Verity for home builders
A home is built while its owner is still deciding. Verity connects buyer selections and changes to the cost, the schedule and the trades who need to know.
Verity runs the build business. Design and drafting tools stay where they are.
Verity / Builds
LiveHomes under construction
18
Change orders open
31
Homes over budget
5
Snags open past handover
46
Needs attention
Illustrative figures. Verity shows your own builds in this shape.
How the business runs
A home builder constructs for a named owner who is present throughout. Unlike a commercial contract where the scope is settled before work begins, a home is specified while it is being built: the buyer chooses finishes, changes their mind, and each decision arrives after some of the work that depends on it has already been planned or done.
This produces the defining problem. Twelve change orders unpriced with work in progress is a builder doing work whose cost has not been agreed, and three selections that never reached the trades is work about to be done wrongly. The gap between a buyer decision and the people who act on it is where residential margin is lost.
The second characteristic is per-home costing. Homes are similar but not identical, and a builder running eighteen homes needs cost per home rather than cost per site, because the variations are what make one profitable and another not.
The third is trade scheduling across many small sites. The same electrician, plumber and tiler move between homes, and a delay on one home displaces work on three others.
The fourth is handover and defects liability. Forty-six snags open past handover is an obligation with a clock on it and a direct effect on referrals.
Verity connects buyer selections and changes to cost, schedule and trades, and tracks every home separately from handover through defects liability.
What Verity calls these things
What gets in the way
Home building difficulties come from building for a person who is still choosing.
Work starts on unpriced changes
The buyer asks, the site agrees, and the cost conversation happens afterwards or not at all.
In Verity A change order carries a price and an approval state before it reaches the schedule.
Selections do not reach the trades
A finish chosen by the buyer sits in an email while the trade works to the original specification.
In Verity Selections are recorded against the home and issued to the trades whose work depends on them.
Cost is tracked by site rather than by home
Materials and labour are pooled and no individual home’s margin is knowable.
In Verity Cost is attributed per home, so variation-driven losses are visible individually.
One home’s delay displaces several others
Shared trades mean a slip in one build cascades into the schedule of the rest.
In Verity Trade allocation is held across all homes, so a slip shows its downstream effect.
Allowances are exceeded quietly
Buyers select above the contract allowance and the difference is absorbed.
In Verity Selections are priced against their allowance with the difference raised for approval.
Snags outlive handover
Defects reported after handover have owners, deadlines and a liability period nobody is tracking.
In Verity Snags carry an owner, an age and a defects liability deadline per home.
The complete system
One system across homes, buyers, trades and cost.
Work
Each home is a work record with its plot, specification, stage, programme, cost position and buyer.
Why it matters here Eighteen homes are eighteen projects, not one site with eighteen parts.
In practice Five homes over contract cost.
Workflows
A buyer selection or change carries the affected trades, the cost against allowance, an approval state and an issue to site.
Why it matters here The gap between a buyer decision and the trades acting on it is where residential margin goes.
In practice Twelve change orders unpriced with work in progress.
Relationships
Buyers carry their home, selections, changes, payments and snags; trades carry their allocation across every home.
Why it matters here The buyer is present throughout the build and the trades are shared across builds.
In practice Three selections not passed to the trades who need them.
Orders
Contract value, allowances, priced variations and stage payments sit against each home.
Why it matters here A fixed contract with a moving specification only holds if variations are priced and agreed.
In practice Selection cost against allowance per home.
Inventory
Materials ordered and consumed are recorded against the home rather than the site as a whole.
Why it matters here Per-home cost requires per-home material attribution.
In practice Material cost per home against budget.
People
Trade availability and allocation are held across all homes, with dependency between stages.
Why it matters here Shared trades mean scheduling is a portfolio problem, not a per-home one.
In practice A slip on one home displacing three others.
Records
Snags carry the home, room, trade responsible, owner, age and defects liability deadline.
Why it matters here Post-handover obligations run on a clock and directly affect referral.
In practice Forty-six snags open past handover across nine homes.
Reports and analytics
Per-home margin, variation recovery, allowance overruns, trade utilisation and snag ageing come from the records.
Why it matters here The business is profitable home by home, so it has to be measured home by home.
In practice Margin per home against contract.
Verity AI
Verity AI answers from your own home, buyer, trade and cost records, respects permissions, and can create assigned follow-ups.
