For Managing Directors & Owners
Put commercial control in a system, not in three people’s spreadsheets.
Foras gives every project the same route from site activity to cost position, Finance reconciliation and forecast — so margin protection scales with the business instead of depending on who is available.
Northgate Logistics Park — Phase 2
Cost position · Aug 2026 · Demo data
Approved Budget
£18.42m
Captured
£11.85m
Finance
£10.47m
Adjusted CTD
£11.96m
| Cost code | Captured | Finance | DiffDifference | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 210Labour | £262k | — | ||
| 311Shoring & Formwork | −£115k | Match Finance | ||
| 707Subcontract | £158k | — |
Actual Foras interface pattern. Values are illustrative demo data from the Northgate Logistics Park demo project.
The business risk
Good commercial control that does not scale is still a risk
Most contractors of this size do not have a discipline problem. They have a dependency problem: the control works because specific people make it work.
Control sits with a few individuals
The commercial position is genuinely well managed — by two or three people and their spreadsheets. That is a capability the business cannot easily hire more of, or replace at short notice.
Margin erosion is discovered, not predicted
Jobs finish behind expectation and the reasons are understood afterwards. The information that would have prompted an earlier decision existed, but not in a usable form.
Growth exposes the method
A way of working that holds at four projects starts to strain at ten, because it relies on personal knowledge rather than a repeatable process.
Enterprise systems feel disproportionate
The obvious alternative is a long, expensive implementation programme that the business does not want and probably does not need.
How Foras helps
Repeatable control, proportionate effort
Commercial control as a process
Capture, cost position, Finance reconciliation and forecast follow the same defined path on every project, rather than being reassembled to individual preference.
A position that can be defended
Reported cost to date is captured cost plus recorded adjustments against imported Finance actuals, with the reason and author kept.
Earlier sight of margin risk
Because cost is captured as work happens, forecast variance against approved budget moves during the month rather than after Finance closes.
Knowledge that stays in the business
Baseline changes and reconciliation decisions carry a recorded reason and author, so the reasoning survives staff turnover.
Proportionate to your size
Foras complements your existing Finance system rather than replacing it, so adopting it is not an enterprise rollout programme.
What adoption looks like
One project at a time
- 01
Start with one project
The method is proved on a live job with your own cost codes before it is applied more widely.
- 02
Keep Finance where it is
Your ERP remains the system of record for posted actuals. Foras imports from it and reconciles against it; it does not post back.
- 03
Make the position the reporting standard
Once teams report from the reconciled position, board reporting stops depending on who assembled the pack.
- 04
Extend project by project
Each additional project uses the same measures, so comparison becomes possible as adoption grows.
We do not publish customer names, logos or outcome figures we have not been given permission to share. We would rather show you the product against your own project.
What you get
Control the business owns
Reduced key-person risk
The commercial method is in the system, not solely in individual workbooks.
Protectable margin
Pressure on the forecast is visible while intervention is still possible.
Scalable controls
Taking on more work does not require proportionally more heroic commercial effort.
Credible reporting
The figures you present are traceable to captured cost, Finance actuals and recorded decisions.
See it against a live job before you commit to anything.
Bring one project’s cost codes and a recent month-end pack. We’ll show the position, the reconciliation and the forecast on your own numbers.
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