Construction cash-flow simulation

Turn project execution, contract terms and assumptions into a cash-flow forecast.

CashflowPot helps construction teams, finance teams and lenders understand cash received, cash paid, working capital and funding exposure without waiting for a detailed programme to be created or rebuilt for every financial decision.

Use a mathematical execution model, the contract terms you know and explicit forecasting assumptions to test the project’s likely commercial cash behaviour.

Engineer and finance professional reviewing a construction cash-flow forecast

Two ways to model contract inflow

Choose the inflow method that fits the decision.

Independent contract curve

Default and recommended for new scenarios. Contract value follows its own linear or balanced S-curve over the activity-derived project duration. You can make the S-curve Back-loaded, Balanced or Front-loaded, then apply client contract terms and assumptions.

Activity-linked inflow

Use the combined activity execution profile as the shape for contract value when you want expected client-side value to follow the activity work pattern.

Built for decisions, not one workflow

Use the forecast when the financial question appears.

Tender & bid/no-bid

Estimate funding exposure before a detailed resource-loaded tender programme exists, and compare several opportunities when deciding what the business can finance.

Contractor financing

Prepare a project funding view for banks and financing discussions, then test how payment period, retention, advance recovery and execution timing affect the requirement.

Lender review

Recreate a contractor cash-flow view with explicit terms and assumptions, test alternative scenarios, and understand the source of differences.

Mid-project reforecast

Reforecast the remaining cash position when the programme has changed many times and historic activity loading no longer represents the current commercial reality.

Execution and cash are different layers

A programme can inform the forecast without becoming the forecast.

Planning software can provide detailed programme information and time-phased work or cost. CashflowPot focuses on the next commercial layer: how execution, contract terms and forecasting assumptions translate into billings, receipts, payments, net cash and funding requirements.

When detailed planning data is current, it can inform activity timing. When it is unavailable, disproportionate to the decision, or stale, CashflowPot can use a focused mathematical execution profile instead.

Contract terms and assumptions

Model the conditions that move work into cash.

  • Advance payment and recovery
  • Retention and release timing
  • Payment period
  • Work in Excess of Billings (WIEB)
  • Defects Liability Period (DLP)
  • Subcontracted share and subcontract commercial terms
  • Execution curve and timing assumptions

Professional output

Take the forecast into the conversation.

Review inflow, outflow, net cash, cumulative balance, peak exposure and working capital, then export a structured Excel schedule for management, tender, financing or lender review.

A forecast designed to be revised.

Build the cash-flow view needed for the decision now, then reforecast as activities, contract terms and assumptions change.

Near-term direction

AI-assisted project setup

AI-assisted project setup is in development. The goal is to turn a project description, value, scope and duration into a proposed activity structure and starting assumptions for review. The CashflowPot calculation engine remains responsible for the forecast.