Why it matters here The questions that matter are about unpriced work and undelivered selections.
In practice "Which change orders are unpriced?" returns twelve with the trades affected.
Communication
Buyer conversations, approvals and site instructions attach to the home and the change they concern.
Why it matters here A change agreed verbally becomes a written record from the same place.
In practice A buyer approval recorded against the priced variation.
Control
One permission model and one audit trail covering variation approval, payment release and handover sign-off.
Why it matters here Committing work above allowance needs a defined authority.
In practice Variations above a threshold routed for approval before site issue.
Locations
Homes sit within sites and phases, with shared facilities and stores tracked.
Why it matters here Several homes on one site share access, storage and services.
In practice Site stores allocated across homes in progress.
Work in motion
These already happen. Recorded, per-home margin and buyer changes stay under control.
A selection that is not issued to the trades is a selection that will be built wrongly.
Pricing before release is what stops unpriced work in progress.
The downstream effect on other homes is the part that is usually missed.
Handover starts an obligation rather than ending one.
Rectification cost attributed to the home is what makes the true margin visible.
Verity AI
Verity AI reads the same home, buyer, trade and cost records the business creates as it builds. It answers from your own builds, respects permissions, and can turn an answer into a pricing task or a trade instruction.
Verity / Ask
Verity AI only returns what the person asking has permission to see.
Without chasing
Each runs from the business’s own records at the point the condition is met.
When
A change order remains unpriced
When
A selection is approved
When
A selection exceeds its allowance
When
A stage slips on one home
When
A snag passes its rectification deadline
What you can understand
Per-home margin, change recovery and schedule from build records.
Verity records the build business. Design and drafting tools continue as they are.
One system, different ways of seeing it
Everyone works from the same records.
Owner
Which homes are making money?
Margin per home, variation recovery, allowance overruns, rectification cost.
Site supervisor
What is happening on my homes this week?
Stage progress, trades allocated, changes released, snags outstanding.
Buyer liaison
What is the buyer waiting on?
Selections outstanding, changes awaiting approval, allowance positions, handover dates.
Commercial
What is unpriced or unrecovered?
Unpriced change orders, allowance differences, stage payments, contract positions.
Where it is used
Change orders carrying a price, a schedule impact and an approval before they reach the site, so unpriced work in progress stops being routine.
Buyer selections issued to the specific trades whose work depends on them, with acknowledgement recorded.
Materials, labour and variations attributed to individual homes, so margin is knowable home by home rather than pooled across a site.
Selections priced against their contract allowance with the difference raised for approval instead of absorbed.
Trade allocation held across all homes, so a slip on one build shows its effect on the others immediately.
Snags with owner, deadline and liability period per home, and rectification cost attributed back to the build.
Plain-language questions across changes, cost, schedule and snags, with pricing and instructions raised in the same step.
Getting there
Design and drafting tools continue and are mapped during implementation. Homes in progress, contracts and allowances, buyer selections and change history, trade records, material costs and open snags are brought across.
Implementation runs about four weeks: discovery and mapping, configuration, migration, then an ongoing operations partnership.
Questions
Verity AI answers questions from your own home, buyer, trade and cost records: which change orders are unpriced with work in progress, which selections have not reached the trades, which homes are over contract cost, which snags are open past handover. Each answer can become a pricing task or a trade instruction.
Because the leverage disappears once the work is done. A change priced and approved before release is a commercial transaction; the same change discovered afterwards is a negotiation the builder usually loses.
A selection is recorded against the home and room, and the trades and suppliers whose work depends on it are issued with it and their acknowledgement is tracked. The gap between the buyer deciding and the trade knowing is closed on the record.
Because homes differ by their variations. Pooling cost across a site hides which individual homes lost money and why, which is exactly the information that should set the next contract price.
Trade allocation is held across every home, with stage dependencies, so a slip on one build shows its displacement effect on the others rather than surfacing separately weeks later.
Handover opens a defects liability period per home. Reported defects carry the responsible trade, an owner and a deadline, and rectification cost is attributed back to the home.
No. Design and drafting tools continue as they are. Verity holds the build business around them — homes, buyers, selections, changes, trades, cost and snags.
About four weeks: discovery and mapping of build stages, allowance structures, trade arrangements and handover process, configuration, migration of homes in progress, then an ongoing operations partnership.
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