What if no compensation event ever got missed?

14 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this promotional presentation, William Doyle MRICS argues that traditional manual diary reviews capture only about 60% of legitimate change events, leading to substantial missed revenue—estimated at £200,000 on a typical £5 million project with 10% variations, which could boost project margins from 5% to 9% (an 80% profitability increase). He introduces the QS AI Agent, an artificial‑intelligence tool embedded within the Gather platform that continuously scans site diaries, resource reports, weather logs, and progress updates in real time. The agent interprets commercial events with the precision of a senior quantity surveyor, tags and documents them instantly, and delivers the information to the commercial team while contractual windows remain open. The solution is positioned as non‑disruptive, leveraging the user’s existing contracts, methods, and data, and augmenting—not replacing—the commercial team’s capabilities, thereby turning daily manual review time into recoverable value.

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Manual diary reviews only capture 60% of legitimate change events, the rest buried under sheer workload and time pressures. On a typical £5 million project with the standard 10% variations, that's £200,000 in missed revenue. Revenue that turns a 5% margin project into a 9% margin project. That's an 80% improvement in profitability. And yet those opportunities slip by because no human team can review every site diary, every detail, all in real time. With our QS AI agent, the opportunities, they find you. It lives inside Gather, scanning every data point the moment that it is captured. Site notes, resource reports, weather logs, progress updates. It interprets them with the precision of a senior quantity surveyor that never sleeps. It doesn't wait to dig through the site diary weeks after. It interprets the commercial event as it happens. It tags it, documents it, and puts it in your hands while you've still got the contractual window to act upon it. It's trained to use your contracts, your methods, your data, and it's wired directly into the platform that you already use. It won't disrupt your workflow, and it doesn't replace your commercial team. Instead, it gives them superhuman reach. Every day of manual review is potential revenue slipping away. The moment to recover value is now with our QS AI Agent. You will see it in black and white while you still have the time to do something about it.