Construction Execution
Budget Variance Alerts
Detects cost overrun emails and escalates — so projects over budget get immediate attention.
What it does
- Detects cost increase and overrun language in project emails
- Compares mentioned costs to project budget
- Escalates to Construction Manager and Finance when over budget
- Flags projects at risk of cost overrun
- Tracks variance and corrective action
- Surfaces budget trend and forecast at completion
- Supports change order and contingency tracking
- Exports budget variance and escalation reports.
What it takes
- Project Email (Cost / Budget)
- Project Budget / Estimate
- Change Order Log
- Construction & Finance Contacts
- Variance Log
What it returns
- Excel Table
- PDF Report
- Alert Log
- JSON Data
Written into the systems your team already runs, not into a second system of record.
How teams run it
Single Email Check
Check one email for cost overrun and compare to budget.
Overrun Detection
Detect cost increase and escalate if over budget.
Batch Variance Alerts
Process multiple emails and escalate overruns.
Variance Report
Report on budget variance and escalation.
Cited, or flagged
Every value is anchored to the clause it came from. Where one is missing, Surfaice says so rather than inventing it.
Read where it lives
Documents are processed for the request and not retained afterwards. Nothing is copied into a second system of record.
Never trained on
Your documents do not train models — yours or anyone else's.
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Fifteen minutes, your files, and the clause behind every answer.