The world is changing.
Data centres in orbit.
Spaceports like airports.
New assets. New contracts. New finance.
One old truth — capital only flows where cost can be trusted.
A new era of independent cost verification — for NEC and every other form of contract, and for asset classes that don't exist yet. AI practically implemented in the workflow, with human judgement in charge.
Rail, water, highways, energy — where the method is proven.
Orbital data centres, spaceports, fusion, gigafactories — "no precedent" is not a problem.
Lunar industry, orbital logistics — someone will have to verify what it truly cost.
Actual-cost assessment, disallowable-cost analysis and certificate mathematics — under NEC, JCT, FIDIC or bespoke terms — turning a claimed figure into one that holds up.
Independent review, CVA governance, period-lock control and audit-ready trails that give a programme confidence in its cost position.
Change, compensation and claims, fee and retention structures — commercial rigour across the lifecycle of NEC, JCT, FIDIC, framework and bespoke contracts.
The COSTIQ cockpit brings AI-assisted cost assessment, live flags and e-certificates to the assurance process at programme scale.
Expert, defensible cost analysis and documentation for audits, reviews and disputes — the number, evidenced end to end.
Cost-control strategy, assurance-maturity uplift and capability building for programmes standing up their own cost functions.
Every assurance opinion — and every AI workflow — is only as good as the data underneath it. We assess, cleanse and structure your cost data: ledgers reconciled, duplicates and miscodings resolved, records standardised across contractors and systems, and a single source of truth your whole programme can trust.
We don't just bring AI to your programme — we build it into your way of working. Together with your teams, we design and implement custom AI workflows using emerging technology, tuned to your contracts, your systems and your people — so the capability is yours, not rented from a consultancy.
Generic AI doesn't speak your business. We train and ground AI models on your domain — your contracts, cost data, standards and ways of working — so they answer like your best people, with citations. Our own COSTIQ co-worker is the proof: a grounded contract-and-CVA model we built for our domain. We build yours for yours.
The same assurance discipline, productised twice — the Cockpit for independent verification of what has been spent, and AfP360° for running the NEC payment cycle itself. Use either alone, or both across the same programme.
Independent cost verification and assurance for cost-reimbursable and target-cost work — under NEC, JCT, FIDIC, framework or fully bespoke terms. Six modules from engagement to a print-ready briefing note, with the COSTIQ co-worker at every stage.
The NEC application-for-payment operating model, digitised end to end: contractor ERP cost data standardised to SOCC, deterministic Defined Cost and SCC rules, the AP1–AP8 workflow and the E-AFP interim payment certificate — advisory AI over the top, never in the arithmetic.
Two decades of frontline experience across the industries where cost discipline matters most.
Metros, mainlines and high-speed — cost verification at the heart of major rail delivery.
Super-sewers, treatment works and the networks keeping cities running.
Strategic road programmes connecting the country, from motorways to junctions.
Underground works where cost complexity — and scrutiny — run deepest.
Airside and terminal capital programmes delivered under live operations.
Assurance for capital-intensive energy and utilities investment.
Everyone talks about AI. We put it to work inside the assurance workflow — practically, today. And we build it so it enables your people, never replaces them: the machine handles the volume, the human owns the judgement.
Applications, cost data and records ingested and reconciled against your contract's cost rules — in minutes, not weeks.
Anomalies, disallowable-cost candidates and CVA flags surfaced automatically — so nothing important hides in the volume.
Experienced practitioners apply two decades of contract judgement to every flag. The call is always a person's — and it's defensible.
The certified number carries a professional's name and evidence trail — ready for the board, the auditor or the dispute.
No AI strategy decks that sit on a shelf. We implement working tools inside your live assurance process and prove them on real assessment periods.
AI drafts, checks and flags. It never certifies. Accountability, professional judgement and the final number remain human — by design.
We work alongside your people and transfer the capability — so the experience and insight stay in your organisation after we leave.
Prove the value on a single application — desktop review, documented sampling, the 3-way match and a briefing note. Findings typically surface within the first review.
Start a pilotA risk-based review every period across the package, with findings tracked to closeout and fed into a rolling final account.
Talk to usThe full COSTIQ method and cockpit deployed across the programme — with your own team trained to run it. The capability stays with you.
Plan a deploymentCOSTIQ professionals have spent their careers inside the machine — in the cost, commercial and assurance teams of Tier-1 contractors, employers and alliances on the UK's largest programmes, and on international development work funded by, for example, the World Bank, the EU, EIB and ADB. We know how the numbers are built, so we know how to verify them — under any regime, anywhere.
From a single assurance review to the full cockpit deployed across your programme — the conversation starts the same way.
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