Five things kill margin on a civil job, the same five every time: rework, cost drift, missed claims, disputes and lapsed 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 five jobs.
They are listed in the order published research says they cost a contractor, most first. Why the diseases are in this order sets out the argument, and research.demiton.io keeps every figure with its source.
Rework
Work done twice: failed inspections, NCRs, wrong ground assumptions.
Protection: The failed result reaches the person who can stop the next stage the day it lands, with the close-out date attached.
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.
Cost drift
Cost and programme drift against the tender.
Protection: Drift against the price you quoted is flagged at $50K, not $5M.
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.
Missed claims
Variations and time owed but never claimed: notices missed, time bars closed, wet days never logged.
Protection: When the instruction arrives or the rain starts, the clock starts. The notice is drafted and waiting before the window shuts, while the ground is still wet.
Today: Every variation, progress claim and contract clause is in one register you can query by project and date, and site diaries carry the weather on the day correlated against Bureau of Meteorology observations for the same location - so a notice window or a wet-weather claim is a question you can ask, not a date buried in an inbox or a claim reconstructed from memory weeks later.
Disputes
The claim that became a case.
Protection: If the day's record isn't in by evening, you're told which one is missing while people still remember the day.
Today: Contract terms, day works dockets and rate verifications sit in one queryable record, and every active project is checked each morning against 125 published evidence standards for its jurisdiction and contract form - met, at risk, missed or unmeasurable. The check runs; it has not yet been proved on a live job.
Lapsed compliance
The right to bid itself: panels, prequalification, certificates.
Protection: Every expiry counts down at 90, 30 and 7 days, with the renewal attached.
Today: Your schemes, classifications and certificate expiry dates are one register you declare once. Company certificate and insurance expiries already count down at 90, 30 and 7 days, with the alert in the app and by email; the countdown has fired end to end in a demo tenant, not yet on a live job.
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 five 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. Demiton now runs a check for each of the five diseases every day: non-compliance and missed claims and disputes run theirs every morning, and rework and the baseline overrun alongside them. The fact is still one query away, in Claude or ChatGPT, the moment you think to ask it.
See every register that touches any of the five 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.