Verity for interior designers
Interior projects are decided by procurement lead times and site coordination, not by drawings. Verity tracks the specification, the order, the lead time and the site.
Runs alongside your existing design and accounting tools.
Verity / Projects
LiveLive projects
11
Items on order
284
Unconfirmed specs
46
Snags open
78
Needs attention
Illustrative figures. Verity shows your own projects in this shape.
How the business runs
An interior project is a set of specified items ordered from many suppliers with wildly different lead times, delivered to a site that has to be ready for them, and installed in an order that cannot be varied much. The design is agreed early; everything that decides whether the project completes on time happens afterwards.
Lead time is the governing constraint. A specification confirmed late does not delay the project by the delay in confirming — it delays it by the item’s full lead time, which may be months. Forty-six unconfirmed specifications is not a decision backlog; it is a programme already slipping.
The second is that a large share of the designer’s income is procurement margin, which depends on ordering through the practice rather than around it. Client-supplied items reduce margin and are frequently untracked until they fail to arrive.
The third is site coordination. Items arrive at a site that must be ready, in an order that respects trades, and a delivery to an unready site costs storage, damage or a return visit.
The fourth is snagging, which holds final payments and closes projects. Nineteen snags past handover is money held and a relationship cooling.
Verity tracks specification confirmation against lead time, procurement margin, deliveries against site readiness and snags to closure.
What Verity calls these things
What gets in the way
Interior design difficulties come from decisions taken late against items that take months to arrive.
Late confirmations cost a full lead time
A specification confirmed two weeks late delays the project by the item’s lead time, not by two weeks.
In Verity Specifications carry the item’s lead time and the date by which confirmation is required.
Procurement margin leaks to client-supplied items
Clients buy items directly, reducing the designer’s margin and creating untracked deliveries.
In Verity Every item is recorded as specified with a supply route, so margin and tracking are both visible.
Deliveries arrive at unready sites
An item arrives before the site can receive it and is stored, damaged or returned.
In Verity Deliveries are scheduled against recorded site readiness and trade sequence.
Snags hold final payments
A project is substantially complete and the final payment waits on a snag list nobody owns.
In Verity Snags are work with owners and dates, tracked to closure against the payment they hold.
Long orders lose visibility
An item ordered in April is remembered in September when it has not arrived.
In Verity Every order carries an expected date and an age, so a slipping order is visible months ahead.
Variations are agreed on site
A change is agreed with the client during a site visit and the cost is assembled afterwards.
In Verity Variations are raised with cost and lead-time impact at the moment they are agreed.
The complete system
One system across specification, procurement, site and snagging.
Records
Each item carries its specification, supplier, lead time, confirmation state, cost, margin and the room it belongs to.
Why it matters here The specification is where lead time and margin both originate.
In practice Forty-six specifications unconfirmed with lead times already running against the programme.
Orders
Orders record supplier, expected date, deposit, delivery state and site readiness requirement.
Why it matters here The order is the project’s critical path and is usually tracked in a spreadsheet.
In practice Thirty-one items past expected delivery, blocking two projects.
Work
Work is organised by project and room with installation sequence, trades and dependencies.
Why it matters here Items install in an order that trades and access dictate.
In practice Installation sequence recorded so deliveries are scheduled to match it.
Suppliers
Suppliers carry lead times, reliability against them, deposits, damage rates and balances.
Why it matters here A supplier’s actual lead time is the only useful basis for a programme date.
In practice Actual against quoted lead time by supplier, informing the programme.
Relationships
Clients carry their projects, decisions, budgets and payment schedule; contractors and trades carry their scope and coordination.
Why it matters here Client decision speed is the practice’s biggest programme variable.
In practice Decision turnaround by client, informing realistic dates.
Workflows
Specification approvals, variations, budget changes and snags move through defined steps with recorded decisions.
Why it matters here A variation agreed on site without cost and lead-time impact is unrecoverable.
In practice A variation carrying its cost and lead-time consequence at agreement.
Locations
Sites and storage are locations with readiness state, deliveries received and items held.
Why it matters here A delivery to an unready site costs storage, damage or a return visit.
In practice Site readiness recorded and deliveries scheduled against it.
Reports and analytics
Confirmation against required dates, supplier lead time performance, procurement margin, client-supplied share and snag closure come from the records.
