The project record both sides accept.
Tally reads the WhatsApp group, the emails and the site photos on an interior fit-out project, ties each one to the BOQ, and tells everyone the moment progress has earned the next payment. Nobody scrolls back through five months of chat to settle an invoice.
Every fit-out job ends in the same argument.
Not about the work. About what was said, when, and by whom. The instruction was verbal. The approval was a thumbs-up in a group of seven people. The photo exists, on someone’s phone, from some day in March. Tally is not another project management tool. It does one thing: it keeps the record, so the argument is over before it starts.
Three documents go in. That is the whole setup.
The design is done and the contractor is appointed. From here, everything is measured against three things both sides already signed.
- 1
The BOQ
PDF, Excel or a scan. Tally reads every line and knows that “drywall partition”, “gypsum wall” and “stud wall” are the same item. Anything it is unsure of waits for a person.
See a BOQ as Tally reads it - 2
The contract
Tally finds the payment clause: what is paid, at what progress. Those become milestones that unlock themselves.
See the payment terms - 3
The schedule
Not a Gantt chart to maintain. A list of what should be happening on which dates, checked daily against what actually did.
See the schedule
Then it reads what the project already writes.
Nobody changes how they work. The group stays on WhatsApp. Tally joins it as one more number.
- The WhatsApp group
Every message, photo and voice note, matched to the person and their role on the project.
- Email
Copy one address. Supplier delays, approvals and drawings are filed against the right BOQ item.
- Site photos
The supervisor photographs the wall and says what it is. Timestamp, item and stage are attached for him.
Progress nobody typed in.
Each BOQ item carries its weight in the contract, and each stage of it a share of that: supply, framing, boarding, quality check. When a photograph proves a stage, the number moves. This is the client's actual screen, running on this page.
One photograph on a Friday afternoon takes this project from 19.2% to 20.4%, and USD 72,900 becomes payable. Open it as the client or take the photograph yourself.
What a record can do that a chat group cannot.
It catches the verbal instruction.
“Please move the pantry wall 40 cm.” Typed in the group on a Friday morning, not in the BOQ. Tally logs it as an unpriced instruction and tells the contractor before anyone picks up a tool.
See the instruction it caughtIt gives every delay a cause.
A supplier email says the tile is held at port. Tally compares the date with the schedule, raises a 6 day delay, names the responsible party and attaches the email. Approvals are timed the same way: who has it, for how many days.
See a delay with its evidenceIt answers, with sources.
“When was the framing finished, and did the consultant accept it?” One question, one answer, and the two messages that prove it. When a claim needs more, the evidence pack is a dated, cited file you can hand to anyone.
Ask the record · Open an evidence pack
One record. Each side sees its own part of it.
Either side can hold the account and invite the other. Neither can edit what the other put in.
Built to be run as a business.
One subscription per live project, held by whichever side wants the record kept. Behind it, a console for the team that runs Tally.
- A master item library
The names the trade uses for the same thing, and how each item’s value is earned by stage. It learns from every BOQ.
Open the library - Cost per project, against its fee
What each project spends on WhatsApp and AI, so pricing is set on numbers.
Open usage and cost
See it on a project like yours.
Thirty minutes. Bring a BOQ if you have one, and we will read it on the call.
