The Owner / Module 03
Approvals with evidence
What reaches you for approval arrives complete: the certificate, the measurement behind it, the deductions applied, and the record that two other people have already checked it.
- Employer's representative
- CFO
For an owner. Approving payment on a summary you cannot interrogate is the ordinary condition of most development companies. The value here is narrow and real: the evidence is one click from the approval, so the approval is informed rather than trusting.
What you see
The certificate and its basis
Gross value, variations, escalation, advance recovery, retention and holds as separate lines — each traceable to the measurement or instruction that produced it.
Who checked it before you
The four-eyes record: who raised, who verified, who certified, and when. Your approval is the last link in a chain, not the only control.
Quality holds surfaced
Open non-conformances that interlock this payment are shown with the certificate, so you are not approving money against work the record says is not accepted.
Your approval, recorded once
Bound to your session and to the exact version you approved. If the document is later superseded, your approval does not travel to the new one.
What the system will not allow
- A certificate reaching you without prior verification
- Editing a document after your approval
- An approval that does not name a version
Also approvable here
Design submissions at gate, variation instructions above your threshold, and stage advance itself — each with the same evidence discipline as a payment.