Why it matters here The project’s outcome is decided by dates and margin, both of which are recordable.
In practice Procurement margin by project and the share lost to client-supplied items.
Verity AI
Verity AI answers from your own specification, order, site and snag records, respects permissions, and can create assigned follow-ups.
Why it matters here The valuable questions are about confirmations outstanding and orders slipping.
In practice "Which specifications are unconfirmed against their required date?" returns forty-six.
Communication
Selections, approvals and site agreements attach to the item or project they concern.
Why it matters here A selection agreed verbally on site is the basis for an order and a cost.
In practice A client selection recorded at the moment it is agreed.
Control
One permission model and one audit trail, with budget changes and margin decisions recorded.
Why it matters here Procurement margin is the practice’s income and is negotiated per item.
In practice Margin recorded per item and per project.
People
Staff are modelled once, and every specification, order and site visit carries who owns it.
Why it matters here Coordination failures are ownership failures.
In practice Orders and snags by owner with escalation.
Work in motion
These already happen. Recorded against lead times, the programme becomes real.
The required confirmation date, derived from lead time, is what makes the client decision urgent at the right moment.
A delivery to an unready site is a cost the practice usually absorbs.
Sequence is a constraint rather than a preference, and delivery scheduling must respect it.
A variation agreed without its lead-time consequence is a date nobody can now meet.
Snags hold final payments, which makes closing them a cash task as much as a quality one.
Verity AI
Verity AI reads the same specification, order, site and snag records the practice creates as it works. It answers across projects, respects permissions, and can turn an answer into chases and variations.
Verity / Ask
Verity AI only returns what the person asking has permission to see.
Without chasing
Each runs from the project records at the point the condition is met.
When
A specification approaches its required confirmation date
When
An order passes its expected delivery
When
A delivery is due to an unready site
When
A variation is agreed on site
When
Snags remain open past handover
What you can understand
Lead times, margin and site progress from the project records.
Verity records the practice and its procurement. Design and drawing tools continue as they are.
One system, different ways of seeing it
Everyone works from the same records.
Principal
Are projects on programme and on margin?
Confirmations against required dates, orders late, procurement margin, snags holding payment.
Project coordinator
What is blocking each project?
Unconfirmed specifications, orders past date, site readiness, trade coordination.
Designer
What needs a decision?
Specifications awaiting client confirmation, variations to raise, selections to record.
Where it is used
Required confirmation dates derived from item lead times, so a client decision becomes urgent at the right moment rather than at the deadline.
Margin recorded per item and project, including what is forgone to client-supplied items.
Every order carrying an expected date and an age, so a slipping order is visible months before installation.
Deliveries scheduled against recorded readiness and trade sequence, avoiding storage, damage and return visits.
Site variations raised with both cost and lead-time consequence at the moment they are agreed.
Snags aged against the final payment they hold, making closure a cash task as well as a quality one.
Actual against quoted lead times per supplier, which is the only honest basis for a programme date.
Getting there
Your design tools and accounting continue and are mapped during implementation. Projects, specifications, live orders, suppliers with lead times 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 specification, order, site and snag records: which specifications are unconfirmed against their required date, which orders are late, what procurement margin looks like by project, which snags are holding final payments. Each answer can become a chase or a variation.
Because it costs the item’s full lead time rather than the length of the delay. A specification confirmed two weeks late on an item with a four-month lead time moves the project by four months, not two weeks.
Margin is recorded per item and per project, including the share forgone when clients supply items directly — which is usually a larger number than practices expect.
Deliveries are scheduled against recorded site readiness and the installation sequence, so an item does not arrive at a site that cannot receive it and incur storage, damage or a return visit.
A variation is raised with its cost and lead-time impact at the moment it is agreed, rather than assembled afterwards when the programme consequence has already occurred.
Snags are work with owners and ages, tracked against the final payment they hold — which makes closing them a cash task rather than a quality afterthought.
No. Design and drawing tools continue and are mapped during implementation. Verity holds specifications, procurement, site coordination, snagging and the commercial record.
About four weeks: discovery and mapping of the specification and procurement process, configuration, migration of live projects and suppliers, then an ongoing operations partnership.
Each one is a lead time already running against your programme. Tell us how selections are tracked today.