Kerro

For mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontractorsFor M&E and plumbing subcontractors

From drawing to payment. One record of the job.

Kerro measures your drawings, tracks the work done on them and builds your payment application with the evidence behind it. Every variation, RFI and instruction is kept and chased. Need to know something about a job? Ask, and it answers from your own records.

  • Nothing typed twice
  • Your records kept in the UK
  • Works on a phone, on site
An illustration with example figures.
What it does

What is measured on the drawing is what you are paid from.

Most firms keep the take-off in one spreadsheet, progress in another and the application in a third, and the three never quite agree. In Kerro they are one line of work.

01

Drawings and take-off

Pipework, ductwork, containment, fittings and equipment are taken off on the drawing itself. A new revision is laid over the old one with every change boxed, and once the take-off is signed off, anything the drawings say differently is listed as a possible variation.

02

Progress

Recorded on the drawing: tap the runs that are done, stage by stage, with the photos behind them. The office approves what site records, and a stage that needs a test counts only once a passed test covers it.

03

Variations

One register from the instruction to the agreement, including work not instructed yet. Each step writes its own letter: the notice, the confirmation of a verbal instruction, the quote. And what the work took is set against what was agreed.

04

Payment application

Your contract's own lines, valued from the measured progress to the penny, with variations, dayworks, materials, retention, CIS and VAT, and the Construction Act's dates worked out. It goes out as a PDF and in Excel, the progress drawings behind every figure attached.

One figure, carried through.

What you measure is what you track and what you apply for.

Take-off

400 m

heating pipework

Progress

256 m · 64%

installed, on the drawing

Application

£30,848.00

of the line's £48,200.00

And the rest of the job

Everything else, in the same place.

RFIs and blockers

Numbered, sent, chased. An answer that comes late is on record as a delay.

The weekly plan

The look-ahead, what stands in each piece of work's way, and how many promises were kept.

Instructions and delays

What the main contractor told you, when and how, and a delay register with its notices.

Materials

Requests from site, orders, deliveries, and what is still to come.

Safety

RAMS, permits, daily briefings, plant inspections and the week's H&S pack.

Timesheets

Who worked where, by week, by month and by job.

Snagging

Numbered on the drawing. Done, checked, closed, or sent back with why.

Documents

Every drawing, letter and e-mail of the job, found by what is written in it.

The assistant

Ask your job a question.

In your own words and your own language. Kerro answers from your firm's records and documents, and only yours.

Every figure is checked
Each figure in an answer is checked against your records before you see it.
It says when it does not know
If your records do not hold the answer, it tells you so rather than guess.
It prepares, you save
It fills in the variation, the RFI or the progress. You read it and press Save.
It knows the screens
Ask how to do something and it answers from the guide to the page you are on.
On site

Made for the phone in a supervisor's hand.

The office plans. Site records what was done, where it was done, on the drawing.

  • Drawings without a signalKeep a job's drawings on the phone. Marks and photos made in a basement are sent when the signal is back.
  • Tap what is doneProgress is a tap on the run or the unit, not a form to fill in at the end of the day.
  • The camera in the pagePhotos taken where the work is, one after another, and kept on the drawing.
  • Today, firstThe day's work and who is on it, before anything else.
Your data

Your firm's records stay your firm's.

You are handing over drawings, prices and correspondence. This is where they are kept.

Kept in the United Kingdom

Your documents and your database rest on servers in the UK.

Apart from every other firm

Your firm has a database of its own and an address of its own. Nothing is shared between firms.

Open models, run in the EU

The models that read your documents are open models, hosted by European providers.

Backed up every night

Encrypted, and copied to a second place away from where your records live.

Who uses it

One job, seen by everyone who works on it.

  • DirectorsWhere each job stands, what is owed, and what is late.
  • Commercial and QSApplications, variations and notices, with the evidence behind them.
  • Contracts managers and engineersDrawings, RFIs, the weekly plan and what is in its way.
  • Site supervisorsThe day's work, progress and photos, from the phone.

Each person sees what their account allows: their jobs, their pages, and money only where you say so.

Getting started

Three steps to your first job.

  1. A conversationYou show us how your jobs run. We show you Kerro on a job like yours.
  2. Your firm's own addressWe set your firm up at its own address and make the first account.
  3. Your first jobIts drawings and documents go in. Your people sign in from the office and from site.

Tell us about your firm.

Say what trade you are in and roughly how many jobs you run at once. A person reads it and writes back.

hello@kerro.co.uk

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