Six things kill margin on a civil job, the same six every time: rework, forfeited entitlements, disputes, weather, the baseline overrun, non-compliance. Every one of them starts small and gets caught late - after the pour, after the window closes, after the drift has compounded from $50K to $5M. Demiton exists to catch each one where it starts: in the register that already holds the fact, read before the fact turns into a cost.
That’s the whole platform, from one angle. Every connector, every register, every surface in the rest of this site is doing one of these six jobs.
Rework
Work done twice: failed inspections, NCRs, wrong ground assumptions.
Today: Every NCR, test result and plant pre-start lands in one register, tied to the location and the crew - so the pattern shows up before the same defect gets poured twice.
Forfeited entitlements
Variations and time owed but never claimed: notices missed, time bars closed.
Today: Every variation, progress claim and contract clause is in one register you can query by project and date - so a notice window is a question you can ask, not a date buried in an inbox.
Disputes
The claim that became a case.
Today: Contract terms, day works dockets and rate verifications sit in one queryable record - so the file is already built before an argument starts, not assembled under deadline once it has.
Weather
The rain you cannot prevent.
Today: Site diaries carry the weather on the day, correlated against Bureau of Meteorology observations for the same location - so a wet-weather claim has its evidence attached, not reconstructed from memory weeks later.
The baseline overrun
Cost and programme drift against the tender.
Today: Budget and actual are reconciled every night, by cost code, against the tender you priced - so drift shows up as a number you can query, not a surprise at the next progress claim.
Non-compliance
The right to bid itself: panels, prequalification, certificates.
Today: Your schemes, classifications and certificate expiry dates are one register you declare once and query anytime - so a renewal is a date you can ask about, not a wall calendar in someone's office.
A dashboard shows you the number after someone builds the report. A register is the fact itself, structured and queryable the moment it lands - a test result, a variation, a day’s weather, a certificate’s expiry date. The difference matters because every one of these six diseases is a timing problem: the notice that had to be drafted by a date, the drift that was cheap to fix at $50K and expensive at $5M, the panel that checks your certification before you know it lapsed.
Demiton reads the registers every night against the systems you run - see What the platform does - so the fact is there to ask about before the deadline, not after. What’s on the roadmap, not shipped today, is the platform watching those deadlines for you and raising the flag itself, rather than you asking. Until then, the fact is one query away, in Claude or ChatGPT, the moment you think to ask it.
See every register that touches any of the six in the register catalog.
Tell us what you run - your ERP, field, payroll and document systems - and we will show you the registers Demiton would fill from them, on your data, in a 30-minute call.