinks “maybe $50K?” Actual is $98K.
- ×Audit trail = WhatsApp screenshots, emails, your memory.
- ✓Open dashboard. $1.24M in claim, $340K approved-unpaid, $185K EOT exposure. 30 seconds.
- ✓QCH Stage 2 flagged red — margin slipped 1.4% in two weeks. Click in. Three unresolved variations sitting at the HC.
- ✓Ring the HC PM directly with the variation numbers in hand. Resolved by Wednesday.
- ✓$94K of approved-unpaid is sitting >30 days. Chase Friday’s payment run with line-item proof.
- ✓Every number defensible. Drill any total to the chat message it came from.
What an owner gets back.
PM check-ins, status emails, “how’s X going” phone calls. Designed to be replaced by real-time dashboard visibility across the portfolio.
Variations + extras that previously slipped through to month-end. Recovery rate projected from the GM Fire pilot chat analysis.
Margin trends surface the week they start — clear visibility, weeks before the claim goes in.
We caught the $84,480 brigade-test acceleration claim from the chat trail before month-end. Across 11 months on the Brisbane tower, Ovo would have surfaced $153K in claim events we’d otherwise have absorbed — the difference between a margin-positive project and one that quietly bleeds.
Based on GM Fire pilot chat analysis.
See your own book in the dashboard.
Three months free on any plan, no card needed. Book a 30-minute owner demo and we’ll load a sample of your portfolio shape (project count, contract size, trade mix) so you can see what your dashboard would look like on a typical Monday morning.
30-minute demo. No card. We come to you with a portfolio mock-up.